From: mzwick@vitro.com (Morris J. Zwick)
Subject: Re: ACC WBasketball predictions
Organization: Vitro Corporation
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:12:33 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.152916.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu>
16rtaylor@gallua.gallaudet.edu (Ricky Taylor) writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.190832.4070@vitro.com>, mzwick@vitro.com (Morris J.
Zwick) writes:
>> In article <1992Dec16.005059.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu>
>> 16rtaylor@gallua.gallaudet.edu (Ricky Taylor) writes:
>>>
>>>January 6
>>>
>>>Duke 105  Loyola 50
>>>Clemson 61  Maryland 55
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Look at the last year:  Clemson lost to Maryland at Cole but whipped No. 2 
>Maryland, 72-55.  Maryland hadn't beat Clemson in four years, I kept track of
>it.
>

The above two sentences contradict each other: did Clemson lose to Maryland at
Cole last year or has Clemson not lost to Maryland in four years?? Perhaps you
mean that Maryland has not beaten Clemson in Littlejohn in four years. Big
deal.

>>>Virginia 64  Florida State 61
>>>
>>>January 12
>>>
>>>Florida State 81  Maryland 56
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Florida State is desperately to get a NCAA Berth so they will trashed Maryland
>and the main reason, they will trash Maryland by 25 points is because last
year
>Florida State lost badly to Maryland in Cole Field House.
>

If teams won games just because they got "trashed" by a team the previous year,
there'd be many more upsets (and Maryland might have beatne Penn State in
football sometime in the last 32 years). 'Nuff said.

>>>North Carolina 63  Wake Forest 56
>>>
>>>January 14
>>>
>>>Ga. Tech 66  Maryland 61
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	Ga. Tech is riding high as well as the last year with a biggest upset
>in the ACC history when Ga. Tech rallied to beat Maryland, 70-69 in Rock Hill,
>SC.  Joyce Pierce will lead the Ga. Tech to preserve the win over Maryland.
>

Georgia Tech had their big run in the ACC tournament. Those wins also
represented their only wins in ACC tournament HISTORY! Maryland has won the ACC
title more times than any other school-by a long shot!

>>>
>>>January 23
>>>
>>>Virginia 81  Ga. Tech 78
>>>Duke 100 Radford 63
>>>North Carolina 91  Maryland 83
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>North Carolina shall beat Maryland at Carmichael Gymnasium with Tonya Sampson,

>Sylvia Crawley and Charlottea Smith.  

If they're so good, where has UNC been all these years??

>>>
>>>January 25
>>>
>>>Duke 81  Wake Forest 76
>>>Maryland 83  Fla State 49
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Maryland will destroy Florida State for what they had done down in
Tallahassee,
>Fla.  
>

Maryland will beat Fl. State because they're a better team (although not by the
ridiculous margin cited above).

>> 
>> Are these Women's Predictions?? If so, they're totally BOGUS!!
>> 
>> Maryland is a top 10 team. Yet you have them losing almost every road game!
>> 
>> Then you have Maryland losing 81-56 to Florida State and later beating them
>> 83-49. These scores make no sense; no homecourt is worth a 59 point swing in
>> the score!!
>
>Wanna bet?  

Betting is illegal in the better part of 49 states :) If the homecourt was
worth so much, every team would have .500 records (or thereabouts, depending on
the ratio of home/road games
>> 
>> Happy Holidays

Still applies.

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