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College Basketball Upsets – North Carolina, UCLA & Florida Go Down
The Battle 4 Atlantis provided three upsets of ranked teams in the same day: North Carolina lost to Butler 74-66, Oklahoma surprised UCLA with a 75-65 victory and Georgetown remained undefeated, handing Florida their second loss of the season, beating the Gators 66-65 in overtime off of a D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera winning jumper.
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Conference Realignment – The New Big East
College Football tore the old Big East apart, with the conference to be wiped away from the slate, renamed into something else, possibly the America 12. In basketball, we’ll have a Big East, a new Big East; a combination of the Catholic 7 (Georgetown, Providence, St. John’s, Seton Hall, Villanova, Marquette and DePaul), and three new schools joining the conference; Butler, Xavier and Creighton, making it quite the mid-major powerhouse.
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UCONN Butler Game : U G L Y
UConn beat Butler 53-41 in the 2011 NCAA Men’s National Championship game, their third national title under Jim Calhoun, but it was far from a pretty sight.