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WSU heads off to the Queen City

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Eugene O'Neill once wrote a play about getting from Spokane to Charlotte, so we'll leave all talk about today's journey by the side of the road. We want to look forward. To the "big collision," as Tony Bennett called it, that is coming Thursday.

It will be a collision of styles, a collision of philosophies, a collision of one of college basketball's haves vs. one of the, over the years, have nots, a collision of tradition and today. North Carolina. Washington State. NCAA Sweet 16. Read on for links.



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