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Tournament Week brought to you by parity is almost over, and that means one thing: the NCAA Tournament is right around the corner, and a certain someone (well, most of the country really) cannot wait!
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Syracuse finally ran out of gas, Baylor didn’t have one final stunner in them, and Memphis padded its resume [...]

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Syracuse upsets UConn in a Big East quarterfinal game for the ages
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It only took six!… overtimes for the Syracuse Orange to take down the UConn Huskies tonight in one of the wildest, longest, and most compelling games in the history of college basketball.  Just six.
127-117!
Syracuse never led in the first five OT’s– YES, [...]

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O how the times have changed!  Bill Laimbeer took some time at of his busy schedule to talk NCAA Tournament, why he started his pro career in Europe (not the NBA), why Cal Ripken would’ve had nothing on him had he not been suspended so much, and what he thinks about WNBA bashers
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Bill [...]

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 … But don’t expect to be one of the last ones standing
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Cornell rolled to an Ivy League championship last year.
This year wasn’t nearly as easy.  To claim their fourth NCAA Tournament berth the Big Red just needed a loss from second place Princeton, which fell earlier in the day to Columbia.  Cornell (20-9, [...]

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SI Bracketeer Andy Glockner sets the record straight on why each team goes where, and why the name of the region has nothing whatsoever to do with locations picked for the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament
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Yesterday, I asked the question: where does the NCAA Tournament committe come up with its [...]

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The regions may be East, West, Midwest, and South, but take a look at where teams are really going to be slotted, and it quite frankly makes little sense

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Don’t let the bare simplicity fool you.  A quick look at the NCAA Tournament regional final locations for 2009 show Boston (East), Glendale (West), Memphis [...]

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It’s none other than defending champion Kansas, and runner up Memphis
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Like a bat out of hell look who’s back on the scene: last year’s two participants from the national title game.  And they are back with a vengeance.  After opening the season 13th (Memphis) and 24th (Kansas), few expected the two teams ravaged [...]

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