Today in Rock Music News and History
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March 17th
2023 NCAA bans Metallica’s “Enter Sandman.” The Virginia Tech Hokies Women’s Basketball team has long used the song, with permission from Metallica, as entrance music. The NCAA ban for March Madness is to keep the venue, Virginia Tech’s Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, VA, ‘neutral’. No matter. Virginia Tech fans respond by loudly chanting the lyrics to “Enter Sandman.” The Hokies beat Chattanooga 58–33.
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