Pizza, pizza, pizza and more pizza Piles of pizza await you - if you're up to the challenge. Be the top prognosticator in The Michigan Daily and Cottage Inn Pizza NCAA tournament pool, and you will win 10 free large pizzas from Cottage Inn. To enter, fill out the bracket printed in SPORTSMonday and e-mail your picks to daily.contest@umich.edu or bring them to the sports desk at 420 Maynard St. Another bracket will be printed tomorrow. Tuesday March 12, 1996 9, Michi TH.E NCAA TO~ttNAMENT Some thizgs a~bout the tourney are S ome thoughts on the Madness... U Criticizing the NCAA Men's Basketball Tourna- mentSelection Committee is ridiculously commonplace. Since I am noting if not commonplace, -here are a couple of complaints of y own. First,-the Atlantic Coast Confer- epce received six bids and the Big East five, despite the Big East clearly being the country's best conference. Providence won 17 games and was left out of the tournament. Clemson, meanwhile, played poorly the last half of the season and received a bid anyway. Explain that. (And for those who say 17 wins isn't enough, I ask you this: Were ou one of those who felt Michigan definitely deserved a bid last year, at 17-13 in a mediocre Big Ten?) Second, and along the same lines, Indiana plays Boston College in the first round. Amazingly, the Hoosiers are the No. 6 seed and the Eagles are No. 11, even though B.C. was a top 25 team for much of the year and played a much tougher schedule. The committee seems to be wary of Ote Big East, which hasn't sent a team to the Final Four since 1989. That should change soon, with three conference teams (Connecticut, Georgetown and Villanova) capableof winning the national title. MICHAEL * xpect all three to bein the EliteROSENBERG Eight. Roses are One more Read thing - Arizona gets to play in Tempe, Ariz. What a joke! E If there is anyone left on the planet who doesn't think Gene Keady'is a great coach, consider this. His Purdue team is the top seed Pn the West. The Boilermakers' best player is Chad Austin. Now think about this for a moment - there are at least eight other teams in the West that have a better player than Austin - Kansas (Jacque Vaughn and Raef LaFrentz), Arizona (Ben Davis); Syracuse (John Wallace), Memphis (Lorenzen Wright), Iowa (Andre Woolridge), Maryland (Johnny Rhodes), Santa Clara (Steve Nash) and Drexel (Malik *Rose). And one could make the argument for George Washington (Shawnta Rogers) as well. The name most readers probably didn't recognize on that list is Rose. But Memphis beware: Rose and 12th- seeded Drexel are dangerous. Speaking of sleepers, here are the best bets. California (No. 12 in the Midwest) is a good pick against No. 5 Iowa State, which may have trouble focusing after its shocking upset of Kansas Sunday. The Golden Bears are inconsistent but extremely talented; they are capable of playing with anyone for 40 minutes. Temple overCincinnati in the second round is another good bet. Marquette, which nearly beat Cincinnati this weekend, is a great dark-horse choice for the Final Four. Picking Princeton is tempting, given the Tigers' history of scaring top teams in the tournament and the potential for coach Pete Carril to go out with a bang. But don't count on it. This Princeton team is not as good as previous squads, and it will need a miracle to upset defending champ UCLA. Davidson didn't lose a conference game all year, then fell to Western Carolina in the Southern Conference title game and lost its bid. That's a prime example of the problem with tournaments for the smaller confer- ences. Deserving teams lose out if they slip up in the postseason. Minnesota is the first Big Ten team in history to go 10-8 in the conference and not make the 64-team Michigan's Dolan cruises, grabs 3rd Olympic berth By Susan Dann Daily Sports Writer It's been the ultimate sports cliche for years. ABC's Wide World of Sports made it famous with the contrasting images of the 1980 U.S. hockey team defeat- ing the Russians and the ski jumper who careened down the slope. Michigan swimmers have personi- fied the cliche this week at the U.S. Olympic trials in Indianapolis. The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Michigan swimmer Tom Dolan se- cured his third spot on the Olympic team, winning the 200-meter indi- vidual medley. Although his first international competition in the event came at the 1995 Pan Pacific Championships, Dolan demonstrated that he is no nov- ice in the event. Dolan set an Indiana University Na- tatorium record time of2:00.20, beat- ing the second-place finisher by more than a second. Dolan