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The preliminary of the 2023 NCAA competition got off to an extraordinary start, full of upsets and near-upsets.

Twenty-seven years after Princeton upset UCLA in the preliminary, the 15-seed Tigers took down another Pac-12 power in 2-seed Arizona. It followed 13-seed Furman’s win over 4-seed Virginia, on JP Pegues’ 3-pointer with just over two seconds left to play.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated The other

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the day went down to the wire, with Louisiana losing to Tennessee by simply 3 points. No. 1 seed Houston struggled in its win over 16-seed Northern Kentucky. Marcus Sasser left the game early after aggravating his groin injury, and Jamal Shead is now handling a knee injury. All of a sudden, Saturday’s second-round game versus Auburn looks a lot more even. Penn State had probably the best offending performance of the day, shooting 59.1%from 3 en path to its very first NCAA tournament win in 22 years.Can Friday come close to matching today’s energy? We’ll see– Jeff Borzello ,! 1);]]