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Tuesday, February 9, 1988/The Battalion/Page 11 QPTemple latest team to take No.1 spot in poll )p1 From the Associated Press Temple became the sixth team to hold the top spot this season when the Owls earned their first-ever No. 1 ranking in the Associated Press J ^llege basketball poll released on Monday. I Temple, 18-1, jumped from fifth I) first with 23 first-place votes and (I a confertnj l[‘204 points from the nationwide ile hitting i! ,g in 68 i i in overall*] -tool its piltlg returning I nel of sportswriters and broad- sters after a week that saw 13 ams in the Top 20 lose at least one me. Purdue, 19-2, improved from a comptt sixth to second with 16 first-place )n Hates and 1,191 points after beating -22,14-7Sli then-No. 11 Michigan 91-87 on Sun- son (ItM if’ul 1987 s; of an NO Oklahoma h the Mideasi: rong contint squad bad third basej 103, 19 ther retui Snedeker I Arizona, which had held the No. 1 position for six weeks, including the |st four in a row, fell to third with 15 first-place votes and 1,162 points, 2K more than Oklahoma, which jumped from seventh. The Sooners, )-2, won both their Big Eight Con- rence games last week, beating ansas and Missouri. Arizona suffered its second defeat in 23 games when it lost a Pac-10 game at Stanford. It was the first conference loss for the Wildcats. Pittsburgh, the only other team to receive first-place votes, finished with two and 927 points after beat ing then-No. 20 St. John’s in its only game of the week. Pitt, 16-2, re tained first place in the Big East with a 6-1 record. North Carolina, 16-3, jumped two places to sixth with 905 points, five more than Nevada-Las Vegas. UNLV was second last week, but lost to Cal-Santa Barbara for the second time this season. The Runnin’ Re bels, 20-2, had a chance to take the No. 1 spot after Arizona’s loss, but failed, as did Brigham Young Uni versity, 17-1. BYU, the last major undefeated team in the nation, suffered its first loss of the season Saturday at Ala- bama-Birmingham and fell from third into a tie for eighth with Duke at 859 points. Duke, 16-3, won three games last week, but the Blue Devils were beaten at home by North Carolina State 77-74. Kentucky, 16-3, rounded out the Top 10 for the second straight week with 749 points, 48 more than Syra cuse. Following Syracuse in the Second 10 were Michigan, Iowa, Kansas State, Bradley, North Carolina State, Vanderbilt, Wyoming, Indiana and Villanova. Last week’s Second 10 were Michi gan, Syracuse, Iowa, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Iowa State, Illinois, Bradley, Florida and St.John’s. Of the five new teams in this week’s ratings, only Kansas State hadn’t previously cracked the Top 20 during the season. The Wildcats, 14-4, are in first place in the Big Eight and are ranked for the first time since March 1982, when they were also 14th. Kansas State beat Iowa State and Ne braska last week. North Carolina State, which also beat Virginia last week to improve to 14-4, was ranked 20th for two weeks earlier in the season. Wyoming, which had been ranked as high as fifth before falling from the poll, beat Texas-El Paso and New Mexico last week to improve to 17-4. Indiana, which had also been ranked fifth earlier in the year, posted Big 10 victories over Minne sota and then-No. 17 Illinois as the new lineup of Coach Bobby Knight brought the Hoosiers to a record of 13-6. Villanova, 16-6, had been ranked two weeks ago, but lost its next two games and was bumped. However, the Wildcats beat then-No. 14 Georgetown and Boston College last week to rejoin the the top 20 AP poll. Florida beat Alabama before los ing to Auburn at home. George town, Iowa State, Illinois and St. John’s each lost their two games last week. 6er coach fired after team falls from elite iff. The A; appeal*! the SWCit C7AA bidiii SWC)-C:» 5, 2nd seiH PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The •88 squad Sumping Philadelphia 76ers fired I birdbaseiBoach Matt Guokas Monday for fail- ads the tiicl jug to win with the team they said he iesigned, and replaced him with as- JstantJim Lynam. Lynam takes over Tuesday night |rhen the sub-.500 team that