BOCA RATON, Fla. -- At the end of their first practice back at home after breaking brackets in the men's NCAA basketball tournament, members of the Florida Atlantic University men's team gathered around their coach in the middle of the court. Going around the circle, Dusty May asked each person how he wanted the team to be described. Players replied with words like "scrappy" and "discipline."
They developed the ritual earlier this season, and continued it into the postseason. May, in his fifth year, wants his players to control how they view themselves, to own their own narrative.