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From: m113aw@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Ariel Mazzarelli)
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Subject: Re: NCAA Tournament Selection prediction
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Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 21:18:58 EST
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>One other thing REALLY bothers me about this posting, and other recent
>postings--was it just my imagination, or didn't the NIT become a PRESEASON
>tournament this year???  Didn't Duke (ugh, talk about schools you "hate")
>win it this year??  Isn't it going to continue as a preseason tournament??
>So, LET'S DROP THIS "THEY'LL MAKE THE NIT" GARBAGE!
>
>				Randy D. Smith	(919) 279-5312

I believe that the NIT is trying to get some prestige back
by organizing a pre-season tournament (re: no NCAAs to take
all the good teams) as well as a post-season tourney.

But what really ticks me off about these NCAA tournament predictions
is that everybody seems to be forgetting...


		******** THE CAL BEARS !!!!!! ********

A team that was down to USF by three points, with five seconds to go,
missed a FT and still won by one in regulation. The last time the Golden Bears
won as many as 20 games (yes, I think they'll sweep the Washington schools
this weekend), they finished 2nd in the Big One. The year before, they beat
Jerry West and the Big O in the Final Four. Ancient history, you say? Why,
in the evolutionary time scale, 26 years is no longer than the time span 
required to beat UCLA.

At any rate, I know there's an NIT because all the talk around here is
whether we play UCLA at Pauley or whether they come up here in the 1st 
round. 

Ariel Mazzarelli   
I wear loafers so that I don't have to
ask my roommate to tie my shoelaces
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