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Entries for the ‘NCAA Basketball’ Category

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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Here Comes March Madness!

The brackets for the men’s NCAA Tournament are out today, and so begins our annual tradition of inter-family gambling. We all fill out 1, or 2, but no more than 2, brackets each and enter them in the family pool at a cost of 5 dollars per bracket. At the end of the [...]

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Basketball Mama Has Some NCAA Thoughts. . .

In between Ant’s first two tournament games, we headed over to a restaurant in the Casino complex next to the gym the team was playing in to watch the second half of the KU game. It was the closest place, and our folks weren’t going to miss any more of the game than they had [...]

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