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NCAA Men 2011

Coverage of the 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

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Class war: It’s Duke vs. Butler

INDIANAPOLIS – Less than 7 miles away, Butler plays most of its games rather anonymously in a gym that seats about 10,000 people. On Saturday night, the Bulldogs seemed light years away from obscurity. In front of a packed Lucas Oil Stadium, Butler climbed onto the biggest stage of all with its 52-50 victory against Michigan State in the Final Four and advance to the championship game for the first time in school history.
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Devils stomp Mountaineers, make first title game in 9 years

INDIANAPOLIS – After tossing a big, wet blanket on one feel-good story, Duke gets to go after another. Jon Scheyer scored 23 points Saturday night to lift Duke, the team so many folks love to hate, to a 78-57 victory over West Virginia and set up a meeting against tiny Butler – a classic matchup of big vs. little, with the national title on the line.
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Blue Devils can’t help but fire up fans

INDIANAPOLIS – Lance Thomas never enjoyed being the bad guy. But he understood that playing at Duke meant getting used to it. “You have to be able to play with a target on your back,” Thomas said.
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Semis lack star power

INDIANAPOLIS – Some of the players who figure to cash in big in the NBA Draft and others selected to All-America teams will be at the Final Four this weekend. Just not in uniform.
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Scheyer, Smith lead Duke back to Final Four

HOUSTON – Duke senior guard Jon Scheyer fiddled absently Sunday evening with the loop he’d cut from the net at Reliant Stadium that represented a lifetime goal fulfilled. A baseball cap that proclaimed Duke regional champions sat on Scheyer’s left knee as the last few reporters hung around the locker room. Scheyer and junior backcourt partner Nolan Smith had just shredded Baylor’s zone defense, combining for 49 points to lift Duke to a 78-71 win in the NCAA tournament’s South Regional final.
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Field has range

There’s a coach they call “Huggy Bear” and a team better known for its fieldhouse than its players. There’s a Final Four regular that hardly anyone figured would get this far and, bringing a wee bit of normalcy back to the party, there is Duke. One of the most unpredictable NCAA tournaments in recent history served up a bit of the familiar for the Final Four – and a good dose of something completely different.
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Michigan St. survives Tennessee scare

ST. LOUIS – As familiar as the scene was for Michigan State, it felt different this year. The Spartans hoisted injured point guard Kalin Lucas to the basket at the Edward Jones Dome so he could snip a piece of the net. It signified how high Michigan State has risen this season, beating Tennessee, 70-69, on Sunday to advance to the Final Four for the sixth time in 12 seasons.
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Rice hired as Boise St. coach

In 11 years as an assistant at Gonzaga, Leon Rice never asked head coach Mark Few to make a job-related call on his behalf – until there was a vacancy at Boise State. “I said, ‘I don’t pursue these (job openings), and I haven’t asked you do to do this in 11 years, but I’d like you to try to talk to Gene’ (Bleymaier, BSU athletic director),” Rice said during a Friday press conference announcing his hiring as the Broncos’ new coach. “Mark was terrific through the whole thing.”
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Despite seeding, Huskies playing like favorites

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Cinderella will be dressed in dark colors later today. She’ll be carrying a double-digit seed, bringing a roster filled with non-scholarship overachievers, and carrying the flag of a small conference that hasn’t gone this deep in an NCAA tournament since 1979.
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Huskies red hot at right time

SEATTLE – Don’t try to tell Washington that its wins over Marquette and New Mexico in the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament were upsets. The Huskies expected to win both games, even as a No. 11 seed entering the tournament. Confidence comes when a team loaded with talent and high preseason expectations finally starts living up to its lofty billing.
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