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Prospectors · Divisional round · 1997

26-17, and the bracket is a mess

Chip Nutbeam, hot take

Prospectors

Seeds are a way of guessing, and this is what guessing looks like: 26-17. The Prospectors were the fifth seed and spent the whole week being told what was about to happen to them. They pulled clear late, once the game had stopped being an upset and started being a result.

This story ran on the wire in Divisional round of 1997. The rest of the season is in the paper.

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