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Game Date:
03/16/2017
3:10pm EST
Lines:
East Tennessee State +9.5
Florida -9.5
Total:
Over
148.5 (-110)
Under 148.5 (-110)
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With Florida State, Florida, Virginia and Maryland playing in the same venue, the Amway Center has the potential to become Upset Central in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday. All of those higher seeds stumbled down the stretch and have enough flaws that professional and amateur bracketologists across the country have them on upset alert. ''Listen, the way college basketball is now, we always talk about the parity,'' Virginia coach Tony Bennett said Wednesday. Continue to Article
March 15, 2017 7:22:pm EST
Along with the accolades, attention and autograph seekers, Villanova earned something else with its national championship. In one year, the Wildcats have gone from the team that couldn't get past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament to the one to beat. While the memory of Kris Jenkins' iconic buzzer-beating 3-pointer to edge North Carolina in the 2016 title game remains fresh, Villanova starts a new quest - to become college hoops' first back-to-back champion in 10 years on Thursday when it faces No. 16 seeded Mount St. Mary's in the East region. Continue to Article
March 15, 2017 6:39:pm EST
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- No. 4 seed Florida (24-8) vs. No. 13 seed East Tennessee State (27-7) Continue to Article
March 15, 2017 4:35:pm EST
East Tennessee State coach Steve Forbes' background makes him an ideal fit for a team that features plenty of junior-college transfers. Forbes identifies with those guys because he also has a junior-college background. ''I think I came out of it a better person and a coach,'' Forbes said. Continue to Article
March 15, 2017 3:30:am EST
Florida senior point guard Kasey Hill had to wait through an unexpected losing season, a coaching change and a trip to the NIT to make it back to the NCAA Tournament. As the only player on the Gators' roster still around from their Final Four appearance in 2014, Hill will play an especially important role for fourth-seeded Florida when it takes on No. 13 seed East Tennessee State in an East Region first-round game Thursday afternoon at the Amway Center in Orlando, Fla. "I'm just glad to be back in the tournament," Hill said. Continue to Article
March 13, 2017 7:27:pm EST
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