Mason sticks around in its own Tourney Wonderland
WASHINGTON -- The closer you get to the national championship, the farther away the game of basketball seems to get.
When you arrive at the Sweet 16, there's a sense of distorted
detachment that an NBA arena or football dome provides. The venue is a
towering cylinder filled with tens of thousands of faces, each
with a story of how far they travelled, how they came by their
tickets. From floor level, the messages of the acronym sign-holders
and the body-painters in the 400 level are unreadably ...
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