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They're top seeds, so they're safe-ish bets. You get to be a little bit dangerous by
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have a good team/good meal. But watch out because sometimes adding new
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wedding crashing to stenography and dad jokes pique your interest? Nigel
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of outperforming expectations, and Hayes has a way of raising the bar in every
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Are you a guy who carries a murse? Or, conversely, a woman who likes a good
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Last weekend, the Fighting Irish and Aggies knocked out the country's two
favorite Cinderella stories this postseason, Northern Iowa and Stephen F.
Austin, respectively. America was moments away from nominating SFA's
Thomas Walkup to the Supreme Court and just a Google search away from
finding out where exactly in Northern Iowa the University of Northern Iowa
was, but then Texas A&M and Notre Dame decided to come in and crush some
dreams. So, if you like seeing the little guy get kicked around, then join the fan
bases of the two teams that did that best this weekend.
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You obviously have a taste for high- and low-quality goods, and there's no better
team for that than the Terrapins. You can have as great of a love-hate
relationship with Mark Turgeon's crew as you do with Kim, Khloe and
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Six prolific scorers and two record-breaking coaches make up the 2016 class of
the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
Mark Aguirre, Bob Boozer, Doug Collins, Lionel Simmons, Jamaal Wilkes and
Dominique Wilkins join former coaches Hugh Durham and Mike Montgomery
to make the prestigious Hall of Fame, with the announcement coming Tuesday.
A two-time All-American at DePaul, Aguirre led his team to the Final Four in
1979 as a freshman, when he averaged 24 points per game. A year later, he'd
earn player of the year honors before leaving school having averaged 24.5
points per game over three seasons.
Boozer averaged 21.9 points per game over the course of his career at Kansas
State, leading the Wildcats to the Final Four. In his final collegiate year, Boozer
picked up where he left off, averaging 25.2 points per game to help the Wildcats
to a No. 1 ranking in the final regular-season poll. He died of a brain aneurysm
in 2012.
The first full scholarship player at Illinois State, Collins scored 2,240 points in
his career, including an incredible junior season in which he averaged 32.6
points per game. The school immediately retired his jersey at the end of his
career. In 2007, the Redbirds named their court after him.
The L-Train, as Simmons was known first in Philadelphia and eventually across
the nation, scored 3,217 points in his career at La Salle University and today still
remains the only player in NCAA history with 3,000 points and 1,000 rebounds
in his career. He led the Explorers to three NCAA tournament games, scoring in
double figures a record 115 consecutive times.
Part of the great UCLA teams under John Wooden, Wilkes helped the Bruins to
two national championships and one runner-up finish, as well as 88 consecutive
wins. The versatile Wilkes averaged 15 points and 7.4 rebounds and shot an eyepopping 51.4 percent from the floor or his career.
The son of a military man, Wilkins stunned nearly everyone in North Carolina
when he left his home state to enroll at Georgia. There, he made his mark with
the Bulldogs, averaging 21.5 points per game and earning SEC Player of the
Year honors before leaving for an illustrious NBA career following his junior
year.
Durham broke boundaries and did the unexpected at two schools, becoming the
first coach to lead two different schools to their first Final Fours in program
history -- Florida State in 1972 and Georgia in 1983. The all-time winningest
coach in three schools -- with the Seminoles, Bulldogs as well as Jacksonville
University, Durham retired with 633 career wins.
Finally Montgomery made his mark across the Pac 12, earning 282 league wins
between his tenures at Stanford and California. He essentially rebuilt both
programs into perennial winners, taking Stanford, a team that hadn't been to
the NCAA tournament since 1942, to 12 berths as well as the 1998 Final Four,
and Cal to its first conference title in 50 years.

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