The N&R’s Ed Hardin sings the ACC Tournament blues:
As the throngs of Carolina fans walked out of the Greensboro Coliseum while the Georgia Tech band played drinking songs, an odd pall seemed to settle over the tournament. What happens now is anyone’s guess, but it won’t involve the two schools closest to Greensboro, and it will likely play out before some empty seats.
Noticed plenty of empty seats during State’s win over Clemson in the night cap.
But if you makes you feel any better —-and it probably doesn’t —- things aren’t so hot out the PAC-10 tournament, either:
In years past, an Arizona-U.C.L.A. game would have been a marquee match between the two programs that have dominated the conference over the last quarter century.
But when the game tipped off at noon here, perhaps 2,000 fans were in attendance. Among them was the actor and comedian Bill Murray, who might have been more entertaining than the product on the court. The play was at times so uninspiring that the former coach Eddie Sutton pulled out a newspaper to read during several timeouts.
The story there is Arizona’s streak of 25 consecutive NCAA appearances is has ended.
