Game of the Week: Men's basketball at SUNY Brockport in Sweet Sixteen
Only one thing stands between the Lord Jeffs and their second appearance in the Elite Eight, between Coach Hixon and his Amherst record 23rd win, between a happy Friday night in Western New York and a long bus ride home. But that one thing, namely SUNY Brockport, is the owner of a 27-2 record, the SUNYAC Championship and a sharpshooter shooting over 50 percent from the field and over 40 percent from three-point range. That player is Mike Medbury, a 6'5", 210 lb. power forward. But Amherst has ample firepower of its own. Tri-captain Steve Zieja '03 has averaged 26.0 points per game in Amherst's four postseason games and big man Pat Fitzsimons '03 has helped out with 13.0 points per game, a handful of two-handed jams and two particularly memorable free throws, over the same four game stretch.
Issue 19, Submitted 2002-03-05 19:46:20