3/20/97, Issue # 7.3.1 "Give ya a Dollar for overtime"

    Four teams had double-digit leads in the second half and three went into overtime.  Of the three, two still held on to win.  But it took overtime pay of one Dollar to accomplish a successful comeback of 16 points by UCLA.

    Cameron Dollar went coast-to-coast, a la Tyus Edney in 1995, to put #2 UCLA into the Elite Eight and cap off a wild day.  An amazing sequence of events capped of the overtime game:  # 6 Iowa State misses a shot and UCLA rebounds- but two hold on to the ball and the ref calls traveling; the inbound play is an alley-oop and Iowa St. leads by one; the quick inbound is taken by Dollar who goes the distance, throws a high bank off the glass to put UCLA up by one with 1.9 seconds left; Iowa St. forgets to count to five and doesn't inbound the ball in time (actually, the time out was called too late) giving UCLA back the ball; then UCLA almost repeats Iowa St.'s mistake, barely inbounding the ball in time to run out the clock.

    The other game in the Midwest Regional also went to double overtime with #1 Minnesota barely overcoming a gutsy #4 Clemson team.  #2 Utah blew a lead but went on to beat #6 Stanford, also in overtime.  You might have thought Princeton was playing, as the score was just 6-2 Utah 9:30 into

the game.  In fact, the game was totally ugly at the beginning.  It seemed like the rim was smaller or something.  Utah's win combined with Clemson's loss eliminated SHARKBABY, THE MIGHTY MOBELFAKTA, and LOCBOY. Also, THE FABONE and DUKE FAN were denied a chance of first place.

    #1 Kentucky took care of #4 St. Joseph's easily.  This bumbled DUKE FAN a notch down to no better than third.  UCLA's win eliminated K-DOGG, bringing the total to eight entries eliminated from prize money. BAD ASS I can't finish higher than third despite being in third place with 87 points.  FLYING ELVI and DUKE can't finish first.  JAYBIAN II, who is trying to win back-to-back HWCI NCAA Pool Championships, still leads with 95 points, four points more than BIX PIX, the 1995 HWCI NCAA Pool Champion.  Just eight entries still have a chance to win it all.  COWGIRL IN LOVE, tied with THE FABONE for 17th with 75 points, still has a chance to win it all.  BIX PIX, MAX, and KARL CHILDERS all went 4-0 for the day, tying a record.  KARL, who has occupied the bottom for almost all of the  tournament, is last no more.  BUCKEYE MIKE now takes over with 70 points.

FOR INFO:   http://www.themall.net/~hwci/ncaa

Status  Nickname (Name)

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3       BAD ASS I (alvin kim 1)

E       BUCKEYE MIKE (mike bernaldo)

2       DUKE (dennis kim 2)

3       DUKE FAN (duke fan)

E       EZRA (donald goodwin)

2       THE FABONE (scott m tamashiro)

2       THE FLYING ELVI (brian selander)

E       KARL CHILDERS (greg hicks)

E       K-DOGG (kevin tamashiro)

2       LENNY (dennis kim 1)

E       LOCBOY (jeremy "jay" santiago)

E       THE MIGHTY MOBELFAKTA (david feng)

E       RHODES (tuan huang 2)

E       SHARKBABY (mark catley)

        E-Eliminated      2-Can't finish higher than 2nd

                                   3-Can't finish higher than 3rd

    Best record/most pts on Thu (Rnd 3):              4-0 3 tied (tied with 14 others)

    Worst record/least pts on Thu (Rnd 3):             1-3 4 tied (tied LOSER WHO..., `95)

* Leader after FIRST ROUND (64):           52 BAD ASS I, DUKE

* Winner of SECOND ROUND (48):         33 JAYBIAN II

    Overall (112):                                            83 JAYBIAN II

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Both #1's and #2's survive in the bottom bracket...

Scott HW