12B
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Tourney easy to call: It’s Georgetown
Continued From 9B
field is a step in the right
direction.
Leaving Fresno State out of
the field was no sin, either.
Coach Jerry Tarkanian could
have made a stink. The
Bulldogs, after all, did win 20
games and NCAA investiga
tors haven't even visited the
campus. Yet.
But rather than claim perse
cution, like the old Tark might
have been tempted to, or fall
back on the life-isn't-fair wal
low (see above), he took the
high road. And cheerfully, no
less.
“I think our kids deserved it,"
he said, ‘but I could make a
great case for some other
Duke
gets its
due
Continued from 9B
That's the kind of player Orr
is. She loves the ball in her
hands for crunch time but
won't bask in the glory when
she hits the game winner. As
Wake Forest threatened to
steal the game, Orr continual
ly made the plays to keep the
Blue Devils ahead. As expect
ed, she didn't want the praise.
"I think we came out a little
bit sluggish and that just gave
them more confidence and the
.more confidence they got, the
better they got. But as far as
hitting the shots and pushing
them back up, that's just what
was happening in the flow of
the offense," Orr said.
It's not just that Orr scores
big points, it's when she scores
that really kills opponents,
says Duke senior center Ali
Day.
"I remember a stretch where
we hit two or three three-
pointers in a row, those are
back-breakers when a teams
coming back and you feel like
you're almost catching some
body, then all of a sudden, they
hit those three-pointers right
in a row,” Day said.
Those shots wouldn’t fall
against Clemson. Duke lost by
17 in the final but it was the
way the Blue Devils lost that
had Orr most upset.
Duke has been resiliant all
year, bouncing back after dis
appointing losses to play some
of thier best basketball. Orr
believes the team can do the
same Saturday, against James
Madison.
"We ll get over this, every
game this year we've lost,
we've gotten stronger and we ll
get stronger from this loss too
and we ll learn something and
we'll move on,'' Orr said.
For the Devils to make the
national semi-finals in
Charlotte, they will have to do
some of the little things better,
such as boxing out, biting key
free throws and executing
down the stretch. Goestenkors
had a heart to heart talk with
her team following the
Clemson loss and believes they
know what's ahead.
1 told the team, you can get
away with it against some
teams and we did but when
you come jp against great
teams, you don't get away with
that and we understand that
from here on out, every team is
going to be a great team," she
said.
“I feel like we have not
peaked yet as a team,” she
said. “We’ve come through
some adverstiy throughout the
season, (with injuries), now
we’re finally together, so now’s
the time to peak."
With Orr's ability to sink the
three-point buzzer beater and
if the Blue Devils take care of
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teams that didn't make it."
Coming out of the East to
join the Bearcats there will be
Georgetown. UMass Coach
John Calipari will spend so
much time hyping the dangers
of first-round ■ opponent
Central Florida - the vaunted
Golden Eagles, at 11-18, are
one of only two teams with los
ing records in the tourney -
that he'll be out of material by
the time UMass has to actual
ly play someone like Allen
Iverson and the Hoyas.
Getting Kentucky to take
anyone in the Midwest seri
ously won't be an easy chore
for coach Rick Pitino. The
Wildcats could have an easier
march through their bracket -
San Jose State (losing record
No. 2), then Wisconsin-Green
Bay, then Utah - than they did
through the Southeastern
Conference tournament.
Oops. Kentucky lost that
title Sunday to Mississippi
State. No matter. Pitino said it
was exactly what his team
needed. The really hard part
will be explaining how losing
to Wake Forest will be even
better, especially when he does
it from his new office with the
Boston Celtics.
No chance of Kansas coach
Roy Williams leaving for the
pros, though finding his way to
the Final Four won't hurt his
reputation any. Considering
what a tough year he's already
had, Purdue coach Gene
Keady will have the sentimen
tal vote. But he doesn't have a
guard as good as the
Jayhawks' Jacque "Vaughn
calling the shots. And in the
most wide-open regional, that
will prove to be a crucial dif
ference:
It should have taken the
average reader no more than
three minutes to get to this
point. And to figure out that all
four survivors are No. 2 seeds.
The tournament, meanwhile,
will have played 61 games to
reach this same juncture. So
pay attention. Kansas beats
Wake Forest, then Georgetown
beats Cincinnati, and then —
drum roll - the Hoyas beat
Kansas.
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