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Fairleigh Dickinson joined UMBC in NCAA tournament lore and became the second No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1 in the first round.

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No. 13 Iona played a strong game against the Huskies on Friday, but looming speculation about the Gaels head coach’s next move nearly distracted from the action.
The story of a 24-point win by a No. 4 seed over a No. 13 seed is rarely about the lower-seeded team. But when Rick Pitino is involved, things are rarely normal.
UConn pulled away in the second half for a convincing victory over Iona on Friday, giving the Huskies the program’s first NCAA tournament win in more than 2,500 days. But with the coaching vacancy at St.

This might be the only time this happens during March Madness.
In a highly competitive first half between No. 11 seed Providence and No. 6 seed Kentucky, an event occurred that may not happen again for the rest of the men’s NCAA tournament.
Friars forward Clifton Moore was at the line shooting two free throws with Providence leading 18–17 at the 8:36 mark in the first half. His first free throw went up, rolled around the cylinder, and eventually settled on the back of the rim and got stuck.

A March Madness sitter. This year’s tournament has had it all.

The Gaels coach has been linked to several college hoops jobs across the country.
Moments after UConn dispatched Iona 87–63 in the first round of the men’s NCAA tournament on Friday, questions about Rick Pitino’s future with the Gaels began to roll in.
When Pitino was asked if he had coached his last game at Iona, he shared a reserved response.
“I really don’t have an answer to it… I have no idea if it is or isn’t,” Pitino said during his postgame press conference, per Sports Illustrated’s Kevin Sweeney. “I focused everything on this game, trying to beat Connecticut.

The freshman utility player made her Bears debut in Friday’s home matchup against Bryant.
In late November, Brown walk-on Olivia Pichardo made NCAA Division I history by becoming the first woman to earn a spot on a varsity baseball roster. Now, nearly four months later, the 18-year-old has earned another place in the record books after adding another landmark accolade to her budding résumé.
Pichardo, a freshman utility player from Queens, N.Y.

Pichardo made the team in November and got her first at-bat Friday.

It’s not every day you get to witness the birth of a meme. It’s rarer to see the subject of that meme realize that they’ve become a meme in real-time as was the case for one Utah State cheerleader.
Ashlyn Whimpey is a senior cheerleader for the Utah State Aggies and if you’ve been online at all, you’ve probably seen her face. Cameras caught her on camera crying as her Aggies were bounced from the NCAA tournament by the Missouri Tigers, 76-65.

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