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  • 22 Lets Go Dancing!!! by Andy Gambilll Wenewsmagazine newsmagazine Lori Tanner, Jennifer Gardner and Ki-Ki Glass reflect on the ss | win during the So. 2 Con Kyocera press With the victory in the SoCon Championship game, the Lady Cats achieved the ultimate goal for a small-school like WCU. They earned a trip to the big dance. While the NCAA Tournament selection show is on Sunday, March 13, the Lady Cats will prob- ably end up with a sixteenth seed in the tournament. If they are lucky and a number of upsets are sprung in the Conference Tour- naments, then they could end up with a fifteenth seed at best. While there are a number of possible opponents that WCU could end up facing, these are the 3 most likely opponents: 1. Tennessee, SEC Champions ranked 3rd in country with 26-4 record This is the ultimate match-up of teacher vs. student. Coach Kellie Harper won three national championships while playing for the University of Tennessee and Coach Pat Summitt. Summitt is one of the greatest coaches of all-time (ranked 4th on ESPNs Top 10 List, after John Wooden, Dean Smith, and Coach K), and no doubt was one of the biggest influences if not the biggest influ- ence on Coach Harpers coaching style. The NCAA would prob- ably not turn down the opportunity for such a storyline as Sum- | mitt vs. Harper. lf Western does indeed draw Tennessee then the game will probably be played on March 20 in Knoxville, Tennes- | see. Tennessee is the cream of the crop in ladies basketball and ; a. 4 . oo | a match-up with them would probably turn out to be the hardest AMOUNTS | game for the Catamounts in WCU history, but it could also signal 7 better things to come for the Catamount Ladies program. _ 2. UNC, ACC Champions ranked 2nd in country with 26-3 re- | cord | This game would probably represent a best-case scenario for the Lady Cats. In order to play UNC they would probably have Rental hooks must be to be a fifteenth seed. While the Tar Heels are ranked as the 2nd Peturned no later than five best team in the nation, the second seed in the Philadelphia and - Working days after the last Chattanooga brackets will play in Chapel Hill, NC. That means tlay of final exams each term that the NCAA will probably give UNC a two seed so that they can (including Mini-Mester and have home-court advantage in the first two rounds of action. The NCAA usually tries to keep schools from having to travel a great amount of distance to play in the first two rounds, so that means that if Western somehow does not end up in Knoxville against Tennessee then they would probably travel to Chapel Hill. The Tar Heels are among the best teams in the nation and would pose a major test for the Lady Catamounts. Summer School). Unreturned Above - #23 Tanner scores against Georgia Southern in the final. Below - Gardner and Glass celebrate the vicotory. 3. Duke, ACC runner-ups ranked 8th in nation with 28-3 record _Photos by Mark Haskett This game would also be under the scenario that WCU is able to get a fifteenth seed. While Duke was in the running for a number one seed, a loss to UNC in the ACC championship game squashed any thought of that, but even if they would have won, though, the Blue Devils would have probably received one of the Chapel Hill number two seeds. Since UNC is ranked higher than *Textbook(s) may be returned hy mail. include your full name and student Blue Devil Id probabl ive the tw dinth cacimpes tine Duke, the Blue Devils would probably receive the two seed in the Chattanooga region with Tennessee being the number one seed, ~~ WCU Bookstore That way UNC could be paired with a weaker team than Tennes- Attention Book Rental see in the Philadelphia region. The NCAA doesn't want two of the Western Carolina University top four teams in the country being in one region. The Blue Dev- iis have ACC Player of the Year Monique Curry. The 60 Curry , would pose a lot of match-up problems with the Catamounts and star player Jennifer Gardner. Cullowhee, NC 28723 Thers are no exceptions to the above policy! be
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