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Kevin Harlan declares Syracuse ‘back from the dead on Easter Sunday’

Turner Sports announcer Kevin Harlan is talking a bit of heat for his controversial call at the end of Syracuse’s upset win over Virginia in the Elite Eight on Sunday.
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Turner Sports announcer Kevin Harlan is talking a bit of heat for his controversial call at the end of Syracuse’s upset win over Virginia in the Elite Eight on Sunday.

After the final buzzer sounded, Harlan proclaimed coach Jim Boeheim and Syracuse “back from the dead on Easter Sunday.”

The call caused quite the stir on Twitter after the game.

This was Harlan’s last game of the NCAA tournament. Jim Nantz will work the Final Four on TV and Kevin Kugler will have the call on the radio.

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