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Jermaine Wallace from Northwestern State hit a clutch game winning three to up set Iowa.

This picture is unrelated to the shot.

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BC needed two overtimes to beat Pacific.

I have three schools I really root for. BC because I grew up near the campus and played a lot of hoops there when I was a kid.

San Diego State because that is my alma mater and University of Hawaii because we go to Hawaii a lot.

Hawaii didn't make it, SDSU, well if you saw them beat Wyoming the other night you probably wouldn't like their chances to be playing this weekend and so BC is my only hope, as a fan, to make real progress.

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The Big East Conference tourney action has been awesome. I am a fan of the smaller conferences the week before the NCAA because they have more to play for but you wouldn't know it by how hard the Big East teams play.

Bill Raftery has always been a hoot. I laughed out loud when he bellowed "ONIONS!!" when the 'Cuse's Jerry McNamara hit another crucial three in the waning seconds of regulation vs. Uconn.

Not to get too philosophical here, but I was lucky enough to hit a few game winners or game tie-ers in my day and the confidence that can give a kid for the rest of his life can be huge.

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For the three of you that have visited this page more than once you may recall that in the spring I get the sports pack from Directv for the extra college sports and the NLL lacrosse.

I was fiddling with the on screen guide and found that the NBA-TV channel is airing White Shadow reruns. I loved that show when I was a kid. I'm sure I will watch a couple of them but I am not very hopeful about how well that show stands up over time but maybe it does?

In this picture we see Goldstein, Salami, Haywood and if I can see clearly and that is the big guy, that would be Coolidge. Believe it or not I came up with all the names on my own but it took an extra second or two to come up with Goldstein.

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At least for me it does. ESPN and ESPN2 are giving center stage to the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association conference tournament.

If you are a fan of college hoops, you need to check out these games. The fans make a big party out of it and the players play their hearts out. One aspect of the intensity on the court is that, unlike the Big East, there won't be nine CIAA teams going to the NCAA tourney.

Chances are most of the schools are ones you've never heard of but most of the schools are more than 100 years old and the sports rivalries are almost as old.

That they are getting the spotlight in this way this week speaks to how good the games usually are.

Posted by Roger Nusbaum at 10:51 AM | Permalink | Comments