THE BATTALION
MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1979
Page 7
TEXAS ASM UNIVERSITY
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By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Sports Editor
§he Big Apple
is probably sour
[woke up feeling absolutely miserable last Friday morning.
[ stumbled out of bed and trudged outside to get the Austin Ameri-
cflifthat was lying in a puddle in the driveway.
, As I walked back to the house, I unrolled the soggy newspaper. The
P ana N g. on) p a g e Q f fhg S ports section confirmed in smudged black-and-white
what I had heard the night before from a friend of a sportscaster friend.
Tht re it was in big, bold letters: Aggies blow 17-point lead.
Yes, it was true. Texas A&M had defeated New Mexico and
Nevada-Reno on the road only to come practically home to the Summit
and blow it against Alabama in the third round of the National In
vitational Tournament.
llead on through the article. The Aggies had led by 17 twice in the
first half. But at intermission, Alabama had closed the gap to six points.
At the end of the game, the Tide had rolled to a 72-68 victory.
, , , “Our season wasn’t supposed to end tonight,’ Rudy Woods was
pnnirpfl q u< # ec l as saying after the game. “We were supposed to go to New
York
Ah yes. New York’s Madison Square Garden is the sight of the final
two rounds of the NIT. And now the Aggies were not going and neither
was 1.
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west Freeway.
llwouldn’t be able to pull on my Justin’s and my “Texans For
Secession” t-shirt and mosey up to the bar for a cool one in Manhattan’s
little piece of Heaven, the Lone Star Cafe.
llvouldn’t be resting in the shade of the Empire State Building. I
wouldn’t get the chance to be refused entry into Studio 54. No trip to
the Ktatue of Liberty for me.
And Kail Malden could keep his lousy traveler’s checks.
I quickly dropped the sports section and searched for some cheer in
^Kmnies.
As I was looking for the comics, I found an article about recent
occifi ences in the Big Apple. The story reported that, in the last week,
nil a man had been stabbed to death in the New York subway; a lady had
S beep raped, sodomized and robbed and another man had been shot as
^ ^ “Balked down the street.
Now' that I think about it, it’s probably a good thing I didn t go to
New York. I would probably have gotten mugged on Seventh Ave.
no:
Fictitious Final Four?
Michigan St., Penn win
United Press International
DePaul, Indiana State, Pennsyl
vania and Michigan State.
Sounds like the field for the Sea-
wolf Classic Christmas Tournament
at Anchorage, Alaska. It certainly
couldn’t be the Final Four for the
NCAA championships.
But, believe it or not, that’s
exactly what it is following Penn’s
64-62 victory over St. John’s in the
East regional and Michigan State’s
80-68 triumph over Notre Dame in
the Mideast regional Sunday.
Penn, the first Ivy League school
to reach the Final Four since the
Bill Bradley-led Princeton team of
1965, will meet Michigan State and
DePaul will play undefeated In
diana State, UPI’s national cham
pion, in the semifinals at Salt Lake
City next Saturday. The finals will
be held next Monday night.
DePaul upset UCLA 95-91 in the
Far West regional and Indiana State
overcame Arkansas 73-71 in the
Midwest regional Saturday.
Of the four surviving teams, none
were expected to survive their re
gional tournaments.
Penn escaped with a victory over
St. John’s when the Redmen missed
three straight field goal attempts in
the waning seconds. James Salters
hit two free throws with 23 seconds
remaining to put the Quakers ahead
by two points but a shot by Tom
Calabrese and two successive
follow-up shots off rebounds by
Gordon Thomas and Wayne McKoy
missed for the Redmen as time ex
pired.
Tony Price, the most valuable
player in the Ivy League this sea
son, led the Quakers with 21 points
and Tim Smith chipped in with 16,
many coming from long range. Ron
Plair led St. John’s with 21 points,
but the Redmen’s leading scorer
this season, Reggie Carter, man
aged only 4 points and fouled out
with more than five minutes remain
ing.
“Tim and Tony’s outside shooting
got us back in the game,’’ admitted
Penn Coach Bob Weinhauer, noting
that the Quakers came from four
points behind midway through the
second half to take the lead with
4:53 remaining.
“There’s no post-mortems on my
part, ” said Coach Lou Carnesecca of
St. John’s. “There’s only one regret
— the ball go in the closet. The
amazing thing is what they did and
not what we didn’t do. We got beat
from the outside. Smith and Tony
Price are great shooters.’’
Michigan State’s dynamic pair of
Greg Kelser and Earvin Johnson
ruined Notre Dame’s chances of
making the Final Four for the sec
ond straight year. Kelser scored 36
points — many off feeds from
Johnson — and Johnson added 19 in
leading the Spartans to the Final
Four for the first time in 22 years.
Notre Dame, which trailed by 11
points as halftime, got within seven
points in the second half, but the
Irish’s chances of overhauling the
Spartans were reduced when Bill
Hanzlik and Tracy Tripucka went to
the bench with their fourth personal
fouls with over 10 minutes remain
ing. By the time they returned to
. the lineup, the Spartans had broken
the game open.
Hanzlik and Tracy Jackson led
Notre Dame with 19 points each,
but Tripucka, the Irish’s leading
scorer during the season, managed
only 8.
“I feel you’re as good as your last
game, so today we re a very very
good basketball team,” said Michi
gan State Coach Jud Heathcote.
“The breaks went our way and we
had intensity and intelligence. This
is the best Michigan State has
played since the tourney started.
We don’t know a great deal about
Penn — we know they’re in the
east.”
Gary Garland and Curtis Watkins
scored 24 points apiece for DePaul
in the Blue Demons victory over
UCLA. The triumph was especially
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Meyer, who will be taking a team to
the Final Four for the first time in
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“I saw in the local papers the day
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DePaul led by 17 points at the
halftime, but UCLA came within
two points in the final 30 seconds
only to have Garland wrap up the
game by sinking a layup with with
10 seconds to play.
Indiana State got 31 points from
Larry Bird, college basketball’s
Player of the Year, but it took an
off-balance, lefthanded basket by
Bob Heaton with five seconds left to
give the Sycamores a victory over
Arkansas. Heaton, whose despera
tion 50-foot basket saved a victory
against New Mexico State earlier
this season, put up his game
winning shot when the Sycamores
couldn’t get the ball into Bird and it
fell through after twice bouncing on
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“Things just worked out for us
like they have all year,” said
Heaton. “I think we proved some
thing. Being 32-0 is a great feeling.”
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