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...college basketball, March is not the month of lions or lambs, but of sharks. For the ninth consecutive year, coach Jerry ("Tark the Shark") Tarkanian has led his University of Nevada at Las Vegas Runnin' Rebels squad into the National Collegiate Athletic Association men's basketball tournament. UNLV, which compiled a crushing 30-0 regular-season record, was the pretourney favorite to win its second-straight national championship...
...that attainment, if it happens, may be almost irrelevant. The major surprise was that UNLV could actually show up. For 17 years, Tarkanian has been involved with numerous NCAA investigations for rules violations that range from illegal recruiting to grade fixing in order to maintain the eligibility of his players. Many of the accusations have stuck, yet in one case Tarkanian fought the NCAA all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won. Last fall, in order to avoid punishing current players for recruiting violations committed by UNLV in the 1970s, the NCAA lifted a ban that prohibited...
...most controversial figures. The chief reason why he continues to appear in the NCAA knockout event is also the focus of much of the controversy: his 30-year-old coaching system, built on finding and nurturing players that other schools have passed up. This year eight of 14 UNLV players, including All-American forward Larry Johnson, came to UNLV from junior colleges or as transfers. Once on the Rebels team, they are welded into a high-speed, aggressive machine...
...through the league. Princeton, which moved up to number 21 in this week's Associated Press college basketball top 25, has the third-best overall record (20-2) of those teams ranked, and the second-longest winning streak (12) in the nation, second only to the number-one ranked UNLV Runnin' Rebels...
While Princeton has garnered national media attention, national rankings (23), and national television appearances (a loss to UNLV), Tigers' assistant coach Bill Carmody says the Tigers are not overlooking Harvard...