has lost ven of its last nine and 10 straight |n the road opens the second half of e NBA season in Atlanta against jjlie Hawks. Owner Harold Katz blamed Guo- s for the 76ers’ slide from the Hague’s elite. I When reporters suggested at the |ews conference that Katz’s trades, lot Guokas’ coaching, were respon- ible, Katz said: “Every single trade we’ve made latinghisp: 'as recommended by Matty Guokas. his was Matty Guokas’ team. Every uy was recommended to me by latty Guokas. “Moses Malone, Roy Hinson, ev- |ry single trade was recommended Matty Guokas. And his recom- Riendations almost always were Tken. Yes, I made the final deci- fons. I could have vetoed. So I am lltimately responsible. I take that re- ponsibility.” Lynam appeared at the news con- penence u hurler in L'lped the pi e tough Lew 1 -28,6-15 ys (21-28, 711 vie® , Christian and them s Mike newed hope ) will plant ;r new is contra will realh i of theespj t he welcc jre, but!*' ' he said, 1 rere to «l n’t have ail st-round dj / Nets inl| Warriors al ference, then left for Atlanta. General Manager John Nash said Lynam would coach the rest of the season, and his contract would be re viewed after that. Lynam said he viewed himself as an interim coach whose future would be determined by the job he does. “You live and die by your record,” Lynam said. In making the announcement, Nash said, “Matty is a guy who con tributed a great deal, but this is part of the package that comes with the territory of being a coach. When things are not going the way you want, coaches go. You bring some one in to try and right the ship.” Guokas, who was told of the change Sunday evening, was not at the news conference. He was not im mediately available for comment. Guokas had been the Sixers’ coach since June 14, 1985, succeeding Billy Cunningham. Three days later, he hired Lynam, who previously had been an assistant in Portland and head coach of the San Diego and Los Angeles Clippers. The 76ers enter the second half of the season with a 20-23 record in second place, 11 games behind the leading Boston Celtics in the Atlantic Division. They have made less than 50 percent of their field goals in 11 consecutive games, and the opposi tion has been shooting against them as a 60 percent clip. Contributing factors to the team’s woes included Andrew Toney’s chronic foot problems, and a back injury that has sidelined starting for ward Cliff Robinson for the last seven games. All-Star forward Charles Barkley missed two recent games with a sprained left ankle, but appeared in the last two games before the All- Star break. The 76ers problems started after Guokas took over. Bobby Jones and Julius Erving retired, and then came the controversial trade of Malone, one of the game’s dominating cen ters. The 76ers sent the 6-10Vs Malone, Terry Catledge and two No.l draft choices to the Washington Bullets for center Jeff Ruland and Robin son. Ruland played five games and suffered a knee injury that forced him to retire. The 76ers have been struggling without a big center ever since. They have tried Tim McCor mick, Mark McNamara, Hinson and last year’s top draft choice, Chris Welp. Welp suffered a knee injury that has sidelined him for the sea son. On the same day they traded Ma lone, the Sixers dealt the top pick in the draft to Cleveland for Hinson, who last month was dealt with Mc Cormick to New Jersey for Mike Gminski and Ben Coleman. Cleve land took North Carolina center Brad Daugherty with the Sixers’ pick. Guokas, who signed a new two- year contract last May, built a.record of 119-88 starting with a 54-28 finish in the 1985-86 and following with 45-37 in ’86-87. Lynam, before coaching in the NBA, spent 11 seasons as a college coach at Fairfield, American and St. Joseph’s. The Clippers were 30-52 under Lynam in 1983-84, and 22-39 the following season before he was re placed by Don Chaney. Guokas spent 10 seasons as an NBA player with the Sixers, Chi cago, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Hous ton and Buffalo. He returned to the Sixers as a broadcaster in 1977, then became an assistant to Cunningham in December 1981. ore athletes arrive ahead of storm to play ; won I CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — More Ithletes, including U.S. bobsledders Ind speed skaters, converged on lalgary Monday for the Winter lympics, just ahead of a storm that as expected to drop as much as ght inches of snow in the nearby ountains. As of noon Monday, 577 of the 11,684 athletes registered to compete ww in the Games had arrived in this buthern Alberta cowtown and oil i |enterof650,000. J The Games begin Saturday. 