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Entries for the ‘2008 Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament’ Category

What we do in Lawrence after the Jayhawks win the National Championship

After stealing the glass slipper from Cinderella Davidson, then toppling the mighty Tarheels, the Jayhawks faced off with the Memphis Tigers last night, and you all know the story from there. For the first time since 1988, when Danny Manning led a 6-seeded Jayhawk team to victory in the National Championship, the Hawks cut [...]

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The Sweet Sixteen

First of all, check out this little McSmarty who picked the correct Sweet Sixteen on his bracket for the ESPN Tournament Challenge. He’s in first place, out of the more than 3-and-a-half million people who took the Challenge. Doesn’t even have cable, just did his research.
I did the ESPN bracket challenge, too. I’m [...]

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Jayhawks Roll into the Sweet 16

As predicted. Now the Jayhawks face 12-seed Villanova next weekend in the third round. That looks good on paper. But this is March and I’m not gonna jinx my ‘Hawks by making assumptions.
All is right in the state of Kansas. Not only did KU win, but the KState Beasleys lost [...]

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San Diego Did UConn Today

Like Belmont should’ve done Duke yesterday.
Jim Calhoun suffered his first 1st-round NCAA tournament loss as the Huskies coach. At the press conference after the game, he found about a thousand ways to say that his 4-seeded Huskies gave the game to 13-seeded San Diego by playing crappy defense.
Not very gracious. Looked to [...]

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March Madness Begins. . . The REAL Day One

Yes, hubby got his bracket done. He’s got KU, UCLA, Texas and Louisville (hahahahahahahahaha) in the Final Four, with KU beating UCLA in the championship.
My basketball day started when I watched the KU game at my desk. I’ve got a double monitor, so I had the game going on one screen, while I [...]

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