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Gators, Tar Heels top this preseason's bracket

By Joe Lunardi
Special to ESPN Insider

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

A year ago at this time, yours truly managed to post a bracket that included neither the defending NCAA champion (North Carolina) nor its upcoming winner (Florida). It's that kind of incisive analysis one can only find on the pages of ESPN.com. All kidding aside, there were perfectly defensible reasons for both omissions. The Tar Heels had lost the top seven players from their 2005 national championship team, not to mention well over half the band and dance team, the school mascot, as well as t ...

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