2018 NCAA Baseball Regionals: Day 3 Updates – College Baseball Daily

It looks like Duke is giving Georgia a run for their money in their own backyard. That would be almost as big a surprise, but not quite the same devious pleasure, as Florida State getting jacked in front of their own faithful. Duke as lovable underdog? That's weird.

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2018 NCAA Baseball Regionals: Day 3 Updates

Throughout the third day of the NCAA Regionals we will give an update for every team, and what will be next for the winners and losers of each game.
LAST UPDATE: 4 p.m.
All game times are central.
Gainesville Regional (DAY 3 COMPLETE): Florida – Singer threw 7 strong innings and hung on to beat Jacksonville 3-2. Will play FAU on Monday at 12.
Jacksonville (ELIMINATED) – Battled with Florida, but lost 3-2. Lost to FAU in rematch.
FAU – Took care of Columbia 11-2 in an elimination. Took down Jacksonville to stay alive. Will play Florida on Monday at 12.
Columbia (ELIMINATED) – Lost 11-2 and are eliminated.
Raleigh Regional (AUBURN ADVANCES): NC State (ELIMINATED) – Avoided elimination beating Northeastern 9-3. Beat Army. Lost to Auburn15-7.
Auburn – The Tigers dismantled Northeastern 13-4, led by Steven Williams. Casey Mize gave up 1 run over 7 innings as the Tigers cruised to victory. Up 7-0 in the 4th against NC State.
Northeastern (ELIMINATED) – Were eliminated by NC State with a 9-3 loss.
Army (ELIMINATED) – Pulled off the upset over NC State 5-1. Lost to Auburn. Lost to NC State.
Lubbock Regional (Texas Tech Advances): Texas Tech – Powered their way past New Mexico St 9-2 and then pounded Louisville. TOook care of Louisiville 11-6.
Louisville (ELIMINATED) – Won 13-6, but then lost to Texas Tech. Took care of Kent State. Lost 11-6 to Texas Tech.
Kent State (ELIMINATED) – Hung on to beat New Mexico St 2-1. Lost to Louisville.
New Mexico St (ELIMINATED) – Two-and-out.
Athens Regional (DAY 3 COMPLETE): Georgia – Powered their way by Campbell 18-5 after trailing early. Came back to beat Troy 11-7. Will play Duke at 12 on Monday.

Duke – Battled back to beat Columbia 16-8 and stay alive. Fell behind early but have come back to beat Troy 15-6. Will play Georgia at 12 on Monday.
Troy (ELIMINATED) – Beat Duke 6-0, but blew a lead late and lost to Georgia. They also lost their best pitcher, Andrew Crane, due to injury in their first game. Surrendered an early lead and lost to DUke.
Campbell – (ELIMINATED) Lost 18-4 to UGA. Blew an 8-1 lead against Duke and  lost.
Fayetteville Regional (ARKANSAS ADVANCES): Arkansas – Beat Oral Roberts 10-2 and took care of Southern Miss. Hung on to beat DBU 4-3.
Southern Miss (ELIMINATED) – Won 9-0. Nick Sandlin was brilliant. Offense went silent against Arkansas as they lost 9-0. Lost 9-4 to DBU.
Dallas Baptist (ELIMINATED) – Destroyed Oral Roberts 18-9. Beat So Miss. Battled but lost to Arkasnsas 4-3.
Oral Roberts (ELIMINATED) – Lost to Arkansas 10-2 and DBU 18-9.
Greenville Regional (DAY 3 COMPLETE): East Carolina (ELIMINATED) – Won 16-7, but then lost 4-2 to USC. Eliminated by UNCW 9-7.
South Carolina – Came from behind to beat Ohio State 8-3. Beat  ECU 4-2 with a brilliant performance by Cody Morris. Will play UNCW at 12 on Monday.
Ohio State (ELIMINATED) – Lost an extra innings game 4-3 and are eliminated.
UNCW – Had a dramatic 4-3, walk-off win in extra innings against Ohio State to stay alive. Held on to beat ECU 9-7. Will play South Carolina at 12 on Monday.
Austin Regional (TEXAS ADVANCES): Texas – Won easily. Nolan Kingham was sharp as the Longhorns cruised by Texas A&M 8-3. Took a 3-2 lead in the 8th and held on to win.
Indiana (ELIMINATED) – Pauly Milto threw a complete game shutout as they avoided elimination with a 6-0 win over Texas Southern. Scored 9 in the first and held on to beat Texas A&M 9-7. Fell behind 3-2 in the 8th and left the bases loaded in the 9th to lose.
Texas A&M (ELIMINATED) – Stayed hot and beat Indiana 10-3, but was embarrassed by Texas 8-3. Gave up 9 in the first, and battled back, but lost 9-7.
Texas Southern (ELIMINATED) – Lost 6-0 and are eliminated.
Oxford Regional: Ole Miss – Took care of Hogan Miller and Saint Louis 9-2. Held on to beat Tenn Tech 9-8. Will play the winner of Tenn Tech-Missour State at 12 on Monday.
Tennessee Tech – Scored two in the eighth to beat Missouri State 6-4. Lost a tough game 9-8 to Ole Miss. Just underway against Missouri State.
Missouri State – Couldn't complete the comeback and lost 6-4 to Tenn Tech. Got a walk-off hit to beat Saint Louis 9-8. Just underway against Tenn Tech.

