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Cleveland-bound: Ball State basketball upsets Eastern Michigan in MAC Tournament

James Whitford discusses what he's tried to change and this "complicated" season. Ryan O'Gara, The Star Press

MUNCIE, Ind. — Well how's that for a stunner?

After a two-month stretch in which almost nothing seemed to go right, the Ball State men's basketball team suddenly has life. And momentum. And a ticket to Cleveland.

The No. 11 seed Cardinals shrugged off a nine-point deficit late in the first half to win going away at No. 6 Eastern Michigan 61-43.

"It reminded me of how we've been playing a lot of the year," Ball State coach James Whitford said on his postgame radio show.