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A Journey to (Good) Madness: Artsiom Parakhouski

By Scott Powers

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Radford junior center Artsiom Parakhouski is going to spend the latter part of the afternoon on Thursday bodying with former National POY Tyler Hansbrough in the NCAA Tournament. Think a Radford upset would be shocking? (It would.) Parakhouski's mere presence on the court might be even more shocking. The NCAA Tournament wasn't anything Parakhouski dreamed of growing up in Minsk, Belarus. He didn't even know what an NCAA Tournament was until three years ago. A soccer fan, his focus was UEFA a ...

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