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...Clift, head sectionman for John Finley and an alumnus of North Carolina: "Kentucky and UCLA, and I'll go with Kentucky on momentum. Still, the best ball in the country is ACC--they just kill each other before the NCAAs, though. Come to think of it, Louisville's strong. They beat Maryland. Maybe I should go with them...
...encore, I'm going to stick with my go-ACC stance and pick the Carolina State to beat either Marquette or Kansas and win the NCAA championship. Oh yeah, they'll also beat the ten-time champ UCLA in the semis to get to the finals...
State rampaged undefeated through its regular season ACC schedule, dispatching both fourth-ranked Maryland and seventh-ranked North Carolina twice, and then took the Atlantic Coast Conference title in overtime over Maryland, 103-100, in the southern version of Russian roulette, otherwise known as the ACC post season tournament. State's only loss this year was in an uninspired game with the UCLA'ns that featured David Thompson, the best college player in America, playing his worst game of year...
...next time you see a column arguing that the southerners have a monopoly on basketball, remember that Philly's Big Five clubs know how to dribble too. And when St. Josephs or Penn knocks out whichever team the ACC will send into the NCAA's tournament, then the southerners will have to put an end to their emotionalistic defense of the "great ACC basketball trust...
...What ACC senior shot .607 from the field last year, second in the country only to Arkansas State's six foot nine John Belcher...