For the Knights, the First Four will feel like the Final Four. Nobody else might be thrilled about being there. But they sure will be.
Dayton, Ohio, is a perfectly lovely city, and it is an excellent basketball town. Dayton’s favorite team, the Flyers, representing the university bearing the city’s name, boast fans who are among the most devoted in all of college basketball.
Funny thing, though. This time of the year, you say the word “Dayton” and it has a patently pejorative connotation. Dayton is where the first two days of the NCAA Tournament takes place. In recent years, the NCAA has taken care to rebrand these games as the “first round.” Everyone else uses a different term. And nobody wants to be in the play-in.
But it’s more than that. These four first-round games are the only games played on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, so if you want your basketball fix you’re going to see “Fairleigh Dickinson” for two straight hours Wednesday, when they play Texas Southern. Also, it is incalculably valuable for a program like Fairleigh to win an NCAA Tournament game, which they have never done in six previous trips to the tournament, five times as a 16 seed.
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