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into place.That is, the 13th seed is

28-108 against the No 4since 1985. Not as good asthe 12th seed, which is47-89 against the No. 5,but better than the No. 14seed, which owns a 21-115record against the No. 3.The No. 13 seed has

provided a flair for thedramatic, however. Kan-

There has been nothingunlucky about the number13 when it comes to NCAATournament seeding.Check out any list of

tournament upsets, andfeatured prominently aregames that emerged fromthe 13 verses 4 pairing.Remember Princeton’s

backdoor basket to beatUCLA in 1996, or BryceDrew’s buzzer beater thatgave Valparaiso a victoryover Mississippi two yearslater?Vermont over Syracuse

in 2005, Morehead Stateover Louisville in 2011…allNo. 13 seeds.The 13-16 seeds were

added when the bracketexpanded to 64 teams in1985, and historically the13th seed’s success in theopener against a fourthseeded team has fallen

sas State and Kansas aretaking note, along withVirginia Tech and FloridaState. That’s the fourthline of this year’s bracket.The matchups:Kansas State vs. UC

Irvine, Kansas vs. North-eastern, Virginia Tech vs.Saint Louis and FloridaState vs. Vermont.A common thread: The

four seeds play in powerconferences, the Big 12and ACC. The opponents,with the exception of SaintLouis of the Atlantic-10,are champions or tourna-ment champs of mid tolow major conferences.The basic formula for an

upset begins with this classstructure and takes on aDavid verses Goliath tone.Fourth seeded teams aretypically schools from pow-er conferences. The 13thseeds often are mid-to-lowmajors. Those programsdon’t have the overall ta-lent or depth of the betterseed, not to mention athlet-ic budget.But they know how to

win.Last season produced

two such outcomes. Mar-shall defeated WichitaState and Buffalo downedArizona.After the victory, Bulls

coach Nate Oats said hebelieved his team was just

as good as Arizona enter-ing the game but teamslike Buffalo rarely get achance to prove that dur-ing the season.“We were going to get a

high major on a neutralfloor,” Oats said. “This iswhat we’ve been waitingfor.”Last year, Oats believed

his team was mis-seeded,that Buffalo deservedbetter than a No. 13. TheMid-American Conferencechampions got one thisyear. They’re the sixthseed in the West Region,and in something of a rolereversal, will take on thewinner of Wednesday’sFirst Four game between

Arizona State and St.John’s. The power confer-ence teams are No. 11seeds.Kansas and Kansas

State each own a fourth-seed loss in their tourna-ment history. In 2006, theJayhawks fell to Bradley.In 2013, Kansas State wastopped by La Salle.Oklahoma’s three open-

ing game losses are themost by a fourth seed.Arizona, Vanderbilt, Indi-ana and UCLA each havelost twice as a No. 4 seedin the opener.The pairing produced an

upset from the outset,when LSU fell to Navy andDavid Robinson in 1985.Among other winners

over the years: MissouriState, Manhattan, UNCWilmington, Siena, SanDiego and Hawaii. South-ern University’s victoryover Georgia Tech in 1993was the crowing achieve-ment in the career coach-ing legend Ben Jobe.Upsets occur annually

and throughout the brack-et. But victories by the No.13 seeds have provided thetournament with some ofits most memorable mo-ments, usually at the ex-pense of a power confer-ence team.

NCAA TOURNAMENT

Beware of tourney’s upset-minded No. 13 seedsBY BLAIR KERKHOFFbkerkhoff@kcstar.com

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1985-2018Seed vs. SeedA #1 vs. #16 135-1 .993

A #2 vs. #15 128-8 .941

A #3 vs. #14 115-21 .846

A #4 vs. #13 108-28 .794

A #5 vs. #12 89-47 .654

A #6 vs. #11 85-51 .625

A #7 vs. #10 84-52 .618

A #8 vs. #9 68-68 .500. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

HAYNE PALMOUR IV TNS

Marshall’s Rondale Watson celebrated after dunking onthe way to a win over Wichita State in the 2018 tourney.

