Irv Moss from the Denver Post has a great article on Air Force basketball.
...there's nothing prankish about this Air Force team. It already has victories of 69-68 over Long Beach State, 79-45 over Stanford, 84-46 over Colorado, 67-53 over Texas Tech and 94-58 over Wake Forest. The only loss was a 71-56 setback to Duke on Nov. 20.
Bzdelik has let his coaching and his players do the talking. His record in a season and a half is 36-8, including a school-record 24 wins last season.
While statistics explain why the Falcons are winning, Bzdelik has a more important reason to explain how they win. He quickly learned what his players' everyday life is like at Air Force, and he used it as an advantage on the basketball floor. His Falcons play as a team.
"Unselfishness is a way of life for them," Bzdelik said. "They have a serve-before-self attitude. They learn to sacrifice for a greater cause. That's a huge asset for a coach in a team sport. If you lined up our basketball team one-on-one with most of our opponents and played a one- on-one game, our record would be 1-11. Five guys working together pack a pretty powerful punch."
Read the entire article...
UPDATE: 22:07 PST Mark Kiszla from the Denver Post has his own article here.
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