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PEORIA, IL - Virtually every player on Bradley's alumni team, Always A Brave, came up with big plays Saturday, but none bigger than point guard Daniel Ruffin's go-ahead basket with 34 seconds left, lifting the third-seeded AAB to a 68-63 win against No. 14 seed Mid American Unity in the opening round of The Basketball Tournament Midwest Regional Saturday evening at Renaissance Coliseum.

With the majority of the largest crowd in TBT's four-year history - 2,142 for the entire day - filling Bradley's on-campus arena to cheer on the home team, Tony Bennett's defense and David Collins' work in the paint helped turn the tide in the favor of Always A Brave.