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Even better with an odd couple: scrappy Tom Coverdale and smooth Bracey Wright have the Hoosiers believing they can win one more game than last season. (College Basketball).

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One looks like he was born to master the Dewey Decimal System, or maybe accounting--anything that doesn't require a whole lot of jump-out-of-the-gym athleticism. Tom Coverdale? He might have been Indiana's Mr. Basketball in 1998, but he wasn't even a White Castle All-American, much less a McDonald's.

The other one, well, he looks like he emerged from the womb wearing a pair of Air Jordans (poor mom). Bracey Wright? He's the guy everybody wanted from the beginning, the kid who generated a national buzz as a schoolboy.

Two players. Two very different pedigrees. Two guys who now are combining to be what might be the best, most intriguing backcourt tandem ...

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