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Syracuse earns No. 1 seed for March Madness

The Big East maintained its reputation as the best basketball conference in the country by tying its own record with eight teams in the NCAA Tournament when the field was announced on Selection Sunday. But regular-season champion Syracuse barely hung on to a No. 1 seed in the West Regional after losing its last two games and being affected by an injury to post man Arinze Onuaku.

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