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Message: [QUOTE="AndyCT, post: 2096384, member: 2064"] [FONT=Arial]As an occasional visitor to Waterloo I was rooting for the mighty Panthers of Northern Iowa. One thing that may have helped them was the fact that they lost the conference tournament to Drake in overtime. In fact they only had three conference losses, all to Drake, two in overtime, and no horrible losses out of conference, so the committee may have treated them as essentially the equivalent of the MVC champion, and that may have been enough to seperate them from some of the more flawed bubble teams. Still I was as surprised as anyone. I'm sure my fellow Panther fans will also point out that last year the men's team made the tournament so Northern Iowa has had some success in basketball. Still we're talking about Iowa, and Iowa will always be a wrestling state; Waterloo is the birthplace of the greatest wrestler of all time, Dan Gable, and home to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Waterloo was also the birthplace of the five Sullivan brothers of World War II fame. Go Panthers![/FONT] [FONT=Arial] [/FONT] [/QUOTE]