1 Along with athletes and team offi- ials, tourists by the thousands also teresteT rowded into town, some of whom [dyfor® jould need help from a crisis com- littee hastily put together by the t, ctiargi fi; jty to deal with problems arising :e breaks rom a booking agency scandal in th gaifMhich up to 3,000 people could be ie, loWpeft without hotel rooms. bite eafk' hen )roacli in* - deuces International Olympic Committee (resident Juan Antonio Samaranch Jso officially opened the IOC’s 93rd iession Monday evening with a peech tough on drugs and easy- [oing on boycotters. An inch or two of snow fell over lalgary Sunday night. Environment Canada, this coun- Itry’s equivalent to the National linthp 1111 leather Service, said arctic air rould drop afternoon temperatures felt lic J ' ose, ramein 'first br® 1 /ers in her tbtf 1 Potter breez' lU Sid ks assst^ ;tuck i" [e ol tiered 9.00 ingl trie 5 ®. ,ver^ en' saI! ' fn ' 2 to around 0 degrees, and as much as 8 inches of snow could to fall over night in the mountain areas. With temperatures expected to rise back above freezing by Wednes day, there was a potential problem at the two Rocky Mountain ski venues: Canmore, site of Nordic events, and Nakiska, site of Alpine events. John Rule, venue chairman at Canmore, said a few inches of new snow would not be a problem, “as long as we don’t get a big dump.” If too much snow falls on the ski trails, it will have to be either re moved or packed down. “We’re always packing it, walking it and grooming it,” Alpine venue chairman Lou MacEachern said of the ski trails. “That’s just part of the game. This won’t be enough snow to give us any trouble.” MacEachern said the Alpine trails were ready for racing. “We would have liked to have races two days ago,” MacEachern said. “It’s beautiful, just beautiful. This is just what we want every visi tor to this country to see so they can understand what we’re all about.” The city of Calgary, meantime, formed a committee to help with housing and transportation for visi tors stranded by the local booking agency World Marketing Services Inc. Officials estimated that about 3,000 tourists bought tickets, rooms and transportation through the agency, whose local representative disappeared last week. Police are investigating to see whether there were any laws broken. “Individuals may start arriving and have no idea that anything’s gone wrong,” Olympic Housing Bu reau manager John Varga said. Frank King, chairman of the Cal gary organizing committee, said the company went broke. Most of the 2,500 Americans com ing to Calgary on package tours sold by Olson Travelworld Ltd. of Cali fornia, official U.S. ticket agency, had their local reservations made by World Marketing. Bob Fleming, head of the Calgary Tourist and Convention Bureau, said hotel space and tickets have been reconfirmed for most U.S. groups Offi Officials said there also had been some double booking by World Mar keting. Calgary Police Supt. Len Esler said his department had interviewed Richard Allan, World Marketing’s operations director who disap peared from his office last week. “We’re not at the point where we can make a decision whether there’s a civil or criminal problem,” Esler said. In a speech prepared for delivery at the IOC’s session, Samaranch called drug abuse the lowest form of cheating. “Doping is alien to our philoso phy, to our rules of conduct,” he said. “We shall never tolerate it.” “We shall unfortunately have to take some precautions since it seems that the desire to win at all costs drives some to turn to illegal and to tally dishonest means in order to en sure that their athletes possess an of ten illusory advantage over their rivals,” he said. 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