by Aaron Jubar
I couldn\'t sit still all day. I\'d been u'); document.write('nfocused and half-dazed since breakfast. I prepared myself for the pre-game, the stretching and the shoot-around before'); document.write(' tip-off. The time had almost come for the event I\'d been waiting for since the tournament began on March 14th... the nat'); document.write('ional championship game.
No, I wasn\'t playing that night. No, I didn\'t know any of the players personally. A'); document.write('nd no, I didn\'t have a shred of affiliation with either university. Yet, like many Americans, I eagerly awaited the mat'); document.write('ch-up. I even felt a pre-game butterfly or two in my stomach.
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