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Show Viewpoint Hoyas, who? By JACK HILL Athletics has always brought out the best and worst in people. Church athletic programs have produced some of the greatest and ugliest scenes I've every seen. Little league games do the same. Monday night's NCAA basketball game saw Villanova at their best in beating the defending champions, Georgetown. Villanova set a field goal shooting record, 79 percent for the game, that could be around a very long time in NCAA Tournament Tour-nament play. By the time the game ended, 95 percent of all viewers must have been rooting for the Wildcats to beat the Hoyas. On the negative side, the game brought out the worst in Georgetown. The tactics used in the final minutes of the game were a disgrace to the school and coach, John Thompson. Only the fact that the officials let the Georgetown players get away with it is more disgraceful. Pulling your opponent down on top of you and kneeing him in the groin was just plain dirty; an attempt at-tempt to win at any cost, no matter how despicable. Batting the ball in the stands following the final Georgetown basket surely had to be a technical foul that should have given Villanova a free throw and then the ball out of bounds on the sideline. For the official to stop the clock and force Villanova to inbound the ball was the second wrong on that play. The history book will record Villanova as the "Cinderella" team while Georgetown must accept the role as the sneaky, do anything to win, ugly stepsister. |