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The Davidson Wildcats are in the news again.

This time it is an enormous spread in USA Today.

Excerpt:

McKillop demands team play and that his players become one unit, then revels in their differences.

"Players are not just basketball players here," says McKillop, who has six foreign players on the team. "They are discussing and they are analyzing the war in Iraq, the economic situation of the country, the 'Jena Six' or what is going on in Africa. They are just as much in touch with that reality as they are of the reality of the campus social environment, where they are constantly under a microscope because they are in a small-town college environment.

"I understand who we can recruit to fit that dynamic," McKillop says. "Usually if they fit that dynamic they are generally going to be guys who are team-oriented."

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