Saint Louis (ELIMINATED) – Lost 9-2 to Ole Miss and lost on a walk-off 9-8 to Missouri State.
Stanford Regional: Stanford – Won game one in extras. Lost on a walk-off home run to Cal State Fullerton. Held on to beat Baylor 4-2. Down 5-0 to CSU Fullerton in the 7th.
Baylor (ELIMINATED) – Took care of Wright State 11-5 to stay alive. Lost 4-2 to Stanford.
Cal State Fullerton – Beat Baylor 6-2 as Colton Eastman was dominate. Got a walk-off home run to beat Stanford. Up 5-0 on Stanford in the 7th.
GO JUMBO GO! #RoadToOmaha— NCAA Baseball (@NCAACWS) 2:39 AM - Jun 3, 2018 Wright State (ELIMINATED) – Lost a tough game in extras against Stanford, and then were eliminated by Baylor 11-5.
Conway Regional (WASHINGTON ADVANCES):Coastal Carolina (ELIMINATED) – Suffered an 11-6 loss to Washington, and then lost a tough one 6-5.
UConn (ELIMINATED) – Avoided elimination with a 10-3 win over LIU. Defeated Coastal 6-5 to stay alive. Ran out of gas late and lost to Washington.

— NCAA Baseball (@NCAACWS) 3:26 PM - Jun 3, 2018 Washington – Impressive 11-6 win over Coastal. Broke up a 6-6 tie in the 8th with a bases clearing hit to win 9-6 and advance.
We're SUPERS BOUND!!!
— Washington Baseball (@UW_Baseball) 9:13 PM - Jun 3, 2018 LIU Brooklyn (ELIMINATED) – Lost to Coastal and UConn and are eliminated.
Clemson Regional (VANDERBILT ADVANCES): Clemson – Got a walk-off win in the 10th against Morehead State, but lost 4-3 to Vanderbilt. Won a close 9-8 game against St. John's. Lost 19-6.
Vanderbilt – Behind a brilliant pitching effort by Drake Fellows, Vanderbilt beat St. John's 2-0. Came back from down three to beat Clemson 4-3. Destroyed Clemson to advance. Connor Kaiser hit a grand slam and had 9 RBI.
St. John's (ELIMINATED) – Lost 2-0 to Vanderbilt, but beat Morehead St 11-5 to say alive. Lost a close one 9-8 to Clemson and are eliminated.
Morehead State (ELIMINATED) – Lost a tough game in extra innings against Clemson, and then lost 11-5 to St. John's.
Tallahassee Regional (DAY 3 COMPLETE): Florida State (ELIMINATED) – Lost 7-6 to Samford. Cole Sands left this game in the 3rd with an injury. Drew Parish tried to finish a complete game after sitting through a rain delay and gave up a 3-run, walk-off home run.
Mississippi State – Lost a wild game to Oklahoma 20-10. They were leading 10-7 going into the 7th. Didn't scored for the first 8 innings and then hit a 3-run, walk-off home run to eliminate Florida State. Hung on to beat Samford 9-8. Forced a sudden death game against Oklahoma on Monday at 12.
Oklahoma – After blowing an early 5-0 lead, the Sooners ended up scoring 20 runs to beat Mississippi State and win 20-10. Beat Samford 4-0. Lost to Miss St. Will play against on Monday at 12.
Samford (ELIMINATED) – Maybe the upset of the day taking down Florida State 7-6 in Tallahassee. Lost to Oklahoma 4-0. Come back fell just short in a 9-8 loss to Miss St.
Chapel Hill Regional (NORTH CAROLINA ADVANCES): North Carolina – Took care of business against NC A&T winning 11-0. Hung on to beat Houston 4-3. Won a sluggfest against Houston to advance.
Purdue (ELIMINATED) – Lost 9-1. Beat NC A&T 14-4 and faltered late to lost 8-4 to Houston.
