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UAB making life 'Hell' in NCAAs

By Pat Forde
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, March 23, 2004

The biggest upset of the NCAA Tournament was in the bag. Brackets were in tatters nationwide. In the stricken commonwealth of Kentucky, much bourbon was being poured. And in the front row of a stunned Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, an old antagonist of Big Blue was happily shouting a universal truth. "People don't like pressure!" screamed Nolan Richardson. "People don't like pressure!" Richardson, one of the foremost practitioners of pressure application in college basketball history, ha ...

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