Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college basketball (super-sized to 68 for the NCAA tournament): The Big Dance giveth, and the Big Dance taketh away. Liberty players celebrate at mid-court after defeating Charleston Southern 87-76 in the Big South championship.? … It gives us Liberty (1) , the shocking winner of the Big South and one of just two teams in tourney history to make the field with 20 losses. But it also gives us sudden death – just ask Missouri (2) and Duke (3) , which learned the hard way last year that beating a No. 15 seed is no sure thing. Maybe this is the year a No. 16 seed finally wins a game – and Liberty is a 16. It gives us players with cartoon-character names – there’s a “Yogi” (Ferrell, of Indiana) and a Bubu (Palo, of Iowa State) – and cartoon-character antics (Marshall Henderson of Mississippi). But it also …
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