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Coached by defensive wizard Bobby Knight. Indiana has four starters returning from last year's 17-8 NIT team. However one of these starters, senior guard Bootare White has lost his job. White has been replaced by freshman phenom Quinn Buckner...
...Crimson was side racked into a nit-picking discussion by Dean Kilbridge about one job I held 26 years ago at Skidmore. Owings and Merull. In the meantime it was unequivocably established that I worked there--something that the sophisticated research techniques of Dean Kilbridge at the GSD apparently were incapable of establishing. But for The Crimson to be unable to check out a simple fact is a sad comment on its journalistic abilities...
...Last year a North Carolina team that won the League title over a 14 game season lost it to South Carolina in a three game knockout tournament. Instead of going to the NCAA playoffs, where the other regular-season conference champions were, the Tarheels had to settle for the NIT at New York, which they won easily...
...Maryland is so talented and deep that it does not appear to need him--at least not yet. Despite what Kirkpatrick says. Maryland should have a successful season, and should be selected for the NIT tournament, just on its record, even if it finishes third or worse in the ACC. And the reason, behind all the charlatanerie and press releases, is Driesell, and his recruiting genius, Ravelling. Whether Driesell is a good technical coach is open to debate. His 176-65 record during 12 seasons at Davidson was well above average, but not in the same league with that...
Michigan becomes the first Big Ten conference team to accept an NIT invitation. The conference has recently changed its rules to allow a team other than the champion to play in the tournament...