Syracuse basketball fan A.J. Owen sat in his Philadelphia hotel room doing work on his laptop last Thursday night, when he heard a knock at the door. When he opened the door, Owen couldn't believe what awaited him on the other side.
"The whole team was standing there," Owen said. "GM (Kevin Belbey), Terrence Roberts, Mookie Jones, Eric Devendorf. Everybody was just standing there."
That team would be Boeheim's Army, a squad made up of (mostly) Syracuse hoops alums that is currently a No. 1 seed in The Basketball Tournament. Everyone was there to welcome Owen, whom Belbey and Devendorf added to the roster as a fan booster after he started a Twitter movement (@BoeheimsArmyFan) and recruited hordes of supporters for the team.