Perez remains under con-tract through 2021.Perez claimed surgeon

Neal ElAttrache told himthat he should be able tostart throwing from shortdistances, 30 to 45 feet, infour or five months.For now, he’s outfitted

with a brace that goes fromthe middle of his bicep tomiddle forearm, and he’sslowly working to extendhis range of motion.From the day the team

announced he’d have sea-son-ending surgery, team-mates such as Alex Gordonand back-up catcher CamGallagher expected thatPerez would be a regularpresence around the club-house while he wentthrough rehab.Perez said he’d hoped to

be around the team reg-ularly, but he had not spo-ken with general managerDayton Moore aboutwhether he will travel withthe club during the season.Searching for a positive

spin earlier this month,prior to Perez’s surgery,Moore said he’d be happyfor Perez to use the yearas a chance for growthand time with family.“I’m really excited be-

cause he gets a chance toreally spend great timewith his wife and greattime with his kids, andmaybe step out of it a littlebit and just get even adifferent perspective onlife,” Moore said. “He’sbeen playing baseball hisentire life, all year round.Now, he’s going to get anopportunity to re-evaluate,assess some things. I thinkit could be a tremendouspositive as well, personally.“Baseball-wise, it’s not

what we want. But you’vegot to look at it in a posi-tive way.”Wednesday, Perez was

still not willing to go thatfar just yet. In his mind,the desire to play stilloverwhelmed any poten-tial positives of time off.“A lot of people tell me

that,” Perez said about theinjury possibly being apositive. Perez, who man-ages his life around pre-paring to play a full sea-son, hadn’t quite gainedthat perspective just yet.Perez, who was in a

fairly jovial mood andjoking with reporters,praised the defensiveability of his replacementMaldonado. The two vet-erans knew each otherbefore Maldonado signedwith the club, but Perezexpects they’ll become

much closer this season.“I think calling the

game, he’s good. Throw-ing, you guys have seenhis arm,” Perez said. “Ithink yesterday he threwsomebody out at secondbase. I think he’s going todo a pretty good job. Andthe good thing is we’ve got(Billy) Hamilton and Whit(Merrifield) and (Adalber-to) Mondesi, those guys.So he don’t have to worryabout these guys (laugh-ing).”Perez threw out 24

base-stealers in 51 chanceslast season on his way tohis fifth Gold Glove in sixseasons. That put him inan exclusive group ofcatchers with at least fiveGold Gloves. He joinedIvan Rodríguez (13), John-ny Bench (10), YadierMolina (9), Bob Boone (7),Jim Sundberg (6) and BillFreehan (5).Maldonado’s AL Gold

Glove win in 2017 brokeup Perez’s streak of con-secutive awards. As far asany good-spirited back-and-forth about Maldona-do breaking up his streak,Perez laughed as he said,“We didn’t talk about, notyet but it’s going to come.He got lucky!”

Lynn Worthy:816-234-4951,@LWorthySports

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ROYALS PEREZHere is the fishing report for the KansasCity area and lakes and wildlife areas inKansas and Missouri for the week of March20, 2019.

