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NCAA Tournament Cesspool

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Posted: Tuesday March 23, 1999 10:09 AM

 

Yes, it's that time of year again, when we offer to help you fill in your bracket to determine the single most annoying thing about March Madness -- not including, of course, people offering to help you fill in your bracket.

Gene Keady's hair 1 Keady's hair9       NCAA9 Players1
Denny Crum's clothes2 Keady's hair13   NCAA13 NCAA2
Bob Knight3 Bob Knight10 Keady's hair15
vs.
Duke
15
CBS10 CBS3
Pistol Pete4     CBS jingle4
Minnesota5 Minnesota11     Domes11 Office pools5
John Thompson6 Minnesota14 Duke14 Domes6
Pep bands7 Khalid El-Amin12 Duke16 Duke12 Game "shorts"7
Khalid El-Amin8       Duke8

1 Hair spray alone responsible for half of hole in ozone.

2 From his signature Pit Boss ensemble.

3 Hoosier Daddy (two wins in five years) hopelessly behind on slang and hoops.

4 Oklahoma State andro-cowboy mascot has a habit of firing blanks behind ears of overcaffeinated reporters.

5 Jan Gangelhoff, former academic counseling unit office manager, says she did course work for more than 20 basketball players, including writing papers.

6 As new Washington, D.C., sports radio talk-show host, call him the Hoya Annoya.

7 Many trapped in tragic Huey Lewis time warp.

8 In 10 years, with his bulbous body type, egomaniacal UConn guard has chance to become next Al Roker.

9 Part begins in armpit.

10 Self-important podium pounder who complains CBS's late-night starts have cruel effect on players is known for conducting 5 a.m. practices after some losses.

11 Gophers' nickname comes from familiar phrase among athletic tutoring staff: "Calvin has a chemistry test tomorrow. Can you gopher him?"

12 Fathered two children before the age of 20. O.K., this kid's ready for the NBA!

13 Subject of exhaustive Army Corps of Engineers study.

14 Apparently nobody suspected anything when players turned in excellent term papers on menstrual cycles, women in the workplace and effects of cocaine on pregnancy.

15 Imported beaver pelt on scalp in possible violation of Canadian fur ban treaty.

  1 Clearly not earning their free Pathfinders: Wisconsin's 32 points in first round was six fewer than Badgers football team scored in 1999 Rose Bowl, Detroit beat UCLA despite shooting 33%, New Mexico took more than nine minutes to score a field goal against UConn.

2 Loses in court more than Hamilton Burger, including last week's Prop 16 and $55 million restricted-pay-coaches defeats.

3 Constant shots of coaches exceeded in obnoxiousness only by constant shots of coaches' wives.

4 Annoying xylophone ditty trumpeting scores ticker could drive a man to murder.

5 Yes, I'd love to hear about your picks, if you'll listen to my many boil-lancing stories.

6 Three this year, not counting Dick Vitale.

7 Worldwide parachute shortage traced to Arkansas point guard.

8 Precious soap-opera character names wear thin. Oh, Shane, it's not your baby! It's Trajan's!

9 Scrooges won't pay parents' expenses to watch sons play in tournament, despite making millions off unpaid offspring.

10 Wally Szczerbiak's 43-point effort mere rumor to viewers.

11 Country shamed by Final Four held in baseball stadium.

12 Foisted Danny Ferry, Bobby Hurley, Christian Laettner on unsuspecting NBA.

13 Press conference moderators forced to say "student-athlete" 413 times per game. (Exception: Minnesota.)

14 Only school pretentious enough to film own timeout huddles to gauge "nuances [of players'] body language fear, concentration." Right. Like that's why they're good.

15 Easy to recruit and win it all when 21 of your first 35 games are televised nationally. Try it at Weber State.

16 Championship game: Duke law school produced Richard Nixon.

Issue date: March 22, 1999

 
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