Oklahoma State begins their trek to Madison Square Garden today when they welcome Florida Gulf Coast to Stillwater in the opening round of the NIT.
While most of you are familiar with FGCU because of “Dunk City” and their surprising run to the Sweet 16 in 2013. This is not that same team. Then-head coach Andy Enfield is at USC (also snubbed from the NCAA Tournament) and former longtime Kansas assistant Joe Dooley is now running the show.
To help get a little bit more detail about the Eagles, including more appropriate nicknames, and FGCU’s best player, I spoke with John Dales who covers the Atlantic Sun conference for the SBNation blog Mid-Major Madness.