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Hofstra Stuns UCLA, Earns 'Win For The Ages'



It’s not like the Hofstra men’s basketball team has never beaten a major program before.

Four years ago this week, Hofstra beat Florida State in a tournament in the Virgin Islands. In 2007, the Pride beat Nebraska in the NIT a few months after beating St. John’s for the fourth straight season. Back in the Flying Dutchmen days, there were wins over Rutgers, Georgia Tech, Mississippi, Florida and Virginia.

But none of the first 12 victories over major programs happened across the country, at one of the meccas of college basketball, at the start of a marathon road trip that could define a season in which the pendulum has already swung between high expectations and worst-case scenarios.

There’s no doubt about it. Hofstra 88, UCLA 78 is the biggest win in program history.

“The people that love Hofstra basketball will talk about, holy cow, our guys went to Pauley Pavilion and won,” Hofstra head coach Joe Mihalich said a few minutes before 3 AM this morning, after a locker room speech that’d already hit Twitter and before a spot on New York sports talk radio giant WFAN. “Gives you the chills just thinking about these kids and the great job they did.”