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'We weren't ready to be done': How Texas A&M managed their comeback

OKLAHOMA CITY — Shortly after his team completed one of the greatest comebacks in basketball history, Alex Caruso dashed into the Texas A&M locker room and wrote "Believe" on the whiteboard, underlined three times with two exclamation points.

Somehow, the Aggies believed, even when no else did.

No one else would have. After all, by any common sense or statistical measure, the Aggies had virtually zero chance to come all the way back from a 12-point deficit in 33 seconds.

Yet Texas A&M did just that.

The Aggies trailed Northern Iowa by a dozen points before they closed out regulation with a stunning 14-2 run that sent the game into overtime, then won it 92-88 in double OT Sunday night to advance to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2007.