has not only placed his name on the U.S. roster, but he has bolded it by nearly breaking his own world record in the 400 IM last Thursday, setting a pool record in the 400 freestyle Saturday, and establishing yesterday's pool record in the 200 IM. "When you look at making the Olympic team, most people will just look at making one event," Dolan said. "After that it is just icing on the cake." The thrill ofvictory--bolded, high- lighted and with an exclamation point. In the same event, Michigan swim- mers experienced agony. Eric Namesnik, a 1992 Michigan graduate who has been training with the Wolverines, finished sixth. Namesnik, however, has not been without victory at the trials. He quali- fied for the Olympic team in the 400 IM. Monday, Jason Lancaster finished the 200 IM prelims 17th followed by fellow Wolverine Chris Rumley, who finished 19th. In the preliminaries for the 1,500 freestyle, Andy Potts finished ninth with a time of 15:38.06, just missing the final heat by .02 seconds. Unfortunately for both Potts and Rumley, only first and second are good enough at the trials. Potts fin- ished fourth in the 400 IM and 11th in the 400 freestyle. In addition to his finish in the 200 IM, Rumley finsihed fifth in the 400 freestyle. The duo will return to Ann Arbor without having Swimming tomorrow Men 200-meter backstroke Toby Booker Tom Dolan Jason Lancaster 1500 freestyle none secured spots on the Olympic team. The epitome of agony. The Michigan women swimmers competing at the trials had a day filled with disappointment on Monday. There was no strength in numbers for the Wolverines in the women's 200 backstroke, as Alecia Humphrey, Jennifer Almeida and Beth Jackson finished 11th, 12th and 15th, respec- tively. Women 200 butterfly Talor Bendel Kerri Hale Jenny Kurth Karin Bunting 50 freestyle Megan Gillam f Kim Johinson I JONATHAN LURIE/Daily Maurice Taylor and the rest of the Michigan basketball team hope to saddle the Longhorns in the first round of the NCAA tournament Friday. wear same dresses to the Bi Dance By Barry Sollenberger Daily Sports Editor The Texas and Michigan men's bas- ketball teams do not have much in com- mon. The Longhorns (20-9) like to run and gun. They averaged 82.5 points and 70 shot attempts per game this season. The Wolverines (20-11) are not beached whales, but they are not known for their fast break, either. They prefer a hal fcourt game and averaged 71 points and 58 shot attempts per contest this year. Michigan won 20 games this season, primarily due to a stingy defense that allowed just 64 points a game. Texas rarely plays defense. The Long- horns surrendered 74.7 points each time out. Opponents actually outshot Texas from the field on average this season, 45 to 41 percent. But ifthere is one thing that bonds the Wolverines and Longhorns, it's that, for much of the year, both teams did not figure to make the NCAA tournament. The two teams hook up at 10:30 p.m. Friday in Milwaukee, though, in NCAA first-round action. The contest is a rematch of the Wol- verines' 84-79 victory over Texas two years ago in the NCAAs second round. Much has been made of how Michi- gan almost ended the year in the dreaded NIT. The Wolverines won five of their last seven to reach the NCAAs. If you listen to Texas coach Tom Penders talk about his team, even the NIT seemed like a pipe dream for much of the season. "I was questioning, in November or December, if we'd be a.500 team," Penders said. At one point, the Longhorns were 7-4 after losing a home game to a school better known for its brainy students than its basketball team - Rice. From there, Texas went 11-4, but an NCAA berth was still in doubt after a loss to Houston March 2 in the regular season finale. The Longhorns finished third in the Southwest Conference's regular season behind Texas Tech and the Cougars. Texas wrapped up its seventh NCAA tournament berth in eight sea- sons, though, with its play in the SWC tournament. The Longhorns reached the conference final before losing to the Red Raiders by two while the Cougars fell into the NIT by losing to Southern Methodist in the tournament's first round. For Penders, Saturday's loss to Texas Tech did not dampen his hopes for the tournament. "Now the fun begins," he said. "I've never been prouder of a team I've coached. People continue to count us out, and this team - like all our teams - kept getting better and bet- See TOURNEY, Page 10 Tom Dolan splashed his way to his third Olympic berth last night. " Macintosh PowerBook 520 4/240 $899 while supplies last! 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