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Pitt Muscles Its Way Past Oral Roberts

Panthers continue late-season roll with sixth straight win

By Mitch Pritchard, Newser User

Posted Mar 20, 2008 7:05 PM CDT

(Newser) – Fourth-seeded Pittsburgh is playing its best basketball in March instead of January or February this season, and it paid off again today with an 82-63 win over Oral Roberts in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, reports the Associated Press. Levance Fields led the... Read full story »

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