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Houston muscled its way into the men’s national title game after a furious comeback against Duke on Saturday night in San Antonio.
From The New York Times
the Cougars’ mindset after shocking Duke in the national semifinal and now quickly moving forward to Monday’s championship game against Florida.
From Yahoo! Sports
Duke was the best at plus-39.62 for the No. 2 rate ever recorded by KenPom.
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