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Show PAGE 9 i r.MKLAK TRUMPET, MARCH 4, 1999 Is Brad worthy of a crystal ball when it comes time to predict basketball? By! Bnd Barton Hey, all you hoop crazed lunatics out there, it's time for, yet, another one of my madman prediction columns. If you recall correctly, you know that the Broncos won the Super Bowl, so youd be wise to listen to me when all else fails. Oh well, lets get down to the meat and potatoes, the Region tournaments were held last week, and the State 2A Basketball Championship Tournament will be held from March at the Centrum on the campus of Southern Utah University in Cedar City. First of all, lets take a look at some of the predictions that I made for Region. Right now; I am going to be bold and pick some upset specials. My first shocker is Enterprise over Gunnison, now please dont laugh because the Wolves traditionally spend tournament time playing 4-- 6. their best ball of the year. Another reason for this shocker is Gunnison has overlooked their last 2 opponents. South Sevier, and Juab and were very fortunate to walk away with the slim margins of victory. Enterprise will pull off that upset of gigantic proportions. The rest of the games on the first day of Region should go as ex- extra periods (overtime). In the other 2nd Round match up, Kanab will defeat North Sevier, but they will have a very difficult time doing it. Which brings us to the Kanab Cowboys (Just kidding. Coach.) I predict Kanab to game, with San Juan winning that game by a generous amount. Duchesne could play the role of Enterprise, but I seriously doubt it. Now that all of the Region business is taken care of, I think that San Juan. Grantsville, Duchesne, and South Summit will qualify for ReState from the North-Ea- pected with North Sevier massacreing Beaver, Kanab blowing the winner of South win the gion. The pairings will probably SevierJuab who will play Tuesday February 23 at Gunnison right out of the water, and Manti will win a hard fought battle with Millard. In the 2nd Round, it will be the Templars good fortune d to face those scrappy Wolves from EnterIt will be a close game, prise. but the Templars will prevail in . upset-minde- Region championship, featur-in- g our Manti Templars against Coach Jackson's Region Championship with an overtime victory over the Manti Templars. The teams that will advance to State from the Region are Kanab. South-Centr- al st Enterprise, and then be Kanab vs. Duchesne. Manti vs. Grantsville, Enterprise vs. San Juan, and Gunnison vs. South Summit. In the st Round. I predict that Kanab will have a struggle with Duchesne, but prexail. Gunnison will win the loser's bracket. Now; to the Region I know' almost nothing about, the North-EaRegion. I predict San Juan and Grantsv ille to meet in the championship Manti will beat Grantsv ille. Enterprise will upset San Juan, and Gunnison will eqrn a hard-fougictorv over South Summit. In the 2nd Round, where the mind games become even South-Centr- al Manti, st 1 ht more abundant. Kanab will Bart and Little Ds excellent March Madness predictions By: Dettinger lunatics out there, d its time for yet another mind boggling NCAA tournament known around the world as March Madness. Now to begin, if by some strange circumstance you do not know what March Madness is, we will inform you. It is a 64 team tournament that determines the national champion of college basketball. This is the week that all of the college conferences are having their tournaments. The teams that do well in those tournaments will have a better chance of achieving Nirvana and going to March Madness than those that do poorly in the tournament and lose. Now we have no desire to bore our loyal readers our opinion are, Connecticut, Duke, Stanford, Louisville, New Utah, Mexico. Syracuse, Miami(Florida), SL Johns, Cincinnati, Ohio St. Arizona, Maryland, College of Charleston, which by the way is our Cinderella pick, St and Auburn, who will serve as our 2nd Michigan Cinderella team. Now we will tell you about some of the notable teams that did not make our Sweet 1 6, Kentucky, North Carolina, UCLA, Michigan, Purdue, Seton Hall, Washington, Fresno St., Texas Christian, UNLV, and last but not least, the mighty Golden Gophers of Minnesota. Now we move onto the Elite 8. Tire teams making our Elite 8 are anymore, so we will not go from the field of 64, we will dive into the deep part of the pool with the Connecticut, Duke, Stanford, Louisville; Michigan St. New Sweet 16. The teams that will Auburn. make it to this prestigious spot in Mexico, Maryland, and Now we pare it down Final to the Four. The four schools who will be participating in that world-renown- ed are, Connecticut, Duke, Stanford, and Louisville. We then predict that Stanford will edge Connecticut in a battle, and Louisville will embarrass the Duke Blue Devils. That should leave us in the NCAA championship game with a battle of hard-foug- ht Cardinals, (Stanford and Louisville both have Cardinals as their mascot.) Louisville will then surprise Stanford and give coach Denny Crum his 3rd ever NCAA title. Thank you for your time in reading this article that we put a lot of time (and thinking) into just for the pleasure of our sports-minde- clock. All of the old veterans will be sitting by the radio and saying. Its about time, weve w aited 33 long ears tor another State championship! If my prediction holds true it will be the first time Manti w ould have taken "State since my dad was a Senior m high school. As Metallica sav s. "Its sad but true. Why does Prom have to be so difficult?! Brad Barton and Jacob Hey, all you hoop-craze- meet Gunnison, and earn a hard earned victory, and Manti will defeat Enterprise in another overtime victory. That brings us right back to where we started in the Region championship game with Manti squaring off against Kanab but this time the Manti Templars are holding the gold trophy above their heads. The score in that game will be Manti 76, Kanab 73 with McKay Anderson hitting the winning three pointer with 0.5 seconds left on the d readers, like you if are reading this. you |