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SYRACUSE – On Saturday at 7:15 p.m., when the Norwich team takes to the floor against the South Jefferson Spartans at SRC Arena on the campus of Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, they will have a chance to make history as the only team to move past the regional rounds and onto the New York State final four.

This year’s team is honestly unlike any other to come through the Norwich program.

Currently, the team has just one player on the 12 man roster that averages 10-plus points a game. They do, however, have half of the lineup registering an average of 5 or more points in the scorebook every game this season.

The Tornado’s go deep in the bench, rotating a couple in every few minutes, keeping fresh legs on the floor at all times. Ten-year head coach Josh Bennett has to with this Norwich squad as they play a hard-nosed, in-your-face, full-court pressing defense. They are one of the few teams that play a defense that covers the court sideline to sideline, end-line to end-line and give 110-percent every minute they are on the floor.

Bennett says it’s the “run, run and run some more mentality,” that he has instilled in his kids and in every game they’ve played this season, his kids believe in it.