The NCAA tournament: the curse of the #1’s
Northern Iowa upset number one-seeded Kansas on Saturday in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament. This year’s season has proven to be poisonous for the number ones. Takeaway sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin tries to make sense of the madness of this year’s tournament.
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