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Star Staff Picks
(Sweet 16 victories assumed) Championship Pick: Jason Orts
duke
Spo rts Edito r Pressure defense and strongest inside-outside game in country.
beats Oklahoma st. UAB (9)
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Ga. Tech
St. Louis Georgia Tech (3)
Ok. St.
Wake Forest (4)
E. Rutherford
Ok. St.
Oklahoma State (2)
Duke
Duke (1)
Atlanta
Duke Syracuse (5) UConn
UConn (2)
Championship Pick:
Travis Summers Sports Reporter Okafor has tremendous upside potential and their uniforms are pretty.
UConn
beats Georgia tech UAB (9)
St. Louis
Ga. Tech
Georgia Tech (3)
Ga. Tech
Wake Forest (4)
E. Rutherford Pittsburgh Pittsburgh (3)
UConn
Duke (1)
Atlanta
Duke
Texas (3) UConn Syracuse (5)
Phoenix
UConn
UConn (2)
Championship Pick:
Scooter Hendon Managing Editor Jarrett Jack and Ismail Muhammed will stick it to everyone.
Georgia Tech beats Uconn
Kansas (4)
St. Louis
Ga. Tech
Georgia Tech (3)
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March Madness continues Thursday
Duke
Texas (3)
Phoenix
Wednesday, March 24, 2004
Ga. Tech
St. Joseph’s (1)
E. Rutherford OK St. Oklahoma State (2)
Ga. Tech
Some call it parity, while others prefer to call it mediocrity. But no matter how you slice it, this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament has once again proved that anybody can beat anybody and given us a full dose of March Madness, including a Sweet 16 that includes just two Jason Orts No. 1 seeds and two Sports with Orts No. 2 seeds. The first round was rather mundane, with the chalk (higher-seeded teams) advancing in 28 of 32 games, and the biggest upsets being two No. 12 seeds beating No. 5 seeds, neither of which were shockers. But the second round offered an epidemic of upsets, including the top two teams in the field, Stanford University and the University of Kentucky, biting the dust. No. 2 seeds Mississippi State University and Gonzaga University were also victims, and both of them were beaten convincingly. All told, just nine of the 16 winners in the second round were seeded higher than their opponents. The biggest winners of the first weekend of play are the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 12, Big East and Atlantic 10. The ACC, Big 12 and Big East all have three teams in the Sweet 16, and the Atlantic 10 has two, including St. Joseph’s University. Many cringed when the Hawks were given a No. 1 seed, but after a 70-65 win against Texas Tech University in round two and the losses of the aforementioned No. 1 seeds, St. Joe’s has validated itself. The biggest loser so far has to be the Southeastern Conference. Yes, there are two SEC teams in the Sweet 16 in the University of Alabama and Vanderbilt University, but its top
two teams, Kentucky and Mississippi State, fell flat on their faces in the second round. Anyway, on to the Sweet 16 matchups.
St. Louis region
No. 4 University of Kansas vs. No. 9 University of AlabamaBirmingham Kansas relies on the inside beef of Wayne Simeon and Jeff Graves and the slashing ability of Keith Langford offensively, but it must find a way to stop UAB, something Kentucky couldn’t do. This Jayhawk team may not be as talented as the one that went to the national championship game a year ago, but it is experienced. UAB has played in two of the more exciting games in the tournament, including its secondround upset of top-seeded Kentucky and outlasting the University of Washington, 102-100, in the only game in the tournament in which both teams scored at least 100 points. No. 3 Georgia Tech University vs. No. 10 University of Nevada-Reno Georgia Tech University was a chic pick to make the Final Four before the tournament began but has yet to play its best basketball. The Yellow Jackets “survived and advanced” through the first two rounds and must play better against Nevada, arguably the tournament’s biggest surprise. Georgia Tech is among the most talented teams in the tournament, with four guards that do most of the damage in Jarrett Jack, B.J. Elder, Anthony McHenry and Marvin Lewis. Nevada was dominant in its upset of g See TOURNAMENT, page 9
Mark Cornelison/Lexington Herald-Leader The University of Kentucky’s Gerald Fitch tries to get a shot over the University of Alabama-Brimingham’s Ronell Taylor Sunday in the second round of the NCAA tournament in Columbus, Ohio. UAB upset Kentucky 76-75 and will face Kansas for a chance to advance to the Elite 8.
National Championships from the last 10 years
2003 Syracuse 81, Kansas 78 2002 Maryland 64, Indiana 52 2001 Duke 82, Arizona 72 2000 Michigan St. 89, Florida 76 1999 UConn 77, Duke 74 1998 Kentucky 78, Utah 69 1997 Arizona 84, Kentucky 79 (OT) 1996 Kentucky 76, Syracuse 67 1995 UCLA 89. Arkansas 78 1994 Arkansas 76, Duke 72
Duke (1) Kentucky (1)
Atlanta
Duke
UAB
Washington (8)
Texas (3)
UAB
UConn Syracuse (5)
Phoenix
Kentucky
Florida A&M (16)
Division I Men’s Bracket
Duke (1)
Duke Alabama State (16) Seton Hall (8)
Duke Seton Hall
U of Al.-Birmingham (9)
Arizona (9)
Providence (5)
Illinois (5)
Illinois
Pacific
Murray State (12)
Pacific (12)
UConn
Kansas
Illinois
Cincinnati (4)
Kansas (4)
Cincinnati
Kansas
UConn (2) Ill.-Chicago (13)
Championship Pick:
Matt Isam Sport s Repo rt er Oklahoma State has the best defensive scheme in the country.
Oklahoma state beats Texas
Kansas (4)
East Tennessee State (13)
St. Louis
Boston College (6)
A t lan ta
Boston College
Air Force (11)
Utah (11)
Texas
Georgia Tech Georgia Tech (3)
Texas (3)
Georgia Tech
Texas
Nevada
Xavier
Princeton (14)
Northern Iowa (14)
Xavier (7)
Michigan St. (7)
Louisville (10)
Nevada (10)
Nevada Gonzaga (2)
Gonzaga
San Antonio
Xavier
Mississippi State (2)
Miss. St.
April 5
Valparaiso (15)
St. Louis
North Carolina (6)
North Carolina
Monmouth (15)
Kansas Stanford (1)
St. Joseph’s (1)
Stanford
St. Joe’s
Georgia Tech (3)
Liberty (16)
Ok. St.
St. Joe’s
Texas Tech (8)
St. Joseph’s (1)
National Champion
UT-San Antonio (16)
Alabama Alabama (8)
Alabama
Texas Tech
Southern Illinois (9)
Charlotte (9)
E. Rutherford OK St.
Florida (5)
Syracuse (5)
Syracuse
Manhattan
Brigham Young(12)
Manhattan (12)
Oklahoma State (2)
Ok. St.
Syracuse
Wake Forest
Wake Forest (4)
Duke (1)
Maryland (4)
Maryland
Wake Forest Virginia Commonwealth (13)
Atlanta
Texas
Ph oenix
Wisconsin
Vanderbilt (6)
Vandy Western Michigan (11)
Richmond (11)
Texas (3)
Vandy
Pitt
Pittsburgh (3)
Texas
North Carolina State (3)
NC State
Pitt
Syracuse (5)
Phoenix
UT-El Paso (13)
East Rutherford
Wisconsin (6)
Central Florida (14)
UL-Lafayette (14) DePaul (7)
Memphis (7)
UConn
DePaul
Memphis
Dayton (10)
South Carolina (10)
UConn (2)
Check out the rest of the Staff’s Picks on Page 9
U of Connecticut (2)
UConn
OK State Eastern Washington (15)
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