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Boilers, Huskies aren't out for style points

By Ted Miller

Friday, March 20, 2009

PORTLAND, Ore. -- It's tempting to wade into cliches of contrasting styles when considering Saturday's Purdue-Washington tilt (5:40 p.m. ET) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. That temptation is there, in part, because the cliches are accurate. Washington, the No. 4 seed and Pac-10 regular season champion, and Purdue, the Big Ten tournament champion, mostly conform to preconceptions: The Huskies like the West Coast run-and-gun. The Boilermakers like to grind you down with man-to-ma ...

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