Texas Wesleyan reaches NAIA title game with dramatic finish in overtime
To Texas Wesleyan coach Brennen Shingleton, the NAIA national championship is the toughest basketball tournament in America, requiring one team to win five games in six days.
It’s not necessarily the best assembled squad that can do that, but rather the grittiest.
After watching the No. 3 Rams scratch and claw their way to a national semifinals victory on Monday in Kansas City, Mo., it’s apparent they just might be that team.
Wesleyan has 40 more minutes of basketball to play after coming all the way back from a 16-point deficit, then overcame two bad turnovers down the stretch to extend the game to overtime and ultimately defeat No. 1 William Penn 83-82 at Municipal Auditorium.
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