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Enjoy from my personal collection of NCAA Tournament games. As I alluded to in the prior post, I spent the Charlotte-Illinois game playing some pool with a good childhood friend who randomly called me out of the blue. Thus, I didn't really watch this game too closely, which was unusual for me, an Illinois fanatic. I was very confident Illinois would get past the 49ers, which proved to be the case. I remember glancing up from the pool table to see Illinois up about 8-12 points seemingly all game long. Looking at the box score, Illinois got incredible balance from its starting lineup, as was the case for Arizona against Butler. Ultimately, this set of games was previewing an Elite Eight clash just one week later between the Illini and Wildcats. Back to the Illini game against Charlotte, the 49ers were led by two of my favorite shooters from the late 1990s/early 2000s, Diego Guevara and Jobey Thomas. Three years prior as a freshman during the second round of the 1998 NCAA Tournament, Guevara nearly shot UNC Charlotte past an amazing North Carolina team during a classic overtime game that is somehow not on YouTube! :(
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