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SECTION 2 - PAGE 16 - PL AINDEALER-HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27,19H5 Sports Chris Juzwik 'National' tourney an ad for Big East Big East? Big deal. The NCAA tournament's final four is in place, and the concept of watching St. John's and Georgetown play each other again is somewhat nauseating. The other semifinal, between Memphis State and Villanova, should be a real game for the ages, with the winner obtaining the rights to get manhandled by the Hoyas in Monday night's championship affair. Perhaps the best idea is for Memphis state and Villanova to combine tfieir respective squads into a sort of all-star team. Maybe then the spread could at least be in single digits. So, the Big East hasbroken a record for teams in the final four, with three. If not for Boston College's Roger McCready dribbling the ball off his foot in a regional semifinal game won by Memphis State last Thursday, BC could have possibly joined its Big East counterparts in a sleep-inducing final four. It's not the Big East's fault, or course, that its teams are as good as they are. And it's not that St. John's, Villanova and Georgetown aren't good basketball teams. It's just that the NCAA tournament, besides being a haven for the display of the best teams in the country, is allegedly supposed to pit teams which never play each other, against one another. And although Lehigh and Georgetown don't face each other in the regular season, that match-up just doesn't cut it. With cable television being what jt is, we have seen St. John's and Georgetown fight (literally) it out three times already. Only one game was exciting by even the most lenient standards, that being the first battle, won by the Redmen. Now, when it gets down to the nitty-gritty of this tournament for student-athletes, we have to see them play again, and sub­ sequently will probably have to watch Georgetown play Villanova. Again. I could think of better championship games, couldn't you? 1 You talk about your dull Final Fours, and this one has to rank right up there with the worst of them. Maybe the solution is to stick teams from the same conference in the same regional. So Georgetown and St. John's would then play in a regional final, instead of a tournament semifinal. So what? Baseball does it that way, and nobody's the worse for it. UPI photo St. John's star Chris Mullin receives congratulations from North Carolina State coach Jim Valvano after the St. John's triumph Sunday. If major league baseball were to seed its tear c like college basketball does, the four playoff qualifiers from a *ar ago may have all come from the same division - the Ai East. The NCAA's may have a Georgetown-Villanova championship game. Would you like a Detroit Tigers-Toronto Blue Jays World Series? If it was more stringent, the final four might then contain Georgetown, Memphis St., Georgia Tech and maybe Oklahoma or Michigan. Unfair? Perhaps. But as far as pure entertainment and drama go, this final four is lacking. Let's face it: Georgetown is great. The Hoyas will win the NCAA title for the second straight year. They are 10 to 15 points better than either Villanova or Memphis State, and probably will top St. John's by eight or 10. Like them or not - John Thompsons players win. And win. And win. It will be interesting to see if Georgetown stays on top of the student's basketball world when Patrick Ewing graduates and heads to the NBA this summer. Don't be surprised, though, if the Hoyas are as good a team next year as they are now. The 12 minutes or so that Georgetown played without Ewing Saturday against Georgia Tech proved, at least to some, that the big center isn't the reason Thompson has had great teams for the last four years. Thompson has the horses. He goes nine or so deep on his bench. in the country, the most explosive orfense. The Hoyas are also the hungriest There's something about Georgetown, however, which makes one wonder why it is that the Hoyas are so gockL I think it's because all the players seem like clones. If you've watched the Hoyas play their 30-plus games this year, perhaps you'd notice the differences in the play of each player. Me, I've seen them play maybe 10 times. I'm just now starting to discern Bill Martin from Reggie Williams, Horace Broadnax from Michael Jackson, David Wingate from Perry MacDonald, Ralph Dalton from Grady Mateen. Maybe it's their names, or their shapes, or their faces. I don't know. But they all do their jobs - and do them well. That's why Georgetown is the best college basketball team in the country - this year, last year, and, probably next year Elect Frank S. McClatchey r • Mayor -*• PAID FOR BY CITIZENS FOR McCATCHEY Cary girls demolished By Steve Metsch PlaMMler-lteraM N«*i Sanrtca The CARPENTERSVILLE - ride is over. "We had been riding a wave, there, and the surfboard kind of got kicked out from under us tonight," Cary-Grove girls' basketball coach Bruce Kay said Monday night. He's not kidding. The Trojans, who'd been hang­ ing ten the past two weeks, took a header in the Dundee-Crown Class AASupersectional. Libertyville (26-3) jumped to a 29-6 first-half lead and blocked the Trojans from Upstate tourna­ ment, 73-34. Libsftyyille will meet' Wheaton CentraHl7-2) in a state quarterfinal game at Cham- paign's Assembly Hall Friday. "I said before that a team with size and speed would go. They're going and we're staying here," Kay said. CARY-Pi«15 Hoffman swims to YMCA nationals McHenry's Tracey Hoffman, swimming for Schaumburg's Twinbrook YMCA at the YMCA State Meet held recently, Sualified for the Y's Fationals, to be held in Orlando, Fla., April 17 and April 20. Hoffman, a McHenry High School freshman, was the most valuable swimmer for the Warriors' girls' swimming team last fall. The state meet was held at the College of DuPage in Glen EUyn. Hoffman participated in the 13-14 year age group. She finished in the top six of each of the three events she qualified in. In the 50-yard freestyle, she was fourth with a time of 25:89. In the 100-yard freestyle, she was also fourth with a time of 56:17, and she wound up her performance with a third- place finish in the 200-yard freestyle, with a time of 2:00.50. Hoffman qualified for nationals in the aforementioned three categories. She will represent Twinbrook in the tition, where she will as follows: 200 free: Tracey Hoffman 2:00.29; 100 free: 56.17; and 50 free: 25.69. Tracey is the daughter of Bill a and Vicki Hoffman of McHenry. lib f f m a n helped McHenry's swim team to a school record five dual meet victories this season. She set two Fox Valley Conference records at the conference meet held in November. 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