You remember Davidson, the small liberal arts college in North Carolina whose basketball team cracked the elite eight in the NCAA Tournament, before falling by two points to eventual national champion Kansas.

If you paid attention during the tournament coverage, you probably learned that a Davidson education is pricey -- around $40,000 a year. Among the school's alumni, doctors and lawyers number in the thousands.

Two former governors of North Carolina (Jim Holshouser and Jim Martin) and one former president of the United States (Woodrow Wilson) attended college there.

Now you can add to that list: one front tire changer.

"I didn't study tire changing -- that's a fact," said Brown, who changes the front tires on Daytona 500 champion Ryan Newman's No. 12 Dodge. Collectively, Newman's crew will defend its title in Thursday's Sprint Pit Crew Challenge at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C.

When he enrolled at Davidson, Brown had no mechanical background and no interest in NASCAR racing. He studied economics and played shortstop on the Wildcats' baseball team, well enough to convince himself and others in the know that he would be drafted by a major-league organization after his senior season in 2000.