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As good as Davidson senior point guard Jason Richards is -- and he'll make some money overseas -- he's not keeping opposing teams from ganging up on Curry. Nor is anyone else in the Davidson lineup. There's a reason Curry has scored 77 of Davidson's 130 second-half points in the NCAA tournament:
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The Wildcats don't have anybody else to do it.
And every team they play knows it.
And still it's happening.
This time it happened against Wisconsin senior Michael Flowers, a two-time pick for the Big Ten All-Defensive team. Flowers has manhandled the likes of Drew Neitzel and Eric Gordon, experience which he thought had readied him for Curry:
"Preparation for this game has been going on my whole career at Wisconsin," Flowers had said Thursday. "At the end of the game I want (Curry) to be breathless."
Curry was tired, no question about it. He played the first 31 minutes without a rest, coming out only after scoring those 16 points in 6½ minutes to give Davidson a 63-46 lead. When Curry came out for good with 57.9 seconds left, the tournament-record crowd of 57,028 gave him a standing ovation -- including the Wisconsin cheering section, which understood the greatness it had just witnessed and had the grace to acknowledge it.
Curry's father, former NBA sharpshooter Dell Curry, also stood and cheered. So did Davidson coach Bob McKillop and the rest of the Davidson bench.
The only person not standing and clapping was LeBron James, but that's OK. By then the best player in the world was gone.
And I'm assuming the best player in the world doesn't wear No. 30 for Davidson.
