Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
Keaton Norris was up on the makeshift stage set up in the middle of the court at Indiana Farmers Coliseum in Indianapolis last Tuesday night, awash in confetti and cheers and giddy expectation as he and his Wright State teammates celebrated the Horizon League Championship they’d just won and the bigger prize – a trip to the NCAA Tournament – that would come a few days later.
And that’s when he saw something that made the moment even more memorable.
“When we were up there getting the trophy, I spotted my brother Braden,” said the Raiders’ freshman guard. “I could just tell he was definitely emotional. He was very excited for me.”
Braden had surprised everyone and driven down from Chicago, where he is the starting point guard for the Loyola Ramblers. He had joined his mom and dad and two younger brothers in the stands and watched Keaton complete an amazing feat for his longtime, hoops-obsessed family:
Both brothers are in this year’s NCAA Tournament.
Two days earlier, the 25-6 Ramblers had topped Drake in “Arch Madness” – the title game of Missouri Valley Conference in St. Louis – to make the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row and the third time in five years.
Now Wright State had come from 16 points down midway through the second half to edge Northern Kentucky, 72-71, and make the tournament for the second time in five years.
