TV & VIDEO - March 29, 1988
Bill Cosby won’t be worrying about what to wear on at least one episode of his NBC series next season. Cos was so confident that his alma mater--Temple University--would mop the court with underdog Duke University in the quarterfinals of the NCAA basketball tournament Saturday that he went on CBS before the game to say so. Cosby said he’d wear a Duke Blue Demons T-shirt on “The Cosby Show” if his beloved Temple Owls, the No. 1-rated team in the nation, went down to defeat. In spite of such boasting and the courtside cheering of America’s No. 1-rated TV star, Duke upset Temple, 63-53.
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