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Duke, Kansas battle in semis to meet Louisville-LSU winner
Associated Press
Top-ranked Duke routed Navy
71-50 and second-ranked Kansas
iought off North Carolina State 75-
67 Sunday to earn Final Four berths
pigainst each other next Saturday in
the NCAA basketball champion
ships.
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■he Midshipmen in the East Re-
■gional championship at East Ruther-
Bord, N.J.
B Robinson scored 23 points and
Ifttad 10 rebounds for the 17th-
H'anked Middies — hut Johnny Daw-
Buns had 28 points and seven te-
L 1 Bxrunds and Mark Alarie added 18
K"/ Bajoints for the Blue Devils. Duke
aised its record to 36-2, stretched its
inning streak to 20 games and left
avy’s final record at 30-5.
Then the Jayhawks, 35-3, playing
In their own back yard, rode Danny
planning’s 22 points and Greg Dreil-
Ing’s 19 past unranked North Caro
lina State.in the Midwest Regional fi-
al. Charles Shackleford and Chris
Washburn had 20 apiece for Slate,
hich wound up 21-13.
sail n The Duke-Kansas semifinal will
Be a rematch of the final in the Big
nan Ami ^PP* e Ni l , a preseason tournament
keofEa !* n which the Blue Devils beat the
in critfi J^hawks 92-86.
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1986 National Collegiate Division I Men’s
BASKETBALL CHAMPIOHSHIP
West Regional Championship
Saturday, March 22 at Houston
Louisville 84, Auburn 76
Southeast Regional Championship
Saturday, March 22 at Atlanta
Louisiana State 59, Kentucky 57
East Regional Championship
Sunday, March 23 at East Rutherford, N.J.
Duke 7 1, Navy 50
Midwest Regional Championship
Sunday, March 23 at Kansas City, Mo.
Kansas 75, North Carolina St. 67
The Final Four
At Reunion Arena, Dallas
Semifinals
Saturday, March 29
Duke, 36-2, vs. Kansas, 35-3, 3:30 or 6 p.m.
Louisiana St., 26-11, vs. Louisville, 30-7, 3:30 or 6 p.m.
Championship
Monday, March 31
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Louisville, an 84-76 winner over un-
j^anked Auburn, will face unranked
Louisiana State, which upset third-
ranked Kentucky 59-57 for the
Southeast title.
The national championship will
be decided Monday night, March 31.
Kansas outscored the Wolfpack
25-10 down the stretch in the
Kemper Arena at Kansas City, Mo.
Manning personally outscored State
8-1 in a run during which Kansas
went from 57-52 down to 62-58 up.
Then Dreiling put in a follow shot
that gave the Jayhawks a 64-58 edge
w ith 4:40 remaining.
“I’m so happy for Greg, that we
needed him in such a big game and
he played great,” Kansas Coach
Larry Brown said.
Dawkins hit only four of 15 shots
in the first half, then canned his first
seven in the second half as Duke
kept Navy from getting closer than
10 points.
Louisville Coach Denny Crum,
celebrating the 30-7 Cardinals’ trip
— his sixth —to the Final Four, said,
“We’ve had to work very hard to get
to this point. We played a tough
schedule but now it’s paid off for us.
Our kids know not to get too excited
yet. They know they’ve got two more
games to win.”
Freshman center Pervis Ellison
got them within two wins of a na
tional championship by doing the
job on both ends of the court in the
closing minutes against Auburn. His
two blocks of Chuck Person shots, a
three-point play and a pair of free
throws enabled Louisville to hold off
the Tigers.
Herbert Crook scored 20 points
for the Cardinals. Person had a
game-high 23 and was named the
West Regional’s Most Valuable
Player.
Coach Dale Brown felt profound
satisfaction at LSU’s upset of Ken
tucky, which beat the Tigers three
times in three earlier meetings this
season. “I thought I did my best job
of coaching and they gave their best
on the floor,” Brown said.
LSU held the Wildcats to two field
goals in the last 5:50 —one an un
contested layup with six seconds left.
With Kentucky leading 51-47,
Ricky Blanton made two consecutive
layups to tie it with 4:34 to play. Don
Redden’s jumper put the Tigers
ahead again, the Wildcats tied it
again on James Blackmon’s basket,
then LSU took the lead for good
with 2:31 to go on Blanton’s two free
throws.
Layups by Redden and Blanton
around a pair of free throws by All-
American Kenny Walker clinched
the victory.
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By TOM TAGL1ABUE
Sports Writer
Texas A&M whipped the 24th-
I ranked Houston Cougars 9-1 Sun-
Hday at Olsen Field behind the pitch-
irked ling of Gary Geiger and the hitting of
m-Uniw ! jeffSchow.
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Sunday’s game gave the Aggies
(19-14, 2-1) two-of-three wins
against the Cougars: A&M was
drubbed in the opening game Satur
day 15-1, but bounced back behind
the pitching of Dale Barry, who led
the Ags to a 10-1 win in game two.
A&M Head Coach Mark Johnson
was pleased with the Ags’ wins.
“We beat an outstanding Houston
team and they’re a well-coached,
I good-hitting ballclub,” Johnson said
of the 24-9 Cougars. “They’re not an
; easy ballclub (to beat). It was a great
win for us. I didn’t think we could
hold them that well, hut I was sure
tickled to death that we could.”
Geiger (3-3) and Barry (4-0) both
allowed only one run on seven hits
Jeff Schow
and both picked up their third com
plete game of the year.
