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California Dreaming!  The �������ֹ��� Men’s Basketball team arrived in Sacramento Wednesday motivated for its first NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament appearance in nine years.

The Golden Flashes had a short sendoff at the Kent Campus before busing to the Akron-Canton Airport for the four-hour flight.  Mother Nature delayed the flight for a few hours, but the team arrived in California mid-afternoon, and after a short stop at their hotel, team members were off to a local high school gymnasium for practice.

Staff members at the team hotel greeted the MAC Tournament Champions with blue and gold poms poms and a recording of the �������ֹ��� fight song.

Head Coach Rob Senderoff said his team is ready to go.

“They got off the bus, and they know they’re in March Madness,” Senderoff said. “We will have a real practice here tonight, what we call a ‘�������ֹ���’ practice of an hour-and-a-half of live, physical practice.  We’ll do a scouting report, and we’ll have an open practice at the arena tomorrow and then a media session. Friday we’ll shoot again and play Friday night.”

The #14 seed Golden Flashes meet #3 see UCLA Friday in the First Round of the tournament. Tip-off is set for 9:57 p.m. EST on CBS.

Photo caption: The �������ֹ��� Mens Basketball team is greeted Wednesday by hotel staff members waving blue and gold pom poms and playing the university fight song shortly after arriving in Sacramento, California.