SPOKANE, Wash. — Greetings from Spokane Arena. We have for you this evening a first course of pure adrenaline laced with sugar, followed by a second course of a bag of thumbtacks. No substitutions, please. Enjoy.
There will be those who watch Alabama-Grand Canyon in the first of these two Round of 32 games and wonder if defense has been outlawed in the NCAA Tournament. They will then watch the San Diego State-Yale nightcap and grimace and wince for 40 minutes straight.
No doubt the Crimson Tide and the Lopes will get up and down. Nate Oats thinks his crew unlocked some decent defense for the first 30 minutes of a
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