| Show FditdsiD MISSION Kan (UPI) DePaul finished its regular basketball season a week ago but the Blue Demons got their biggest victory of the year Sunday—-th- e final berth in the 32 - team NCAA Basketball Championships The NCAA Selection Committee in a conference call decided on DePaul over Big Eight Conference runnerup Kansas State and Western Athletic Conference runnerup Utah on the basis of its schedule DePaul meets Atlantic Coast Conference champion Virginia in the first round of the East Regionals The committee acting on the recommendation of Metro Six Commissioner Larry Albus also replaced Louisville as the second team from that conference with Memphis State which beat Memphis Lousiville 6 in the Metro Six tournament semifinals plays West Coast Athletic Association champ Pepperdine in the opening game of the West Regionals at Tempe Ariz When the initial invitations were extended on Thursday the selection committee said it would wait until this weekend’s action was over before inviting the final team Chairman Stan Watts athletic director at Brigham Young had given the ieo-H-l- h impression that Utah and Kansas State were the leading candidates while DePaul which had already finished 19-- 8 was a safety valve Utah eliminated itself from consideration by losing to 17th-rank- ed 87-7- Wyoming wm nun said Kansas State Coach Jack Hartman whose team lost in the East Regional finals in overtime to Syracuse last year “Surprise is the key word in our thoughts and bewilderment at how they could arrive at this decision in view of our play last which won only two Western Athletic Conference games all year at home on Friday Kansas State had thought it clinched the final berth with an 8 overtime win at Oklahoma State Saturday which gave the Wildcats a 20-- 7 record one more win than it had in getting an berth a year ago “We were led to believe it was between us and Utah” year” The main problem according to Tom Jemstedt an assistant to the executive director of the NCAA was the sechdule to “We have attempted reward teams with difficult schedules” said Jemstedt “If you look at the past we have not penalized teams with tougher competition” DePaul played five teams 82-7- at-lar-ge that are bound for the The pairings for the opening round of the NCAA basketball tournament March 13 (All times Eastern Standard Time): NCAA tournament this year—beating Memphis State Virginia Tech and Cincinnati and losing to Marquette twice and Notre Dame once— and also played five teams which were in contention for bids until Saturday night — beating Louisville Villanova and George Washington and losing to Niagara and St Bonaventure “That schedule made quite an impression on the committee” said Jemstedt meanwhile Kansas State beat Arizona at home lost at Texas Tech and split with Missouri in games against tournament bound teams East Regional At Charlotte NC Southern Conference champion (VMI) No 2 vs Southeastern Conference (Aabama or Tennessee) 7:05 pm Conference Atlantic Coast champion (Virginia) vs DePaul 9:10 pm At Providence Rl Ivy League ChampionYork-Ne-(Princeton vs ECAC Metro New Jersey East Champion (Rutgers) 12:15 pm Coast champion (Hofstra) vs ECAC New 2:15 England champion (Connecticut) pm Mideast Regional At Dayton Ohio Southeastern Conference champion (Alabama or Tennessee) vs Atlantic Coast Conference No 2 (North Carolina) Ohio Valley 12:15 pm Conference Champion (Western Kentucky) vs Marquette 2:15 pm At South Bend Ind Conference Champion Xentucl (v Louisville Michigan) vs Virginia Tech Brg Ten Champion (Indiana) vs ECAC Metro New York-NeJersey No 2 (St John's) 2: 15 pm Midwest Regional At Denton Tex Southwest Conference Champion (Texas Tech) vs ECAC Upstate Champion Missouri Valley (Syracuse) 8:05 pm Conference Champion (Wichita State) vs Big Ten No 2 (Michigan) 10:10 pm At Lawrence Kan Big Eight Conference Champion (Missouri) vs Pacific 8 No 2 (Washington) 1:30 am Metro Six Champion (Cincinnati) vs Notre Dame 4:15 pm West Regional At Tempe Ariz West Coast Athletic Association Champion (Pepperdine) vs Metro Six No 2 Western State) 9:05 pm (Memphis Athletic Conference Champion (Arizona) vs ECAC Southern Champion (Georgetown) 11:10 pm At Eugene Ore Big Sky Conference Champion (Boise State) vs University of Nevada at Las Vegas 1005 pm Pacific Coast Athletic Association Champion (Pacific or San Diego State) vs Pacific Eight Conference Champion (UCLA) 12:10 am (Western 11:45 am wee Tennis -- ools poun NEW YORK (UPI) - Ken- 1956 tucky on the strength of an upset victory last weekend and Louisville on the strength of an upset loss headed a group of six schools named Sunday to compete in the 39th annual TourNational nament Also named to take part in 1 the March tournament n the nation’s oldest classic were Oregon Providence North Carolina A&T and Niagara The remainder of the 12 team field was to be named this afternoon earned the Kentucky (15-1to participate in this right year’s NIT by whipping Alabama on national television Saturday The Wildcats have played in five previous NIT’s the latest of which was 1950— the year before the pointshaving scandals broke out Invitation 13-2- post-seaso- V- - V n parking in nearby lots They were protesting their lack of a contract with the city Connors the brash crowd-pleaswho drew applause from the fans for an occasional