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Show ' SPAY, N MARCH 22, 2006 SPORTS DIXIE SUN larch Madness shows typical mayhem in tourney s; BY JARED BURTON Dixie Sun Staff Wnter March Madness is here and with that comes an increase m Rogaine orders i Yes, it is time to fill out the brackets and thank your supreme being for this time in the season Baseball is starting and the NCAA tournament is at full throttle There is nothing better than a buzzer beater in any sport, but it is especially true m college basketball Because of this every shot means something in the greatest tournament on the face of the earth Sixty five teams enter the big dance and only one walks out with the title of National Champion The field of teams is divided mto four region-al- s and over the weekend it was evident )ust why it is called March Madness with 48 games played m just four days The four regions around the nation are Atlanta, "I ' ' tc ids the I team to the Sweet 1 6. id Rebels fall short to NIC Lady BY JARED BURTON Sun Staff Writer Dixie The ic- - i i team ?ional eead of a reckoned with , start to finish the in control of The Rebels came out "reaming, taking a id to start the game eey did this with great "loting from the field, than 51 percent ini the floor This helped sh the lead to 17 going the break The Rebels never trailed the game and led by as From bels were i ' EU "r i Lady Rebels basket- - went into the tournament with steam but came it a little deflated Entering the regional urnament as winners of fir last five games, the bels were coming to 'ove they were a force to ill U - 9 13-- 0 ary as 33 with 10 min-eto go in if s the second Jessica Carver went 6-- 7 m the field and 1 om the line to lead all orers with 20 Pping m points with 16 was Olander, who also 01 the ball well at Mi the field and from te auren 7-- 8 2-- 2 line However, it was not all just great scoring and offensive production, but also great hustle and good defense that helped the Rebels dismantle CEU The Rebels held them to just 32 percent from the field Dixie State College also scored 40 points in the paint as they were allowed to move though the key with ease The Rebels showed the rest of the field they were there to compete and no one knew this better that CEU as DSC destroyed them by 31 points, winning m the opening round of the tournament The second round of the tournament was not as kind to the Rebels as the first had been as the Rebels lost a tough one to North Idaho College One of the telling stories in this one was thewere rebounds The Rebels by 12 North Idaho controlled the boards, which proved to be the difference in the game However, the Rebels did not go down without a fight as they kept the game close The Rebels were within striking distance with just under five minutes left They found 96-6- 5 themselves down after a pair of clutch three point shots from Liz Lewis and Erin McClean 63-6- 1 back-to-bac- Unfortunately North k Idaho was not going to go down either and went on a run to help close out the game and send the Rebels home sooner than they wanted North Idaho was led by Sara Dennehy, who scored 22 points and pulled down 13 rebounds, and Lindsey Koppen, who added 17 points to the North Idaho total The Rebels were led by McClean, who scored 21 shooting points on from the floor She was and out Olander by helped Karissa Fernandez, who tossed in 10 points each However, the Rebels could not get the other necesneeded sary support they tournato advance in the ment The Rebels finished the record season with a and will spend the next few months getting ready for the move to NCAA Division II and the challenges that move will bring in the future 6-- 0 5 Oakland, Minneapolis and Washington, D C The first region, Minneapolis, witnessed the No seeded Villanova Wildcats tested Sunday by the Arizona Wildcats However, Arizona came up short and had to watch Villanova march on to the Sweet 16 for a date with Boston College The other two teams that will meet m that region are the Florica Gators, who sit at a No 3 seed, facing the very talented and dangerous Georgetown Hoyas, who have had as up and down a season as would drive any coach to drink, but are now playing with a purpose after knocking off No 2 Ohio State The most surprising bracket out there is the Washington, D C bracket, which has only one team left ranked higher than fifth, the UConn Huskies, who are No 5 They will take on the No 5 ranked Washington Huskies The other match-uwill feature No 7 Wichita State (who knocked off the No 2 Tennessee Volunteers), the victor in another extremely shocking turn of events when George Mason University knocked off the defending National Champion, the North Carolina Tar Heels Atlanta was the scene of one of the best buzzer beaters of the tournament as Northwestern State hit a 1 p three pointer at the buzzer to take out the game-winnin- g Iowa Hawkeyes However, Northwestern then lost a tough one to West Virginia, who will take on a Texas team ready to show it is proud to be there The Duke Blue Devils will take on the LSU Tigers Finally, the Oakland bracket has one of the best stories of the tourney so far and that is the Bradley Braves The Braves started their journey as a No 13 seed and had to go through two favored teams, Kansas and Pittsburgh, to have a date with (he No Memphis Tigers Other than the upsets by the Bradley Braves, the Oakland bracket has fallen into suit with the second and third seeds, UCLA Bruins and the Gonzaga Bulldogs respectively, moving on to the Sweet 16 The Bulldogs had their hands full with the Indiana Hoosiers, who were playing for more than just their tournament lives This bracket is sure to be one of the more exciting ones to watch The Sweet 16 officially starts tomorrow night with the Atlanta and Oakland brackets kicking off the festivities Whatever happens it is sure to drive the odd makers in Las Vegas go mad, sell Rogaine to everyone who has yanked out handfuls of hair, make the cash registers go crazy at the pizza delivery companies, and 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