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Alando Tucker Is Tired of Facebook

On a recent morning in State College, Pennsylvania, a college student was sitting at a computer doing that thing that college students are most likely to be doing when they're sitting at a computer: Examining his Facebook profile. Except this student was Wisconsin's Alando Tucker:

The senior forward has led the fourth-ranked Badgers to a 23-2 record and a tie for first place in the Big Ten, and had a game against Penn State in slightly more than nine hours. His main concern at 10:55 a.m., though, was taking care of some pressing business on Facebook.com. And the lobby was the only place in the hotel that had access to the Internet.

"I'm trying to remove my profile," Tucker said while hunting for that option with the mouse. "I've already taken it down once, but a friend told me he put it back online, and I really don't like to be on there."

The reason? "It's just gotten a little too chaotic."

I can see how the star athlete at a school with tens of thousands of students would get a little overwhelmed with Facebook requests. And that's just one of the many interesting nuggets unveiled in a great piece by Luke Winn of SI.com, who spent a day on the road with the Badgers. Read the whole thing for stories about Bo Ryan's college roommate, Kammron Taylor's magic tricks illusions, and how the Badgers did their best dog impressions in the visitors' locker room and explained, "We're doing it to mark our territory."
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