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Okay where were we? It’s 2:00 pm…DirecTV has restored all my channels to their proper working order…and Xavier/Georgia is the only close game.
2:00 Nine and a half minutes to play in DC…more and more of the country is going to end up here watching Georgia and Xavier. The Bulldogs are up five, 49-44.
2:01 Portland State gave it a good run…but they are, after all, Portland State. Kansas is up 66-42 with less than eight to go, and I’m probably not going to spend much more time typing about that one.
2:02 The next set of games isn’t that far away…stay tuned for coverage of Kentucky/Marquette, Kent State/UNLV, Oral Roberts/Pitt, and of course, Baylor/Purdue.
2:02 Georgia’s in a 2-3 zone…of course, that means you have to get out on shooters. Oops.
2:03 B.J. Raymond just knocked down a three and it’s 49-all in DC.
2:03 And there’s another three. That’s a quick 10-0 run…and timeout Georgia.
2:04 That takes my attention back to Michigan State/Temple. I’ve said in other Bleacher Report columns that I can see any Big Ten team winning three games or losing in the first round. So far, the Spartans don’t look like first-round victims. It’s 54-38 midway through the second half.
2:05 If the Spartans do anything well, it’s rebound. They just got an extra offensive possession…and now it’s 56-38.
2:05 Back to Xavier/Georgia…one of my all-time college basketball pet peeves. Georgia takes a timeout to stop the run….instead of waiting for a dead ball to get the TV timeout. So we get a set of four or so commercials…come back to the Verizon Center for one possession…and we’re promptly into another set of commercials.

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