Word: ncaas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, I'd like to present my belated picks in the NCAA basketball championships. The finals will pit North Carolina against Marquette, with the atter emerging as the eventual winner. I had been promising to present my picks for a while, and I've finally been cornered into it. Also, I'll have to go with Wisconsin over Michigan in the NCAA hockey playoffs and the Boston Celtics over the Philadelphia 76ers in the quarterfinals for the NBA playoffs...
...Crimson stickmen travel to Ithaca today to face the top-ranked Cornell laxmen. Harvard has won its last two games while the home team has taken twenty straight, including last Spring's NCAA championship game...
...Cornell has gone 45-1 in the Ivy League, winning six of the last seven titles. The latest great to move on is National Player of the Year Mike French (65-40-105), who led the nation in scoring each of his three years at Cornell, setting a new NCAA record each time. Also picking up a sheepskin was the less heralded but equally deadly Jon Levine (48-16-64), along with All-American midfielder Bill Marino...
PRINCETON: According to most observers, Scalise included, the Tigers have had plenty of talent the last few years, but have lacked the discipline to win big. That shortcoming may have been rectified with the arrival of a new coach, Mike Hanna, who helped Navy to five straight NCAA tournament berths as an assistant...
BROWN: In 1976, Brown lost the New England Championship to UMass, 15-10, and the Ivy League title to Cornell, 10-5, but won all but one of the rest of its games to make the NCAA tourney...