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If you had Arizona rising in your bracket,

then you are a loser.

That's it. That's it.

That's all.

See you later.

The Wildcats are out.

The surprise into the elite eight.

The Musketeers of Xavier on a Sean Omarah layup with 54 seconds.

That's how you close a game, Arizona.

You get outscored 12 to 2 down the stretch.

That's how you do it.

That's big-time college basketball at one of the elite programs.

Welcome in the beginning of the Ben Mather Show.

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And so we move on.

A couple of number one seeds into the lead eight

Oregon's a number three seed so you had Kansas Gonzaga and Oregon all advancing

and then an 11 seed Xavier and it's not that they won the game it's how they

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