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March Madness 2023: San Diego State makes Final Four after ‘devastating’ cancellation of 2020 NCAA Tournament
HOUSTON – Aguek Arop tucked his 6-foot-6 frame into the seat for his flight back home after an abrupt and gut-wrenching end to San Diego State’s 2019-20 season. Then, he pulled up a video on his phone that brought the pain into focus. It was a compilation made by SDSU director of basketball operations Matt Soria of footage from the season for the Aztecs, who were 30-2 and projected as a No. 2 seed for the NCAA Tournament before the event’s cancellation amid the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was all of his favorite moments from throughout the year,” Arop said. “And that’s when it hit me. I watched…
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March Madness 2023: Princeton shocks Arizona, No. 15 upsets a No. 2 for 11th time in NCAA Tournament history
Princeton pulled an NCAA Tournament stunner on Thursday, when the No. 15 seed Tigers upset No. 2 seed Arizona 59-55 in the first round. It marks the third straight NCAA Tournament in which a No. 15 seed has upset a No. 2 seed after Saint Peter’s beat Kentucky in 2022 and Oral Roberts beat Ohio State in 2021 and the 11th time in tournament history. Arizona guard Kerr Kriisa had a chance to tie the game with five seconds left on a 3-point look from the left wing, but it bounced off, which allowed the Tigers to clinch the game at the free-throw line. Tosan Evbuomwan led Princeton with 15…
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NCAA Tournament 2023 bracket: Computer simulation shares surprising upsets, March Madness picks, and sleepers
Winning back-to-back titles in college basketball is a difficult task. The Kansas Jayhawks can become the first team to repeat since the Florida Gators (2006-07) when they take the court as a No. 1 seed in the 2023 NCAA Tournament bracket. The Jayhawks, however, have a challenging draw in the West Region, with No. 2 UCLA, No. 3 Gonzaga and No. 4 UConn all capable of making a deep run in the 2023 March Madness bracket. Plus, recent history indicates Kansas could be in for a letdown at the NCAA Tournament 2023. In four of the last five NCAA Tournaments, the defending champion has been eliminated in the first or…
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March Madness 2023: Houston leads contenders, Tennessee among pretenders for NCAA Tournament
There are 363 Division I teams in college basketball. Only 68 of them will get into the NCAA Tournament field this year. And only a fraction of those 68, if I’m being truthful, are legitimate contenders fit to wear the crown. So who are they? By my count, only seven teams have the goods to be the last team standing on the first Monday night of April in Houston. They are (no surprise) called “contenders.” Just below them is another bucket of good — but not great — teams called “pretenders.” These are teams that can make a run in March but don’t quite have the goods to win it…
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World Cup: How has this tournament affected the ‘brands’ associated with it?
CNN — Traditionally billions of viewers watch the World Cup, and as they concentrate on what is happening on the pitch, the names of some of the world’s biggest companies flash behind the players on a rolling, technicolored loop – Budweiser, Visa, Coca-Cola, Qatar Airways, Adidas, McDonalds, Wanda, Vivo, Hyundai Kia. But Qatar 2022 is different. Many of these brands, particularly those with Western world roots, have become caught in the geopolitical crosshairs of this tournament, balancing their sponsorship with criticisms levelled at FIFA, soccer’s world governing body, and Qatar, the host, notably around human rights issues. Not that it is affecting FIFA’s bottom line. FIFA President Gianni Infantino said…
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Qatar World Cup chief says between 400 and 500 migrant workers have died in projects connected to the tournament
CNN — Planet Cup chief Hassan Al-Thawadi stated that involving 400 and 500 migrant personnel have died as a consequence of get the job done finished on assignments connected to the tournament – a increased figure than Qatari officers have cited formerly. In an job interview with Piers Morgan which aired on TalkTV on Monday, Al-Thawadi was requested about the range of fatalities to migrant staff as a outcome of the function carried out in the tournament and mentioned: “The estimate is all over 400, among 400 and 500. “I really do not have the specific variety, that is anything which is been discussed. One demise is too many, it…
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