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Giant Killers: History Lessons

By Peter Keating
ESPN Insider

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

As we have rolled out our Giant-Killer predictions for first-round upsets in the NCAA tournament, we've been getting a lot of queries that turn out to be different versions of the same question: Why have we told people to stay away from Virginia Commonwealth versus UCLA when analysts across the country are picking Eric Maynor & Co. as the underdog du jour? Why have we called North Dakota State a better bet against Kansas than Cleveland State against Wake Forest, when our own numbers seem ...

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