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Latest on the 2025 NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.

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Sports >  Gonzaga basketball

‘It’s really, really, really hard’: Gonzaga’s NCAA Tournament run, often taken for granted, built on more than cluck

Cluck-U Chicken. That was the name of the only food joint open deep into a night in the early 1990s, somewhere near Santa Clara. Details now fuzzy from the intervening decades, I found myself driving Dan Monson, Mark Few and Bill Grier on a midnight food run. Had somebody told me, on that night so long ago, that Gonzaga basketball would become one of the most-unlikely success stories in the history of college sports, man, I’d have choked on my chicken.
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Best bets for the Sweet 16: Why Brigham Young-Alabama could be epic, Arizona covers and Houston rolls

Through 52 games, the NCAA Tournament has been largely devoid of drama. High seeds are dominating and blowouts are frequent. There has been one true buzzer-beater (Maryland over Colorado State). But the viewing experience could change Thursday at 4 p.m. when Brigham Young and Alabama take the court in Newark for what could be the most entertaining game of the entire tournament.
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