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That time Mike Anderson coached an 8/9 seed to a win over the 1 seed

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The NCAA tournament's top seed got sent back to its ol' Kentucky home

Mo Finley made a 17-foot jumper with 12.2 seconds left and ninth-seeded Alabama-Birmingham hung on to stun the heavily favored Wildcats 76-75 Sunday in the second round of the St. Louis Regional


QuoteBlazers (22-9) advanced to the round of 16 for the first time since 1982 with their second big upset of Kentucky in the NCAA tournament.

UAB's win came almost exactly 23 years to the day that the Blazers beat Kentucky in the second round of the 1981 tournament - a victory the school had claimed as the turning point in its basketball program, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this season.

This one might just top it.

Using a ``40 minutes of Hell'' attack that their coach Mike Anderson learned under Nolan Richardson at Arkansas, the Blazers took it to the Wildcats from the outset...
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