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Lowell: James A. Fowler...
...nice steamy title - In the Bedroom - but no particular sexual heat. Todd Field, its first-time feature director, seems never to have looked at, let alone made, a music video. This is a patient movie, carefully studying what happens to an unexciting middle-class couple, Matt and Ruth Fowler (Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek), when their good, gifted son Frank (Nick Stahl) is carelessly killed in a small Maine town...
...point to schools like Ball State, which earlier this year beat Kansas but didn't make the tournament, or Butler, a team that won 25 games while losing just five and was not invited. Gonzaga, meanwhile, was rated the number 6 team in the country by the sportwriters, but Fowler's committee said the Bulldogs were at best number 21. They ranked them 6th in their region, which set off a storm of complaints that the NCAA was once again trying to ensure the big-gun programs succeed...
...Fowler, who must have felt a twinge of satisfaction last night when Gonzaga lost to a lightly regarded squad from the U. of Wyoming, says there is nothing political about making up the brackets. The way he tells it, the month before releasing their picks, committee members hole up in a hotel like a sequestered jury and spend their days crunching numbers and watching tape. Any regional or conference loyalties are pushed aside, he insists, while the grueling process is underway...
...Fowler is the director of athletics at North Carolina State. He played basketball as an undergraduate at Vanderbilt, and has had several college coaching positions. His committee is never going to be able to satisfy everyone, but the proof is in the tournament. After one day of upsets and dramatic finishes, it looks like they have delivered...