Twice in Italy, Mississippi State took games against professional basketball teams into overtime. On both occasions, Ben Howland’s team won. Most impressively, one of those wins came against the national team of Kosovo, a group made up of, as one MSU player observed, some “real, grown men.“ Real, grown men who, for example, were All-Conference players in the united states in college; real, grown men who, for example, had contracts in the millions to play professionally; real, grown men who, for example, were named MVP of the Spanish professional basketball league.
And MSU beat them.