Sunday after the United States demonstrated at times trying jig after lengthy rallies was won its first World Cup tennis to block those attending from especially impressive Sunday tournament in five years by whipping the Australians 1 The prize money — $45000 for the winning team and $25000 for the losers — had nothing to do with it members of both teams said “You don’t even think about the money” said Tony Roche whose mind still was on Connors who toyed with him en route to a 4 5 win Standard-Examine- r Monday March 8 1976 Connors hitting winners with 2B every imaginable shot said the key to the cup series was the 9-- 8 rivalry between the world’s two tennis powers HARTFORD Conn (UPI) — The cup series became the This time Jimmy Connors was focus of a union dispute with waving the flag instead of a fat Sunday’s spectators having to paycheck pass a demonstration outside You play for your country the Civic Center where the and No 2 you play for pride” event was held said the flamboyant Connors More than 500 city workers 0) It also marks the second straight year the NIT has been rebuffed by the Atlantic Coast Conference Last year North Carolina State disappointed with its loss in the ACC tournament and failure to bid garner an NCAA publicly stated it would not accept a bid to the NIT if one were offered 6-- at-lar- ge EQUALLY FRUSTRATED This year eighth ranked Maryland equally frustrated with a loss last week in the ACC and equally tourney NCAA com the bypassed by mented it would not accept an NIT bid “It would not be beneficial to continue the season any further” said Jim Kehoe athletic director of the Terrapins North Carolina State howe ver stated last week it would PART OF BLAME like to come to the NIT this d When several Wildcat players year The Wolfpack were implicated in the scandal finished the season 19-- 7 but was in 1951 Coach Adolph Rupp put knocked out in the first round part of the blame on the of the ACC tournament and has previous year’s trip to New a current losing streak of four York and never again did a games which defeatd team accept an Oregon (19-1d UCLA earlier invitation to play in Madison ed this year appeared in the NIT Square Garden for the first time last year and tournament won the Kentucky in 1946 finished second in 1947 finish! third The Ducks will and third in SOMETHING EXTRA r KERMIT ZARLEY lets out a yell as his putt for a bird comes up short during 9-- Sunday’s fourth round of the Citrus Open Golf Tournament Zarley and Hale Irwin tied for the top spot with Irwin winning the sudden death playoff today return last year’s most 1944 rwin Takes Citrus Open Title valua- 17th ble player in the tournament a guard Ron Lee on out team missed ranked (19-9- ) is an Providence NCAA chance to play in the Louisville 5) - Local Teams Hillcrest High School captured the 1976 girls’ State basketball crown last weekend while several local prep teams also were among the top finishers in the state tourney action Hillcrest took the title with a 2 victory over Viewmont Weber High grabbed third place in the girls’ tourney with a 6 win over Provo Clearfield captured fourth place with a 1 triumph over Olympus and Ben Lomond beat neighbor4 in Ogden ing arch-rivthe battle for consolation honors arid fifth place Provo finished sixth Olympus seventh and Ogden eighth with their losses in Saturday’s finals Davis High swept the girls 0 crown with a State Intermoun Tooele and win over tain wrapped up the combined state title with a 3 Richfield in other over victory championship action Saturday 4-- A 61-4- 4--A 45-3- 41-3- 38-3- al 3-- A 1-- A unexpected catch for the NIT The Friars who only a week scored an impressive ago d St victory over John’s (NY) were expected to reach the NCAA tournament! hvion the sixth hole today "hen Riit the Friars wprp Connecticut Saturday in theKennit Zarley missed an of the ECAC New inch putt to capture the Citrus Open golf championship England regional tournament (17-1be Irwin who also won two will Niagara making its ninth NIT appearan- weeks ago at Los Angeles ce The Purple Eagles finished appeared to have blown a second in the 1972 tournament chance to end the playoff at the sixth hole when he lipped out and third in the 1954 classic trophy” 16th-ranke- mt 18-fin- 0) Finish High 2-- A 8-- the nation’s tournament when it lost to Memphis State Friday night in the semifinals of the Metro Six tournament The Cardinals (20-will be making their 11th appearance in the NIT Louisville won the tournament in pin failed to sink his par and walked over and shook Irwin’s hand The victory was worth $40000 Irwin who is now this year’s leading money winner with to nearly $114000 Zarley got a $22800 consolation prize Irwin and Zarley were tied at Arizona Awaits NCAA Regionals After Wrapping Up WAC Crown United Press International For Arizona it was Christ- mas in March as the Wildcats received the present they wanted most— the Western Athletic Conference title Arizona capped a 11-- 3 season 2 victory Saturday with a intra-state rival Arizona over State the title winner the past two seasons The crown is the Wildcat’s first since they won the old Border Conference title 77-7- 53-3- in 1950 43-2- The victory was special cause Arizona had finished second or tied for second in each of Snowden’s first three years The year before