Houston (ELIMINATED) – Won first game 9-1. Couldn't complete the comeback against UNC. Broke up a 4-4 game in the 8th to win 8-4. Tried to make an epic comeback but ran out of steam and lost.
NC A&T (ELIMINATED) – Lost 11-0 to North Carolina and got beat by Purdue.
Deland Regional (STETSON ADVANCES): Stetson – Won 8-3 over Hartford. Logan Gilbert had plenty of run support as they took care of Oklahoma St. Destroyed Ok St to advance.
South Florida (ELIMINATED) – Left a ton of runners on base early and couldn't catch up to Oklahoma State as they lost 9-2. Blew a late lead, but went on to beat Hartford in extras. Lost 6-1 to Ok State.
Oklahoma State (ELIMINATED) – Impressive 9-2 win over South Florida. Lost to Logan Gilbert and Stetson. Beat USF 6-1. Ran out of gas and lost to Stetson.
Hartford (ELIMINATED) – Played a couple of competitive games in this regional but dropped both.
Minneapolis Regional (MINNESOTA ADVANCES): Minnesota – Beat Canisius 10-1. Came back to beat UCLA 3-2 in extras. Broke away late to beat UCLA and advance.
UCLA (ELIMINATED) – Scored 4 runs in the bottom of the ninth to walk-off 6-5 over Gonzaga. Lost 3-2 in 10 to Minn. Ran out of gas and fell short against Minnesota.
Gonzaga (ELIMINATED) – Was beating UCLA almost the entire game before the Bruins walked it off. Beat Canisius 8-2 to stay alive. Lost to UCLA again and are eliminated.
Canisius (ELIMINATED) – Lost 10-1 and 8-2.
Corvallis Regional (OREGON STATE ADVANCES):Oregon State – Bryce Fehmel started on the mound for Oregon State as they won 9-3. Luke Heimlich is dominated LSU as they won easily. Breesed past LSU to advance.
LSU (ELIMINATED) – Beat San Diego State 6-4, but are lost to OSU. Came back in the 9th to beat N'western State. Couldn't get anything going against OSU pitching and lost.
San Diego St (ELIMINATED) – Lost a close 6-4 game to LSU, and were shutout 9-0 by N'western State.
Northwestern State (ELIMINATED) – Lost 9-3, but bounced back to trounce San Diego St 9-0. Blew a one-run lead in the 9th and were eliminated by LSU.
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Coach K: Jalen Rose remarks 'insulting' to Duke - WGN

"Never try to teach a pig to sing; It wastes your time and annoys the pig." - Robert Heinlein

I was glad to hear Coach K join the chorus in defense of Grant Hill and the Duke program. I couldn't agree with him more. This on top of Grant Hill's well written defense.

I'm not even sure what kind of a bizarre-o world we live in anymore when there is even a question of someone as classy and successful as Hill. And what do you know, karma comes around immediately and bites ol' Jalen right on the ass with his concealment of a DUI arrest from his employers at ESPN -- the same ESPN that combined with producer Jalen Rose to produce this docu-trash.

Jalen Rose perpetuates this NAACP-type mind-set of covert, institutional racism, a form of "dog-whistle racism" that only they and their ilk can see. This allows them to frame it and re-frame as the situation serves them. Then they can craft self-serving documentaries (by Jalen Rose, for Jalen Rose, about Jalen Rose) that re-write and over-glamorize a legacy that simply doesn't exist.

