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INDIANAPOLIS — The long, tortured revival of Arkansas to the forefront of college basketball took more than a quarter century. The Razorbacks parted ways with a Hall of Fame coach, churned through three forgettable tenures and wandered through long stretches of irrelevancy. Arkansas hasn’t played in the Final Four since reaching back-to-back national title games in 1994 and 1995, a time when the school’s famous “Calling the Hogs” provided a soundtrack for the sport. Well, that nostalgic… Source link

The Oral Roberts story has been one of the best in the 2021 NCAA men’s tournament, and bettors aren’t ready for it to end. There are four Sweet 16 games on Saturday. The highest ticket percentage of any team at BetMGM in the four games is Oral Roberts +11.5 over Arkansas. Of all the tickets BetMGM has written on that game, 74 percent are on the Golden Eagles. There have only been two No. 15 seeds to make the Sweet 16. Florida Gulf Coast made it in 2013 and Oral Roberts is the second. Everyone… Source link

Not even 90 seconds into his team’s matchup against Big Ten powerhouse Ohio State, college basketball’s leading scorer demonstrated he wasn’t intimidated by the NCAA tournament stage. Max Abmas came around a screen 30 feet from the rim, brazenly pulled up and sank a 3-pointer with both feet inside the mid-court logo. That shot was emblematic of everything that followed in Oral Roberts’ stunning 75-72 overtime upset of the second-seeded Buckeyes. Not once did the 15th-seeded Golden… Source link

Tanya Roberts — the Bond girl and That ‘70s Show actress who was mistakenly reported dead on Sunday — has in fact died. “With a heavy heart I can confirm the death of Tanya Roberts (age 65) last night on Jan. 4, 2021 around 9:30 p.m. PT at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,” her publicist, Mike Pingel, of Rainbow PR said in a statement to Yahoo Entertainment on Tuesday. “Her 18-year domestic partner Lance O’Brien received the phone call from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center… Source link