(Photo Credit: Denise Sanchez/The Morning Call) In 2009, the excitement in Lehigh winter sports was the Lehigh women's basketball team's Patriot League championship, and trip to nearby Piscataway, New Jersey to compete in the NCAA Tournament against Auburn. In 2010, the excitement was shared with both the women's and men's basketball championships. Both teams were rewarded with NCAA Tournament games against Big XII teams: Iowa State for the women, Kansas for the men. In 2011, it's all about wrestling. Battling history and the wrestler that delivered his only loss of the year, heavyweight Zach Rey did what hadn't been done with the Lehigh wrestling program since 2004 - deliver a national title at the Comcast Center in nearby Philadelphia, PA. (more)
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