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Show DAILY THE CHRONICLE UTAH if 1 to Head Regiona in O regon Gymnasts Get a Lesson in History or weira Team Nicknames RORY BRUNNER Chronicle Asst. Sports Editor LANCE GAMERO Chronicle Sports Columnist The Final Four is set. All the hoopla and office polls come down to four teams. They're the four best teams in NCAA basketball. We know the teams, the players and the coaches. We know them all well. Hut one thing I would like to know is, "What in the world is up with their nicknames?!" Maryland Terrapins What is a terrapin? I admit, I had to look at Maryland's Web site just to figure out how to spell "terrapin." It's a really big turtle. A diamond-bac- k turtle, at that (I just learned there is more than one species of animal called diarnondbacks, other than the rattlesnake). It's a scmiter-restrifreshwater snapping turtle found in and around Chesapeake Hay in Maryland. The mascot's name is Testudo. That's pretty close to the Spanish word "desnudo," which means "naked." For short, they go by Tcrps. That's cool! Add a "W" and you've got "Twerps." But hey, at least they're the only school in the Final Four with an actual object as a school nickname, and not a theory. al Coming off the nation's highest score of the season, it didn't really matter where the Utah gymnastics team was sent for NCAA Regionals, as long as it continued to peak heading into the postseason. Hut the Utes had to go somewhere, and it was announced Monday they were sent to a familiar setting in the West. Instead, No. 4 Utah has been assigned to the West Regional in Corvallis, Ore., for NCAA Regionals April 6. "I don't feel bad about where we are. We play at Oregon State every other year, so we should be comfortable there," said coach Greg Marsdcn. Included with the Red Rocks in the Regional, with average scores in parentheses, are No. 9 Oklahoma (196.093), host No. 13 Oregon State (194.942), No. 24 Southern Utah (193.805), Washington (193.837) and Boise State (192.785). "I feel good about the placement). West regions tend to be tougher, because teams out West are better," Marsdcn said. The top two of the six teams from each of the six Regionals advance to the NCAA Championships April 18 to 20 in see page 10 gymnastics, J) v 7W' .. . ,. : , Freshman Annabeth Eberle and the Utes will be going to Corvallis, Ore., for the April 6 West Regional. This Final Four Is Among Most Baseball Wins Series With UNLV Indiana Hoosiers ASAD KUDIYA sounds like the Scottish version of the movie "Strange Brew," when Canadian Rick Moranis would tell his Canadian buddy Dave Thomas It to "Take off, you HOOSIFR!" An article by Diane Carmony in the Indiana Alumni Magazine admits, "No one knows what a Hoosier is." Plenty of people have their own theories. One theory is, in 1825 a man named Samuel Hoosier (or Hoosh-er- ) and his men helped build a canal on the Ohio River. Those men were referred to as "Hoosier's men," or Mv 14-1- Day Irvine, Calif. dear life... Even though I complain that the Tournament is losing its magic, which it is, I still will watch just about every round 'til the day I die. Maybe I could see a better matchup than that abomination of a Final Four game that is being played between Indiana and Oklahoma. All the teams in the Final Four are deserving of the honor, since they defeated the respective teams in their region; however, that doesn't mean I have to like it. I may even be happier with four No. 4, 8-- Utah's offense was Just good enough in the team's games against the Kebs. 10 Chronicle As the Final Four rears its ugly head towards me, I can't help but stare at its ugly and grotesque face. Why? Because I am a college basketball fan. And I'm just barely hanging on to 5-- 3. When first asked the question, my brother admitted, "I have no idea what a Sooner is. All I know is 326 All I Sports 2, 16-1- For the answer to this one, I called my brother, who lives in Oklahoma and is a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma. see BASEBALL, page 9 see KUDIYA, page 9 BASEBALL Anteater Invitational , Columnist 2-- Oklahoma Sooncrs at Utah N..J 5-- 3. Another theory is that early fearful settlers asked "Who's here?" when someone knocked on their door. It sounded like "Hoosier." The list goes on and on. I'm just happy I'm not the only one who doesn't know what a Hoosier is. GOLF ASAD KUDIYA order to become a factor in this conference," U baseball coach Tim Esmay said. The Utes won Sunday's game against UNLV, which was the last game of the series, The game was headlined by an amazing performance by starting pitcher Mitch Maio, in what was just his third start of the season. Because of the impressive start, as weli as a save in the second game, Maio was awarded the Mountain West's Pitcher of the Week honor for the second time this season. Overall, the U baseball won two of the three games it played against conference foe UNLV. The Utes record has now risen up to and 4 are in conference they play. After losing the first game, the Utes came back to defeat the Rebels in the final two games, 6 and Before the series started, Esmay believed that it would be an offensive series, and it seemed as if he "Hoosiers." see GAMERO, page Uninteresting "Sunday's game was the epitome of how this team has to play in vs So. Colorado utan MEN'S TENNIS (19-7- ) (14-1- 2) vs Idaho Utah 327 at 326-2- 7 Franklin Covey Field CHRONICLE SPORTS EDITOR State (1-- at Utah 8) (9-7- ) 5 p.m. Eccles Tennis Center ERIC "WALLY" WALDEN MEN'S TENNIS Weber State 329 at (9-7- ) (2-6- ) WOMEN'S TENNIS vs New Mexico Utah (7-- 9) 329 at 2 p.m. p.m. 0gden, Utah 1 EWALDENCHRONICLE.UTAH.EDU (7-- 7) Eccles Tennis Center 501-704- 1 |