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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...soon as the super-secret NCAA committee in Kansas City had finished giving out berths, people began chewing their pencils, scratching their heads and sweating out their picks for the entryway (ahem, office) pools. UCLA's pretty hot, right? But they'll lose to Iowa St,.second round, easy. Indiana's a goner--Bobby Knight's teams always choke. Tark's back! And you gotta watch out for Appalachian State--a 14-seed always beats a three-seed first round. Always...
...went to Radio Shack to buy an antenna. Talking with the guy at the counter, we casually mentioned that we needed the antenna for the NCAA tournament. Then he mentioned that he went to school with a guy who eventually became a pretty famous basketball coach--Mike Jarvis, of St. John...
...cocky I-won-the-NCAA-pool-in-my-high-school-two-years-in-a-row voice, I mentioned that Coach Jarvis was certainly going places: I picked St. John's to go to the Championship Game. "And who knows?" I added. "They could certainly win. It's March Madness. Anything could happen." It could, and it did. If the guy at Radio Shack even paid attention to my prediction, he'd be cursing the basketball gods, because his high school pal's team got bounced in the second round. By Gonzaga. And I still don't know where Gonzaga...
...Monday. But there's one problem--what cute moniker can be attached to that final championship game? "The Tenacious Two"? "The Titillating Two"? "The Pre-Ordained Michigan State-Duke Final"? If you have a better idea, mail your suggestion to: The NCAA Commission on Nicknames, Fines & Suspensions, 14 Plympton St., Cambridge...
...Ball St.: Despite the fact that this Muncie, Ind., school has already been eliminated, it's still funny that there's a school called Ball State...