Syracuse, Cornell bring upstate uprising (AP)

[ASFN Admin]

Upstate New York has a Tobacco Road feel these days. Syracuse and Cornell -- their campuses a mere 55 miles apart -- are in the NCAA round of 16. Syracuse, the top seed in the West, is no great surprise. But Cornell, the 12th seed in the East, is the first Ivy League school to get this far since Penn in 1979.

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