SACRAMENTO, Cal. – Eric Haut's first trip to an NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament was all the way back in 2001 when he was a freshman on the Kent State Men team that notched the program's first March Madness victory. Sixteen years later, the Golden Flashes associate head coach experienced a feeling of deja vu as the team plane touched down at Sacramento International Airport just before 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
"It was really neat, because this is a very similar trip to our trip in 2001," said Haut. "That year, we went to California, too. "We were the No.