Ball State win was nice, but little has changed

Ahhhh, the elixir of winning. The heretofore emotionless faces of Ball State's basketball players who labored through a nine-game Mid-American Conference losing streak were gone, even if it was for only one evening. The bounce in their step as they went through the handshake line and headed to the locker room Wednesday night after beating Central Michigan 71-52 was starkly different than in the previous nine conference games. Who would be surprised if the Cardinals gathered in the locker room and chanted, "We're No. 10!!!" Maybe even, "We're No. 9!!!" "We started to see some smiles on people's faces on the court," senior guard Randy Davis admitted.

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