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Timberjacks · Conference championships · 1996

30-23, and the bracket is a mess

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Timberjacks

Seeds are a way of guessing, and this is what guessing looks like: 30-23. The Timberjacks were the fifth 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 1996. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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