Bringing the Light – IU Set for NCAA Tourney Challenge

IUHoosiers.com

DAYTON, Ohio – It's here at last, this NCAA tourney opportunity, this moment that Trayce Jackson-Davis, Race Thompson and Xavier Johnson so badly wanted.

Now that Indiana is back in the tournament after a six-year absence, now that these Hoosier veterans and all their teammates get their first March Madness shot, emotion flows.

"When I was a little kid," Jackson-Davis says, "I always dreamed of playing in the championship game and hitting free throws for the win."

For the record, the team wasn't Indiana, but that misses the point.

"It's always been a dream playing in the tournament," he says. "And finally getting that opportunity is really cool.

"After we got selected, I was…