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Certainly, everyone in the country can find a team to root for. There always seem to be impregnable teams coming into tournament play that attract the fans that former Villanova (I refuse to extend diplomatic recognition to UNLV as a school) Coach Rollie Massimino has always called "Neers"--as in, "bandwagoneers." They can certainly find Arkansas or North Carolina to be attractive commodities coming into this year...
Ever since he had been an assistant coach at Villanova under his former high school coach, Rollie Massimino, Cormier had dreamed of coaching at Dartmouth...
Cormier was heavily influenced by his experiences under Massimino--Cormier was Massimino's assistant coach from 1980-1984 and was also one of his star players at Lexington (Mass.) High School...
...Season Inside, Feinstein takes the reader on a journey through the 1987-88 college basketball season--the year of Manning and Larry Brown, Kerr and the Arizona squad, and Rollie Massimino's return to the NCAA Tournament...
...cynically timed confession, McLain wrote in Sports Illustrated two weeks ago that he was a cocaine addict during the 1985 tournament, and had been allaying Massimino's suspicions with transparent lies. "I honestly believe nothing ever came of it not because he didn't have enough to go on but because he had so much." Before the semifinal game against Memphis State, McLain says he did a quarter-gram of coke in the bathroom of his hotel. The true attitude of the smiling backcourtman, the beautiful dreamer of all the glorious press dispatches, came down to this: "I just wanted...