Kenny was reluctant to comment on reports that the Easter Road players and manager John Collins had had a furious dressing room row after their match.
Based on the analysis of 440 NBA players and over 340,000 free throws, the researchers found that home free throw shooters did significantly worse in clutch situations, while road players showed no change under pressure, indicating that home team antics played a limited role for the road team.
So Alim Ozturk's audacious, viciously unexpected equalising strike from all of 40 yards late into time added on was a brutal reminder of old fallibilities for the Easter Road players.
It's the favorite of high road players and, as ever, a prescription for failure when the game is to engage.
That figure is the midlevel exception, a loophole that allows teams over the salary cap to add a player -- usually a middle-of-the-road player.
However, things got out of control late in the fourth when Providence's Ly committed a hard foul and became involved in a fight with a New Roads player.
The road a player faces in a tournament can vary drastically if he or she just misses being in a higher seeding echelon, as lower echelons are subject to playing more difficult opponents earlier in the tournament.
The series has also inspired arcade games such as the Japanese Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road, where players compete for real-life cards with monster data that the arcade game issues to the players through a slot on its front.
The night before a road game, players will gather in a communal hotel suite, blow into the gray game cartridge and pop it into the console.
On the road, the players are at the mercy of their hotel location, as well as their $29 per diem (increased from $25 this year because of their unusual circumstances).
Even when they are together on the road, the players, especially veterans like Larry Johnson, tend to have their own friends in each city and can be seen venturing out alone from the team hotel.
