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Another First Round Knockout for UNI
Mar. 19, 2009 6:57 pm
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Here I sit on a bus at Flightcraft Aviation, waiting to be taken to the tarmac where the members of the Northern Iowa traveling party will be screened before boarding a plane (that isn't here yet) that will take us to Waterloo tonight.
My golly, that was a long sentence.
It's a long ride, but it was a short road for the Panthers in the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Their 61-56 loss to Purdue was tantalizing enough to make them wonder what might have been. They know it was on them, and they just didn't do enough to get it done.
Without further adieu, here's my column on the game:
No 'Oh baby!' from Gary Rima after this one
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