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Article: Ready to rumble Southwest Texas isn't intimidated
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 16, 1994
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Russell Ponds says he is ready. He's got his bags packed and is
eager to head to Wichita, where he and his Southwest Texas State
teammates will find a University of Massachusetts team that is just
as eager.
The first and second rounds in the NCAA tournament can create
strange matchups, which is the most charitable description for
tomorrow's Midwest Regional opening-rounder between second-seeded
UMass and 15th-seeded Southwest Texas State.
"We don't know a lot about them," said Ponds, a 6-foot senior
point guard from Tulsa, Okla., who helped the Bobcats to a 25-6
record and an NCAA berth via their victory in the Southland
Conference tournament. "But from reading the scouting reports, they ...