Nearly four months ago and 2,500 miles away from the Spokane Arena, Maryland and South Dakota State crossed paths in Mexico at the Hard Rock Riviera Maya Resort during the Cancun Challenge. Each team won the two games it played there.
While the highly ranked Terps and the mostly overlooked Jackrabbits never met on the makeshift hotel court, they watched each other play, not thinking that when they next met the stakes would be so high and the stage would be so large.
In a game that could be jokingly dubbed the Cancun Challenge championship game, in a city that could be called Spokancun, No.