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GT wins 51-14, tied at top for bowl win %

Sorry about the off-topic sports post. Such a post is very unprofessional, but I couldn't resist.

Here's a chart ranking the bowl records of all Div. 1A teams with at least a dozen bowl appearances.
(If a team has been to less than a dozen bowls, it doesn't have enough data to be ranked.)

GT and Oklahoma State are tied with 2/3 wins, but I declare GT the leader, since it has been to more than twice as many bowls as Oklahoma State, given it a more solid record.

If you're thinking GT hasn't been to that many bowls, think again. It's in the top 13 in most bowls attended (a record it lost back in the 70s during its period between the SEC and ACC conferences and during it's mediocre period in the early to mid 90s), and it has 22 bowl wins, which is 6th, just one win behind Tennessee, Penn St., and Oklahoma (as of this date).

GT has now been to 8 straight bowls (mostly minor, admittedly), something less than a dozen teams have done. Next year, with 11 returning starters, it hopes to play in a NY Day bowl.

We now return you to your normal ACE programming.

Calvin Johnson makes AMAZING catches

Pls. pardon rare sports post: GT in Final 4! Hooah!

SUN 28 MAR 04.

Sorry. Couldn't resist it just this once! It's been a while ('90) since GT was in rare air in basketball. We have four NCs in FB (the latest also in '90), but have only been to the Final Four once before, in '90, and didn't accomplish the mission. (We led UNLV by 7 at the half, but got overconfident.)

They played like Marines (that's for you, Murdoc) Sunday (with great D and signifigcant O, despite their top scorer being out with an injury from the previous game) to beat a Kansas team which has been to the last two Final Fours, and scored 100 points in its previous game.

Few give GT much a chance in the Final Four (perhaps they should call it the "Final 3 + A Loser"), but the Ramblin Wreck will play with the intensity of the AIRBORNE! "Death from the sky!" (which is a fitting description of an "Ish" dunk or a "BJ" trey).

If OK State somehow beats GT, they will deserve to be in the championship game, and I'll be the first to congratulate them.

I'm waiting to hear if GTAA will allocate two tix to me. If so, we'll be in San Antonio, home of the Alamo, ready to fight to the death (of the team's hopes for this year).