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The guide to nd ing a new tea m to rootfor in the NCAA tournam ent

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With Sabonis, 11-seed Gonzaga has agame-changer

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Reseeding the Sweet 16 eld with a newoverall No. 1

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Dixon leaving Pitt to take over almamater TCU

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LSU star freshman Simmons will enterNBA draft

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Oklahoma State hires Underwood fromSFA

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Vegas: KU, UNC co-favorites enteringSweet 16

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Daily Word: A&M, Syracuse, Wisconsinbiggest Sweet 16 surprises

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Bracket busted? Looking for a team to cheer for since yours is out? ESPN's helpdesk is here for you, giving you a full range of options for what you might belooking for over the next few weeks.

If you're the kind of person who always goes to the same restaurantand always orders the same meal ... then Rock ... Chalk, Kansas fan.

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Social reax: Kaminsky loses it aftergame-winning 3

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Shiny Insta-Memory: Who will be in thegreatest video montage in sports?1d

Rex Pueger's tip-in gives Notre Damelast-second win over Stephen F. Austin2d - Jeff Borzello

After slow rst half, Buddy Hieldexplodes in second half to put OU in theSweet 162d - Jake Trotter

The light nally goes on for Maryland insecond half against Hawaii2d - Chantel Jennings

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Syracuse nds its groove to crushupstart Middle Tennessee2d - Brian Bennett

ACC stands to make $30M from tourneysuccess

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Indiana, Kentucky need to get backtogether after NCAA tournamentspectacle3d

Kansas sharpens its aim in dispatchingUConn to reach Sweet 163d - Mitch Sherman

Yogi Ferrell's sisters, mom display pridewith strong T-shirt game2d - Mitch Sherman

Malcolm Brogdon's shutdown defensehelps Virginia move past Butler3d - C.L. Brown

Tournament Challenge: Gonzaga breaksup the chalk2d - Leo Howell

Wyoming's Shyatt steps down after 14-18 season

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Iowa State reaches Sweet 16 after MonteMorris silences Little Rock star JoshHagins3d - Myron Medcalf

The Jayhawks are the closest thing you've got to a sure bet. FiveThirtyEight.comgives the Jayhawks a 21 percent chance -- the highest of any remaining team --to be the one cutting down the nets at the end of the day. Feel like going aboveand beyond? Just find a giant wall clock, hang it from your neck like FlavorFlav' and when people high five you, just say you're as big a fan of Uncle Anthony as the next person.

If you're the kind of person who always goes to the same restaurantand "mixes it up" by ordering a different appetizer or adding adifferent sauce/cheese to your meal ... then Oregon, Virginia andNorth Carolina might be right for you.

They're top seeds, so they're safe-ish bets. You get to be a little bit dangerous by not picking the favorite's favorite, but still put yourself in a good position tohave a good team/good meal. But watch out because sometimes adding new

cheese to your burger just makes it a cheeseburger and sometimes that burgergives you E. Coli.

If you're a know-it-all ... then Gonzaga is the team for you.

Do you like pronouncing tough words? If so, you're Gonzaga. The Bulldogs haveKyle Wiltjer , Domantas Sabonis (Doe-MON-tus Sa-BONE-is) and Przemek (SHEM-ick) Karnowski. You'll sound like a Yale scholar (sorry, no Yale in theSweet 16) when you say those names without a hitch.

If you're a jack-of-all trades ... look no further than Wisconsin.

Do you have a diverse range of interests? Does everything from TV musicals and wedding crashing to stenography and dad jokes pique your interest? NigelHayes and the Wisconsin Badgers are your team. The No. 7 Badgers have a way

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of outperforming expectations, and Hayes has a way of raising the bar in every news conference in which he has ever sat. Sit back and enjoy.

If you like a guy who can pull off a murse or carry a satchel ... Jay Wright and Villanova are right for you.

Are you a guy who carries a murse? Or, conversely, a woman who likes a good

satchel-carrying man? Jay Wright's Villanova is the team for you. He hascarried one for years and is able to pull it off. "How?" you might ask. Well, don't.Just accept it and move on. You're a Nova fan now.

