L E X I NG T ON , Ky
.
two days before one of the most high-profile events in the
history of Grand Canyon University, a basketball game
against a Kentucky team considered so good, one opposing
coach says the Wildcats could make the NBA playoffs.
But any sign of nerves isn’t evident as the Antelopes, like
kids in a very big, very famous candy store, snap photos of legendary
Rupp Arena and talk about what it will be like to play before more than
23,000 people in a place that has hosted the NCAA Final Four.
“It’s pretty easy when there’s nobody in here,” says coach Dan
Majerle, who himself has never been to Rupp and is taken by how much
it reminds him of old Chicago Stadium with its birthday-cake layers of
seats reaching to the rafters.
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big-time
toughness
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Kentucky
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