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Jones has no problem with small stature

By Ryan Canner-O'Mealy
ESPNRISE.com

Monday, January 12, 2009

Carl Jones had never heard of St. Joseph's when its basketball team rolled into the 2004 NCAA Tournament as a No. 1 seed. Despite its impressive regular season record, Jones didn't think the small Philadelphia school from the Atlantic 10 could keep up with big-time teams from the Big 12 and ACC. So his bracket had the Hawks losing in the second round. Four games later, Phil Martelli's squad had come within a basket of reaching the Final Four and gained a fan in Jones, even if the team's run d ...

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