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2009, when they were a No. 7 seed and beat TCU before losing to Baylor.
• "Well, it's a challenge," Jackrabbits coach Aaron Johnston said. "I remember our first year we were a 7 seed and that's a much better position to be in versus who you're going to be playing against. If we stay in that 13-14-15 seed, we're going to be playing people who are top-20 teams.
• "We've played the kind of non-conference schedule that it takes to get a little better seed, and I thought we played pretty well this year. We just didn't have a couple of (more) wins that we needed."
• So, while the Gamecocks advanced, the Jackrabbits prepared to go home and regroup.
• "The difference between being a 13 seed and a 10 seed is probably two wins for us," Johnston said. "We're not talking about having to go back and reshape everything we do."
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Man who drowned trying to save boy remembered
DANIEL SIMMONS-RITCHIE,Rapid City Journal
AP Member Exchange Feature by The Rapid City Journal
• RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) -- In media coverage across the state, Lyle Francis Eagle Tail has been depicted as a hero: a man who drowned while trying to rescue a 6-year-old boy he did not know from the Big Sioux River in Sioux Falls.
• But Friday, as 50 mourners gathered around his open casket in Rapid City, the 28-year-old was remembered for his kindness, infectious personality and willingness to risk his life for another.
• Mourners wept openly at the Mother Butler Center in a ceremony that mixed Episcopalian rites with Native American tradition. While Eagle Tail was living in Sioux Falls at the time of his death, he was born in Rapid City and is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.
• On Friday evening, a pastor's prayers were followed by the burning of sage and sweet grass, a traditional Lakota method of purification. Between songs and drum circles, family members took turns talking about the man they knew.
• "We will go all night long," said his grandmother, Caroline Quick Bear. "Then in the morning, we will have the funeral service."
• The funeral service will begin at 10 a.m. at the Mother Butler Center, and he will be buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Rapid City. For the next year, as dictated by tradition, the family will mourn, concluding with a memorial service on the same day next year.
• Napolean Ducheneaux, 21, drove from Sioux Falls to attend his friend's wake. (Continued on page 19)
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