We’ve beaten them at least 3 times in the last 5, but two things are true: one, none of those victories were on our home court (until it is nearly impossible to win coming into EBA the hate won’t start flowing), two, we haven’t beaten them when it matters (in the postseason) in a very, very long time. We need to pull a URI a la 2018? and knock them off in the quarters as like an 8 seed and then they’ll hate us.
Edit: forgot one more wrinkle (a hateable player), you know like Yuta Watanabe from GW, Jeff Dowtin from URI, Gudmundsen from Davidson, a player who just wrecks your day when they’re playing your team.
The last one of those we had legitimately was probably Ryan Pearson. You might be able to make a claim for is Marquise Moore, but he was too quiet I think and he played on mostly bad teams. Maybe Austin Ball or Keyshawn Hall can grow into one of those.