In 1996, Virginia Republican Tom Bliley threw a charity tourney at his hometown country club.
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If the Orange enters the tourney as less than a top seed, their odds are even lower.
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Top-seeded Indiana holds off Temple 58-52 to advance to round of 16 in the NCAA basketball tourney.
The tournament works like this: The top 125 players on the Tour qualify for the initial tourney.
He eventually cancelled the tourney and several other charity events, and spent the convention week maintaining a relatively low profile.
Two of its members are ranked, and three others are in good position to make the NCAA tourney.
The brackets and pools it fosters create a lot of intensity for the three weeks of the tourney.
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"That will be a big test for me, " Nadal said of the tourney.
Lucky for most gamblers, the office pool--where most of the NCAA tourney picks are made--is a much less efficient system.
Outside of the occasional "classic, " how much demand could there reasonably be for an entire vault of old tourney games?
Led by longtime coach Jim Calhoun, the program had won that tourney last spring and, thus, captured the national title.
Stauskas, who was 2-of-12 from 3-point range the first three games of this NCAA tourney, couldn't miss against the Gators.
In that second tourney appearance, the Colonials snared a No. 15 seed and took second-seeded Villanova to overtime before falling 73-70.
If TV ratings figures are to be believed, fans have had enough of cricket despite the nine-team, 76-match, seven-week Twenty20 tourney.
Taking into account run differential, the top two teams in their four-team bracket will move onto the tourney semifinals in Miami.
Last month in Detroit, the other big tourney, the North American Championships, drew players from as far away as Denmark and Norway.
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With only Gonzaga going into the tourney with more wins, Memphis' D.
In addition to more people, there are more seats the tourney has added hundreds of bleacher seats on the outer courts.
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As much as fans enjoy watching upsets when they happen, they tend to tune in more to familiar names as the tourney moves along.
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Raftery, a La Salle alum, predicts that unlike when the tourney was in Atlantic City, fans will stick around even after their school loses.
Even before they get on the field, analysts at Wall Street investment banks are scrambling to decipher what the tourney might mean for stocks.
Tourney officials said they had to pay golf pros to participate.
On Wednesday the NCCA launches its new online vault (vault.ncaa.com), a collection of high-quality video of all men's and women's basketball tourney games dating back to 2000.
With four wins in this NCAA tourney, the Wolverines already have more tournament victories than their total from the end of the Fab Five era to this season.
The Eagles has 12 turnovers in the first half one less than they had in each of their first two NCAA tourney games and finished with 20.
Starting center Dewayne Dedmon and backup big man James Blasczyk were suspended indefinitely and missed the league tourney following allegations the pair was involved in a melee in Spokane, Wash.
The growing success of the tourney is spawning imitators.
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He led the Eagles to a school-record 26 wins this season, including upsets of No. 2 seed Georgetown and No. 7 seed San Diego State as a 15th-seed in the NCAA tourney.
Ghana had defeated Nigeria 1-0 and 4-1 in the group stage of the 1993 and 2001 tournaments respectively and the Black Satellites beat the Flying Eagles in the final of the 1999 tourney.
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