[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4106]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



  CONGRATULATING JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY ON ITS ``MARCH MADNESS'' 
                              DREAM STORY

  (Mr. WATT of North Carolina asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WATT of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, in North Carolina at this 
time of year, March Madness is bursting out all over. Three of the five 
first-team All-American players are from North Carolina teams. Duke, 
the University of North Carolina, Wake Forest, the University of North 
Carolina at Greensboro, and the University of North Carolina at 
Charlotte from my congressional district were all in the field of 64, 
although only one survives.
  But perhaps the most exciting March Madness story in North Carolina 
this year is at Johnson C. Smith University, the alma mater of my 
colleague Eva Clayton. Founded in 1867, JCSU is one of four 
historically black colleges and universities located in my 
congressional district and has a student body of approximately 1,500 
students. JUS finished this year's basketball season with a 27-4 
record, won the CIAA basketball tournament, won the South Atlantic 
Regional Division II championship, and tonight will be playing in the 
Division II Elite 8 in California. Now, that is a real March Madness 
dream story.
  I congratulate President Dorothy Yancey, Coach Steve Joyner and his 
basketball team and the entire Johnson C. Smith University family on 
producing this March Madness dream story and on continuing to educate 
our young people in this country.

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