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Enjoy from my personal collection of NCAA Tournament games. I remember watching this EIU - Arizona game with great interest, thinking that the Wildcats would eventually match up with Illinois in the Elite Eight, which would happen. EIU played the Wildcats very tough for the first half, behind the hot shooting of guard Kyle Hill. The Panthers also had a player named Henry Domercant, who was a big-time scorer and recently was an Assistant Coach for the Chicago Bulls. Eventually, a loaded Arizona team pulled away in the second half. To cap off the afternoon sessions, Indiana State upset Oklahoma in overtime, setting up an unlikely #12 Gonzaga-#13 Indiana State game in the second round. I was happy for this Indiana State team as the Sycamores had a player named Marcus Howard who played at Elgin High School with Sean Harrington of Illinois. Indiana State also had a big man named Terence Avery who played high school basketball for my Dad's cousin in Southern Illinois. Also in this set of games was the first-round matchup between Tennessee and Charlotte. I remember that Bobby Knight, who was out of coaching this year, was doing predictions from the Chicago Sun-Times this tournament. Knight picked Tennessee, which was highly-rated early in the season, to beat Charlotte and then Illinois. I remember being pissed about that. :-)
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