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Once again, the first mention of a dynasty signaled its end. Figuring to become only the sixth university to repeat a national basketball championship, Patrick Ewing's Georgetown was about to be fitted beside Bill Russell's San Francisco and measured against Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's UCLA when destiny's Villanova happened along, singing a song, shooting 78.6% in the title game, missing one shot the second half. As the Nebraska football team seems to remember, being the best can be a lonely distinction next to beating the best, though last week's 66-64 final was more than just...
...proficient a team may be at rebounding loses some moment if there are no rebounds. Reasoning that they played passably well under the circumstances --shooting almost 55% themselves--the Georgetown Hoyas had no difficulty afterward standing and applauding the Wildcats, whom they defeated twice during the season. From the little, mussed coach, Rollie Massimino, to the small, smiling guard, Gary McLain, Villanova is a most appealing winner. Massimino said, "I've screamed at this group more than any other, not because they are such good players, but because they are such good kids. They could take...
That is a fine definition of a teacher, and suits Georgetown's John Thompson no less. "We know how to win basketball games," he said, "and we know how to lose them." Before the game, Thompson had observed, "There are 50,000 ways of educating people," though this one could hardly have occurred to him. Since two of the other three teams in the Final Four were twice-beaten Big East rivals, Georgetown's dominance was a matter of record as well as opinion. Declaring Memphis State the secular national champion, country Coach Dana Kirk quickly left the tournament...
Meanwhile, Georgetown was terrorizing St. John's, for the third straight time, 77-59. As wisps of point-shaving memories blow north from Louisiana, this has been a nostalgic season for college basketball in New York City. The local papers have clutched elfin Coach Lou Carnesecca adoringly to their breast, and more than one national organization has concluded that freckle- faced Guard Chris Mullin is the finest player in the country. He won the John Wooden player-of-the-year award, but it would probably be best if nobody asks UCLA's old coach his opinion. Of 148 sportswriters...
Villinova 66, Georgetown...