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...Nine Is Fine Since the NCAA Tournament field was extended to 64 in 1985, No. 9 seeds have a 35-29 advantage over their eighth-seeded, first-round opponents. Last year, however, the eights posted a 4-0 record...
...Stay the Weekend The teams with the longest active winning streaks in first-round games are: Kansas (17), Kentucky (10), Iowa (9), Boston College and Oklahoma State (8 apiece...
...Motivé-e-s has attracted hundreds of volunteers and seems to be stirring voters as well. Polls show the leftist collective winning up to 17% in first-round voting-third behind the Socialist-led Union of the Left's 26%, and 39% for the conservatives who have controlled City Hall for 30 years. In addition to its fresh, civic allure, Motivé-e-s enjoys a sympathique association with the popular rock group Zebda-whose activist music urges social and political engagement. Motivé-e-s took its name from Zebda's 1998 hit remake of the Resistance Partisans...
With the dust finally settling around the league and the regular season standings in the books, the pairings for the ECAC Quarterfinals are official: the Crimson plays host to the Elis for the second straight week, as Yale returns to Cambridge for its first-round matchup against Harvard...
...Harvard has not solidified home ice for the playoffs just yet. Sweeping this past weekend would have effectively given the Crimson a first-round seed in its own barn, a feat this team hasn't accomplished since it earned home ice against Colgate four years...