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Northwestern played Michigan at home with 1.2 sec left in the game northwestern was tied at the other end of the court they threw it all the way across the court as Derek pardon caught it and made the lay up to win over Michigan 67-65

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Mar 2, 2017

Eamonn BrennanESPN Staff Writer

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Graduate of Indiana University

It's tempting to say that it had to be this way for Northwestern, that the only way to end college basketball's craziest historical abnormality -- the Wildcats' lifelong NCAA tournament drought -- was to drench it in abnormal melodrama.

It feels fitting, the way the Wildcats all but guaranteed themselves their first tourney bid at Welsh-Ryan Arena on Wednesday night: a full-court heave, from one baseline to the other, that Northwestern forward Dererk Pardon caught and scored for the most important basket in Northwestern men's hoops history -- all within the final 1.7 seconds. It seems only natural that the Wildcats' bid would be sealed with fans spontaneously rushing onto the floor. It wasn't easy for the Chicago Cubs. Why would Northwestern's turn be any less epic? Why would its date -- March 1 -- be anything less than symbolic?

Fair enough. March 2017 is the first real March in Northwestern basketball history. It will be celebrated and canonized. The pun headlines -- "PARDONED!" and so forth -- shall spill forth following this 67-65 victory over Michigan, and they shall be glorious.

Still, Pardon's shot, the abnormal drama that ended this program's abnormal century of abnormal failure shouldn't obscure what came before it.

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The 2016-17 Wildcats really got here by being, well, normal.

Relative to its own sordid hoops history, the most remarkable thing about this Northwestern team is of course the break from the past it represents. Relative to the rest of college basketball, though, the most remarkable thing is that Northwestern is, finally, a regular old college hoops team. Wednesday's buzzer-beater didn't come in the final round of the Big Ten tournament, after all. When the Wildcats hear their name on Selection Sunday, it won't be because a bad team shocked the world in one weekend of single-elimination play. Nor will it be because Northwestern, from the blue, assumed the look of a national title contender.

Rather, it will be because Northwestern accomplished what so many solid, above-average and otherwise unremarkable college basketball teams accomplish every season: 20-some wins, an above-.500 league record, no glaringly bad losses, a few quality wins here and there. Being one of the at-large teams in the NCAA tournament doesn't require a miracle. In some cases, mediocrity can do the job. It's really not that hard.

The fact that Northwestern is doing so many things so many other college basketball programs take for granted -- including plenty that lack a storied hoops tradition, let's say -- is almost as mind-blowing as the NCAA tournament streak itself. Twenty wins stopped being a barometer for a successful season decades ago; until Wednesday, it was Northwestern's all-time record for wins.

Nor is the Wildcats' essential normalcy restricted to their resume.

To anyone who watched Northwestern play during Bill Carmody's 11 seasons at the program, seeing third-year coach Chris Collins' success might feel a little bit like being handed an iPhone after being on a desert island for a decade, if that island was also the Island of Misfit Toys. Carmody's teams were stubbornly anachronistic. The relentlessly back-cutting Princeton offense; those weird little spin-pivots on passes that everyone else stopped running 40 years ago; the 1-3-1 zone defense; the 5-foot-8 players manning the baseline. The players Carmody recruited -- as good as some of them were -- almost always seemed to come with their own quirks: good shooters had strange releases; guards were almost always undersized; big men were found in obscure, off-the-radar recruiting sojourns.

Collins' teams, meanwhile, are comprised of Division I major-conference-level recruits. They play standard man-to-man defense with some occasional zone thrown in. They pick and roll. They read screens. They space the floor. They post up. They play modern, normal basketball.

This shouldn't be a big deal. That it is reflects just how different this Northwestern season is to so much of what came before: stylistically and strategically, as well as in the way it measures success.

The heave pass that Pardon caught and finished, with 1.7 seconds left to play, will be remembered as the greatest in Northwestern history. It is a massive moment in program history, no doubt, and nothing about it was normal.

That it all but locked a power conference team's first-ever NCAA tournament bid in 2017 is also, well, the opposite of normal. But finally, mercifully, everything else about Northwestern is.

Welcome to March, Wildcats. You guys should fit in just fine.

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Mar 2, 2017 Eamonn BrennanESPN Staff Writer Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2009 Graduate of Indiana University It's tempting to say that it had to be this way for Northwestern, that the only way to end college basketball's craziest historical abnormality -- the Wildcats' lifelong NCAA tournament drought -- was to drench it in abnormal melodrama.

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AUSTIN, Ind. ( WXIN) - An Indiana man's decision to press the snooze button may have very well saved his life.

Raymond Bowling, of Austin, Indiana, told FOX59 that he sets his alarm each day for 5:30 a.m. He says he usually presses the snooze button once, and then nine minutes later he gets out of bed to start getting ready for work.

"This morning I hit snooze, laid there for a few minutes, got up on my feet, and looked at how many minutes were left on snooze. About 6 minutes were left, so I decided to lay back down until it went off again," Bowling told FOX59.