If you root for Goliath instead of David ... then pick between Texas A&M or Notre Dame.

Last weekend, the Fighting Irish and Aggies knocked out the country's twofavorite Cinderella stories this postseason, Northern Iowa and Stephen F. Austin, respectively. America was moments away from nominating SFA'sThomas Walkup to the Supreme Court and just a Google search away fromfinding out where exactly in Northern Iowa the University of Northern Iowa was, but then Texas A&M and Notre Dame decided to come in and crush somedreams. So, if you like seeing the little guy get kicked around, then join the fan bases of the two teams that did that best this weekend.

Do you see every Oscar-nominated movie, as well as every episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians last season? Do your meal choicesfluctuate between a McDonald's breakfast sandwich and dinner at aMichelin three-star restaurant? ... Then no team is more bettersuited for you than Maryland.

You obviously have a taste for high- and low-quality goods, and there's no betterteam for that than the Terrapins. You can have as great of a love-haterelationship with Mark Turgeon's crew as you do with Kim, Khloe andKourtney. You can be as invested in their defensive strides as you are in yourseared Mahi Mahi. And there's also a decent chance that -- like McDonald's -- you'll wake up tomorrow morning feeling sick.

If you're someone who can't sit still while watching sport events ...look no further than Tom Crean and the Indiana Hoosiers .

He is your spirit animal.

If you like to dance, but can't actually dance ... Iowa State and SteveProhm are your jam.

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Six prolific scorers and two record-breaking coaches make up the 2016 class of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

Mark Aguirre, Bob Boozer, Doug Collins, Lionel Simmons, Jamaal Wilkes andDominique Wilkins join former coaches Hugh Durham and Mike Montgomery to make the prestigious Hall of Fame, with the announcement coming Tuesday.

A two-time All-American at DePaul, Aguirre led his team to the Final Four in1979 as a freshman, when he averaged 24 points per game. A year later, he'dearn player of the year honors before leaving school having averaged 24.5points per game over three seasons.

Boozer averaged 21.9 points per game over the course of his career at KansasState, leading the Wildcats to the Final Four. In his final collegiate year, Boozerpicked up where he left off, averaging 25.2 points per game to help the Wildcatsto a No. 1 ranking in the final regular-season poll. He died of a brain aneurysmin 2012.

The first full scholarship player at Illinois State, Collins scored 2,240 points in

his career, including an incredible junior season in which he averaged 32.6points per game. The school immediately retired his jersey at the end of hiscareer. In 2007, the Redbirds named their court after him.

The L-Train, as Simmons was known first in Philadelphia and eventually acrossthe nation, scored 3,217 points in his career at La Salle University and today stillremains the only player in NCAA history with 3,000 points and 1,000 reboundsin his career. He led the Explorers to three NCAA tournament games, scoring indouble figures a record 115 consecutive times.

Part of the great UCLA teams under John Wooden, Wilkes helped the Bruins totwo national championships and one runner-up finish, as well as 88 consecutive

wins. The versatile Wilkes averaged 15 points and 7.4 rebounds and shot an eye-popping 51.4 percent from the floor or his career.

The son of a military man, Wilkins stunned nearly everyone in North Carolina when he left his home state to enroll at Georgia. There, he made his mark withthe Bulldogs, averaging 21.5 points per game and earning SEC Player of the Year honors before leaving for an illustrious NBA career following his junior year.

Durham broke boundaries and did the unexpected at two schools, becoming thefirst coach to lead two different schools to their first Final Fours in programhistory -- Florida State in 1972 and Georgia in 1983. The all-time winningestcoach in three schools -- with the Seminoles, Bulldogs as well as JacksonvilleUniversity, Durham retired with 633 career wins.

Finally Montgomery made his mark across the Pac 12, earning 282 league wins between his tenures at Stanford and California. He essentially rebuilt bothprograms into perennial winners, taking Stanford, a team that hadn't been tothe NCAA tournament since 1942, to 12 berths as well as the 1998 Final Four,and Cal to its first conference title in 50 years.

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