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Two down, three to go for Auburn.
Two down, three to go for Alabama.
Two down, three to go for Armageddon.
It's real now. Auburn has beaten up Alabama State and Creighton and Alabama has taken down Robert Morris and Saint Mary's. Two state teams times 2-0 in the NCAA Tournament equals two weeks away from what would be the most manic Monday in state history.
Two weeks. We are that close to the day the unreal becomes real and the rivalry to end all rivalries reaches its peak. Not North Carolina and Duke. Not Kentucky and Louisville. Auburn and Alabama. Alabama and Auburn.
One game for One Shining Moment, for the state's first national championship in Division I basketball. We have said it was possible from the first day of the season, and we will keep speaking it into existence until Dylan Cardwell and Cliff Omoruyi face off for the opening tip at closing time in San Antonio.
You can see it from here, closer than it's been in 39 years, the end of the world as we know it, as we've always known it, as no one would've believed it or conceived it when Chuck Person and Buck Johnson ruled our little corner of the roundball world and threatened the rest of the big blue marble.
Auburn and Alabama have advanced to the Sweet 16 together for just the third time ever, for the first time since 1986, when they did it for the second straight season. How long ago was 1986? It was the first year of a universal shot clock, which lasted 45 seconds. It was the last year before the introduction of the 3-point line. ...
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