FRISCO, Texas
Jeff Jones is not a guy who cries easily.
So to see him become very emotional twice after his Old Dominion basketball team won the Conference USA basketball title Saturday night says a lot about just how dear this victory was to him.
ODU defeated Western Kentucky, 62-56, with a typical Jones kind of game, a defensive slugfest in which his players proved to be tougher and more poised than the more talented Hilltoppers.
WKU has had top 20 recruiting classes in each of the last two years, but ODU swept the Hilltoppers this season, winning twice in the regular season and then in the C-USA final.