Word: ucla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...encore, I'm going to stick with my go-ACC stance and pick the Carolina State to beat either Marquette or Kansas and win the NCAA championship. Oh yeah, they'll also beat the ten-time champ UCLA in the semis to get to the finals...
...Maryland and seventh-ranked North Carolina twice, and then took the Atlantic Coast Conference title in overtime over Maryland, 103-100, in the southern version of Russian roulette, otherwise known as the ACC post season tournament. State's only loss this year was in an uninspired game with the UCLA'ns that featured David Thompson, the best college player in America, playing his worst game of year...
...great, 7 ft., 4 in. center and the shortest is a ball-hawking guard in Monty Towe, all of 5 ft., 51/2 in. With Thompson as the middle man around this odd couple, State has won all but one game in two years, a better record than the UCLA Bruins...
...turned in some of the most impressive games played by a collegiate star including last year's NCAA finals when he dropped in 21 of 22 shots from all over the field and a couple from what appeared to be several rows up in the stands to lead the UCLA'ns to the championship over upstart Memphis State. But this year, in what is supposed-to-be-wonder-year of the Bruins, Walton and All-American teammate Keith Wilkes looked at times as if they were playing with four left hands...
Pacific-8 Basketball. UCLA and USC will battle it out beneath the boards. The Bruins have not been the same since the Fighting Irish of Norte Dame showed them the power and the glory of the Christian way. Hopefully, they've converted by now. Ch. 8, 11:30 p.m. Live...