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...motivated to lose to anyone, especially the Soviets." Coach Pat Head Summitt agreed: "We are at least 15 points better than when we last played them." The U.S. men have not met the Soviets in the Olympics since the controversial 51-50 U.S. defeat in 1972, a delayed-buzzer game so bitterly disputed that to this day not one of the U.S. team members has claimed his silver medal. Said the victorious Knight: "We would beat the Soviets. They don't know how to play defense...
...depleted ranks on the East Coast did no such thing. They poured into downtown Georgetown and stopped traffic on M. St, their equivalent of Mass Ave., they banged kitchen utensils for a full five minutes after the final buzzer, they set off fireworks, and they decorated many of the campus frees with toilet paper and other paper products...
Rolando Lamb sank a 20-foot jump shot at the buzzer to lift Virginia Commonwealth to a 70-69 victory over Northeastern in the first round of the East Regional of the NCAA basketball tournament last night at East Rutherford...
That fact brought to a close the season that had apparently ended with the final buzzer in Harvard's 88-77 win over Columbia more than a week ago. But a campaign led by Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin to earn his squad its first-ever NIT bid left a flicker of hope in Cambridge that a season reprieve...
...Harvard managed to elude that ominous and foreboding aura of defeat, and, when the final buzzer sounded, it proceeded to indulge in its most riotous victory celebration in years...