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Entertainment & Sports

Mar. 16, 2018

Open NCAA basketball tournament to all teams

What’s magical about the number 68? Nothing at all.

Dan Lawton

Partner
Klinedinst PC in San Diego

501 W Broadway #1100
San Diego , CA 92101

Phone: (619) 400-8000

Email: dlawton@klinedinstlaw.com

Georgetown Univ Law Center

The views expressed here are his own.

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Open NCAA basketball tournament to all teams
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March Madness is upon us. Did you take time out from family or law practice duties to fill out a bracket this week after the "Selection Sunday" broadcast on TBS? If you did, you had 70 million other Americans for company while predicting the advance or defeat of the 68 lucky teams chosen to represent their colleges in this year's NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. In 2017, all bettors wagered over $10.4 billion on the Big Dance. That sum exceeded the pre-tax...

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