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We’re sorry, it’s Thursday, and your brackets are about to lock. But we have one more upset pick for you to consider: 13-seeded Eastern Washington’s got a shot to beat Georgetown, and not just because Eastern Washington’s coach guaranteed it, and not just because Georgetown literally always loses to double-digit seeds in March Madness.

Because EWU plays a fun, awesome system, and you should love the team for it. We know our Mike Rutherford told you this back in January. Here’s what you need to know about the Eagles.

To be quite honest, it’d be wisest to call EWU “mediocre” -- the Eagles are ranked No. 128 on KenPom. They won the Big Sky conference, but they didn’t blow it away -- in fact, they tied for the league lead at 14-4 with Montana.

Buuuut, they do have a marquee win on the season: They went to Indiana and took down the Hoosiers. Laugh all you want at Indiana this year, but that’s a road victory against a team that made the NCAA Tournament with room to spare.

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EWU scores 80.8 points per game, third-most in college hoops, thanks to an up-tempo system/shooting lots of threes/hitting lots of threes. In fact, 43.2 percent of their shots are threes, which is the 18th-most in college basketball, and the Eagles hit 39.6 percent of them, which is 14th-best in college basketball. So, threes. Threes threes threes.

Tyler Harvey actually scores 22.9 points per game, the most of any player in college basketball.

You’re not alone.

As a high school freshman, Harvey was just 5’4, and was completely unnoticed by college basketball scouts. A growth spurt took him to 6’4, but he was off everybody’s radar.

Harvey’s dad, Frank, a college hoops ref, found himself on a plane next to Jim Hayford, a coach at Division III Whitworth. He talked Hayford into taking a look at his son, swearing he deserved to play ball in college. When Hayford took the job at Eastern Washington, he allowed Harvey to walk on.

He started out as a benchwarmer, but that changed his freshman year when he got put into the game against Northern Arizona. The Eagles had been trailing by 13, but the unknown frosh came in, scored 14 points in regulation and OT, and got EWU the win. Since then, he’s been indispensable.

Now a junior, he’s the nation’s scoring leader. And now you’ve heard of him!

Yes! Georgetown barely defends the three -- opponents shoot 35.9 percent from deep, the 253rd-best figure in college hoops. Not ideal.

A key here is if EWU center Venky Jois can survive in the paint against enormous Georgetown big man Joshua Smith. Smith weighs 350 pounds. He’s humongous, so big he can only play for brief stretches, but he’s a force that’s difficult to stop. Jois is strong, but is he strong enough to limit Smith down low?

The location of the game is kinda great -- I doubt many Georgetown fans will make the trip to Portland, Oregon. That’s 300 miles from Cheney, Washington, where EWU is located, but that’s wayyyyyyy closer.

As noted, Mike Rutherford told you why the Eagles should be your favorite team. Our favorite reason: basketball zamboni.

Basketball zamboni:

Relatively little to speak of. The Eagles went dancing in 2004 and were blown out by Oklahoma State. They do have a relatively famous NBA player -- Rodney Stuckey picked the Eagles over offers from Washington and Washington State and turned into a star, scoring 24 points per game in both of his seasons in Cheney before jumping to the league.

Noted Sports Talking Human Colin Cowherd is an EWU alum, but we won’t hold that against them. Comic author Todd McFarlane, who was a co-owner of the Edmonton Oilers, went to EWU. The football team is really successful -- the Eagles won the 2010 FCS national championship AND PLAY ON A FIELD DYED RED WITH THE BLOOD OF THEIR OPPONENTS -- and has several notable gridiron alumni, such as new Florida coach Jim McElwain and longtime NFL lineman Michael Roos, who gave a large enough donation to the school that the field is named after him.