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Breaking down the evening action

By Mark Schlabach

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Here are some thoughts from Thursday's evening first-round games in the NCAA tournament: 1. Are we going to go through an entire day of opening-round games without a major upset? No. 2 seed-Memphis survived a big scare from Cal State-Northridge, before pulling away 81-70 in the West Region in Kansas City. No. 3-seed Villanova trailed No. 14-seed American by 10 points at the half, but then out-scored the Eagles 49-26 in the second for an 80-67 win in the East Region in Philadelphia. South Regio ...

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