Tears started streaming down the cheeks of coach Kevin Borseth’s wife and daughter even before they welled up in his own eyes and eventually those of his Green Bay players.
Finally, after snapping a five-year NCAA Tournament drought by winning the Horizon League postseason title, the emotions came pouring out. By Sunday’s selection show, Green Bay’s players were hooting and hollering for television cameras with a message from their tradition-rich program to the rest of the college basketball world.