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Show NAT'L SPORTS DIGEST HAKKINEN WINS AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX: Finland's Mika Hakkinen was handed his second Grand Prix vict0ry by teammate David Coulthard with two laps to go yesterday as McLaren made a stunning start to the 1998 Formula One season. Co.ulthard honored a pre race agreement between the drivers by pulling aside to let Hakkinen through with cwo laps remaining of the 58 on the 3.274-mile Albert Park circuit. f UTAH STATE HEADED TO NCAA TOURNEY: Utah State's decade-long wait for a return trip to the NCAA tournament is over. Marcus Saxon scored 23 points, and Utah State held off a late rally to beat Pacific 78-63 yesterday, claiming the Big West tournament championship and an automatic NCAA berth. Justin Jones added 17 points, Kevin Rice had 14 and Pharoah Davis had 11 for Utah State, making its 12th trip to the NCAA tournament but the first since 1988, when the Aggies lost to Nebraska in the first round. NORTH CAROLINA BEATS DUKE TO CLAIM A.C.C. CROWN: The latest in a long line of championships for No. 4 North Carolina was all about revenge and resiHency. The Tar Heels 130-3) won their 15th Atlantic Coast Conference tournament yesterday by beating No. 1 Duke 8368, capping a three-day run m which they defeated all three teams they lost to during the regular season. CHAVEZ GONZALEZ DRAW IN WBC SUPER LIGHTWEIGHT TITLE FIGHT: A visibly tired and battered JuHo Cesar Chavez fought fellow Mexican Miguel Angel Gonzalez to a draw Saturday in Mexico City for the vacant World Boxing Council super lightweight title. It was a very cautious regulation 12-round bout, with Chavez mostly defending himself against Gonzalez. The veteran Chavez ended up bleeding profusely from the nose and with a swollen left cheek. N.F.L. HALL OF FAMER RAY NITSCHKE DEAD AT 61: Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, whose fierce play epitomized the champion Green Bay Packers of the Vince Lombardi era, died yesterday at age 61. He had an apparent heart attack at his winter home in Florida, team spokesman Lee Remmel said. Nitschke played for the Packers from 1958 to 1972 and was the defensive anchor on the Lombardi teams that won five NFL titles, including the first two Super Bowls. SUU Upward Bound is c ur1entl y accepting applications for ten tutor/counse lo r positions for lheir six-w ee k summer program !June 12JuJ y 23). Appli c ants mu s t h.y,,e completed two years of college and be competen t to tutor stud y groups in at least one of the following college courses: Englis h, Spanish, Math (including calc ulu s), Biology, and Zo o l og y . Mu s t also have good socia l and com mun ication s kills. Exp e rie n ce i n planning and s upervising activities fo r adolescents preferred . Duties i nclude li ving in with prog ram participants; supervising, tuto ring and counseling students; c reating and overseeing d evelopmental activities. Salary s tans at $1,800 for th.e s ix-week period. [nterested pe rsons may pick up an a pplication at the SUU Human Resources Offic e or the Upward Bound Office (Smith Center, Suite 2 05). Applic ation a nd college transcript are due April 3, 1998 to either of the abo ve offices. CEDAR CITY NCAA tournament field set KANSAS CITY, Mo. IAP) - While there was little doubt about the No. l seeds for the NCAA tournament - North Carolina, Duke, Kansas and Arizona - the field of 64 still offered some surprises. The top seeds were considered the four best teams in the country for most of the season, but a few of the 34 at-large teams didn't know their fate until yesterday. Among the surprise picks were Florida State, which lost seven of its last 10 games, including the play-in game of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament; Western Michigan, which had an RPl ranking of 59; and Miami, which split its last 10 games and had an RPI ranking of 48. " You have beauty marks and warts on all of those teams," Selection Committee chairman C.M. Newton said of the schools that were considered for the final atlarge berths. He cited the strength of schedule and quality wins for Florida State and Miami. Florida State beat Arizona and Connecticut, while Miami also beat Conn ecticut. The teams that certainly merited some attention from the nine member selection committee but were not picked included Arizona State, Wake Forest, Hawaii and Vanderbilt. Five conferences are sending five teams each to the tournament -Atlantic Coast Conference, Atlantic 10, Big East, Big Ten and Southeast ern Conference - while three are sending four each: Big 12, Pac-10 and Western Athletic