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Article: minneapolis region; semifinals - Game 2; GAME, GATORS; Joakim Noah's 15 points and 10 rebounds pace a tension-filled donnybrook. Florida reaches the Elite Eight on a three-point play with less than 30 seconds to go.(SPECIAL)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 25, 2006
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Byline: Mark Craig; Staff Writer
FLORIDA 57, GEORGETOWN 53
Florida and Georgetown, teams that prefer different styles of basketball, threw a little bit of everything at each other during one of the madder games of this year's March Madness. They traded high-flying dunks, steals, three-pointers, spinning layups by guys 6-11 to 7-2, and a few old-fashioned bruises, too, before the Florida finally walked away exhausted but a57-53 winner in Friday night's second Minneapolis Regional semifinal game at the Metrodome.
A crowd of 22,293 saw the No. 3 seed Gators set a school record with their 30th victory of the season and advance to the Elite Eight for ...