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The Fighting Ostriches · Conference championships · 1991

24-17, and the bracket is a mess

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

The Fighting Ostriches

Seeds are a way of guessing, and this is what guessing looks like: 24-17. The Fighting Ostriches were the sixth seed and spent the whole week being told what was about to happen to them. It went to the last possession, which is the only way this was ever going to go.

This story ran on the wire in Conference championships of 1991. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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