Why college basketball is so much livelier than the pro game
One month ago, players on 23 conference-winning college basketball teams packed their travel bags, stroked their press clippings for luck, and set off to do battle in the National Collegiate Athletic Association championships. Arrayed against them were 25 other squads rated by the N.C.A.A. as the best of the rest. From then on, it was jump ball in arenas from coast to coast as the annual season-ending scramble proceeded.
One by one, touted teams were upset. The nation's No. 1-ranked school, DePaul, which...
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