PITT COLLEGE BOWL TEAM TO COMPETE IN NATIONAL TOURNAMENT

PITTSBURGH, April 1 -- The University of Pittsburgh College Bowl Team has won the Regional Championships and will compete for the national title at the College Bowl National Championship Tournament on April 17-19 at the University of Texas at Dallas.

The Pitt team beat George Washington University, Georgetown University, and Carnegie Mellon University in the Regional Championships. The team members include: team captain Eric Steinhauser, a freshman and chemical engineering/philosophy major; Niladri Das, a freshman majoring in neuroscience; Lawrence Eger, a sophomore and bioengineering major; and Adam Schaible, a junior and business administration/history major. They will be accompanied by their coach, Joe Wright.

The College Bowl National Championship Tournament is the culmination of a year's play on 300 campuses. It features the 15 Regional Champions plus a 16th wild card team. The tournament format is a full round robin with the top two teams facing off in a best two-out-of-three finals.

The College Bowl has been called "The Varsity Sport of the Mind" and has a long history on television, radio, and college campuses. It has provided the arena for college students to demonstrate their skills under the fire of varsity competition. College Bowl began on October 10, 1953 in New York and featured only two universities. The competition was nationally televised for 17 seasons and has been cited by the national PTA and Congress as "entertainment at its best."

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