This serves the same segment of the population that blindly follows the race baiters and poverty pimps like Al Sharpton -- who BTW is still waiting for his "forty acres and a mule" -- and discard the path of success demonstrated by Hill and others. A lot of good Sharpton's (and others) "preachings" have done to improve the lot of African-American in this country over the last, what is it, thirty or forty years? Instead, jackasses of his ilk would prefer to denigrate and tear down a successful, classy A.A, like Grant Hill.

Hill simply doesn't fit the model of the argument regarding race in this country as Sharpton / Rose portrays it in this country, so he has to be torn down. In the same way N.O.W., tries to tear down Palin. It's not the National Organization of Women anymore, it's the National Organization of Women who endorse the Liberal Agenda. (NOW -> s/b NOWELA). It is no longer the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, it's the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who fit the Liberal Model and the Denigration of those who Don't (NAACP -> s/b NAACP, ah the heck with it). It is such an insane mind-set or mental model that it makes my head explode just thinking about it. (HYPERBOLE ALERT!!)

Funny, but I never think you are able to build somebody up by tearing somebody else down in the process. These two organizations routinely employ this process in their actions.

In fairness, Jalen Rose has attempted to clarify his remarks and put them into context, but for all intents and purposes, the damage is already done. His clarification will never receive the same attention as his initial remarks. To torture a pair of metaphors, Rose wants to close the barn door after the poop hits the fan.

And then of course, the karma train ran over Jalen, as the DUI details surfaced. A little bit of "Oh what a tangled web we weave...."? Perhaps.

The former Michigan guard said the comments regarding Duke's preference to recruiting "Uncle Tom's" were said from his perspective as a high school athlete heading into college and do not reflect his current opinions as a 38-year-old man.

"I know a lot of people are trying to circumvent a great documentary that was two hours of quality content and paraphrase a statement that I made and look at the headline but not read the story," Rose said in the voicemail, according to USA Today. "That's basically when I talked about my recruiting as a high school student as it related to Duke. I just want to make sure I verify how I felt about that. I was clearly talking about a framework from 1991 to 1993, not about 2011."

I just feel like we've reached a point in the so-called debate where the Heinlein quote shown above rings true.

In the end, Coach K and Hill are right and Jalen Rose is dead wrong. Rose and the Fab Five left little or nothing positive behind at Michigan. Even the baggy shorts thing was a rip-off from the Flying Illini. If we're counting mixing hip-hop and a bad-boy image with basketball, you could say they left a negative legacy. I'll leave aside the allegations of illegal payments. None of which you'll see or hear about as part of the legacy of the so-called "Uncle Tom's" at Duke.

Kudos to Coach K and Grant Hill. Thanks to Jalen Rose for highlighting the stupidity of the argument that underpins the last of the race-baiters and poverty pimps. Hopefully, incidents like this will signal the death knell of their clueless arguments.

From wgntv.com:
Coach K: Jalen Rose remarks 'insulting' to Duke - WGN

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski reacted Tuesday to comments made by Jalen Rose in ESPN's "The Fab Five" documentary referring to black Duke players in the early 1990s as "Uncle Toms."

"Sometimes people say things to get attention so they can sell their documentary," Krzyzewski told "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on WMVP-AM 1000. "Obviously, that was a poor choice of words and very insulting to everyone here at Duke but especially, not just our African-American players, but any African-American students. When you judge within a race, you start judging, like you put categories as to who you are. I think that's just the wrong thing to do."

Duke was 3-0 against the Fab Five and beat Michigan in the 1992 NCAA title game.

"We were very successful against them and, to be quite frank with you, we recruited Chris Webber," Krzyzewski said. "I didn't recruit Jalen Rose because we had Grant Hill and I'm happy with that. We didn't look at the other -- Juwan Howard, we knew wasn't going to come to Duke. The other two kids (Ray Jackson and Jimmy King) we didn't think were of the caliber that could play as well as Thomas Hill and Brian Davis and Billy McCaffery. They're good kids. They were good kids.

