Word: georgetown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Georgetown brings the N.C.A.A. basketball title to the East...
...first time in 30 years, the college basketball champion is a resident of the East, and a private school at that, Georgetown University of Washington, D.C. Whether the emphasis is on private, school or basketball, nobody does it better than Georgetown, where students cheer in Greek and Latin (Hoya saxa! What rocks!) under the banner HOYA PARANOIA...
...players' needs to worry about their biographers' convenience; also, college basketball cannot bear too much investigative reporting. Humor is strained more than truth is stretched when Las Vegas Coach Jerry Tarkanian jokes that he loves transfer students because "their cars are already paid for." At Boston College, Georgetown's conference companion and Jesuit colleague, a star player who flunked out of school last year was quietly re-enrolled in night classes and kept in the game. The stakes are considerable. For each member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's final four-Virginia, Kentucky, Houston...
...Georgetown graduate on hand in Seattle last week called the ultimate 84-75 victory over Houston a "demonstration of our superior intellect." There are better players hi the N.B.A., but it is the fans' ability to suspend reason that sets off the college game. Students and alumni genuinely imagine that they have something in common with the people enlisted to play basketball for them, holding onto the spirit of a time when everyone matriculated together and a few went out for the team. Cynicism is not unknown, only suppressed. In some places, a lot of things are suppressed...
...Georgetown 84, Houston...