MISSOURIBULL SHOALS: 47 degrees, clear, 2 feet highOutlook: Del Colvin Guide Service reports:lake levels dropped. The whites are movingup with the moon coming. Look for shad inpockets and runoff with warmer waternearby. Bass have been moving up. AKeitech around the shad will produce. Keepan out for seagulls to help you find theshad. Bluff ends and points leading intospawning areas are holding some fish. Try agrub, jig or ned rig on post frontal days. Thecranking bite should pick up with thewarming trend. If we have wind, red colorshave been best lately. Spro rock crawlers,wiggle warts and square bills will work.Wind will help the crank bite. Carolina rigshould be dusted off soon. Below the dam:John Berry of Berry Bros. Guide Servicereports: The White has fished well. Heavygeneration and no wadable water in the lastweek. The hot spot has been The Catch andRelease section at Rim Shoals. The hot flieswere olive woolly buggers (#8, #10), Y2Ks(#14, #12), prince nymphs (#14), zebramidges (black with silver wire and silverbead or red with silver wire and silver bead#16, #18), pheasant tails (#14), rubymidges (#18), root beer midges (#18), pinkand cerise San Juan worms (#10), andsowbugs (#16). Double fly nymph rigs havebeen very effective (my current favoritecombination is a bead head pheasant tailnymph (#14) with an egg pattern (#12)suspended below it. Use plenty of weight toget your flies down.TANEYCOMO: 43 degrees, clear, 2 units ofgeneration Outlook: Lilleys’ Landingreports: flood gates were open at TableRock Dam last week and through theweekend, but there’s no flooding. TheCorps is working on the intake screens onthe lake side of the dam. Divers have to godown and pull off dead catfish and othernasty things that have piled up over thepast few years on these grates. For that tohappen, the turbines have to be offline,but because of the lake levels on Beaverand Table Rock, the Corps needs to movesome water, so over the spill gates it came.This brought all kinds of fish with itincluding threadfin shad. Trout fishing wasincredible over the weekend because ofthis flow, and the trout are still looking forshad now that the gates are closed andturbines running, but it has slowed down.They’re running anywhere from 1 to 3units, and with rain in the forecast, it’s notgoing to slow down any time soon. Sofishing in the trophy area has been prettygood throwing white jigs, spoons, smallstick baits and shad flies. And these luresare still working well all the way to theBranson Landing because the shad drifteddown that far. The best fishing has beenfrom Monkey Island down through theLanding. MDC stocked quite a fewrainbows late last week and it’s beenpretty crazy. Best thing to drift with is pinkor orange PowerWorms on the bottom, orif the water isn’t running too hard, under afloat 5-7 feet deep. Join SouthwestMissouri Area Fishing Facebook group forfishing updates from an engagedmembership.NORFORK: 51 degrees, creeks stained,main lake clear, about 3 feet high. Outlook:Bink’s Fintastic Guide Service reports: Lakeis falling and the spring fishing is pickingup. Stripers, hybrids, and white bass are allback in the creeks and feeding on the ½ ozBink’s white jigging spoon. Non stopaction.LONGVIEW: 39 degrees, stained, 0.8 feethigh. Outlook: Longview Marina reports:anglers are catching quite a few crappiearound the marina, but have to workthrough a lot of small ones. Black and pinkseems to be working well. Fishing isavailable from the marina seven days aweek. Fishing hours are 8am-3pm. JoinLee’s Summit Area Fishing Facebook groupfor daily updates.POMME DE TERRE: low 40s, stained, 5 feethigh. Outlook: Muskie Guide Servicereports: 3,000 cfs being released perCorps. of Engineers. All species have beenslow. Only one bass was caught andweighed in over the weekend in atournament with ten boats. Some crappiehave been caught around docks.LAKE OF THE OZARKS: 43 degrees,stained, 6 feet low Outlook: Gier’s Bass Proreports: crappie can be caught withminnows around docks. Anglers arestarting to find them with a bobber and jigat the backs of coves. Place your jig fivefeet below the bobber. They’re being foundfishing anywhere in 5 to 15 feet of water.They are being found on just about everyrocky bank now. Bass fishing has been okaythrowing a jerkbait or jig on main lakepoints. Sunny days can be very good forthrowing a jerkbait. Small jigs and crawdadcrankbaits are starting to becomeproductive near secondary points and

