March Madness 2021: Which teams are national title favorites?

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• How did two teams in the Patriot League manage an unlikely 46-point turnaround in back-to-back games? Or, what a difference a day makes
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• Mike Krzyzewski wants a reassessment before college basketball continues; denies Duke’s 2-2 record is the reason
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• Tom Heinsohn, en route to becoming an all-American at Holy Cross, left a memorable impression on Yale when he tallied 44 points against the Bulldogs
• Ivy League shuts down basketball and other winter sports, but leaves the door open to future eligibility of its athletes

EIi Manning is now in another game on a different level, coaching fourth-grade girls basketball

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• A spectator and referee squared off at a girls travel team game in Indiana setting off a melee that police are investigating
• Texas Western, the first All-Black starting team in an NCAA tournament, changed the landscape of college basketball, and continues to be commemorated 55 years later
• Before Anthony Fauci became a doctor, he grew up as a sports junkie and was captain of the Regis High School basketball team
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• Dom Ferrara, a Connecticut high school basketball all-stater, who played at two colleges, then became an acclaimed scholastic coach, has died of coronavirus at 80
• Aubrey Robinson went beyond the call by surprising an 11-year boy with a new basketball and hoop after she saw him playing with a bent one
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• EIi Manning is now in another game on a different level, coaching fourth-grade girls basketball
• A spectator and referee squared off at a girls travel team game in Indiana setting off a melee that police are investigating
• Adia Barnes combined coaching and motherhood when she breastfed her child during the NCAA women’s finals
• Craig Drezek, a Connecticut educator, after being a basketball star in high school and college, was only 49 when coronavirus took his life
• Texas Western, the first All-Black starting team in an NCAA tournament, changed the landscape of college basketball, and continues to be commemorated 55 years later
• Before Anthony Fauci became a doctor, he grew up as a sports junkie and was captain of the Regis High School basketball team
• When Jack Ferguson died from coronavirus, a college he attended may have been the first to suffer the loss of two of its basketball players in the pandemic
• Dee Rowe, who had covid-19, was a coaching icon, but his talents as a college player were ignored by most of the media when he died at 91
• How did two teams in the Patriot League manage an unlikely 46-point turnaround in back-to-back games? Or, what a difference a day makes

Kevin Porter Jr., not quite 21, set an NBA record that was previously held by LeBron James, but he still must overcome a rash of personal issues

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• Basketball a theme in several recent general news stories
• Kevin Porter Jr., not quite 21, set an NBA record that was previously held by LeBron James, but he still must overcome a rash of personal issues
• EIi Manning is now in another game on a different level, coaching fourth-grade girls basketball
• A spectator and referee squared off at a girls travel team game in Indiana setting off a melee that police are investigating
• Adia Barnes combined coaching and motherhood when she breastfed her child during the NCAA women’s finals
• Craig Drezek, a Connecticut educator, after being a basketball star in high school and college, was only 49 when coronavirus took his life
• Texas Western, the first All-Black starting team in an NCAA tournament, changed the landscape of college basketball, and continues to be commemorated 55 years later
• March Madness 2021: Which teams are national title favorites?
• Before Anthony Fauci became a doctor, he grew up as a sports junkie and was captain of the Regis High School basketball team
• When Jack Ferguson died from coronavirus, a college he attended may have been the first to suffer the loss of two of its basketball players in the pandemic

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• The Lost Champions: The 2002 Sacramento Kings and the fixed Western Conference Finals
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