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Article: LITTLE-KNOWN CHARLESTON DUE TO DANCE WITH ARIZONA.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 15, 1997
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Their fans wear T-shirts that proclaim, ``The Big Dance is The Charleston,'' and so far in the NCAA tournament, that has been the case.
With a nation-leading, 23-game winning streak, the College of Charleston is the best team the masses have never heard of.
Only six years into life as an NCAA Division I member, the Cougars (29-2), whose 90-mph style reflects that of their coffee-driven coach, John Kresse, are one win from the Sweet 16 in The Big Dance. Standing in the way is Arizona (20-9), the fourth seed in the Southeast Regional.
The colorful Kresse, sounding a bit like a CBS-TV color analyst gone mad, stepped to the podium yesterday and ...