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…is the groaning in agony of millions of people who just watched in horror as their brackets in the NCAA Tournament office/campus pool got completely screwed up by Duke.

Congrats to Virginia Commonwealth though on a good game.

The first half just ended between UNC and Eastern Kentucky and it doesn’t look like the Colonels are gonna topple #1 seeded Tarheels. I still remember when Western Carolina almost pulled that off against Perdue in the ’96 tournament: my sister was a student at WCU at the time and she said she’d never seen a college campus go so crazy, when it really looked like it was gonna happen. So far as I know though, no #1 seed has ever gone down in the first round.

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Yee-haw!!! 85-80 over Duke in overtime in the first round of the ACC Tournament.

I’m just now finding out about this! I can’t believe that I missed this game! AAAARRGGGHHHH…

Speaking of N.C. State, tomorrow is March 10th. That’s my Dad’s birthday. March 10th is also the birthday of Jim Valvano. He would have been 61 tomorrow. Can’t believe it’s been almost fourteen years already since he was taken from us. I can’t tell you how many people I saw crying the day he died.

Goodness gracious: has it really been almost a quarter-century since that night in Albuquerque?

Valvano was one of my heroes. And he still is. This excerpt from his speech at the ESPY Awards – just two short months before he died – shows some of why that is…

“When people say to me how do you get through life or each day, it’s the

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