[youtube]0U-AxjhqkGI[/youtube] Almost a month after his online audition video went viral, Division III Illinois College guard Jacob Tucker earned an invitation to the college slam dunk championship at the Final Four in Houston. Tucker received an official invitation to the dunk competition on Tuesday after winning a Facebook fan poll. Tucker received 88 percent of the vote over Lee University's Larriques Cunningham to be the lone non-Division I competitor in Thursday's competition at the University of Houston. "It was a weight lifted off my shoulders," Tucker said of the invitation. "I was really excited. I was running around the room. Anytime there's a competition, you never know. They weren't showing the number of votes, so I didn't know what it was. To get 88 percent, that is crazy. That's unbelievable. I've gotten so much support." The YouTube video of Tucker, a 5-foot-11 senior with an estimated 50-inch vertical, has gotten more than 2.6 million hits and turned him into a minor celebrity. Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/ncb/news/story?id=6270646
