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THE WEEK, Page 33SOCIETYNot-So-Dumb Jocks
Duke's men and Stanford's women capture NCAA basketball titles
It will be hard to perpetuate dumb-jock stereotypes if
universities like Duke and Stanford, among America's brainiest,
keep grabbing trophies. Duke became the first team since UCLA
in the early 1970s to repeat as champions in the National
Collegiate Athletic Association's men's basketball tournament.
A day earlier, the women's team from Stanford won its second
ncaa title in three years.
Led by Bobby Hurley and Christian Laettner, Duke flattened
a young Michigan squad, 71-51. The team's performance testifies
to the skill of coach Mike Krzyzewski, who has compiled a
295-110 record in the NCAA tournament since arriving at Duke in
1981. At Stanford, early-season conditioning with a track coach
gave the women's team the legs to run away from Western
Kentucky in the final, 78-62. Like Duke, Stanford is coached by
one of the game's best strategists, Tara VanDerveer, who has a
16-3 postseason record. The dominance of two research-oriented
universities is rare in big-time college sports. Will it
rehabilitate the scholar-athlete ideal?