mlt@mb2c.UUCP (Mark L. Tompkins) (03/17/86)
Final from Sunday's NCAA second round game at Minneapolis: Iowa State 82, Michigan 79 For the second year in a row, Michigan loses to a team it should have beaten. Obviously the shot clock didn't help that much. The tournament unfolded for them exactly as last year - barely beating a patsy in the first round ( last year Farleigh Dickinson, this year Akron ), then losing in the second round. Does this mean that Iowa State will win the national championship? Probably not, but you never know... On a brighter note for us Michiganders, Michigan State showed they are a team to be reckoned with by trouncing Georgetown 80-68. State has a very tough test next, as they play #2 Kansas. If they can manage to knock off the Jayhawks, they are Final Four bound. ( Prediction: Kansas by 8 :-( ) Mark
kaufman@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (03/19/86)
> For the second year in a row, Michigan loses to a team it should have > beaten. Damn those Wolverines! First they outwin us Illini during the regular season, then they outchoke us :-) > On a brighter note for us Michiganders, Michigan State showed they are a > team to be reckoned with by trouncing Georgetown 80-68. State has a very > tough test next, as they play #2 Kansas. If they can manage to knock off > the Jayhawks, they are Final Four bound. ( Prediction: Kansas by 8 :-( ) MSU doesn't surprise me. They played well down the stretch, except for the Indiana game, and if you had told me only one Big 10 team would crack the Final 16, I would have given the Spartans serious consideration despite their schedule of initial games (maybe not despite, Georgetown didn't impress me that much this year.) It's too bad they draw Kansas now; whoever wins that may only be a Duke away from going all the way. Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman)