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Show THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE MEN'S HOOPS FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2002 .r continued from page 8 better yet, help deuce, and Utah kept the deficit at 2. However, the Hoosiers got the they needed. Coverdale got spacing between U point guard Marhim and back-utin Osimani. Coverdale sank a deep three, and Osimani committed a sliding foul. Coverdale hit the free toss, and it was 2 Hoosiers. After a Caton charge, Coverdale hit Jeffries for a lay-u- p plus a foul by Ute Eric Osmundson. The lead was eight, and although five straight points by Spivey would trim the lead to five, the Hoosiers were far from done. Indiana went on a 2 run to claim a 9 lead with 3:41 in the first half. The Hoosiers did it with Utah turnovers and missed free throws, but also with few missed shots, as Indiana got a lot of clean looks in the paint 2 At that point, IU was shooting even Jeffries (72 percent), though was riding the pine in foul trouble. Utah was behind by 20, but had trailed UNLV 20-- 3 the week prior at the Mountain West tournament before rallying for a second half butt, cover your r p t'uitBon. your 7 - rr.omentum-builde- r cover f f 17-1- 3 '7 ,7 r 17-- mPf College can mean maneuvering through a lot of different obstacles, but tuition payments shouldn't be one of them. In Army ROTC. you'll have a shot at a scholarship worth thousands. And make friends you can count on. Talk to ft 39-1- 16-2- lead. teams hit the locker room, as Indiana held a 7 lead. Indiana set the tone in the second lead after half, building a 46-2- 7 hoops by Jeffries and Coverdale. Utah got it as close as 13 points in the second half, after Cullen three with 13:44. The senior went out in style with 25 points on 9 threes. The same could not be said about the Utes as a unit, as Utah committed 17 game turnovers. 42-2- 7-- Cullen hit two more treys, and The Utah cut the IU lead to lead was nearly the same as the 39-2- 5. One Day In and My Bracket Is Already Screwed r Jeff Johnsen was one of three active Ute seniors to play ERIC WALDEN i. V. :! I Chronicle Sports Editor It's a good thing I took the Anna Nicole Smith route and married some sugar mama... Because if I didn't have the substantial earnings to fall back on, I'd probably miss the five bucks I gave away with that abomination of an NCAA Tournament bracket I filled out Still, though, I'm not sure what's worse the pain that comes from recognizing the hindsight folly of putting Marquette in the Final Four, or the pain that comes from knowing what I'll have to do this weekend to get my five bucks back. Few things are more disheartening than taking the greatest sporting event (YES the NCAA Tourney surpasses the Super Bowl, the World Series and the marathon orgy your mom holds in her backyard every June 9) and having half its enjoyment factor obliterated before it's even a full day old. Don't get me wrong, all the close games, the impossible upsets, the Cinderella stories, the SEC cheerleaders in their tight tops and short skirts are great and all, but let's face it at least 50 percent of the fun is the hope that you'll get to see your ridiculous, bastardized prognostications turn into in their last game. "It started with me with a careless turnover on our first possession," e Spivey said. "I can't do that in a an Army ROTC advisor today. We've got you covered. ROTC ARY course Unlike any other college you can take. big-tim- game." 6 Call LTC Fischer at or visit nww.milsci.utah.edu 581-671- Down the stretch, Indiana made its defensive rotations and free throws to protect the lead for the 6 75-5- win. The loss was the first by coach Rick Majerus in an NCAA Tournament first round game in nine tries. rbrunnerchronicle.utah.edu r ft) 1)1 The 24th Annual Tanner Lectures on Human Values no-tale- nt ass-clo- see WALDEN, page 10 jTi o Presents V Benjamin Barber Citizenship in an Age of Global Anarchy: Democratic Alternatives f : V p KV - . " ' 1 to the Mullahs and the Mall ' Monday, March 18 Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library 8:00 p.m. I Also Featuring Aihwa Ong The Ambiguity of Borders: Asians as the New Westerners Monday, March 18 Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library 10:45 a.m. "- -v tfie OamniPB Vsfauep ,.i. reality. Ultimately, all of us tourney junkies ought to know better, because the whole thing inevitably winds up pissing you off more than the one geek in your biology class who ruined everyone's perfectly conceived lowball curve by getting a perfect score, thereby confirming his status as the biggest that ever lived. Where was I? Ah yes, Bracketology...a science equaled in its confusing, confounding nature only by trying to figure out the fairer sex. And biology, I guess, if that test was any indication. The slightest bit of success at it, and you're sucked into an inescapable vortex of false optimism and bloated knowledge. You don't really know rin fill 'hm 7" Mark Juergensmeyer Terror in the Mind of God: Religious Violence Before September nth & After "- -w Tuesday, March 19 Gould Auditorium, Marriott Library 10:45 a.m. (7 KPNZ I Channel 24 Cable 8 I 9 |