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Old 03-17-2006, 02:35 PM   #496
JonInMiddleGA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Butter_of_69
NW St. is this year's Bucknell, blowing up more than a few brackets.

Not as many as you (or me) might have thought I suspect.

http://tournament.fantasysports.yaho...266605&round=2

54% had Iowa winning in round 2/going to the Sweet Sixteen
but ...
only 19% had Iowa winning in round 3/going to the Elite Eight
and only 3% had Iowa winning in round 4/going to the Final Four.

You can usually survive missing some Sweet 16 teams as long as they the ones you had going much deeper than that. And it doesn't look like too many people thought Iowa was going really deep.
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