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Pastimes : 1998-1999 NCAA Men's College Basketball -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Street who wrote (359)	2/1/1999 2:38:00 AM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 571

Mr. Street: Your trip-down-memory-lane Indiana Big Dance factoids illustrate my point precisely. Instead of taking a hard look at teams and talent IN THE 1998-99 BASKETBALL SEASON, the people who decide which teams get into the Big Show in March and the sportswriters/coaches who vote on the top 25 all too often pencil in Kansas, Indiana, etc. without giving the matter much thought. Too often schools like Southwest Missouri, Xavier, Miami of Ohio, NC-Charlotte, Miami of Florida don't make it into the Big Show because the powers that be don't want to offend the prestigious Big 10 Conference or Gen. Knight. Poppycock. Lest we forget, the little Lutheran college in Valparaiso, Ind., advanced as far or farther in the Big Show last year than did the more celebrated in-state Big 10 teams based in West Lafayette and Bloomington. Re:"And make that 4-5, 17-7 overall." Congratulations on defeating the worst team in the Big 10 in double OT today. Re: "A Kentuckian? Tell your Brother/Dad I said "Heay ..." I don't think too many people yuk it up when you write stuff like that. Rather, I think such incestuous slander simply serves as a mirror on a troubled soul long tormented by what one Robert Knight has done to the IU basketball program -- when a win over Penn State is cause for celebration. For the record, I've lived in the Bluegrass State for 18.5 years and am proud of that fact. Yes, I'm proud to be an adopted son of the Bluegrass, and I'm proud that my son can say he was born in a state that gave the world Muhammad Ali, Pee-Wee Reese, Ashley Judd, Henry Clay, U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning, Wah-Wah Jones, Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, and Chuck Woolery of the "Dating Game"fame.