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Strange things going on here at the RBC.

First, State's vaunted defense has allowed Tech to shoot 68 percent - that's not a typo - from the field. Yet the Jackets are up just one at the half.

Meanwhile, an electrical fire underneath the seat of N&O reporter Lorenzo Perez - the guy who sits next to me on press row - had us scrambling for cover early in the first half. It looked like a wolverine had gnawed through the wires.

Finally, the photogs here are trying to make sense of a photo of Herb in which he appears be either a) trying to get a photographer to call him for a date b) calling in a hit on Paul Hewitt or c) flashing a Bloods gang sign. We'll see how this develops in the second half.

Back to the court ...