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Old Wed Mar 21, 2012, 08:15am
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The Bangor Daily News is seemingly not concerned with accuracy or readability in their print edition so I don't think blogs would be held to any higher standards.
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Nevermind that there was NEVER a "March Madness Tournament of 65 games".
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Nevermind that there was NEVER a "March Madness Tournament of 65 games".
Actualy there was. The NCAA Men's tournament was 65 teams from 2001-10.
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Old Wed Mar 21, 2012, 01:38pm
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Actualy there was. The NCAA Men's tournament was 65 teams from 2001-10.
65 teams means 64 games. The two figures were equal only from 1976 (abolition of the regional third-place games) through 1981 (the last year of a national third-place game).
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Old Wed Mar 21, 2012, 11:23pm
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65 teams means 64 games. The two figures were equal only from 1976 (abolition of the regional third-place games) through 1981 (the last year of a national third-place game).
There I go, reading too fast again

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Actualy there was. The NCAA Men's tournament was 65 teams from 2001-10.
You know better than to make grammatical or mathematical mistakes around here. You'll get chewed up and spit out.
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Old Wed Mar 21, 2012, 03:36pm
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Actualy there was. The NCAA Men's tournament was 65 teams from 2001-10.
Silver beat me to it - but there were 64 GAMES from 2001-2010.
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Too harsh? I usually go to Bangor once or twice a year and I love reading the BDN mostly for the corrections column. They have become really good at at publishing "we regret the error" stories.
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Too harsh? I usually go to Bangor once or twice a year and I love reading the BDN mostly for the corrections column. They have become really good at at publishing "we regret the error" stories.
Didn't think it was too harsh. I have no way of judging that.
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