2000 HWCI NCAA Pool Update

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Friday, March 17, 2000                         http://www.HWCI.com/ncaa
Issue # 3.1.2 "High seeds roll on..."		 

                     2000 HWCI NCAA TOURNAMENT POOL
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              YAWN... FOURTEEN MORE FAVORITES ADVANCE
         Players continue to amass points and set records

     LA MIRADA/ROSEMEAD, CA (smt)-  #11E-Pepperdine rolled over
#6E-Indiana for just the third lower seeded victory in this tourney.
Last year 12 lower-seeded teams won.  Although this year's bunch have 
put up some good fights, they have mostly come up empty.  This was the 
first time in 12 years a #12 seed didn't win a First Round game 
(#12MW-St. Bonaventure and #12E-Bulter came oh, so close).

     #10E-Seton Hall blew a 10-point lead (57-47) and needed overtime 
to send #7E-Oregon packing thanks to Shaheen Holloway's end-to-end layup
(reminiscent of Tyus Edney's play for UCLA in 1995).  #5E-Florida
rallied from a 6-point deficit, then needed two LaVall Jordan missed 
free throws and a buzzer-beating basket in overtime to hold off 
#12E-Butler.  #4S-Tennessee fought off a determined #13-Louis.-Lafayette 
team.  #4E-Illinois and #5-UConn held off their opponents while 
#2E-Temple, #7S-Tulsa, and #2S-Cincy routed theirs.

     How do you blow a 6-pt lead in overtime when you have the ball?
You step out of bounds.  #8E-Kansas scored the last 10 points in
overtime to stun #9E-DePaul.  All the other games were pretty much
blowouts as #1E-Duke, #3E-Oklahoma St., #1S-Stanford, #8S-North
Carolina, #6S-Miami(OH), and #3S-Ohio St. cruised to victories.

     Kansas' OT win gave MONEY (1st, 60) his 27th victory, a 
HWCI-record for the 1st Round.  Indiana foiled MONEY's perfect day
and shares the lead with MORALES' MOUNDS (1st, 60).  BINGO41 (5th, 56)
also went 15-1 for the day.  The 15-1 day ties a record.  26-6 was the
1st Round record but 25 people had at least 26 victories in this
easy First Round.  On the flip side, MAX POWER (35th, 40) and 
BETHEON (35th, 40) both went 9-7 for the day to continue their 
hold on last place by four points.  Fourteen (of 36) picked Pepperdine 
and sixteen picked Kansas and Seton Hall to advance.  PATTO (12th, 54)
had Florida winning it all and had to endure the buzzer-beater.  
Everyone's champion is still intact and just three have had at least
one of their Final Four teams eliminated (SLINKY DUDE (33rd, 46) with 
two).

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Easy pickings (for some)...
Scott HW