ANALYSIS: PAC-10 WAS EARLY CASUALTY OF MARCH MADNESS.Byline: Jon Wilner Daily News Staff Writer Four teams, five games, and they're . . . gone! The last time the Pacific-10 didn't place a team in the Sweet 16 (1987), Walt Hazzard Walter Raphael Hazzard Jr. (born April 15 1942 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a former college, Olympic, and professional basketball player and college basketball coach, now retired. During his professional basketball career, Hazzard changed his name to Mahdi Abdul-Rahman. was coaching UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX . No one expected it, but perhaps we should have. After a sparkling four-year tournament run that included two national titles and 11 Sweet 16 appearances, the Pac-10 was due for some early exits. If you're searching for an explanation, a trend, a theory - don't. There isn't one. That's the beauty of March Madness March Madness may refer to:
Despite the discrepancy in seeds, No. 2 Stanford's loss to Gonzaga was a mild upset, at best. Stanford was injury-riddled and exhausted; Gonzaga was skilled, experienced and beautifully coached. The Bulldogs beat Washington and lost close games at Kansas, Purdue, Detroit and Texas Christian. They were playing a few hours from home, in Seattle, and their seed (10) wasn't commensurate with their credentials. In a show of goodwill, the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association selection committee dropped them to 10 so they could play close to home. (At their true seed, No. 8 or 9, they would have been shipped to Denver with No. 1 Connecticut.) Arizona's exit is not as easily explained, except the Wildcats hadn't had a first-round loss in four years, so Lute Olson Robert Luther "Lute" Olson (born September 22, 1934 in Mayville, North Dakota) is the current men's basketball head coach at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. He is one of the UA's highest-paid employees, though a substantial percentage of his salary is supplemented by was due. They also faced one of the nation's most underachieving teams, Oklahoma, whose seed masked its talent. It may have been a battle of the present and future Arizona coaches. Wildcats athletic director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic Jim Livengood hired Kelvin Sampson Kelvin Sampson (born October 5, 1955), a Lumbee Indian, is the men's basketball coach of the Indiana Hoosiers at Indiana University. He previously held the same position at Montana Tech (1981-85), Washington State University (1987-94) and University of Oklahoma (1994-2006). at Washington State and could do it again in Tucson when Olson retires. If Sampson does replace Olson, the league's coaches will rejoice. Arizona could do a lot better. And for the third time in four years, UCLA drew a first-round foe that loved to play slow - first Princeton, then Miami, then Detroit. Perhaps the selection committee is sending the Bruins a message: Learn to play a complete game, or depart early. First weekend fodder: North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. freshmen Jeff Capel The name Jeff Capel may refer to:
Arizona freshmen Richard Jefferson and Ruben Douglas were a combined 3 of 12 from the field in a first-round loss to Oklahoma. UCLA freshmen JaRon Rush and Jerome Moiso were a combined 4 of 16 from the field in a first-round loss to Detroit. Sweet 16 seeds, by region: East - 1, 6, 10, 12; Midwest - 1, 3, 10, 13; West - 1, 5, 6, 10; South - 1, 2, 3, 4. Best coaching job: Weber State's Ron Abegglen beat North Carolina and designed a defense that held UNC (Universal Naming Convention) A standard for identifying servers, printers and other resources in a network, which originated in the Unix community. A UNC path uses double slashes or backslashes to precede the name of the computer. 7-footer Brendan Haywood without a basket. Abegglen will not be retained next season, according to a prior arrangement with the school. Not so grand finale: In his final game, Glendora native and Louisville guard Cameron Murray was 1 of 5 and scored four points. It makes sense now: No surprise that Wisconsin lost to Southwest Missouri State in the first round. Coach Dick Bennett was 0-12 against the Bears during his tenure at Wisconsin-Green Bay. Bird of a feather: In his dominance and all-around skill, Miami of Ohio's Wally Szczerbiak evokes memories of another small-school Midwesterner, Larry Bird, who carried Indiana State to the Final Four 20 years ago. And finally: Kentucky-Kansas was the best game so far, but Kentucky-Duke in the Final Four will be the game of the tournament. |
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