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- THE WEEK, Page 33SOCIETYNot-So-Dumb Jocks
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- Duke's men and Stanford's women capture NCAA basketball titles
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- 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.
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- 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?
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