chunk rock.REED AREA: 44 degrees, clear, normalpool. Outlook: Missouri Dept. ofConservation reports: crappie fishing isgood on sunny afternoons. Tube jigs andminnows near brush piles are producingthe most crappie. Also, look for them onnorthern, wind-blown banks. Trout fishingis good using Powerbait, inline spinnersand small jigs on windy banks. Channelcatfish are picking up on worms andPowerbait. Bass are good on slow movingbaits. All other species slow. Join Lee’sSummit Area Fishing Facebook Group fordaily updates.STOCKTON: 49 degrees, clear, 3.7 feethigh Outlook: Stockton Lake Guide Servicereports: Walleye are finally on the move.Look for them on main lake points nearlots of rocks throwing a jerkbait. If youreally want to catch him, sit around in yourboat until after the sunsets when youusually want to go home and start fishing.Crappie are still under schools of shad, butnot like they have been. You’ll have bettersuccess if you can find shad and cover anyplace from 29 to 50 feet deep. For bass,throw a jerkbait and run the A-rig around20 to 30 feet of water. Look for themmainly on points and chunk rocks on steepareas and bluffs. A few white bass havebeen up the rivers along with a fewwalleyes. So if you’re looking for a nicelittle walk through the woods, try way upthe Sac River. Join Southwest MissouriArea Fishing Facebook group for fishingupdates from an engaged membership.JACOMO: mid to upper 30s, stained, alittle high Outlook: Lee’s Summit AreaFishing Facebook group reports: Crappiecan be found around the docks and brushpiles. Look for white bass to start movingin along the dam soon. Join Lee’s SummitArea Fishing Facebook Group for dailyupdates.BLUE SPRINGS: mid to upper 30s, clear, alittle high Outlook: Lee’s Summit AreaFishing Facebook Group reports: Crappiecan be found around the marina when thewater is open. Join Lee’s Summit AreaFishing Facebook Group for daily updates.TABLE ROCK: 49 degrees, clear on main lake(7 feet), stained in rivers, a little high andrising. Outlook: Eric Prey of Focused FishingGuide Service reports: white bass are movingup and feeding in the rivers. Try rooster tailsand grubs. Walleye are still running in therivers, stickbaits and crankbaits areeffective. For bass, crankbaits on steeperrocky banks have been best, wind helps thisbite. Swimbaits around standing timber onsteep banks has been good. Jigs and Nedrigs on rocky banks and channel swings areproducing when the wind is calm. JoinSouthwest Missouri Area Fishing Facebookgroup for fishing updates from an engagedmembership.TRUMAN: 44 degrees, stained, 9.25 feethigh. Outlook: Richard Bowling GuideService reports: Crappie are being caughtin 20 feet of water and more fishing 18feet deep. Spider rigging the creeks andpockets in the lower lake area has beenproductive. Minnows are the bait of choice.

Catfish are being caught in the floodedbushes in 3 to 8 feet of water fishing 2feet off the bottom. Fresh cut bait is amust!SMITHVILLE: 42 degrees, clear, 1.5 feethigh Outlook: Burton’s Bait and Tacklereports: the lake is thawed out. Thewalleye are expected to pick up the lastweek of March. Look for them on the dam.Crappie are still in deep piles. There will bea brush pile project on March 28th whereyou can volunteer to help place brush piles.You can call the MDC or Corps. ofEngineers for more details.MOZINGO LAKE: low 30s, 1-3 feet ofclarity, normal. Outlook: Fishing WithNordbye YouTube channel reports: The lakeis still mostly frozen but is starting to showsigns of open water. There is a gap of openwater between the bank and the ice. Icefishing is not recommended. JoinNorthwest Missouri Area Fishing Facebookgroup for daily updates.

