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 NEW YORK (AP) - Matt McCraw and his wide-eyed Air Force teammates were cruising on a fireboat in the Hudson River as guests of the New York Fire Department, when they stopped in front of the Statue of Liberty. For a few moments, the excited group of young basketball players turned quiet.
"You always see it in encyclopedias and on the Internet, but actually seeing her right there, that was awesome," McCraw said Tuesday with a broad smile. "We also went to ground zero, and that was really humbling and put everything in perspective for us, why we're in our business and why we're protecting the freedom of people in the United States."
Air Force (26-8) is in New York as one of four semifinalists in the National Invitation Tournament, where they'll take on Clemson (24-10) in one of the games at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night.
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