March: The real month of Nirvana Kudos to the NCAA men's basketball selection committee for its outlining of March Madness. Just when you thought it could not be anymore wide open and strange than last year when Michigan State claimed the title, the tournament leaves avid fans wondering what in the world to do. However, for the most part, the idea of having entertaining games has been achieved as there are now 12 teams remain ing. The opening round included upsets by teams that many people are not familiar with. It is hard to say you are a college basketball fan if you cannot name the team mascot for your favorite schools. However, fans get a little bit of leeway for teams such as Utah State and Kent State. After all, the Kent State Golden Tornadoes hav e been absent from the tournament for many years. However, the games began living up to the title of madness right from the start, as Ohio State and Utah State went into overtime in the first publicly SCOREBOARD. : |f ’ . ’ > ... , y'^'* BEHREND SPORTS MEN’S BASEBALL School Frostburg St Pilt-Bradford Penn State Altoona Penn State Behrend La Roche Pitt-Greensburg MEN’S TENNIS Frostburg St. Penn State Behrend Pitt-Greensburg Lake Erie Penn State Altoona Behrend 5 Pitt-Greensburg 4 Singles Klein (G) def. Carlson (B) Cooper (B) def. Germock (G) Knauff (G) def. Brendle (B) Sulak (B) def. McNamara (G) Chaudry (B) def. Janicki (G) Saska (G) def. Weisberg (B) Carlson / Cooper (B) def. Germock / McNamara (G) Klein / Knauff (G) def. Brendle / Chaudry (B) Weisberg / Enriquez (B) def. Jaricki / Mehorta (G) Caught in the Grasp „ . . number one seeds advanced. In the olllllli nex t two weeks more surprises are sure C.R. Overall 7-4 5-2 5-4-1 5-5 3-3-1 1-5 televised game of the tournament. Some perennial powerhouses survived into the round of 16 and all the to come it is the goal of the selection committee to get fans to watch every game that is humanly possible on CBS so that money pours in and hearts continue to race throughout the entire month of March and into the first couple days of April. Take a look at the bracket that played recently in Philadelphia. It was initially set up so that Duke and Kentucky would collide to see who goes onto the Final Four in Minneapolis. The circumstances in the East bracket are almost the same as in 1992 when Christian Laettner hit a turnaround jumper as time expired for Duke, in Philadelphia against Kentucky. That 1992 showdown may have been the greatest game in tournament history and featured the number one seed, Blue Devils against the number two seed Wildcats. This year, they are the same seeds in the tournament, with many players who are assured to go on to play in the NBA. Shane Battier, Jason Williams, and Tashon Prince look to be on the correct path to play basketball for a living. College fans could not help but see the very dear comparisons. In the West, the selection committee set up what would be a second round match up between Lefty Driesel and his former team of Maryland. The separation for the two was not pretty as Driesel coached for many years WOMEN’S SOFTBALL School La Roche Penn State Behrend Pitt-Greensburg Penn State Altoona Frostburg St. Lake Erie Pitt-Bradford WOMEN’S WATER POLO Behrend 2 California State Hayward 19 Goals for Behrend were scored by Betsy Voigt and Mary Good NOTICE: ALL BEHREND BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL GAMES WERE CANCELLED LAST WEEK DUE TO POOR FIELD CONDITIONS with the Terrapins. The press conferences were very lively in the two-day preparation for the game. Another example of the excitement that was created just by looking at the bracket is the frailty of the number one seeds. Illinois and Michigan State just recently lost to Big Ten foes, Indiana and Penn State respectively. Stanford ruled the number one slot in the major polls for the majority of the season but fell late in the season to Pac-10 rival Arizona, which has been on one of the nation’s biggest hot streaks. All of this excitement creates a problem for those partaking in any friendly competition in picking the brackets. Which upsets do you pick? Who will make it the whole way? This can take days and the watching of many pre tournament shows to fill out the brackets just to claim you are the champion until next March comes around. Still this usually will not lead to a foolproof way of choosing the correct teams. Sometimes it is even those that know little about the game that have the early lead going into the round of 16. Never fear everyone can recover as the later rounds progress. Unfortunately, it seems as those who claim to be experts have stuck with one of three teams-Duke, Maryland, or Arizona. That does not help your chances in any poll. What most polls will come down to is which team the “experts” have their team playing in the championship game. This is where the upsets come in handy or screw over your chances to win. Entering the round of 16, two number C.R. Overall College Basketball Men’s N' Sweet Sixteen (24-9) (23-9) (31-4) (23-8) 2 Kentucky 6 USC 1 Duke 4 UCLA South I Michigan 5t.(26-4) 12Gonzaga (26-6) 7 Penn State (21-11) II Temple (23-12) Midwest 2 Arizona (25-7) 3 Mississippi (27-7) 1 Illinois (26-7) 4 Kansas (26-6) West 10 G-Town 3 Maryland 1 Stanford 5 Cincinnati (25-7) (23-10) (30-2) (25-9) NCA. Women’: Sweet Sixteen Missouri(22-9) La. Tech(3o-4) UConn(3o-2) N.C. State(22-10) Mideast Tennessee(3l -2) Xavier(3o-2) Texas Tech(2s-6) Purdue(2B-6) Midwest Notre Dame(3o-2) Utah(2B-3) lowa 5t.(27-5) Vanderbilt(23-9) Duke(3o-3) S.W. Miss. St(27-5) Oklahoma(2B-5) Washington(2l-9) two seeds were knocked out as were Boston College and Florida, a couple favorites that were number three seeds. So how can we judge whether or not the selection committee did a good job? There are several ways. One is that the brackets generate excitement before any of the games even tip off. Another is that potential second round match-ups spark up wonderful press conferences. Perhaps the biggest item that makes a selection good is that more people are complaining than the year before about their picks and the upsets that occurred. Of course there are other items to look at, like the NIT showing or not showing that another team was more deserving. However, this year that did not happen. Any way you slice it the madness has begun and has caused quite a stir NATIONAL Eastern Conference W L T OL 39 17 12 3 39 21 10 2 36 26 8 2 Rangers 27 38 5 1 Islanders 19 44 6 3 Northeast Atlantic Devils Phil. Pitt. Ottawa 41 20 8 3 Buffalo 39 26 5 1 Toronto 33 24 115 Boston 29 28 7 7 Montreal 24 38 6 4 Southeast Wash. 37 23 10 2 Carolina 32 28 8 3 Florida 18 35 11 9 Tampa 22 40 6 4 Atlanta 20 38 12 2 Eastern Conference Atlantic 76’ers Knicks Miami Orlando Boston Nets Wizards Central Bucks Charlotte Toronto Indiana Detroit Cleveland Atlanta Chicago STEREO SYSTEM FOR SALE like-new Sharp stereo system with 5-disc changer, dual cassette, and AM/FM radio $2OO - or best offer email:bdjl23@psu.edu for more CHRISTOPHER A. RECORD/CHARLOTTE OBSERVER NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Carolina's Brendan Haywood, with ball, collides with teammate Julis Peppers as Penn State's Titus Ivory, left, and Tyler Smith add defensive pressure in their NCAA Tournament game in New Orleans, Louisiana on Sunday. Penn State upset UNC 82-74. ♦ 'H ? 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