Adam Fravert was 4-for-10 from 3-point range and scored a team-high 18 points. 2022 We Are D3 TBT file photo

If you said We Are D3 was going to get to the cutoff for the Elam Ending with the game tied against top seed Mass Street and have a legitimate chance to win a game in The Basketball Tournament for the first time ever, most people would have taken it.

That tie came at 62-62, after former UW-Oshkosh All-American Adam Fravert had hit a 3-pointer in the closing seconds of the third quarter to give the Why D3'ers a 58-51 lead. But Mass Street, a team of Kansas alumni playing in Wichita, Kansas, outscored Team D3 19-9 in the fourth quarter to win it. The final bucket came on a tip-in by 6-9 Thomas Robinson after Marcus Little had missed two free throws with his team up 68-65. 

The closest game in multiple trips to The Tournament for Team D3 under coach Mike Rejniak saw the team led by Fravert's 18 points, including 4-for-10 shooting from 3-point range, as well as seven rebounds. Ty Nichols, a 2019 All-America pick from Keene State, added 15, while Demetrius Underwood, a 2021 second-team pick from Texas-Dallas, scored 10 in 19 minutes off the bench.

The team forced 22 turnovers, helping the D3'ers take as large as a 12-point lead in the third quarter. 

"The guys played really hard tonight and proved that it doesn't matter what D-III school you come from, as long as you have heart and play defense, you'll have a shot." Rejniak said after the game. "Our goal was to make things weird for Kansas, and did we ever."