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Getting prepared for The Dance

By Kieran Darcy
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- A couple minutes after 7 p.m. Sunday evening, the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi team bus pulled out of the parking lot of the Wyndham Hotel in north Houston. Soon after the team's departure, assistant coach Stott Carter stood up and popped a VHS tape into the VCR on board. What movie would the Islanders be watching on their way home to Corpus Christi? "Hoosiers," of course. How appropriate. After all, the Islanders are the "Hoosiers" of this year's Big Dance -- the only fi ...

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