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Week In Review 3/18/16

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High School Football

  • Armwood named Kyle Worden, as it’s new Defensive Coordinator. Worden was an assistant at Nature Coast this past season.
  • Bloomingdale and Freedom are still searching for their next Head Coach.

High School Basketball

  • Bartow Senior Tony Bradley was named the 2015-16 Florida Gatorade Boys Basketball Player of the Year. The University of North Carolina signee averaged 22.8 points and 12.6 rebounds.

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NCAA Basketball

March Madness got underway, with the story of the first round being the notable upsets;

  • (15) Middle Tennessee State, shocked, arguably the overall favorite in Michigan State, raining down a barrage of 3 pointers at a 60% clip, to secure the 90-81 upset.
  • (14) Stephen F. Austin out ‘Mountaineered’ the number (3) West Virginia team, creating havoc with their own version of up tempo defense, resulting in a 70-56 victory.
  • (13) Hawaii beat a short handed (4) Cal team 77-66.
  • (12) Yale got its first tournament victory since Kennedy was President, besting (5) Baylor 79-75.
  • (12) Arkansas Little Rock took out (5) Purdue, in what might have been the best game of the opening round, an 85-83 double overtime affair.
  • Other double digit seed first round winners were; (11) Wichita State, (11) Gonzaga, (11) Northern Iowa, (10) Syracuse, and (10) Virginia Commonwealth.