No. 1 UH faces upset-minded Longwood Lancers, whose coach and 3 players have Houston ties

'That's crazy,' a Longwood Lancers player who went to Cypress Ranch said about facing the hometown team. Houston's opponent is also coached by someone who worked on the staff of the first-ever 16th-seeded team to beat a No. 1 seed.

The University of Houston will be one of the last teams to open play in this year's NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. But just because the Coogs are one of the latest games of the first round doesn't mean they'll be sleeping on the 16th-seeded Longwood Lancers.

"We've addressed it with the team very, very briefly," Aldrich admitted about sharing his 2018 experience with this year's Longwood squad. "That just gets me even more excited playing my hometown team," Massie, a Legacy School of Sport and Science alumnus, said. "They're really good."

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