A&M’s offense, which was so ane
mic in game one, exploded for 29
runs and 23 hits in the final two
games. UH, which came into the se
ries with a team batting average of
.333, collected only two runs on 14
hits.
The Cougars scored in the top of
the first inning when Geiger balked
in the only UH run.
The Aggies tied the ball game in
the bottom of the first when Scott
Livingstone belted a one-out double
Gary Geiger
off the left field fence to score
Schow, who led off the inning with a
single.
Larry Coker, who dropped his re
cord to 5-3, came in for starter Paul
Kuzniar and retired the next two
batters to end the Aggie rally.
Both teams went scoreless until
the sixth inning when senior first
baseman Fred Gegen smacked his
second homer of the season to put
the Aggies ahead 2-1.
Geiger kept the Coogs off the
board with the help of his defense,
including two double plays and two
diving catches by Schow in left field.
“I worked real hard concentrating
on each pitch and being ready —
thinking the ball’s going to be hit to
me every pitch — and it gave me the
extra step I needed to make those
good plays,” Schow said.
A&M exploded for four runs in
the seventh on two-run homers by
Schow and Mike Scanlin. Schow’s
homer was his sixth of the season
and came with Don Wren on board.
Scanlin’s belt was his 12th of the year
— a single-season high for the senior
centerfielder.
A&M added insurance runs in the
eighth as Maury Martin and Schow
collected RBI singles to finish the
scoring barrage at 9-1.
Houston Head Coach Roland
Walton said his team went stale
when the Aggies came to life.
“We just all of the sudden went
stale,” Walton said. “It wasn’t a must
win, but a very important win, but
our team has to face those kinds of
situations early. They have to go out
there knowing it’s tough — we need
it bad.”
A&M will play Bethel College of
Minnesota in a single game today at
3 p.m.
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Texas begins own
investigation into
selling of tickets
Associated Press
DALLAS — The University of
Texas has opened an in-house in
vestigation and has notified the
NCAA about allegations that
football players sold complimen
tary tickets to boosters at prices
up to $600 per ticket, Athletic Di
rector DeLoss Dodds said.
In a copyright story, The Dal
las Morning News reported Sun
day that former players said head
coach Fred Ak
ers not only was
aware of the
widespread
practice but
also routinely
cautioned play
ers to be careful
not to get the
school in trou
ble with the NCAA.
“Several days ago we became
aware that a Dallas Morning
News reporter was interviewing
some of our former athletes for
the purpose of obtaining a story
that might contain allegations of
possible NCAA violations,”
Dodds said in a prepared
statement released Saturday.
“We immediately began our
own investigative process with
outside counsel. We have notified
representatives of the NCAA en
forcement division of the allega
tions of violations and have
pledged them our full cooper
ation,” Dodds said.
The News, during a two-
month investigation, interviewed
28 former Longhorn football
players whose Texas careers
spanned a period from 1978 to
1986.
According to the report, 27 ex
players said ticket-selling is a UT
football tradition, one that con
tinues despite the knowledge of
those involved that it is a violation
of NCAA rules.
“I’m not aware of this,” Akers
said Friday in his Austin office.
“But you don’t have to make any
mistake about it — I can tell you
where it’s going to be going from
here on. It will be turned in (to
the NCAA). Yes, I’m surprised.’
Citing policy, David S. Bt i st,
the director of enforcement for
the NCAA, would neither con
firm nor deny there is an inquiry.
Of the 28 players interviewed
by The News, 24 said they regu
larly sold their complimentary
game tickets in what many play
ers said is the best way for a UT
student-athlete on scholarship to
get pocket money.
Some players
said they netted
as much as
$4,()()() a year
selling their
tickets. Others
said they made
that much just
on tickets for
the a n n ua 1
Texas-OU game played in Dallas.
“We beat the NCAA." said
Tony Degrate, a standout de
fensive tackle from 1982 to 1 984
and the winner of the 1984 Vince
Lombardi Award as the nation's
outstanding college lineman.
NCAA regulations allow each
player to receive four compli
mentary tickets per game, presu
mably for relatives and friends
Although student-athletes used
to be able to sell their complimen
tary tickets for face value, the
NCAA ruled in 1980 that they
may not sell them at any price.
Fourteen of the players inter
viewed recalled that Akers always
warned the players to be careful
when they sold their tickets — a
statement Akers firmly denies.
“Well, I don’t know who said
that — and I don’t really care —
that is not true,” said Akers.
“They all heard the message, and
that was, ‘You are not to sell your
tickets.’
“And I cautioned them ahom
being careful, who you talk to
‘Don’t be trypped by anybody
into enticing you to sell tickets.
And you don’t know who you’re
talking to — a gambler or anyone
else.’ But the message was:
‘You’re not to sell them (tickets).
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Texas A&M Head Swimming
Coach Mel Nash was voted South
west Conference Coach of the Year
for the second time in Five years by
league coaches after leading the men
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fourth-place Swimming
finish in the
SWC Championships a week ago.
After completing his eligibility in
1977, Nash stayed on at Indiana
University as an assistant coach.
The next season he was in Texas
directing Texas-Arlington. After
two years there, Nash moved ;
the head job at A&M.
Nash is credited with turn
around the flailing A&M progran
In 1982, his third season with
Aggies, Nash was named !-
Coach of the Year.
In addition, he recruited the
gies’ first All-American, <
O’Neil, since 1957, he led
women to an llth-place finish
tionally last season, and has had
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