12 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday; March 12. 2002 Adw U I michigandaily.com/Pizza House Challenge NCAA MEN'S BASKETBALL TOURNAME NT 0 First Round March 14-15 Second Round March 16-17 Regionals March 21, 23 Reg onals March 22, 24 Second Round March 16-17 First Round March 14-15 1 Duke 16 Winthrop 8 Notre Dame 9 Charlotte I Pick the most winners and receive a party with 10 pizzas from Pizza House Maryland 1 Alcorn St./Siena 16 Wisconsin 8 St. John's 9 5 Indiana Marquette 5 12 Utah 4 Southern Cal 13 UNC Wilmington 6 California 11 Pennsylvania 3 Pittsburgh 14 Cent. Conn. State South F Tulsa 12 Kentucky 4 Valparaiso 13 East Texas Tech 6 7 Oklahoma State 10 Kent State 2 Alabama 15 Florida Atlantic March 30 March 30 1 Cincinnati I I I f~ 4. I 16 Boston University ,8 UCLA 9 Mississippi Georgia 3 Murray State 14 Southern Illinois 11 North Carolina St. 7 I April 1 Michigan State 10 Connecticut 2 Hampton 15 Kansas 1 Holy Cross 16 Stanford 8 Western Kentucky 9 Florida 5 Creighton 12 Illinois 4 San Diego State 13 60 5 Miami (Fla.) 12 Missouri 4 Ohio State 13 Davidson I ~AI. ~ MidA 6 Gonzaga, west F- 11 Wyoming 3 Arizona 14 Cal-Santa Barbara I House .Ilk A %OOF-I. ow 7 Xavier, 10 HawaiiI 2 Oklahoma 15 Illinois-Chicago I I Texas 6 Boston College 11 Mississippi State 3 FMcNeese State 14 Wake Forest 7 Pepperdine 10 Oregon 2 Montana 15 0 __5 Iw ~ To be eligible for the Pizza House prize, you must bring in your completed bracket to The Michigan Daily (420 Maynard Street) before the tournament begins Thursday morning. U-""Now "pelt t ;fF ,u a I c'1 Yesterday's bracket incorrectly listed Duke rather than Arizona as the No. 3 seed in the West. Your Name E-mail Total Points in Championship game Phone The first round games are worth one point, two in the second round, then three, four, five and six for the other rounds ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hoyas decline bid as NIT announces field NEW YORK (AP) - The Atlantic 10, which had only Xavier selected for the NCAA tournament, had five teams picked Sunday night for the NIT's expanded 40-team field. One name missing from the list was Georgetown, which lost in the quarter- finals of the Big East tournament and finished 19-11. Hoyas coach Craig Esherick said Sunday night he just couldn't accept the invitation because his team was going to be sent on the road and he didn't want his players missing classes. "We wanted to play but didn't want to play at all costs. We're in school now," he said. "Last year we spent two weeks out West and didn't want to do it again." The Hoyas .were in the West Region of the NCAA Tournament last season, playing two games in Boise, Idaho, before losing to Maryland in the regional semifinal in Anaheim, Calif. "We couldn't use our home court, the MCI Center, because it's the site of the NCAA Tournament's first two rounds this week," Esherick said. "It got to the point that since we couldn't have a home game we wanted to be playing closer to home to not miss class. After a while I said 'Look, maybe we're better off not doing it."' NIT executive director Jack Powers confirmed travel was the reason. "They just could not work out travel arrangements," he said Sunday. The only other team to ever turn down an NIT bid was Louisville in 1987, when the Cardinals were 18-14 a year after winning the national cham- pionship. Richmond, Saint Joseph's, St. Bonaventure, Temple and Dayton were selected for the NIT, which gets under way Tuesday night with five games. Through the first four rounds, all games are played at campus sites. The semifinals and championship game are at New York's Madison Square Garden on March 26 and 28. Conference USA was next with four teams - South Florida, Louisville, Memphis and Houston - while the Big East, Mountain West and South- eastern Conference each had three. The Ivy League had two teams selected, Princeton and Yale. The addition of eight teams to the field means eight opening-round games, with the winners moving into the first round. The first-round games to be played Tuesday have Arizona State at UNLV and Princeton at Louisville. "If you make it there, Madison Square Garden is probably the most exciting place to play in college bas- ketball," said first-year Louisville coach Rick Pitino, who coached the NBA's New York Knicks in that build- ing. 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