KANSASSHAWNEE MISSION PARK: 43 degrees,clear, normal Outlook: Clarity: trout aregood on worms or Powerbait. Crappie andpanfish are fair on worms or jigs. Catfishare poor. Bass/wipers are fair on jigs orchicken liver.KILL CREEK PARK: 45 degrees, clear,normal Outlook: trout are good on wormsor Powerbait. Crappie and panfish are fairon worms. Bass are fair on jigs. Catfish arepoor.MELVERN: 41 degrees, stained, 0.5 feethigh Outlook: Melvern Lake Marina reports:crappie are poor to fair with a lot of smallfish being caught. More keepers are beingcaught in and around established brushpiles and at the Marina docks. Small ice jigsand soft baits are best. All other species -poor or no reports.CLINTON: 39 degrees, 1 foot low, dingy.Outlook: Kansas Angling Experience GuideService reports: Crappie are good. Size andnumbers are still being caught on brushpiles and channel breaks on jigs.PERRY: 38 degrees, stained, about 8.5 feethigh Outlook: Don and Tom’s Bait andTackle reports: pretty muddy on the northend. The south end of the lake is prettyclear. The boat ramps are mostlyunderwater except for the one in RockCreek. Anglers are also using the ramp atDJ’s Marina. Crappie are being caught inthe marinas, but nothing of any major size.Small plastics have been working. Channelcats have picked up where water is flowinginto the lake. Some walleye have beencaught on the dam.COFFEY COUNTY: 64 at north end, 68 athot water outlet, 47 at the inlet, 45 at thedam clear, full pool Outlook: TheGatehouse reports: Ramp is usable. 998whites reported caught in the last week,33 largemouth, 47 smallmouth, 62 wipers,76 channel cats, 35 crappie, and 103 bluecatfish.LA CYGNE: 54 degrees at hot water outlet,44 degrees on the south end, clear, fullpool Outlook: Linn County Parks reports: a34-pound blue catfish was caught in the

