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New Orleans big man destroyed two foes with the first big dunk of March Madness 2017

America, meet Travin Thibodeaux.

The New Orleans Privateers and Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers are playing in the NCAA tournament’s First Four round for the right to face No. 1 overall seed Villanova later this week. New Orleans forward Travin Thibodeaux vehemently wants that opportunity.

In the second half of Tuesday’s opening round bout in Dayton, Ohio, Thibodeaux climbed the ladder to send a pair of Mountaineers defenders into the Earth’s core.

Here’s the duo of Mountaineers, naively hopeful that they can block this scoring opportunity.

And here they are following the yam, blasted into the afterlife.

The Mount led at halftime, 32-29.

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