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		<title>Behind the Numbers: Do Blowouts Predict Champions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Kellen Carpenter is an RTC contributor.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It’s been a hard-fought game. Every shot contested, players from both teams diving all over the court for loose balls, the crowd whipped into a frenzy. Bitter rivals, ranked teams, and it all  comes down to one buzzer-beating shot. This is a good game. This is why we watch college basketball. Who wins? Who cares? Rhetorical questions can cut two ways, and this one is particularly vicious in matching it’s semantic zig with meaningless zag. On one hand, we gladly affirm the joy-of-the-game sentiment: Close games are their own reward, and if [...]</div>]]></description>
		
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