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Updated 5:07 PM | Mar. 22, 2019

What Went Down In The First Round Of The NCAA Tournament

By FiveThirtyEight

Neil Paine
5:08 pm

Khalil Iverson may share a name with one star from the 1990s, but that ball fake was right out of another star’s bag of tricks — Hakeem Olajuwon.
Neil Paine
5:07 pm

Banner day for Buffalo athletics!

Tony Chow
5:07 pm

Not a lot of lower seeds were favored entering the tournament in either the men’s or the women’s tournaments. One exception? We gave No. 10 Buffalo a 51 percent chance of beating No. 7 Rutgers in the women’s bracket. So far, they seem to be proving us right.

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