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...openers, there is nationally ranked Clemson (as in Clemson from the Atlantic Coast Conference, which is to collegiate basketball what Harvard is to rowing) and Syracuse (a finalist in the NCAAs last March) in this weekend's Tip-Off Tournament in South Carolina. Then there are those giants from Boston College, an angry UMass team, and four combined contests with Princeton (last year's NIT champs) and Penn, which plays Top Twenty basketball while residing in the Ivy League...
...Brian Banks-less Harvard basketball squad will tip-off against the Cincinnati Bearcats in tonight's opening round of the Volunteer Classic in Knoxville, Tennessee. Host Tennessee tangles with Navy in the other first round contest, with the winners meeting in tomorrow night's finals...
...Ignorance: See No Evil, See No Good, See Nothing. By once again posing that time-eroded question--who lost China?--Kubek has oversimplified the true picture and, in the McCarthyite manner, painted portraits, portraits of heroes and villains, portraits in which all (and this, of course, is the tip-off) the subjects are Americans. Somehow hundreds of millions of Chinese are forgotten...
...That is the tip-off and right then you started to move...
...Bruins fell behind, 10-2, after the tip-off, as the Crimson opened in a zone defense designed to block Phil Brown, the league's leading leaper, off the boards...