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Giant Killers: Predicting NCAA upsets

By Jordan Brenner and Peter Keating
ESPN Insider

Monday, March 9, 2009

Sure, the Final Four is the preferred destination for every college hoops team, but the opening weekend of the NCAA tournament is where you'll find the real action. Why? Upsets. Pulse-pounding, system-shocking, eternally memorable upsets. Princeton over UCLA. Valpo over Ole Miss. Hampton over Iowa State. For the fourth straight year, we've endeavored to make sense of these seemingly random acts of Madness, attempting to systematically and scientifically identify upsets before they happen. Th ...

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