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Article: LUMPKIN'S SPARK ENERGIZES XU.(SPORTS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- March 12, 1997
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Byline: Todd Archer Post staff reporter
Gary Lumpkin wishes he could get to play the piano more. Right now, he's lucky if he can get one night a week to play in the basement of Xavier University's Alter Hall.
That's just the way it is for a college basketball player when your team is getting ready for the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The sounds of a piano take the Musketeers starting point guard to a place the sounds of a pounding basketball, or swishing net or screeching high-tops cannot.
''It puts me in a certain good spirit,'' Lumpkin said. ''I can think about other things than the stuff on the court. I have to be aggressive on the ...