Snowden was hired the Wildcats had finished title but ended the season tied 5 for second place with last in the conference records SENIOR FORWARD Utah fell to conference celler “This culminates four years dweller Wyoming 1 Friday of hard work” said senior and revived Saturday to down forward A1 Fleming “We’ve Colorado State 7 By losing built fought and scratched to to the Cowboys Utah blew their get to this point Today we chance for the final berth in the weren’t going to be denied and NCAA playoffs we went out and did what we Wyoming fell to Brigham 0 the next night to had to do The whole world Young finish at looks great to me now” after opening the weekend into move with an 1 loss to Arizona will now the first round of the NCAA Colorado State Western Regionals next week at UTEP’s earlier title hopes were flushed Saturday with a Tempe Ariz Utah and Texas El Paso had 8 loss to New Mexico who given Arizona a run for the finished in fourth at 6 9-- 64-6- 88-7- 82-6- 2-- 12 85-8- be- 59-5- 8-- THEN PREPARE FOR REBELS roncos Take United Press International “We’re giving all the players a couple of days off” said Boise State coach Bus Connor “We played well in the Big Sky Conference tournament and we’re going to take a break until Tuesday to relax enjoy and savor the two wins before for the NCAA Connor said playoffs” “We set only two goals at the beginning of the season — to win the regular season conference title and to win the tournament New we’ll take whatever else we can get” Connor added The Broncos went into the four-teaconference playoff rated no better than the third team after tying Idaho State and tournament host Weber State for first in the Big Sky with 5 regular season league records preparing m 9-- the end of Sunday’s regulation play and got in two playoff holes before play had to be suspended because it became tco dark to read the breaks in the greens When play resumed at 9:30 am EST today both birdied their first hole and paired the next two leaving them tied through a total of 77 holes of play leading by three Zarley strokes at the start of Sunday’s scheduled final round needed two long pressure-packe- d putts on the final two holes of regulation play to catch Irwin who has won a berth in the World Series of Golf by picking up his second victory in three weeks Final scores and money won in $200000 Tournament Citrus Open Golf —270 Irwin Zarley J C Snead $14200 John Mahaffey $9400 Mike Hill $7700 $7700 Bob Murphy $6400 At Geiberger $5433 Mark Hayes $5433 Victor Regalado $5433 David Graham $4050 Don January $4050 Mike Morley $4050 R H Sikes $4050 Rick Acton $3100 Bobby Cole $3100 Pat Fitzsimmons $3100 Joe Inman $3100 Miller Barber $2013 Gay Brewer $2013 George Burns $2013 Ben Crenshaw $2013 Danny Edwards $2013 Jerry McGee $2013 Gary Player $2013 John Schroeder $2013 Larry Zielger avor Victory But BSU slipped past Idaho State in the first round Friday night and then edged the Weber Wildcats in double overtime Saturday night winning its first-evBig Sky basketball title But now the Broncos must Nevada-La- s play nationally-ranke- d Vegas Saturday in the NCAA Western Regional quarterfinals at Eugene Ore “They’re a lot quicker than we are But Nevada-La- s Vegas can be beat and most of its wins were at home And we’ve proved we can win on the road by taking the Big Sky title in er Ogden” Connor said a lot of the load will fall on his sophomore son Steve Connor The young 2 guard led all scorers in the 6-- conference tournament with points including 20 in the 77-7- 0 46 Golden Eagles Nab CHL Win Over Tucson “Even in a tournament where an American plays an Australian there’s a little something extra there” he said TUCSON (UPI) — Wayne! goal 0f the night “That’s what tennis is all King scored three goals and Bob Liddington also scored a about” Frank Spring two including the for Tucson “We are very happy to win winner to lead the Salt Lake pair we knew we had a tough Golden Eagles to a 8 Central FIRST SIX GOALS match” said American Captain Hockey League victory over the Tucson goaltender Bruce Dennis Ralston not trying to Tucson Mavericks Sunday Aberhart gave up the first six irritate the Australians who had night Salt Lake goals and was pulled of as to think the cup his hat trick at midway through the second begun King started their own in favor of Roger 9:23 of the first period and period Aussie Captain Fred Stolle picked up his other two goals in Swanson Aberhart and Swan-th- e whose club seemingly never second json had 35 saves in the Tucson had a chance as the Americans Spring’s second goal with net got1 the momentum by winning just eight seconds left in the Former Olympic goalie Jim the first match Thursday night game snapped an 8 tie which Warden maldng his first start and clinching the title Satur- Tucson had taken 44 seconds Jfor the Golden Eagles turned day drily said his men had earlier on Mike Sleep’s second aside 36 shots been “quite used to the 0) sixth-ranke- 7-- 6-- 20th-ranke- Rupp-coache- er said he plans few changes in his team’s game Nevada-La- s plan “We match up even Vegas with them on size Our only problem will be speed We’ll have to come up with some the in leading points way to slow them down to win Broncos to the championship in Oregon” double overtime win over 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