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BRUINS TAKE A MOMENT TO RECALL '93 LOSS ON EVE OF LATEST GAME VS. WOLVERINES.


Byline: Karen Crouse

Steve Lavin Steve Lavin (born September 4,1964), a San Francisco, California native is a former college basketball coach and current ABC and ESPN TV analyst. As UCLA head basketball coach from 1996-2003, Lavin compiled a record of 145-78.  was making slave wages as a gofer (language) Gofer - A lazy functional language designed by Mark Jones <mpj@cs.nott.ac.uk> at the Programming Research Group, Oxford, UK in 1991. It is very similar to Haskell 1.2.  for Jim Harrick when the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles
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UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX
 and Michigan basketball teams last met. But he remembers the 1993 NCAA Tournament game between the two teams in Tucson as vividly as he does Friday's first-round win over Miami.

The Bruins and Wolverines crossed paths in the second round, just as they will today at the Georgia Dome. As was the case five years ago, Michigan comes into this game as the prohibitive favorite. The Bruins, behind the sizzling siz·zle  
intr.v. siz·zled, siz·zling, siz·zles
1. To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat.

2. To seethe with anger or indignation.

3.
 perimeter shooting of Ed O'Bannon, blew a wonderful chance to win the game in regulation when point-guard Tyus Edney stole the ball, drove the length of the court, passed up an open shot to try to feed O'Bannon for an even easier basket and the ball was tipped.

UCLA went on to fall in overtime 86-84 to a team that would wind up in the title game against 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


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Chris Webber, Ray Jackson, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King and Co. lost to the Tar Heels 77-71. Minus Webber, the Wolverines made it to the Mideast Regional Final in Dallas the following year before losing to eventual champion Arkansas. This is the first year since then that they have advanced past the first round.

Back in L.A., a junior in high school watched the 1993 game with more than a modicum mod·i·cum  
n. pl. mod·i·cums or mod·i·ca
A small, moderate, or token amount: "England still expects a modicum of eccentricity in its artists" Ian Jack.
 of interest.

``I remember Ed was on a tear. He scored 18 in 11 minutes and I really thought we would win,'' said UCLA senior Kris Johnson, who couldn't wait to experience a game like that for himself.

``You see the atmosphere. You imagine yourself in that game, with so much at stake,'' Johnson said. ``That's the position we're all in right now.''
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Title Annotation:SPORTS
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Mar 15, 1998
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