"They had a heck of a run, but they didn't leave anything, they didn't establish anything there," said Krzyzewski, referring to the Fab Five's failure to win a national title or lay a foundation for future success. "The guys that I had established something that (former Duke and Chicago Bulls guard) Jay Williams continued to do 10 years later -- the standards of what it meant to be a Duke basketball player."

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Grant Hill's Response:

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Grant’s Unedited Response to the Fab Five’s Documentary
Due to space constraints, the editorial posted in the New York Times was shortened. Read Grant’s full, unedited response to the Fab Five’s comments in their recent documentary here.

I am a fan, friend and long time competitor of the Fab Five. This should not be a surprise because I am a contemporary of every member of that iconic team. I have competed against Jalen and Chris since the age of 13. Jalen, Chris, and Juwan are my friends and have been for 25 years. At Michigan, they represented a cultural phenomenon that impacted the country in a permanent and positive way. The very idea of the Fab Five elicited pride and promise in much the same way the Georgetown teams did in the mid-80s when I was in high school and idolized them. Their journey from youthful icons to successful men today is a road map for so many young, black men (and women) who saw their journey through the powerful documentary, Fab Five.

It was a sad and somewhat pathetic turn of events, therefore, to see friends narrating this interesting documentary about their moment in time and calling me a bitch and worse, calling all black players at Duke “Uncle Toms” and, to some degree, disparaging my parents for their education, work ethic and commitment to each other and to me. I should have guessed there was something regrettable in the documentary when Jay Williams and I received a Twitter apology from Jalen before its airing. And, I am aware Jalen has gone to some length to explain his remarks about my family in numerous interviews, so I believe he has some admiration for them.

In his garbled but sweeping comment that “Duke only recruits black Uncle Toms,” Jalen seems to change the usual meaning of those very vitriolic words into his own meaning, i.e., blacks from two-parent, middle class families. He leaves us all guessing exactly what he believes today. And, I wonder if I would have suggested to former Detroit Pistons GM Rick Sund to keep Jimmy King on the team if I had known, back then in the mid-90s, that he would call me a bitch on a nationally televised show in 2011.

I am beyond fortunate to have two parents who are still working well into their 60s. They received great educations and use them every day. My parents taught me a personal ethic I try to live by and pass on to my children. They remain committed to each other after more than 40 years and to my wife, Tamia, our children, and me. They are my role models and always will be.

I come from a strong legacy of black Americans. My namesake, Henry Hill, my father’s father, was a day laborer in Baltimore. He could not read or write until he was taught to do so by my grandmother. His first present to my dad was a set of encyclopedias, which I now have to remind me of the importance of education. He wanted his only child, my father, to have a good education, so he made numerous sacrifices to see that he got an education, including attending Yale. This is part of our great tradition as black Americans. We aspire for the best or better for our children and work hard to make that happen for them. Jalen’s mother is part of our great, black tradition and made the same sacrifices for him.

It is unbeknownst to me what Jalen meant by his convoluted reference to black players at Duke considering how little he knows about any of them. My teammates—all of them, black and white—were a band of brothers who came together to play at the highest level for the best coach in basketball. I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court. It is insulting and ignorant to suggest that men such as Johnny Dawkins (coach at Stanford), Tommy Amaker (coach at Harvard), Billy King (GM at the Nets), Tony Lang (coach of the Mitsubishi Diamond Dolphins in Japan ), Thomas Hill (small business owner in Texas), Jeff Capel (former coach at Oklahoma), Kenny Blakeley (assistant coach at Harvard), Jay Williams (ESPN analyst), Shane Battier (Memphis Grizzlies) or Chris Duhon (Orlando Magic) now or ever sold out their race. To hint that those who grew up in a household with a mother and father are somehow less black than those who did not is beyond ridiculous. All of us are extremely proud of the current team, especially Nolan Smith. He was raised by his mother, plays in memory of his late father and carries himself with the pride and confidence that they instilled in him. He is the quintessential young Dukie.

