Tampa, obviously, is the NCAA Tournament hot spot in 2008.
Incredibly enough, the second first-round game played there today was also decided in overtime, and on a jump shot, when 6-2 De'Jon Jackson rose up and knocked in a jumper over the top of 6-9 Stanley Robinson with a little more than a second to go in OT to give 13 seed San Diego a 70-69 win over 4 seed Connecticut.
So, the second-round, West game played in Tampa will have San Diego, which finished third in the West Coast Conference but advanced to the tourney after winning the WCC tourney on its home court, facing Western Kentucky, the runner-up in the Sun Belt Conference but its representative after regular-season champion South Alabama in the conference tourney semifinals.
Amazing.
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