Bracket Beaters

The Minaret will be hosting a bracket for the ensuing March Madness college basketball tournament.

Selection Sunday takes place March 15 and The Minaret’s bracket will run the following Friday.

Cut it out, post it your wall and let us know how you do.

Softball’s SSC Star

Softball opened up their season 3-2 at the Eckerd Tournament hosted in Clearwater. The lady Spartans beat two SSC conference opponents, Florida Tech and Saint Leo, but the games will not count as conference wins due to tournament play.

The weekend also brought about the SSC player of the week honor to senior first baseman

Samantha Becker, who had 7 RBI while averaging .500 over the five games.

Fan Poll Fun Vote

Tucked away in the bottom right corner of the athletic web site is a survey.

The current question is ‘How many national championships will UT win in 2008-09?’

There have been just under 500 votes. The next most popular response is one with 31.5 percent of the votes, totalling about 156 people.

The remaining sports are baseball, softball, both basketball teams, golf and tennis. The Minaret was one of the 22 percent that voted 0.

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