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Duke Blue Devils – Easy Road to Perfect Season at Home
It wasn’t as easy as some would expect to get the final win at Cameron for Duke, finishing their home stand in the regular season with a perfect record. They won’t be winning the ACC title, going to a surprising team, but probably don’t have to worry about getting that #1 seed for the NCAA tournament.
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Ohio State Buckeyes – Nothing Like Ruining Senior Night for Others
Some athletes, not all of them, will tell you, that beating a conference rival on the road on their senior night is much better than winning at home in front of your own fans. Ohio State had some avenging to do after losing to Indiana earlier in the season, and enjoyed a big game from Aaron Craft as they returned the favor.
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College Basketball 2013 Season – Week 18 Barcketology
While Gonzaga get to be the number one team in the country for the first time according to the polls, losing this week didn’t stop Indiana from being regarded as the favorite to win the NCAA tournament at the end of the road, or drop from a place promising them a #1 seed in the tournament.
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Michigan Wolverines – Trey Burke Gets Even
Without too many opportunities to prove they’re worthy of a very high seeding in the NCAA tournament, Michigan needed Trey Burke at his best to get back for a humiliating loss at Michigan State not too long ago, and pretty much ensure their state rivals won’t be able to win the Big Ten regular seasons title.
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Gonzaga Bulldogs – Getting Closer to That Number One
Unfortunately for Gonzaga, even if they do appear as the number one team in the next edition of the College Basketball rankings, people still won’t consider them a real #1 seed, for the fact that they play in the WCC and that they’ve lost two of their three games against ranked teams this season.
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Indiana Hoosiers – Cody Zeller Has the Big Game They Needed
After dropping their third conference game this season, Indiana needed a special kind of something from one of their two best players and get through a tricky game at home, before mentions of a crisis start flying around. Cody Zeller, knowing it was up to him to step up and deliver, did if with flying colors.
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Duke Blue Devils – Ryan Kelly Brings Them Back on Top
After two losses coming in less than two weeks, the Duke road to the number one spot in the nation seemed closed. It still probably is, at least for another week, but getting Ryan Kelly back with a career-like performance, while beating Miami, the best team in the ACC so far this season, is probably good enough to feel happy about what they’ve done.
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Virginia Cavaliers – Deciding Duke Won’t be Number One
After Indiana lost to Minnesota, the debate was about how Duke or Gonzaga will be the number one team in the nation, and who deserves it more. Virginia, with a huge night from Joe Harris, made sure it’s no longer a question.
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College Basketball – The Big Ten Circle of Parity
The only thing missing in the big parity circle of the Big Ten basketball season was for Penn State to beat someone. Fortunately for them, and unfortunately for Michigan, that win eventually came, meaning the every team in the best conference in College basketball has lost to someone in it this season.
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Penn State Nittany Lions – No Longer Winless in the Big Ten
The joke this season has been mostly this – The Big Ten is the best conference in basketball, by far, except for Penn State, who were held winless in conference play until they hosted Michigan, who have looked pretty bad on the road this season and are slipping down the rankings since reaching number one.