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Around the Nation Podcast: Shaking up the bracket

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Linfield's big win was the biggest news of Saturday. (Photo by Joe Fusco, d3photography.com)

Linfield’s big win was the biggest news of Saturday.
(Photo by Joe Fusco, d3photography.com)

Linfield upset the apple cart with its big win on Saturday, knocking off a UMHB program that had been a play or two from making the Stagg Bowl the past two years. Plus Wartburg, John Carroll and Hobart each survived second-round squeakers.

Pat and Keith summarize the high points of all eight games, give their analysis and look ahead to next week’s quarterfinals. That and much more in this week’s Around the Nation Podcast.

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Around the Nation Podcast: Down to 16

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Linfield honored fallen teammate Parker Moore before taking the field against Chapman, then did so again on its first offensive play from scrimmage. (Photo by B. Scott Presley, d3photography.com)

Linfield honored fallen teammate Parker Moore before taking the field against Chapman, then did so again on its first offensive play from scrimmage. (Photo by B. Scott Presley, d3photography.com)

We can’t have 16 great first-round games. It just can’t happen — if it does, the NCAA committee would have had to really screw up its job, because there are supposed to be mismatches. But even from a blowout, we could learn something. And there were close games as well that provided a lot of insight, as well as a game that needed an extra day, and even more.

Now, we can have seven great second-round games. And Keith and Pat discuss the first round, preview the second, and touch on a couple of interesting ECAC performances and much more in this week’s Around the Nation Podcast.

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Around the Nation Podcast: Bracket breakdown

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Wartburg athletics photo by Julie Drewes

Wartburg athletics photo by Julie Drewes

Teams are in. Teams are out. Maybe we don’t agree with all the choices, but Keith and Pat don’t find much to complain about who got in the bracket for the Field of 32. And while the slimmed-down NCAA budget gives us a bracket that is a throwback to the bygone days of, say, 2007, there’s a bright side to that which Keith likes.

Did Wartburg get jobbed in its first-round draw, having to face St. Thomas rather than, say, Macalester or St. Scholastica? Why do Widener and Delaware Valley seem to be playing the wrong opponents? Where are the key personnel changes people need to be aware of and what storylines might you miss if you’re from a different part of the country?

Keith and Pat discuss the great finish to the regular season as well, and much more in this week’s Around the Nation Podcast.

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