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/ THE BATTALION SPECIALS 'POOD THURSDAY THRU WED. f MARCH 3 TUESDAY IS DOUBLE STAMP DA ON PURCHASES OF S2.50 OR MORE EXCL. BEER VEGETABLE OIL £Sr E 7 S? 69* DELSEY TISSUES 4^69' GOLDEN CORNb^o 5^1 PALMOLIVE LIQUID 1^69* SWISS STEAK RATH LUNCH MEAT USDA CHOICE BONELESS HEAVY BEEF. . . * BOLOGNA SALAMI LUNCHEON. CALIFORNIA FINE EATING LARGE 4 00 NAVEL ORANGES ROMA INE L ETTUCE^ ,o r A ^3 9* tourney begins Sat. The excitement in the National Collegiate Athletic Association has- ketball tournament now centers around the two unbeaten* — Rut Kers and Indiana. But none of that nothers defending champion UCLA. The Bruins, winners of this tour nament 10 of the last 12 years, are hack in Saturday s semifinals along with the two unbeatens anti Michi gan UCLA. 26-4, draws Indiana, which has won 30 straight, in the second game of the semifinal douh- leheader at the Philadelphia Spec trum Saturday. In the opener, Rut gers. winner of 31 in a row, plays Michigan. 24-6. The game between UCLA and In diana is a rematch of a season opening showdown In that one, In diana romped to an 84-64 victory that cast a pall over the Bruins'brand new coach. Gene Bartow, Bartow blamed himself for that loss, saying he had over-prepared his team and put too much pressure on the players. He pledges that won't happen again this time We re going to emphasize what UCLA does, not w hat Indiana does, " said Bartow "And if we play the wav w e are capable of playing ... 1 think we re going to win." UCLA’s preparation will include a 10-minute walk-through of Indiana's offense Thursday. "I think we spent about 10 hours on it the last time," mused Bartow . After that opening loss. UCLA won 26 of the next 29 games to set up the rematch The Bruins and Bartow are looking forward to it. “It shapes up as a super game. " the coach said. So does the Michigan-Rutgers match, which opens the nationally- televised semifinal doubleheader Rutgers has been criticized for the quality of its schedule — or lack of it — but Coach Tom Young defended his team's accomplishments. “We have to play the best in our area and we do that." said Young. "We can't play a Midwestern schedule. We can’t play an Atlantic Coast schedule. We've played every team in the East that has anything." The Rutgers-Michigan game matches two teams with strikingh similar styles. Both have freshmen centers. Jim Bailey for Rutgers and Phil Huhhard for Michigan. Both have tough point guards. Ed Jordan for Rutgers and Rickey Green for Michigan. Both love to play a run ning game. All four semifinalists have won three tournament games so Car. Rut gers edged Princeton by one point, then wiped out Connecticut and VM1 to take the East. Michigan took Wichita State. Notre Dame and Mis souri to capture the Midwest. In diana eliminated St. John's Alabama and Marquette for the Mideast crown and UCI.A won the West by beating San Diego State. Pepper-* dine and Arizona. Scott May’s fears only false alarm Slighted Rutgers in NCAlA finals Auocialed Fms BLOOMINGTON, Ind — India na’s Scott May, college basketlwll s Player of the Year and two-time All-American, is really like a rookie in NCAA toumev competition. And. for a while last Saturday, he had visions of being thwarted again in the top-ranked Hoosiers hid for a national championship. The 6-foot-7 senior, who picked up his third foul and was benched early in the Hoosiers’ Mideast Reg ional finale against No. 2 Marquette, couldn’t help remember a costly broken arm that sidelined him in last year's NCAA playoffs. "Sure, it ran through my mind that maybe this was going to be like last year," May said. “Here we art* play ing in the regional finals and Tm on the bench again. 1 couldn’t believe it. “This was just as hard as last year, sitting on the bench and watching the game, knowing you can't help. All I wanted was for us to stav with Marquette and give me a chance to get Iwk." Indiana led by one. 36-35, at the half, and, with May back in the lineup in the second period, the Hoosiers sprinted to a 65-56 victory and a semifinal lierth against defend ing champion UCLA. In that second half. May popped home all five of his field goal at tempts and did not pick up another foul. “We had to have Scotty in there,” said Indiana Couch Bobby Knight. 'During the half we talked it over and decided to put him on Lloyd Walton. We figured Walton would lie out on the perimeter and Scotty would lx* less likely to pick up fouls guarding him than someone like Earl Tatum.’ Last year. May made a brief tour nament appearance and, wearing a cast on his broken arm. was com pletely ineffective as the Hoosiers fell to Kentucky by two points. That has been Indiana's only loss in the , last 65 games. Michelangelo Antonioni’s first English language lilm Vanessa Redgrave BLOW-UP David Hammings • ■* ' Sarah Milas , Aggie Cinema International Film Series presents Blow-Up one of the most controversial films of the 60's. Wednesday, March 24 Rudder Theater, 8 p.m. $1 plus TAMU I D. 0= m Associated Press NEW BRUNSWICK. N.J — It seems now that the Rutgers basket Isall team can play Iwdl with the rest of the country. Better than'most, in fact. Criticized for a "soft" eastern schedule, the Scarlet Knights have climbed to the summit of the NCAA playoffs, the glamorous final four in Philadelphia this weekend. They jumped over some pretty' good teams to do it. too. We ve blown most people out, so everybody ’s saying the schedule’s easy,” says Coach Tom Young. "They say it even though we’ve played every team in the East that has anything. We have to play the best in our area — and we do that. "We can’t play a Midwestern schedule. We can’t play an Atlantic Coast Conference schedule. We re being criticized for our schedule only because they’re comparing us with the other teams in the Top Ten. But that says a lot for our program when they start comparing us with those teams." After winning their first 10 games, the Scarlet Knights received recog nition as a Top Twenty team. When they continued to go unbeaten, they manor East 3 Theatres: in fTlono r tost (Toll R93-ft30r5 •••••••••• HAPPY HR. IN I & III TILL 6:38 5:50-7:40-9:30 NO HAPPY HR. Wlnt«rH«wk . . . A Blackfoot L*o*ncl. Mel Brooks'. { [gu campus \::t. Odi TWalra tar “BEST FUM OF THE YEAR •«taat100%h»gMnr alcoubtein I QUALITY PORN I - - - - —rr- “The Private After noono of Pamela Mann” O&MmoMV tmm PALACE 8375811 S SKYWAY TWIN • ’ ' ’ They soared from the skies to stage the most daring rescue ever filmed! ma MMOL leaped into the Top Ten and finally, after finishing the regular season without a loss, wound up No. 4. Now they’re shooting for the NCAA moon. "Playing in the final four is a dream that very few players or coaches realize in their lifetimes,’ says Young, "and we are there. There is no doubt that we are not as physical as .ludiana and UCLA, hu{ 1 don’t tninfc that thev will be as quick as we are. Rutgers may get a fhance to play either Indiana or UCLA in Monday night's finals, hut liefore then will have to heat Michigan in Saturday’s semifinals at the Spectrum. Ironi cally, the Wolverines have a strik ingly similar style of play. They have a freshman center (Phil Hubbard) just like we do (Jim Bailey),” points out Young, “and they have a great point guard in Ric key Green, just like our Ed Jordan. And Michigan likes to run, just like we do. T've heard that Michigan is a more physical team than ours, hut 1 don’t think that's necessarily true. They let them play a more physical brand of hall in the Big Ten and that may not be true in Philadelphia.” NAIA member teams subject to rule changes Associated Press KANSAS CITY — Member teams of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics will be able to run kickoffs hack from the end zone next season, but fumbles will have to he played from where they are recovered. The NAIA Monday endorsed the football rules of the National Col legiate Athletic Association for 1976 after announcing the dissolution of a joint football rules-making commit tee with the National Feaeration of State High School Athletic Associa tions. The National Alliance Football Rules Committee was established in 1957 by the NAIA and the high school organization. But the prep group now intends to publish a foot ball rules code for high school use only, according to a joint announce ment. , The NAIA endorsed the NC.AA football rules, which will be made mandatory for NAIA semifinal and championship games in Division I and II next fall, after a survey of NAIA coaches showed 81 per cent preferred the NCAA rules. Under the rules, a player may run back a kickoff if he catches it in the end zone before it touches the ground, Init not under the alliance regulations. But a defensive player may not advance a recovered fumble in the NCAA, as under the alliance rules. On pass interference by a defen der, under NCAA rules the offensive team gets a first down at the point of the foul; under alliance rules, it is a 15-yard penalty from the scrimmage line. Qbc INTERSTATE /^fraS7f-1