NCAA Basketball: Who won the week in college basketball? Summer Edition Five

The Florida Gulf Coast Eagles were on a NCAA basketball foreign trip in the Bahamas…and they won a game with three players.

It’s the summer, so figuring out which player, or team, or mascot, or fan base, or conference, or commissioner, or Plumlee won the week is a little more difficult than it is once November rolls around.

But even in the off-season, there are still a plethora of winners in college basketball if you know where to look. So I took it upon myself to dive deep into collegiate news feeds, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Vine and Snapchat in hopes of giving the Busting Brackets faithful what they want.

Every week we will choose one thing that won the week. At the end of the off-season, we’ll have a tournament/vote to figure out who/what in college basketball won the summer.

Two weeks ago (it has been a very slow ten or so days), the Duke “Average Joe’s” dodge ball team won the week. This week, Dunk City found yet another way to blow our collective minds.

Remember Dunk City? Remember how those wonderfully athletic Florida Gulf Coastians stole our basketball hearts a couple of tournaments ago? Remember when that one time start up coach, Andy Enfield, awe shucked his way into the USC job?

Remember Chase Fieler’s alley-oop against Georgetown?

Well, FGCU has once again found their way back into college basketball headlines — at least since their loss to North Carolina in the first round of this past years NCAA Tournament.

You see, the newest rendition of the band formerly known as “Dunk City” and their eight healthy players are in the Bahamas right now for their foreign basketball tour. Generally speaking, only having eight players able to play basketball is short sighted even for an intramural team.

And that’s especially true when you are in the Bahamas and are playing basketball games that just so happen to have referee’s that take their summer jobs very, excruciatingly seriously.

According to Rob Dauster of NBCSports, things got dicey with a little under two minutes left in their matchup with the Providence Storm:

"With 1:36 left in a game against the Providence Storm — which featured, among others, members of the Bahamian National Team — a fourth Eagle fouled out, meaning that FGCU had to try and defend an 88-83 lead with just four players on the court.Making matters worse, a fifth FGCU player fouled out with 40 seconds left, meaning that Joe Dooley’s club had to try and defend an 89-87 lead with just three players — Kevin Mickle, Christian Terrell and Maxx Bleecher."

Go ahead and fast forward the video above to the 1:48:00 mark — trust me, you won’t miss much before that. Now watch in wonder as you witness one of the most incompetent sequences you might EVER see in a basketball game.

The “Storms” are down five points and playing five-on-four. Five. On. Four. The sheer fact that the “Storms” were down anything (being that they had members of the Bahama National Basketball team on the roster) against a FGCU team that only had eight players to sub in and out for was already concerning.

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There are YMCA League teams out here in Orlando that I know could beat a four-man zone scheme.

And that’s especially true after Dunk City is forced to play 5-on-3 after committing yet another foul… AND it’s STILL not enough to jump ahead of the Eagles.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a more mismanaged sequence above the 3rd grade level. I’ve watched the last five minutes of this video multiple times now. It’s still astonishing that the “Storms” allowed Dunk Township to beat them in their two consecutive full court presses — fouling after getting beat on both — and then turned the ball over after that (which, once again, led to another foul and two easy points).

But it’s not the collapse of the “Storms” that won FGCU the week. It’s the fact that they beat a five man press with three guys. I have nightmares of being a freshman and trying to break our Varsity teams Diamond-and-1 press. It was probably one of the hardest things I ever had to do.

And these dudes did it with three guys. And that will always be unbelievable.

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Congratulations to Dunk Township, our fifth summer winners of the week.

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