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College football post-spring top-25 teams: Does Notre Dame deserve to be in the top 5?
This was very difficult. And forgive me in advance if I made some of you angry, but here’s my honest ...
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NCAA Men’s Final Four scouting report: Coaches break down UConn, Bama, NC State and Purdue
All season it has felt like we were trending toward an epic national championship showdown between Connecticut and Purdue. Each ...
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NC State, with 2 Final Four teams, is epicenter of college basketball this week
THE CENTER OF THE COLLEGE BASKETBALL UNIVERSE (OR RALEIGH, N.C.) — It is exactly 1 p.m. the day after the ...
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UConn, NC State sending men’s and women’s teams to Final Four: How many schools have appeared together?
The Final Four is an annual event, but this year’s edition includes a never-before-seen occurrence. Connecticut and NC State’s men’s ...
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Brilliant women’s NCAA Tournament doesn’t deserve any more amateur errors
PORTLAND, Ore. — In the final minutes leading up to Sunday afternoon’s Elite Eight tipoff, Texas coach Vic Schaefer’s usual ...
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How DJ Burns Jr. and NC State became the darlings of March Madness
DALLAS — DJ Burns Jr. had a rare moment when the lights and the cameras weren’t around on Saturday afternoon ...
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NC State’s calm, collected Kevin Keatts goes from hot seat to the Final Four
DALLAS — The lasting image of NC State’s most recent Final Four appearance is coach Jim Valvano, running around, looking ...
Court for women’s NCAA Tournament in Portland has 3-point lines with different distances
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The 3-point line for the women’s NCAA Tournament at Moda Center had a discrepancy in distance ...
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Dimensions of 3-point lines on Portland court differ for women’s March Madness
The court used at Portland’s Moda Center, one of the sites for the women’s NCAA Tournament Regionals, has dimension discrepancies ...
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NCAA Tournament power rankings: Reseeding the Elite Eight with two No. 1 seeds out
The Athletic has live coverage of the NCAA Tournament. (Editor’s note: This is part of the Bracket Central Series, an ...