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NCAA finds enthusiastic audience in Boston

College sports off the back burner

By Shira Springer

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 20, 2012

Above all, Boston sports fans embrace big, potentially history-making events. That helps explain the draw of the NCAA East Regional which starts Thursday at the TD Garden. The games sold out in minutes in mid-October, long before Syracuse, Wisconsin, Cincinnati and Ohio State earned trips to Boston and a shot at the Final Four.

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