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2021 March Madness: 5 “dream” potential First Weekend matchups

By Elliott Geller

JACKSONVILLE, FL - MARCH 20: The NCAA March Madness logo on the floor during the NCAA Basketball First round practice session at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on March 20, 2019 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)
JACKSONVILLE, FL - MARCH 20: The NCAA March Madness logo on the floor during the NCAA Basketball First round practice session at the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena on March 20, 2019 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) /
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March Madness Mac McClung Georgetown Hoyas (Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images) /

Texas Tech Red Raiders vs. Georgetown Hoyas

I’m writing this before Georgetown’s Big East Championship game against Creighton, but if the Hoyas can complete the Cinderella story, Patrick Ewing deserves all the recognition and more. Hopefully, he’d be allowed into the building this time around. I was hard on Ewing early in the season, but how the Hoyas have played recently, he deserves a lot of credit. This potential 4/13 tilt would be a Mac McClung revenge game, and vice versa.

Texas Tech falls into that Wisconsin category. The Big 12 is really good and the Red Raiders have taken the lumps from that. Chris Beard’s team are losers of six of their last nine. They haven’t been as tough and gritty as previous years, as they continue to come up short late in games. They blew multiple double-digit leads against Texas.

McClung is joined by other guards in Terrance Shannon and Kyler Edwards, but Marcus Santos-Silva is the rock of this team. Fran Fraschilla said on the broadcast against Texas that the VCU transfer doesn’t care about anything else than winning games. You need guys like that.

Georgetown has zero shot of an at-large bid, but with a win against Creighton, the Hoyas can steal a bid. How great of a story would it be if they were the reason Syracuse is on the outside looking in because they got the automatic qualifier. The senior guards, Jahvon Blair and Jamorko Pickett are looking to go out with a bang.

Those Georgetown guards would be salivating at an opportunity to go up against Mac McClung. It’s just as much a revenge game for those players and Patrick Ewing as it is for McClung. There would be some juicy storylines if we were given that game.

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