Charles Harris
Charles Harris
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We actually got a lot of grief one year when we left out one of the Big Ten teams and took Miami (Ohio). That was the year Miami (Ohio) knocked off Arizona in the first round. So suddenly you feel vindicated.
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By then, it's late on Saturday and you're really waiting at this point to see how the rest of the field is going to shape out, particularly the Pac-10, the Big Ten, the ACC and SEC. They'll all be playing late Saturday and Sunday. So you really can't start to finalize the pods.
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It was pretty smooth. They were really helpful. I thought it was going to be a combative thing. I was ready to put on my shield. It wasn't like that at all.
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The ballot did two things. One was to indicate teams that you thought ought to be considered - 1 to 100 or as many as you thought ought to be considered. Another was teams that you thought ought to be in the tournament, period.
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The trouble is, continental-style drinking requires continental-style people, who sit quietly drinking away at cafe tables, not standing up shouting at each other in crowded bars trying to consume gallons of beer at a time.
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That's a first line many have heard, whether or not they've read the book.
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What you try to do is be in a position by 2 p.m. on Sunday so that if you're the chair, the rest of us can quiz you on why Minnesota is in or why not or why Georgetown got picked over Rutgers in a given year so that when Billy Packer is asking you those questions, you've at least had a trial run of answering them.