The sacrifice, the effort, the education and the friendships I experienced in my four years are priceless and cherished. The many Duke graduates I have met around the world are also my “family,” and they are a special group of people. A good education is a privilege. At Duke, the expectations are high for all of us. Just as Jalen has founded a charter school in Michigan, we are expected to use our education to help others, to improve life for those who need our assistance and to use the excellent education we have received to better the world. The total experience at Duke taught us to think before we act, to pause before we speak and to realize that as adults we have a responsibility to do good, not just do well. A highlight of my time at Duke was getting to know the late, great John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor of History and the leading scholar of the last century on the total history of African Americans in this country. His insights and perspectives contributed significantly to my overall development and helped me understand myself, my forefathers, and my place in the world.

Ad ingenium faciendum, toward the building of character, is a phrase I recently heard. To me, it is the essence of an educational experience. Struggling, succeeding, trying again and having fun within a nurturing but competitive environment built character in all of us, including every black graduate of Duke.

My mother always says, “You can live without Chaucer and you can live without calculus, but you cannot make it in the wide, wide world without common sense.” As we get older, we understand the importance of these words. Adulthood is nothing but a series of choices: you can say yes or no, but you cannot avoid saying one or the other. In the end, those who are successful are those who adjust and adapt to the decisions they have made and make the best of them. I only hope I can instill in my children the same work ethic, the same values, the same common sense approach to life and the same pursuit of excellence my parents, Coach K and Duke gave me.

I caution my fabulous five friends to avoid stereotyping me and others they do not know in much the same way so many people stereotyped you back then for your appearance and swagger. I wish for you the restoration of the bond that made you friends, brothers and icons. I hope you reach closure with your university so you will enjoy all the privileges of its greatness.

I try to live my life as a good husband and father. I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.

Grant Henry Hill
Phoenix Suns
Duke ‘94

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NCAA Final Four and the future of March Madne$$

OK, just because I did not pick ANY of the Final Four teams for the first time, doesn't mean I am going to ignore the event like it's the pre-season NIT or the Maui Invitational Tournament or something. But I was thinking along those lines.

The remaining match ups are intriguing.

Cinderella and home town favorite Butler vs. perennial tournament heavyweight Michigan State.

I like Team Sparty here, based mainly on their rebounding and toughness. Coach Izzo's experience in this environment should help as well. The Butler is a very entertaining team to watch, so this will be a close call. My guess is it will be a pro-Butler crowd, but that should not deter Michigan State. It's not like they are very popular at fellow Big Ten venues.

Perennial favorite Duke and West Virginia.

For a change, I actually like this Duke team. Maybe it's the Chicago area product John Scheyer. He looks like he might be the tenth guy picked on the playground, but he scores, he passes, he makes his teammates better. He may have to play some D here. Singler looks like a cross between Dirk Nowitzki and Jack Sikma. Dare I say love-child? He's a good player though. I like Nolan Smith as well. They have trouble with athletic, physical teams like West Virginia and Coach Huggy-bear comes close to nullifying any coaching advantage Coach K would usually hold. I would feel better about the Mountaineers if their PG were healthy, but Duke in a battle.

Then Duke over Michigan State in the final.
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NCAA to increase play-in field by 3500%

On a separate note, apparently the NCAA plans to expand the March Madness field in the future from the current 65 team field to 96 teams.

So in the future, the 97th best team in the country, likely with a near .500 record will be whining their way to the NIT (also owned by the NCAA).

No stop-over from 65 to 68, maybe by increasing the play-in field from one to four teams first, just to see how that works.

I like the fact that now the mid-major teams that win their regular season conference championships will make the field automatically rather than having to win their conference tournament as well.

A team that plays well all season, but is banged up, can be left at the curb (or the NIT) by fading in a one-week tournament. The Cinderella stories that win their late season tournaments will still make the Big Dance.

The future NIT tournaments are going to be real hoot. Maybe they can capture fan interest in the future by pitting the NIT champion against the womens champion or the WNBA champion or something along those lines. Just a thought.

It's all about the CA$H register and the non-revenue sports that are desperate for funding in a post Title IX world.

Hey, maybe now that women are entering and graduating from our nations colleges in greater numbers than men in recent years, we can pass a "Title XI" that would save some of these "minority programs" -- MEN'S PROGRAMS -- JK N.O.W. -  I don't want a pink brick thrown through my window or anything.