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Enjoy from my personal collection of NCAA Tournament games. I don't remember much from this Sweet Sixteen game between the Hoyas and Gators as I was watching the overtime classic between the Huskies of UCONN and the Huskies of Washington. I wish I had paid more attention as this Florida team would be marching its way to the school's first national championship with Head Coach Billy Donovan and star players Joakim Noah, Al Horford, Corey Brewer, Taurean Green and Lee Humphrey. Georgetown was hardly mince meat, with Roy Hibbert and Jeff Green, and would make the Final Four the following season. I forgot how close this game was, and how low scoring it was. Also, Noah looks so young in these games. I fell in love with Noah as a player during the 2006 NCAA Tournament. I remember him being projected as the #1 pick in the 2007 NBA Draft at the start of the 2006-07 college basketball season. Amazingly, Noah would drop all the way to #9 in the draft to my hometown Chicago Bulls. I was so excited to have Noah in Chicago, though the mediocrity of the Bulls organization would eventually cause me to lose interest. It stinks when bad organizations make it hard to watch fun players like Noah. :-)
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