Oakland Star Trey Townsend Says They Can Compete W/ Anyone After Kentucky Upset

95% of brackets had Kentucky beating Oakland within the first spherical of the NCAA Tourney, so whereas practically nobody within the outdoors world believed within the Golden Grizzlies, their squad did, together with star hooper Trey Townsend who hopes this proves rankings ain’t every little thing!

As you recognize, the 14th-ranked Oakland Golden Grizzlies formally kicked off the Insanity in March once they defeated John Calipari‘s quantity 3-seeded Kentucky Wildcats … the event’s greatest upset (to this point).

“You can’t put that mindset on yourself going to a game thinking you’re lesser than your opponent, because you’re, per se, shooting yourself in the foot and giving yourself a disadvantage mentally,” Townsend stated.

“We come in confident and play our best game, play as hard as we can and we’re just as good and can compete with anyone in the country. We proved it [Thursday],” the group chief informed us.

Now, Oakland (positioned in Michigan, not California) will face No. 11 North Carolina State within the second spherical on Saturday … and Townsend believes they have an actual path to the Candy 16! Particularly with Jack Gohlke taking pictures lights out (he knocked down 10 threes)!

“I think it’s just playing the way we have all season,” Townsend stated. “The biggest thing, especially at this time of the year, is to stay consistent to what you’ve done to get you to this point.”

“We’re not gonna take anything lightly, even though we just had a big win. You gotta keep that in your back pocket for now and we can celebrate after a long run in this tournament.”

As if Trey and Oakland’s story wasn’t already cool sufficient, his dad Skip Townsend, who was not solely a credentialed media member working Thursday’s sport, but in addition a former hooper on the Golden Grizzlies group.

The truth is, Skip performed for Oakland’s CURRENT coach, Greg Kampe, approach again within the 80s! His mother Nicole was additionally on the ladies’s basketball group.

“I always wanted to be an Oakland uniform and be like my dad,” Trey stated.