That decision prevented him from getting impaled by a tree branch that crashed through his roof as severe storms moved across the state this morning.

"I drifted off to sleep and literally 2 minutes later, the limb came crashing through. If I had gotten up, I would've been right in that spot, most likely brushing my teeth," Bowling said.

Bowling calls it divine intervention, and he says God was watching out for him this morning.

A contractor has already visited Bowling's home, removed the limb, and patched the roof.

Severe weather with heavy rain, wind, and lightning ripped through that portion of the state overnight - damaging dozens of homes. Many people lost power and Seymour Community Schools had to cancel classes today due to power outages.
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AUSTIN, Ind. ( WXIN) - An Indiana man's decision to press the snooze button may have very well saved his life. Raymond Bowling, of Austin, Indiana, told FOX59 that he sets his alarm each day for 5:30 a.m.

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Mr. Kohl- Today, Snap Inc aka Snapchat  is coming out on the NYSE in the biggest US tech IPO in years. Shares are going for $17 a pop. Meaning the company’s valued at about $24 billion. Snap’s big moment comes a day after the Dow crossed the 21000 mark for the first time ever.

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Mr. Kohl- Today, Snap Inc aka Snapchat  is coming out on the NYSE in the biggest US tech IPO in years. Shares are going for $17 a pop. Meaning the company’s valued at about $24 billion. Snap’s big moment comes a day after the Dow crossed the 21000 mark for the first time ever.

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Snapchat parent Snap, Inc. ( SNAP) has priced its initial public offering of 200 million shares at $17 per share, which means the company is raising $3.4 billion. This gives the social media giant a value of $23.6 billion.

The pricing is slightly above the $14-$16 range the company had been targeting, which would have given it a valuation of $19.5-$22.3 billion.

As Bloomberg notes, the $23.6 billion valuation for the company is based on 1.39 billion fully diluted shares outstanding, more than the 1.16 billion shares the company's filing indicates will be outstanding after the offering. This implies there are securities out there that can be converted into about 230 million new shares.

The debut of Snap, which in its prospectus called itself a camera company, not a social network, will be first tech IPO of 2017 and is the most highly-anticipated market debut since Alibaba. The last social media company to go public was Twitter back in 2013.

As Snap makes its debut in public markets, two issues are likely to be of concern for investors in the coming months and years: profits and voting rights.

Cost and user growth

In a post earlier this month, tech analyst Ben Thompson at Stratechery indicated that Snapchat has a burgeoning issue with its total costs per user rising and losses per user are also increasing.

"The biggest problem here is Snap's cost of revenue per user: it's going up, and it has been for a while," Thompson writes.

"This isn't quite as bad as it seems, because Snap's cost of revenue includes revenue sharing payments to publishers; once you back that out, though, the company has gone from paying ~$0.47/user in 2015 to ~$0.66/user in 2016, a 40% increase, and an amount (per user) that well exceeds that of Facebook or Twitter at the time of their IPOs. That means that to become profitable Snap has to not only grow users, it has to grow them faster than its costs are increasing, or grow revenue per users by that much more." (Emphasis added.)

The bull case for Snapchat, however, has been in the strength of its product team and the vision of its CEO Evan Spiegel. Innovation, then, is what's really being pitched.

In its prospectus, Snap disclosed that user growth slowed towards the end of the third quarter of 2016 as the result, the company said, of issues related to new products and app updates.

This, then, would seem to indicate that the required product innovation Thompson sees as necessary for the company to overcome its current cost issues are also at risk of costing the company the users it needs to be profitable.

That's why it's called a risk factor.

No vote for you

As for the voting issue, Snap's IPO will offer investors shares that have no voting rights.

In its filing, Snap said that Spiegel and co-founder Bobby Murphy will have control of 89% of the voting power at the company. "This concentrated control eliminates other stockholders' ability to influence corporate matters and, as a result, we may take actions that our stockholders do not view as beneficial," the company said in its filing.

"As a result, the market price of our Class A common stock could be adversely affected."

In a post on Wednesday, Yahoo Finance's Ash Bennington outlined why some analysts see this as making Snap's shareholder structure "banana republic governance."

In short, academic research says companies with a single-share class structure outperform those that feature the multi-class structure Snap will offer (and is currently offered by Google and Facebook).

Additionally, dual-class structures are not seen as being friendly for shareholder rights because, well, shareholders don't get a vote. Sure, shareholders get a cut of future profits, but are also most junior in the capital structure and have no say in management. Then again, you don't have to buy these companies.

The headline excitement around Snap's debut is and will likely remain focused on the product itself and its wunderkind CEO. But one of the most interesting, if in-the-weeds, investment stories is also playing out.

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Myles Udland is a writer at Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @MylesUdland

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Snapchat parent Snap, Inc. (SNAP) has priced its initial public offering of 200 million shares at $17 per share, which means the company is raising $3.4 billion. The pricing is slightly above the $14-$16 range the company had been targeting, which would have given it a valuation of $19.5-$22.3 billion