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Who blew a huge lead? The Hoos, that’s who
Virginia just can’t seem to make it to the Final Four. In the last three years they’ve been a one-seed twice and a two-seed the other year. They’ve now lost in the second round, Sweet 16 and Elite Eight in those three seasons. This season may be the toughest pill to swallow with everything breaking their way in terms of the bracket and opponents. But Syracuse should and will be the story as a 10-seed advancing to the Final Four. The Orange were down substantially until the last ten minutes of the game. They rallied from down 15 to take the lead in about five minutes of game time and what felt like 30 seconds of real time. It all happened so fast and before you could get up to pee, Virginia’s seasons was over. And all of this coming after everybody and their mother said Syracuse’s season wasn’t even worthy of a tournament bid (it wasn’t and this run doesn’t change that one bit).
North Carolina is the best team in the country
This doesn’t necessarily mean they will win the tournament, but there is nobody better than the Tar Heels. And that showed a little bit of everything they’re capable of in their win over Notre Dame. This team feels like the 2009 national championship Carolina team in that they can score however and whenever they want. They grabbed 13 offensive rebounds, scored 40+ in the paint and almost scored 90 points while only making four threes. It feels like every guy on their team is huge, can dribble and shoots well. And all credit to Notre Dame making this a game for 35+ minutes. They were outmanned from the start and played harder than hell, although we cannot quantify that. They just ran out of gas against the nation’s best.
The Warriors played the 76ers
Golden State entered the night 65-7, seven wins short of tying the NBA single season record. The 76ers came into the game 9-64, nine losses from tying their own NBA single season record. Do we have to get into what happened? The only really interesting thing in this matchup was the NBA record difference between the win percentage of two opponents this late in the season; Golden State .903 and Philadelphia .123 for a difference of .780.
And that .780 win percentage difference? That would be the third highest win percentage in the NBA behind Golden State and San Antonio. The difference between Golden State and Philadelphia is the third best team in the NBA.
Easter makes for a slow sports day
Outside of the Warriors run at history, not much else of importance took place in the four other NBA games. The Mavericks and Rockets both lost as their battle for the eight seed in the West playoffs was unchanged. Same goes for the three NHL games. There was a touch of jostling for playoff position but nobody dropped out or rose into a playoff spot and nobody swapped playoff seeds. You can still find all of the scores at the bottom of the post.
Stat of the Day
For the second day in a row it comes from a tweet, so we’ll just source it. (we promise we will go back to researching our own stats of the day this week)
Tweet of the Day
Aw, man, that’s a bummer. Hopefully they go back and get h-wait a second is he carrying a pizza under his arm like that?! FORGET IT HE DOESN’T DESERVE A RIDE BACK TO THE TEAM PLANE!
Vine Video of the Day
“Ladi-da I’m just out here playing professional lacrosse I hope nobody attempts to take my head off anytime soon. Oh look! The ball is coming to me! . . . . .“
Using the Internet
We went to NFL.com’s Transaction page, typed in Tebow, and you’ll never guess what came up. OK, maybe you will.
NCAA Tournament Scoreboard
Syracuse 68
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Virginia 62
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North Carolina 88
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Notre Dame 74
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NBA Scoreboard
Sacramento 133
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Dallas 111
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Indiana 104
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Houston 101
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LA Clippers 105
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Denver 90
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Golden State 117
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Philadelphia 105
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LA Lakers 101
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Washington 88
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NHL Scoreboard
Carolina 3
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New Jersey 2
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Chicago 3
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Vancouver 2
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NY Rangers 2
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Pittsburgh 3 (OT)
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