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Ohio College Basketball Insider | Denison men break through to NCAA

By midday Monday, a celebration video of Denison’s victory over Wooster in the North Coast Athletic Conference championship game had more than 14,000 hits on Facebook.

“In Division III, that’s called going viral,’’ sports information director Craig Hicks said of the excitement.

But Big Red junior Jett Speelman of Newark Catholic, who will be getting sized for a championship ring and has an automatic ticket to the NCAA tournament, was thinking only about getting his mind straight for the next practice.

Denison (17-11) will meet Alma (21-6) in a first-round game on Friday in University Heights, Ohio.