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Is your bracket intact? More games are on tap in the Men's NCAA basketball tournament

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March Madness is fully² underway. The opening of college basketball's tournament season brought exciting play and some upsets.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

The headline that one of our producers put on this next story on our story list is March Madness Madness. It was the opening day of college basketball's Division I men's tournament. And it featured the kind of upsets that justified³ the event's nickname. Here's NPR's Tom Goldman.

TOM GOLDMAN, BYLINE⁴: March Madness has come a long way. The story goes, the phrase first was coined in 1939 by an Illinois high school official, then adopted by the NCAA tournament in the early 1980s. Now, March Madness has been trademarked and monetized - finally for the athletes, too. But through it all, it still means the same.

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GOLDMAN: That was the moment at Sacramento's Golden 1 Center when scrappy Princeton - has there ever been a Princeton team we haven't called scrappy? But that was the moment the 15th seeded Tigers took the lead over No. 2 Arizona on the way to a 59-55 win, the biggest upset of the day - a not-so-rare-anymore 15 over two. This is the third straight year it's happened. Still, these kinds of first-round March Madness moments bring out emotional extremes, joy and then what Arizona head coach Tommy Lloyd talked about afterwards.

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TOMMY LLOYD: If you want to do great things in life, you got to be willing to step in some dog [expletive] once in a while. And that's just how it is. And we did today. And a lot of it was self-inflicted. But a lot of it was from a great opponent, you know, who has a lot of pride.

GOLDMAN: Like Princeton junior guard Matt Allocco.

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MATT ALLOCCO: I can't say I'm surprised, you know? This team has been so good all year, so gritty. On paper, you know, it's going to look like a big upset. But, you know, we believe in each other. And we think we're a really good team.

GOLDMAN: Happiness with a big upset and happiness with a win that didn't really move the March Madness needle.

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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Northwestern fans are on their feet here at the Golden 1 Center.

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GOLDMAN: Northwestern's win over Boise State wasn't a stop-the-presses victory. It was significant to purple-clad Northwestern fans for two reasons. It was the Wildcats' second win ever in the men's tournament. And it was a win, something coaches say is so hard to do regardless of who's seeded where. Paula Pretlow (ph) is a Northwestern alum.

PAULA PRETLOW: It's still a celebration. The fact that we are here today and we won and we move on to the next, if that's as far as we get, so be it.

GOLDMAN: Of course, there are places in the country where one win won't cut it.

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GOLDMAN: The Alabama Crimson⁵ Tide are the tournament's overall No. 1 seed and the most significant threat in recent memory to March Madness joy. Three Alabama players have been connected to the January shooting death of a young woman, Jamea Harris. One who was kicked off the team was indicted⁶ for murder. Another star, Brandon Miller⁷, allegedly delivered the gun used in the shooting but wasn't charged with anything and has kept playing. That's provoked such anger that this week, Miller showed up at the tournament with an armed security guard. On top of this, Alabama is playing its first two games in Birmingham, where Jamea Harris lived. What's a Crimson Tide fan to do? By the sound of it at Legacy⁸ Arena⁹ yesterday, cheer for a 21-point Alabama win. But Birmingham resident Chris Hopkins (ph) said it doesn't mean the killing¹⁰ is forgotten.

CHRIS HOPKINS: It's unbelievable that somebody would do that in that situation for that reason. That's just crazy. That's never acceptable. But, I mean, (laughter) as a fan, you know, you still got to root for your team. So...

GOLDMAN: It's a split brain approach many college basketball fans may have to employ, as Alabama is expected to advance deep into the tournament.

Tom Goldman, NPR News, Sacramento.

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1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

3 justified   

a.正当的，有理的

参考例句：

• She felt fully justified in asking for her money back. 她认为有充分的理由要求退款。
• The prisoner has certainly justified his claims by his actions. 那个囚犯确实已用自己的行动表明他的要求是正当的。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 crimson   

n./adj.深(绯)红色(的)；vi.脸变绯红色

参考例句：

• She went crimson with embarrassment.她羞得满脸通红。
• Maple leaves have turned crimson.枫叶已经红了。

6 indicted   

控告，起诉( indict的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The senator was indicted for murder. 那位参议员被控犯谋杀罪。
• He was indicted by a grand jury on two counts of murder. 他被大陪审团以两项谋杀罪名起诉。

7 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

8 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。

9 arena   

n.竞技场，运动场所；竞争场所，舞台

参考例句：

• She entered the political arena at the age of 25. 她25岁进入政界。
• He had not an adequate arena for the exercise of his talents.他没有充分发挥其才能的场所。

10 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。