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Fla. Gulf Coast, Fairleigh Dickinson face off in First Four

FILE- In this March 8, 2016, file photo, Wagner's Corey Henson (0) defends Fairleigh Dickinson's Stephan Jiggetts (1) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the championship of the Northeast Conference tournament in New York. Fairleigh Dickinson is one of eight teams whose tournaments are starting a little bit before the first round of the college basketball NCAA Tournament officially opens Thursday, March 17. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File) FILE- In this March 8, 2016, file photo, Wagner's Corey Henson (0) defends Fairleigh Dickinson's Stephan Jiggetts (1) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the championship of the Northeast Conference tournament in New York. Fairleigh Dickinson is one of eight teams whose tournaments are starting a little bit before the first round of the college basketball NCAA Tournament officially opens Thursday, March 17. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

By Associated Press March 14, 2016 1 min read

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) – The “Dunk City” darlings from Florida Gulf Coast University are back in the NCAA Tournament.

The Eagles (20-13) return to the tournament for the first time since they became national sweethearts with an improbable Sweet Sixteen run as a No. 15 seed in 2013. They play Northeast Conference champions Fairleigh Dickinson in a First Four game Tuesday night in Dayton.

Florida Gulf Coast, a Fort Myers, Florida, school that’s been playing Division I basketball only since 2007, made it by virtue of winning the Atlanta Sun conference tournament.

Fairleigh Dickinson, in Teaneck, New Jersey, has five previous NCAA Tournament appearances, the last one in 2005.

The winner moves on to play North Carolina, the No. 1 seed in the East Regional.