Word: houston
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...Houston, Louisville, North Carolina State and Georgia went into the Pit on a Saturday afternoon for the semifinals of the 48-team tournament, No. 1 Houston and No. 2 Louisville presumably to play for a national championship, N.C. State and Georgia apparently to try on each other's glass slipper. If the ball cannot be kicked through a goal post, the game is not for Georgia. N.C. State, while a basketball school sure enough, lost ten games this year, five times as many as Houston, more than any eventual champion in history. State's 67-60 success against...
Gracing the Final Four three of the past four 1 years, Louisville has set a standard in college basketball recently, and it is not enough to say Houston raised the standard with a 21-1 second-half rampage that transformed the exercise into a 94-81 exhibition of stunt flying. "Kinda awesome," murmured Louisville Coach Denny Crum, whose players had never seen anything like it. "Not in a real game," said Scooter McCray...
...Thirteen Houston dunks rattled the sport, several deserving not just points but marks. "Some sixes, some sevens," judged Jim Valvano, N.C. State's streety New York coach. "Drexler had a ten-plus." Clyde Drexler, a 6-ft. 7-in. forward, is fitted with Elgin Baylor's old gyroscope. For Houston's jumping fraternity, call letters Phi Slamma Jamma, arrogance was unavoidable. Forward Benny Anders described the method of the Cougars' 26th straight victory: "Take it to the rack, and stick it on them...
...least overbearing, most overwhelming man in the tournament (not to mention the most unlikely participant in the sport) was 7-ft. Akeem ("the Dream") Olajuwon, 20, a converted soccer goalie discovered in Lagos, Nigeria, by a U.S. State Department worker acquainted with Houston Coach Guy Lewis. Olajuwon can run like Alberto Juantorena, the Cuban Olympian, and is a precocious protege of former Houston Rockets Center Moses Malone, now with Philadelphia. "What is the most important thing Moses has taught you?" Olajuwon was asked. "Don't sign anything," he answered...
...days, Houston was praised like no team since U.C.L.A. "To be able to play on the last day of the season" was all Valvano could wish. But he said: "The dream continues." It was founded on a pair of senior guards who look like bank guards, Shooter Dereck Whittenburg and Playmaker Sidney Lowe. "Sidney," according to Whittenburg, "was the oldest-looking guy in the history of junior high." They go back that far. "At times now it's like telepathy," said Lowe...