LSU sophomore
Tremont Waters joked that if he "had a strong enough arm, [he] could probably throw a rock to Yale's basketball facilities." The two teams will square off in Jacksonville, Florida, in the second game of the day.
"That's where I started playing basketball," Waters
said yesterday. "My dad got a membership to Payne Whitney gym, and it was like ... the facility where everyone could go in, if you had a membership. So that's where I started. ... Now that
Azar Swain goes there, I actually grew up playing basketball with him for the CT Elite Basketball Club, and just knowing that I'm from New Haven and that this team is from New Haven, it's an honor to be able to play them in the first game of the March Madness NCAA tournament.