March Madness Team Intros: Team 4
Last, but not certainly not least, Team 4 of March Madness 2010 comes from just south of San Franciso, CA and competes in Division III of the NCAA as an independent member. The campus of this school overlooks the Pacific Ocean, but the lure of the beach hasn’t prevented their athletes from practicing, as they have recently won national championships in water polo (2006), tennis (2007), and women’s club rugby (2005-2006).
As for their mascot? He goes by the scientific name of Ariolimax dolichophallus, and is no stranger to the big stage. You might have seen him on Fear Factor a few years ago, or in Reader’s Digest, when he was named the best mascot of 2004. He also made an appearance in a court case involving campus mascots, this having been written about him in Crue et al. v. Aiken in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals: “We give the best college nickname nod to the University of California, Santa Cruz. Imagine the fear in the hearts of opponents who travel there to face the imaginatively named ‘Banana Slugs’”. I couldn’t have said it better myself. The fourth and final team of March Madness 2010, the University of California, Santa Cruz Banana Slugs, and their mascot, Sammy the Slug!
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