RH: Second-half Burst Leads To Celebration

They cut down the net, rolled in the confetti, took videos and posed for pictures.

Up that ladder they went, just like this season, always climbing up. Up toward something special.

Tyson Etienne carried the trophy, net draped over it, to his Zoom interview. Alterique Gilbert tied his piece of the championship net to his black championship hat. So did Brycen Bush, who also wore a black championship shirt.

Nobody, it seems, outside of that locker room expected this scene back in November. The Shockers, for a lot of different reasons, disagreed.

"We knew we weren't finishing seventh," senior guard Brycen Bush said. "Proving everybody wrong is pretty special."

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