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With the smoke having cleared from the Sweet 16/Elite 8 weekend, this many #1 seeds remain:
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0
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2
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1
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3
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Along with the ACC, which fields two teams in the Final Four, the other conferences represented are:
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Big East and Big 12
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Big 12 and Big 10
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Pac 12 and Big 12
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Big 10 and Pac 12
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It's hard-ish to believe, but Syracuse becomes the first ______ seed to advance to the Final Four:
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#9
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#12
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#8
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#10
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Now then.....over on the Women's side of the tournament, the ladies of this school offered little resistance to UConn during a whopping 60 point victory by the Huskies:
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Oregon State
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Mississippi State
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Wyoming State
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West Virginia
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And, see, we were all excited for the newly-minted Vegas 16 postseason tournament, until we learned this week that:
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It won't actually be played in Vegas, but rather in Carson City, NV
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It will only consist of 8 teams, instead of the planned 16
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It won't be played until June
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It won't be played at all
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And in one final college hoops note, Oklahoma State pilfered away this tournament darling's head coach:
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Yale
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Hawaii
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Stephen F. Austin
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Northern Iowa
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Meanwhile, in Tales from the Association, this big man has been fighting off allegations of cheating after he was apparently caught with sticky stuff on his hands during a game:
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Anthony Davis
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Tim Duncan
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Dwight Howard
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Draymond Green
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And a torn labrum will keep this aforementioned basketball star from competing in the Rio Olympics, which will be a real shame:
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Anthony Davis
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Tim Duncan
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Dwight Howard
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Drayond Green
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In exciting Peyton Manning news, concerning his retirement from the league:
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Manning signed a one-day contract to retire as a Colt
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Spurned Indy to retire as a Bronco
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Retired unaffiliated with any team
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Announced he was rescinding his retirement
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This MLB team is part of history, as it played a milestone game vs. Cuba in front of President Obama during the US's first official trip to Havana in a long, long time:
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Cubs
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Rays
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Diamondbacks
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Reds
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For a while, everybody liked Alex Rodriguez. Then, everyone didn't - *really* didn't. Now, this week, the Yankee infielder inferred - and then uninferred - that he would retire after the:
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2017 season
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2016 season
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2018 season
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2020 season
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And on the cold-weather college sports side of the ledger, this year's Frozen Four will be made up of the following, except for:
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Denver
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Boston College
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Quinnipiac
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South Dakota
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