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Show 40A Saturday, March 15. 195 NCAA Basketball Overwhelmingper shocks ’Cocks Coppin State surprises No. 2 seed South Carolina The only remotely comparable Win In Coppin’ s hist ory was 2 70-63 NCAA), and I wanted to makea better showing.” pset of Maryland in 1989. Friday's victory wasthe first ima NCAA Ih1isto- Terquin Mott, Coppin’s best player and a likely NBA draft pick, with- ry PITTSBURGH chance. Coppin WON a game : Pan aa a J = e nag ieremec. Coppin had lost its 0 - ~ c eh i L olw < > =p 78-65 East COCKS " : No. 19 of its last 22. was regarded as a likely Final Four team - except by his points in the second Mitchell, w ho talked openly Thursday of what he called “felling thegi53%. The upset was all the morere- umd ars ‘ Ric Neithe » in ble Melvin Wats mn and McKie tring The three. who had averaged combined 47.1 points over So Carolina’s last 19 games, man he C because of Coppin State's of blowout losses to its better i I opponents. The Eagles e road to Oklahoma by 24, ebraska by 16 and Illmois by 36 only 31, incl ose teams were ranked j c as Gamecocks. who mi ght have been a No J seed if or y eg rwi coach M beaten Kentucky twice while winning De Irina v d N 5 see 2 sed. known and 11 rebounds. South Carolina (24-8), which had ot! cuse in 1990 and Cinc Singletary scored al Regional upse e , practice Thursday to add 11 points after gle g N- aie Dann 2 thelts NCAA tournament games. to Syra- seria ee ewe stood a sprained ankle suffered in Covel ence. the Mid-Easte . ) both n anewd Ampeg fs “6 ior Ror they hadn't lost to Georgia in the We y d ha Fang SECtourname: Sou ( i. “T gle GE goes home, amid rddie Fogler might South Carol specular: J. PUSH COPPIN CELEBRATION: Coppin State coach Ron“Fang” Mitchell (nght) hugs Antoine Brockington after the Eagles ypset South Carolina 78-65 inthefirst round of the Nv 10 him tale Toumament on Fridayin Pittsburgh. 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You are as good as these per rie.” VW \ first UConn in their xe TVET ’ ak a 27-24 its last ttime Teamessee-Chattanooga the Mocs were bea : os tes eco The Assopated Press Taylor. who wasn’t around when wa guipped leading league round of the Southeast Regional. “We really wanted to have a good start.” said forward Johnny hi a It “4 unheralded first 15 points of the game, then held on for a 73-70 upset of the third-seeded Bulldogs in the first 4 De-C- nlf gave their . ee By PAUL NEWBE stunned Georgia by sooring the Kansas, and ims Jayhawks reached the Final Four former Bonneville A § } sod Wake Michigan around Chattanooga. the No. 14 seed. " scare 4ih-seeded Si. Mary haskeiball team, Sivuod a key role in putung a “ worked He tried i im 1982 while an yh é "4C 4 “Sich J xcems to have slanting poi guard t : nigh It = = e ‘ e good Juck. 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