March Madness is turning out to be not that mad. Not too many bracket busting upsets this year. In fact, all but two of the Sweet 16 teams are from power conferences. The NCAA championship has become a kind of “who’s who” in big basketball schools. Ibrahim Abdul-Matin is The Takeaway’s sports contributor.
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