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NCAA Tournament 2017 Sweet Sixteen: Tip times, announcers, matchups for Thursday

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Tonight will be a solid Sweet Sixteen night - though this season, the closest to a “Cinderella” or a real outsider team making the final 16 teams might be... Xavier, an 11-seed in this tournament.

That’s not the outside at all.

Really, South Carolina might be the only team that doesn’t fall into a who’s who of postseason name teams, after the Gamecocks dispatched the Duke Blue Devils and their preseason #1 superteam. Such is life.

A quick look at the mascot names involved leads us to a very simple understanding of which teams are going to win tonight .