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...define, though a current movie of that name picks at the synonyms of Indiana, basketball and Knight. The opening scene of rural roads, buckets and barns is faithful to Knight's picture of the place. Driving along, he likes to count the hoops. His best player, Guard Steve Alford of New Castle, learned to count on a scoreboard. Ever since Alford was a high school "Mr. Basketball," the Midwestern equivalent of a peerage, even his regimen on the foul line has been as famous in Indiana as the frost. (Touch your socks, your shorts; one dribble, two dribbles, three; shoot...
Midwest: The only explanation for the Midwest regional is that someone wants Indiana and pretty boy Steve Alford to make the Final Four--bad. Why else would the NCAA put the two unproven top teams, Temple and Depaul, in the same regional? The sometimes brilliant play of Nate Blackwell makes Temple a threat. DePaul and Dallas Comegys, however, could easily be upset by St. John's if Mark Jackson plays at his peak rather than repeating his horror show versus Providence...
...Harvard has a great tradition of a very great eminence in this field," Goldfarb says, referring to Rawls, Professor of Philosophy Robert Nozick, and Roderick Firth, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity," However, these gentlemen, with the exception of Mr. Nozick, are not getting any younger," Goldfarb adds. "There is great concern of maintaining this tradition in that subject...
...surprise heroes of the team were two dead-eye outside shooters. Chris Mullin, a senior at St. John's University in New York, contributed 20 points in the semifinal. Steve Alford, a sophomore on Knight's Indiana squad whose selection initially caused controversy, led the team with 18 points against France, and again with 17 against a West German team that gave the U.S. its closest thing to a scare, losing by only 78-67. Two better-known players, Ewing and 6-ft. 9-in. Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma, at first spent a lot of time...
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