last week. Numerous bass over five poundshave been caught in the last week. Forinformation on the Linn County Marinaboat ramps call 913-757-6633. JoinSoutheast Kansas Area Fishing FacebookGroup for daily updates.POMONA: 34 degrees, stained, 2.7 feethigh Outlook: Lighthouse Bay Marinareports: Corps. of Engineers reports:Crappie have been biting very well aroundthe dock and some anglers are starting tocatch them shallow.MILFORD: 40 degrees, stained, 4.3 feethigh Outlook: Kansas Department ofWildlife reports: anglers are starting totarget blue catfish now since ice has comeoff the lake. Higher lake levels areexpected, which could impact anglingsuccess. All blue cats between 25-40inches must be released. Creel limit is stillfive, but only one can be 40-inches orlonger. Crappie are fair 10-20 feet deepsuspended near points, flooded brush, andledges on jigs and minnows. Walleyesshould start staging in spawning areasalong the dam. Target rocky or wind-sweptmud banks.HILLSDALE: 38 degrees, stained, 0.3 feetlow Outlook: Jayhawk Marina reports:Crappie – fair on blue and white, black, andsilver jigs, as well as minnows. Smallspoons are producing, too. Try 19-24 feetdown. Some bass and walleye are beingcaught as well. The fishing dock opens at7am, kids 12 and under are free. JoinNortheast Kansas Area Fishing FacebookGroup for daily updates.GLEN ELDER (WACONDA LAKE): 32degrees, clear, about 4 feet high Outlook:Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks andTourism reports: last updated 3/14/19.The recent winds have cleared the reservoirof ice except for the east end. Most of theboat ramps are open now and anglersshould be able to launch a boat and fishnearly anywhere lake wide. Anglers havebeen reporting improved crappie catchrates from deep drops along the riverchannel and in the marina slips. Small jigsand minnows are working best. The bite isoften best early in the morning and late inthe afternoon. There have also been somefish caught off the brush piles around thestate park area. White bass can be caughtin good numbers out here throughout thewinter in a variety of locations. Checkaround the outlet area with the highoutflows occurring right now. Also, fish canbe found off main lake points along thenorth shore and near the south bluffs. Fishwill also be stacking up west of thecauseway and anglers should be able tofind some along the river channels in thatarea. Anglers have been catching goodnumbers of trout using cheese, Powerbait,minnows, and worms. The latest stockingof trout occurred on March 12th with 300more pounds added to the already stocked2,000 pounds. The ice is gone and anglersshould have no problem fishing in thepond. Make sure to purchase a troutpermit before fishing the pond!TUTTLE CREEK: 32 degrees, stained, 27.36feet high. Outlook: Kansas Department ofWildlife reports: ice is mostly off the lake.KDWPT last updated 3/5. Most fishing hasbeen slow due to high water. High water,dropping water and muddy water hasgreatly hampered the normally good wintercrappie fishing. The high release rates havebeen moving saugeye from the Reservoirdownstream, which has led to some goodfishing in the river pond, the river below thedam or at Rocky Ford. Trout season is in fullforce at Willow Lake, which is located in theSoutheast corner of the Tuttle Creek StatePark below the dam. Willow Lake wasstocked with 650 pounds of rainbow trouton 03/05/19. So far this trout season, thelake has been stocked with 7,675 catchablesized rainbow trout. Fishing has been goodto excellent. Ice conditions have beenchanging weekly, but there have been someanglers able to get out on the ice or justbreaking holes by the docks when the ice isnot safe. Best baits are commercial troutbaits, worms, corn or lures. Limit is 5 fish aday. A trout permit is needed to fish atWillow Lake during the trout season, exceptthat anyone under 16 years of age with aproperly licensed adult can fish and harvestup to 2 trout without a trout permit.WILSON: mid to upper 30s, stained, 1 foothigh. Outlook: Knothead’s Bait Shopreports: ice is gone. Fishing is still slow allover the lake.EL DORADO: mid to upper 30s, stained,0.52 feet high. Outlook: KS Dept. ofWildlife, Parks & Tourism reports: lastupdated 3/7. As of March 7, the lake ismostly ice covered and all boat ramps arelocked in ice. Ice not thick enough for safeice fishing. Crappie were biting in 16 to 20feet of water before ice up. The KDWPTstocked 400 pounds of rainbow trout inthe trout stream last week and have onemore stocking to go. Trout fishing shouldbe FANTASTIC when the ice melts andallows access to the fish.Tyler Mahoney is a RockhurstUniversity-educated outdoors fanatic whoworks to support his hunting and fishinghabits. Read more of his next-generationinsight at mahoneyoutdoors.com.

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Submitted photo

Sidney Sibenaller of Overland Park caught a 670-poundblue marlin while visiting Kona on the big island of Hawaiifor spring break. It took an hour and a half to reel in.

TUESDAY’S LATE GAMEROYALS 8, CUBS 6

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E—Russell (1), Soler (2), Fernandez (1).DP—Chicago 1, Kansas City 1. LOB—Chicago 9, Kansas City 8. 2B—Mondesi (3),O’Hearn (3), Maldonado (1), Hamilton (6).3B—Caratini (1). HR—Zagunis (4), O’Hearn(1). CS—Adduci (1), Maldonado (1).Chicago IP H R ER BB SOHatch L, 0-1 2 6 8 7 2 0Webster 1 1 0 0 0 0Rosario 1 0 0 0 1 2Maples 1 0 0 0 2 2Wick 1 1 0 0 0 1Norwood 1 0 0 0 1 0Minch 1 1 0 0 1 2Kansas City IP H R ER BB SOJunis W, 1-1 5 5 2 2 2 5Ellis 1 2 2 1 1 2Zimmer 1 2 1 1 1 0Boxberger H, 1 2⁄3 1 0 0 0 0Diekman H, 5 2⁄3 0 1 1 1 0Peralta S, 1-1 2⁄3 1 0 0 1 0HBP—by—Hatch (Gordon). WP—Maples,

Junis. Umpires—Home, Ben May; First,Cory Blaser; Second, Pat Hoberg; Third,Gabe Morales. T—3:03. A—9,563