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Day 1 lacks usual flair

By Mark Schlabach

Thursday, March 19, 2009

It wasn't the kind of opening day we've grown accustomed to seeing -- or hope to watch -- in the NCAA tournament. Only four of Thursday's 16 games were won by lower seeds, and none of them -- No. 9 Texas A&M over No. 8 BYU, No. 10 Maryland over No. 7 California, No. 10 Michigan over No. 7 Clemson and even No. 12 Western Kentucky over No. 5 Illinois -- was the kind of result that really gets the blood flowing. No, the first day of the 2009 NCAA tournament was pretty predictable (and even bori ...

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