By Harry Minium
It will go down in the record books as Old Dominion University's eighth basketball victory of the season.
But anyone who watched ODU's 65-55 triumph over Florida Atlantic in Chartway Arena Saturday night knows it was more than that.
So much more.
This team has had so many tough breaks, undergone so much adversity and made so many mental mistakes this season that cost them half a dozen narrow defeats and bruised their self-confidence. They limped into this game with a 7-13 record.
It was the Monarchs' first game without Jason Wade, arguably their best player, who was lost for the season two nights earlier when he went down with a leg injury.