Know Your Non-conference Opponent: Fairfield

This guy started his career at Fairfield, but is he a good coach?What does it take to make a rise meteoric? Not just a bump in the average performance, but the kind of thing that will be immortalized in story and song, or at least in a book written by a local hack sportswriter? I ask because Fairfield basketball has been the subject of just such a book, penned by someone called Don Harrison. That book, entitled 25 Years Plus One: Recounting the Meteoric Rise of Fairfield Basketball, documents the Stags’ dominant run of... making 3 NITs in 6 years. If that rise counts as meteoric, it’s only in that the only thing below it is surely the icy vacuum of space.

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