March 13, 2000
Gentlemen, start your
Madness
 Tis
the season of furrowed brows, laboring over pairings, trying to summon
the boldness to take that 12 seed over the 5, guessing which number one
seed (or two) will be watching the action in Indy with the rest of us.
We're diving into the office pools at WBBL.com, cramming on bracketology.
It behooves you to join us, as a satellite TV package and tickets to the
new Comerica Park await the winners of the WBBL Final Four Challenge. To
enter, send us your winners and championship game score over the Web, or
print out the brackets and fax them to WBBL at (616) 451-3299 with
your name and phone number, or obtain and enter your brackets at eight
locations around the area. Read more at our Final
Four page. It's the most wonderful time of the year for sports fans,
and we're all over it at WBBL.com!
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The
Big Dance doesn't start for a few days yet, but the upsets have. Arkansas
completed its unlikely run through the SEC tournament by toppling Auburn
for the title. This after Ohio State, Cincinnati, Stanford, and Syracus
were all tripped up in league postseason play ... No such trouble for Michigan
State and Duke, which stormed through their league tourneys to seal number
one seeds .. In Division III, meanwhile, the Big Dance is down to just
two more numbers. The Calvin women fell in double overtime in the Sweet
16 to heavily favored Baldwin-Wallace, while the men pounded McMurry to
earn a Final Four berth.
The Coin Toss
By Nathan Bierma
Buckeye
fans were inconsolable after Ohio State fell to a 3 seed, but they should
sleep better than Spartan fans these next few days. While MSU, seeded first,
will have an arduous road that may include some combination of Kentucky,
Syracuse, Maryland, UCLA, Auburn, and Iowa State, the Buckeyes' chief concerns
on the way to Indy are wounded Cincinnati and vulnerable Stanford. Last
time around they shocked the world by making the Final Four. This year
it will be less of a surprise.
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E-mail of the Day
Kenyon
Martin's injury is a tragedy for Cincinatti, but it has blown the tournament
wide open. Before this
incident I thought MSU
had a very good chance of getting the #2 seed in Cincinatti's region. i
thought
Cincinatti was the one
team who could definitely beat MSU. I don't think there can be any clear
favorite
now. I think there are
10-15 teams that have a shot.
MC
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March Madness Tour:
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on Friday at Vitales. Deliver your bracket entry in person at BW-3 for
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