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Duke
The regional finals are set after two days of games that separated the contenders from the pretenders, the upstarts from the just starting to get serious.
Nolan Smith and Jon Scheyer rescued Duke in the second half, heating up from the field after a miserable first 20 minutes and lifting the top-seeded Blue Devils to a 70-57 victory over fourth-seeded Purdue in the South Regional.
Chris Allen managed a key putback with about 30 seconds left, and Michigan State used stellar defense and gritty determination down the stretch to fend off ninth-seeded Northern Iowa 59-52 in the Midwest Regional semifinals.
WASHINGTON - There was a familiar voice behind the microphone during the Duke-Georgetown basketball game - that of Barack Obama.
