Word: villanova
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Louisville 68, Villanova...
...Villanova, the best of the crop of mediocre Philadelphia teams, is struggling. They lost early last year, and won't make it past the round...
...team. But he is also known as a controversial figure whose lavish treatment of athletes sometimes mocked the values of amateur sports, and whose volatile personal behavior had caused more than one person to leave the Foxcatcher club. In August 1988, a problem-plagued wrestling program he funded at Villanova was shut down after just two years. In December 1988, a lawsuit (which was settled out of court) claimed Du Pont had made improper sexual advances to Villanova assistant coach Andre Metzger...
...underdog is not always pure. When Villanova beat George-town to win the 1986 NCAA basket-ball championship, it was perhaps the greatest upset in college basketball history. Georgetown was led by Patrick Ewing, and had only lost once that season (by one point to St. Johns), while Villanova barely made the Tournament...
Unfortunately, it was later revealed that many of those lovable Villanova players were involved in NCAA infractions, and more alarmingly, were involved with drugs--and not just marijuana. And worst of all, Villanova's mighty mite of a point guard, Gary Mclain, told this sordid tale in a shocking expose in Sports Illustrated. All of a sudden the under-dog got pretty unattractive...