After completing the largest comeback in the history of the first round of March Madness, No. 11 VCU head coach Phil Martelli Jr. made it a point to shout out specific journalists.
Ben Rekosh, the director and on-air commentator for WVCW Sports, the school’s radio station, was in the middle of asking a question to Martelli about their comeback over No. 6 UNC when Martelli interrupted.
“I am gonna shout you guys out. I know there’s a lot of professional media, our student media, the best in the country. They are unreal. Unreal, unreal,” Martelli said. “Three of these guys drove in a snowstorm — I’m not sure why they did it — to Davidson to cover us in Davidson. They came out to St. Louis, they’ve been everywhere along the way.”…