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If you are a member of the NCAA Tournament selection committee--or a serious student of its work--you need to know this: Nap time is over.
You probably nodded off several times during the most serene preconference season in recent memory. There were few of the colossal early showdowns we enjoyed in previous years. With the major tournaments eviscerated by NCAA regulations regarding how frequently teams can participate, classic title games such as Arizona-Kentucky (Maui '93) and Cincinnati-Duke (Alaska '98) were but a memory. And Syracuse won the 2003 NCAA title after a December spent entirely on campus, so many promising teams felt justified hiding at home.
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