Top seeds dominate Final Four
There have been almost -t .out)
basketball games played this
season by Division 1 teams
There an* three to go, and fans of
the sport couldn't have asked for
much more.
All four teams left in the
NCAA tournament have been
ranked No 1 at some point this
season. Three of the Final Four
started in the tn-team field as a
top seed, one more than has ever
made it that far before
Kansas-North Carolina and
Kentucky Mic higan
What a way to end a season.
What a Final Four.
There'll he a week of:
—Kansas, the only non-No 1
seed left, claiming no one
respects it and everyone picks
against it.
—North Carolina coat h Dean
Smith evading questions about
reaching the Final Four more
than any man but John Wooden,
but having come home with the
nets c ut down just once.
—Kentucky fans reminding
everyone how easily the Wild
cats marched through the
regional one year after the most
crushing defeat of all.
—Michigan explaining how
the object is to win games by
any margin and that the Wolver
ines really don't care if anyone
likes them or not.
The first semifinal game Sat
urday night at the1 Superdome —
Kansas vs North Carolina — is a
rematch of the first game of the'
tool Final Four, the one Smith
wasn't around to see as he was
ejec ted after being hit with his
second technical foul. It made
for an awkward postgame nows
confereiu e1 onsidenng Smith's
Tar Metis had iust been beaten
by a Kansas team coached by his
longtime assistant Roy Williams
Williams certainly isn’t in
awe of anyone standing in front
of tin* other bench ns shown bv
Kansas' Midwest Regional victo
ry over top ranked Indiana That
win gave Williams .) 1-0 rei ord
against Hob Knight, and he
became the firs! coat h outside
the Big Ten to beat Knight twii e
til the same season
The javhawks are riding an
attitude of lieing overlooked into
New Orleans Listen to guard
Rex Walters after the Indiana
game:
"Lost night I was watching
LSPN and the man picked ns to
lose and he was wrong again It
feels good. It feels real good." he
said. "We iust try and prove
them wrong A lot of people
have been picking against us,
and a lot of people have been
wrong."
Few picked against North Car
olina in the Last, and the Tar
Heels had to go five extra min
utes to heat Cincinnati and gel
Smith Ins ninth trip to the Final
Four His only national champi
onship came in New Orleans
when then freshman Michael
jordon hit his famous jumper
from thu lefl side to lieat Oeorge
town and I’atrii k Fwing
- We won a tournament this
weekend, and we ll go down
there and trv to win another
one," Smith said.
North Carolina's size and
depth wore down Cincinnati.
but Kansas has enough of both
to moke this a close gam*1
t )** s j> i i *• Walters' remarks.
Kansas should beat the Tar
Hoots again
Kentucky lias won its four
NCAA tournament games by an
average of it points, and the
Wildcats have done it inside
and outside The ,'t-point barrage
has fort ed tennis to try and cov •
er the post people one-on-one.
and i oat h Kick Pilino's system
has taken advantage throughout.
Pilino coached Providence to
the 1987 Final Four. Ills Kon
lucky team last season came
within a miracle buzzer-beater
by Duke's Christian laettner of
getting there With only lamal
Mash horn tia< k from last year's
starting five. Pilino has done an
impressive job in getting the
Wildcats track to the Final Four
for the first time since 1984
"We were too young, too inev
perient ed." point guard Travis
Ford said of presoasou ex pet ta
tions It feels great because it
was a team effort tile whole sea
son."
And Mashhurn isn't getting
caught up in how impressive the
wins were
"l! doesn't matter about the
margin of victory You t ail win
bv two points It doesn't matter
as long as you get the W," he
vi id
Now the Wildcats gel Mu hi
gan. the only team back from
last year’s Final Four
The Wolverines were known
as the Fab f ive when they lost to
Duke by ~0 in last year's title
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