March Madness 2021: Which teams are national title favorites?

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• 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
• The chaos at the United States Capitol affected college basketball, preventing the playing of the UMass-George Washington game
• Mike Krzyzewski wants a reassessment before college basketball continues; denies Duke’s 2-2 record is the reason
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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

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• Not just a football player, Hall of Famer Floyd Little also played on his high school basketball team
• 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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• UConn is paying a quarter-million dollars to seven women in athletics, including three basketball coaches, alleged by U.S. Labor Dept. to have been underpaid

Adia Barnes combined coaching and motherhood when she breastfed her child during the NCAA women’s finals

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• 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
• The chaos at the United States Capitol affected college basketball, preventing the playing of the UMass-George Washington game
• Not just a football player, Hall of Famer Floyd Little also played on his high school basketball team
• 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
• Mike Krzyzewski wants a reassessment before college basketball continues; denies Duke’s 2-2 record is the reason

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• 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
• 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
• With Quickley and Toppin, Knicks have finally found young core to build around
• 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
• The chaos at the United States Capitol affected college basketball, preventing the playing of the UMass-George Washington game

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