sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman) (11/26/85)
First a little more on Canadian schools than in dwarf's article: before the Naismith tournament, the top 5 in Canada were 1) Victoria (Knee-jerk reaction by the voting committee; they've been Cdn champs for 6 yrs) 2) Waterloo (Would have been #1 but not playing together until just last weekend) 3) Concordia (They cheat.) 4) Calgary (Too far out west) 5) St. Francis Xavier (Too hard to spell) Anyway, this weekend Waterloo is participating in one of the strangest tournaments I've seen in a while, at the University of Toronto. Two Canadian schools (Waterloo and Toronto) and two American schools (Stanford and American [Washington, DC]). The two Canadians play the two Americans once each (4 games in all); a country gets a point for winning a half. I think the winning country gets the Northwest Passage. I'll have a hard time cheering for the Toronto Blues but I guess I have to. Can anybody provide any information about either Stanford or American? Anything at all? Our team played the University of Buffalo a couple of weeks ago and right up until game time we weren't sure if it was going to be UB or Buff State. (Oh yeah, we lost, but we were playing without our 7'0" center and his 6'8" backup.) In case anybody at Stanford or American cares, the Waterloo Warriors are perenially one of the top Canadian teams, which probably puts them at the level of a top Division II school or a reasonably good division I team - but this is hard to evaluate with the lack of competition between the countries. Maybe we'll see this weekend. Note: The Canadian team won the gold medal at the World University Games of 1983. And don't tell me that the USA sent less than its best team, that's *Our* excuse for international hockey championships. Steve "scoop" Hayman Alleged Basketball Reporter The Imprint - University of Waterloo