A week after beating one Final Four team in Loyola, Jordan Lyons and the Furman Paladins stepped onto The Pavilion on Villanova’s campus to face another. It had been a good week for Lyons. He scored 15 points in the 60–58 upset over Loyola, and then scored 54 points and tied an NCAA record with 15 threes in a win against Division II North Greenville. Now, despite taking on the eighth-ranked team country, Lyons felt no pressure.
“We knew that the world wasn’t going to think we could go up there and win that game,” says the 5’11” junior guard.