Conference. The Midwestern Collegiate Conference and Conference USA each had three. Four schools-Illinois-Chicago, Prairie View, Northern Arizona and Radford - are making their first tournament appearances. Prairie View, which is 263rd of 306 Division I schools according to the RPI ratings, has the lowest ranking of any team ever to make the NCAA tournament. Miami hasn't been to the NCAAs since 1960, but the 38year absence includes 15 years - 1971-85 - when tbe school didn' t have a team. North Carolina extended its own record with its 24th consecutive appearance, while Arizona tied Georgetown for the second-longest streak with its 14th consecutive selection. Georgetown's run was from 1979-92. North Carolina, which won its rubber game with top-ranked Duke in Sunday's ACC championship, was given the top seed in the East region. Duke was put at the top of the South region, while Kansas, the onJy one of the top four seeds not to be ranked N o. l at some point this season, was placed in the Midwest and defending champion Arizona was placed No. 1 in the West region. Wotnen's tourney field set as well By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tennessee, Old Dominion, Stanford and Texas Tech received the No. l seeds yesterday in the NCAA women's basketball tournament bracket, which held surprises for Connecticut and several other schools. · Connecticut got only a No. 2 seed in the East Regional after the Huskies had been expected to be a No. 1 despite the loss of star Nykesha Sales to a ruptured Achilles' tendon late in the season. UConn won the four games it played without Sales, including the Big East tournament championship game. But the selection committee apparently took the injury into consideration in seeding the third-ranked Huskies 131-2), who have lost only to Tennessee and Rutgers but didn't have the schedule strength of the top seeds. North Carolina, Alabama and Duke joined Connecticut as the No. 2 seeds Tennessee (33-0), a dominating team all season long with All American Chamique Holdsclaw and a talented freshman class, was the top seed in the Mideast Regional. That means the Lady Vols would not have to leave the state to earn a berth in the Final Four in Kansas City. Their first two NCAA games would be at home, and the regional semifinals and finals will be played in Nashville. Coach Pat Sum.mitt's team is trying to become the fust to win to win three consecutive NCAA titles. Summitt has guided the Lady Vols to five national championships in all. In an interesting first -round pairing, Tennessee will meet the only other team that went unbeaten this season: 16th-seeded Liberty of the Big South. Texas Tech in the Midwest has an even better route than Tennessee because the Lady Raiders, the 1993 national champions, wouldn't have to leave home to earn a Final Four berth. Their first two games would be at home and the Midwest Regional is on their court in Lubbock. Tech opens against Gramblin g. Stanford in the West wouldn' t have to leave its state either because the West Regional is just across the Bay in Oakland and the Cardinal would get their first two games at home. The Cardinal !21-SJ meet Ivy League champion Harvard in the first round. Old Dominion is the only No. 1 seed that would have to make a lengthy trip. The East Regional is in Dayton, Ohio. The Lady Monarchs face St. Francis in their first game. The top four seeds in each region are the host . schools for subregionals of four teams each. Those games will be played Friday and Sunday or Saturday and Monday. All of the regional games are March 21 and 23. Another surprise in the bracketing.was Louisiana Tech, ranked in th e top four all seaso~, getting only a No. 3 seed. Although the Lady Techsters are 26-3, their power ranking suffers from playing in the Sun Belt Conference. lllinois of the Big Ten also received a No. 3 seed despite faltering down the stretch and losing in the quarterfinals of the league tournament. But illini got a boost from a schedule that included Stanford and Tennessee. Regular season Big Ten champion Iowa and tournament champion Purdue both were No. 4 seeds. Arizona and Florida were the other N o. 3 seeds, while North Carolina State and Iowa State were the other No. 4s. Iowa State got a place among the top 16 only one year after making its first NCAA appearance. The Cyclones finished second to Texas Tech in the regular season Big 12 race and reached the semifinals of the conference tournament, where a loss to Kansas was thought to have ended their hopes at a No. 4 seed. Stanford came a long way to claim its No. l seed, winning 19 of its last 20 after a 2-4 start. |
