Spartans, Tom Izzo full of (shouldn’t-be) surprises

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This is where I’d brag about correctly picking three of the Final Four teams in my Sun-Times bracket … if I thought I could get away with it.

Really, though, only a Captain Obvious would take a bow for picking unbeaten Kentucky to make it out of the Midwest Region. Two of my other picks were fellow No. 1 seeds Wisconsin (West) and Duke (South), which didn’t take a whole lot of imagination. And then there’s the whole Michigan State thing. Read more

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