And we found him appropriately at a basketball game, in the evening hours of that day.

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When we got them to 10, we just had to get two or three more stops to win the basketball game.

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For us to be able to have a chance at making a game-winning shot or a tying field goal towards the end of that game (with) how well they shot the 3, lets us know that we had a pretty good basketball game ourselves.

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"I really do believe that, based on the talent on display this weekend that I have seen we are in a golden age of basketball, that the appreciation of our game is really as high as it has been in recent memory, " said Stern, who has now run the NBA for 25 years.

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The Cardinals will join them in ACC the following season but this was the game that was signifying the end of the Big East as we know it with the seven basketball-only schools leaving to form a new conference and keeping the name Big East and the tournament at Madison Square Garden.

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We want to keep this streak rolling, continue playing the basketball we've been playing, so our goal is to go in there and try to win this game in Chicago.

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