THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE CHAMPS: . HolyCross Downs-Mewphis Statei N LOUISVILLE-,Ohio State took a giant step towards its second straight NCAA title last night when 17,494 spectators watched the defending !champs swamp Kentucky's Wildcats, 87-74. The Buckeyes, in winning their 31st straight game, will trek to Kansas City next weekend for the National finals:. Kentucky 'battled gamely for half the contest, and was down by only eight,. 36-28, at intermis- sion, but the powerful Bucks were Just too much for Adolph Rupp's charges as they went ahead by as much as 24 points early in the second half. All-Americans Jerry Lucas and Larry Siegfried led the attack, pointwise, on the boards, and in floor play. Lucas, who was held to a meager 9 points Friday in the Buckeyes' squeaker 'over Louisville, pumped in 33 last night, high for the two- day tourney. In addition he was tremendous on the boards, snatch- ing 30 rebounds and outclassing the Wildcats' Ned Jennings, Allen Fieldhaus, and Carroll Burchett in that department. Siegfried, meanwhile, was back at his ball-stealing tactics, in ad- dition to setting up most of the successful Buckeye offensive pat- terns. He also scored 20 points, 13 in the first half. With 11:25 remaining in the half, 083U shot ahead, 11-7, and was never headed after that, al- though Kentucky stayed within striking range till intermission, mostly on the basis of a balanced scoring attack. Roger Newman was high point man for his team with 29, 22 in the second half. The Wildcats should have stay- ed in the dressing room after in- termission, though, for all the good Coach Blass 'BA's',Probe NEW YORK () - Ken Norton, chairman of the NIT selection committee and coach at Manhat- tan the past 15 years, blasted the New York District Attorney's of- fice yesterday for its handling of the latest college basketball scan- dal investigation. "Why are they announcing this all now just when there are two big tournaments (the NCAA and the NIT) going on, he asked. "They want to get as much pub- licity as possible out of it. They've been working on it for five months and they're just releasing the in- formation bit by bit.This ' way, every college basketball player in the country is a suspect." Norton commented after a dis- closure today by Executive Assis- tant District Attorney David S. Worgan that hundreds of persons in many states have been question- ed during the investigation. Wor- gan said a dozen people had been interrogated in the past several days. If would not identify any of those questioned or discuss the progress of the probe. Although police sources said that 15 to 20 colleges from coast to coast might be involved, only three -'players have been 'charged with accepting bribes to shave points. Two gamblers are in cus- today. Louisville Comes Back In the opening game of this Freedom Hall doubleheader, Louis- ville bounced back after its heart-' breaking 56-55 loss to Ohio State Friday and subdued tiny More-' head State College, the darlings of the tournament, 83-61. Lec by John Turner, the Cardi- nals surged to a 24-pointhalftime lead and stayel between 18 and 25 points ahead for the remainder of the game. Turner High Turner scored 28 points to give him 53 for the two games, high for the tourney. He. also broke his school record, erasing former All- American Charley Tyra's standard for the -most. field goals in one season. The attendance, although large, did not reach 18,0009, mostly due to the fact that the game was tele- cast locally. Scalpers, who asked for, and got, as much as $60 for a bleacher seat on Friday, were al- most non-existent last night. ast St. Josephs 96, Wake Forest 86 CHARLOTTE, N. C. (AP) - St. Joseph's of Philadelphia stunned jittery Wake Forest with a 48 point first half last night and rode the cushion to a 06-86 victory in the NCAA Eastern Regional Basket- ball Tournament finals, gaining a place in the "semifinals next Friday at Kansas City. Wake Forest outscored St. Jo- seph's, 58-48, in a tremendous second half bid to pull victory out of the fire, but massive Leh Chappell couldn't do it alone, des- pite his 32 points that led all scorers. He also collected 16 re- bounds. The well-balanced winners' at- tack produced six double figure scorers. Big men Jack Egan and Xince Kempton were hampered by foul troubles and the scoring bur- den fell to senior Frank Majew- ski and a slick little pair of sopho- more guards, Bill Hoy and' Jim Lynam. * * * St. Bonaventure 85, Princeton 67 St. Bonaventure, trailing by 17 points after 12 minutes, came charging back with a 54-point last half last night to phiy Princeton, 85-67, for third place., St. Bonaventure, third ranked. nationally, got double figure scor- ing from five men after a sluggish first half that ended with the heavily favored New Yorkers trail- ing, 42-31. All-America Tom Stith conclud- ed his St. Bonaventure career with 29 points, 18 in the last half. It gave him a varsity career total of 2,023 points. Midwest Cincinnati 69, Kansas St. 64 LAWRENCE, Kan. (A)- Cincinnati's Bearcats, a gritty bunch that just refused to lose, smashed back in the late going and gained, a 69-64 victory over Kansas State last night in the championship game of the NCAA Midwest Regional Basketball Tour- nament. It was the 20th victory in a row for Cincinnati this season. Cincinnati, advancing to the By The Associated Press NEW YORK-A rugged, aggres- sive Holy Cross team and defense- minded St. Louis eliminated two of the seeded teams from the Na- tional Invitation Basketball Tour- nament in the quarter-final round last night. Holy Cross walloped Memphis State, 81-69, after St. Louis beat Colorado State, 59-53. The Holy Cross victory climaxed a long day of basketball in Madi- son Square Garden which also saw Temple beat Army, 79-66, and Providence down DePaul, 73-67, in afternoon first round games. The Crusaders, up against a big, strong Memphis State front line, won out on their aggressive defense and keen shooting from a fast-break offense. Trailing, 17-9, at an early stage in the first half, Holy Cross switched into a pressing midcourt defense and disrupted the rhythm of the Memphis attack. The Crusaders moved into a lead they never lost at 21-20 'and led 38-35 at halftime, steadily in- creasing the margin in the last 20 minutes. St. Louis 59, Colorado St. 53 Defense-minded St. Louis nurs- ed a slim lead for more than four minutes last night and beat Colo- rado State, 59-53, to enter the semifinals of the National Invi- tation Basketball Tournament. Most of the action in the dull, defensive contest came in the last few minutes as Colorado State ral- lied to tie the score three times before the Billikens began to pull away. The clock read 4:18 to go when Glen Mankowski broke the tie with two foul shots. From there on St. Louis dominated the closing min- utes. Colorado State's reluctance to shoot during the first half was a big factor in the game. The Aggies took only 13 shots and scored on six of them, trailing at halftime, 29-19. * . * Providence 73, Depaul 67 Temple 79, Army 66 John Egan, a 6'- backcourt star who does about everything well, almost single-handedly led Provi- dence to a 73-67 victory over De- paul in the first round of the National Invitational Basketball Tournament yesterday afternoon. Egan, duelling with another player of the same type, Howie Carl, scored 19 of his 34 points with driving, clutch shots in the second half as the Friars had a narrow escape in a finish that had 12,637 spectators screaming. In the opener of the afternoon doubleheader at Madison Square Garden, the tiny but clever Temple team overwhelmed Army, 79-66. The two winners advanced to win. They pulled even at 48-all with 10 minutes left on a jump shot by sophomore Tommy Thacker,. then got' their first lead a minute and a half later, one that they didn't relinquish. Texas Tech 69, Houston 67 Texas tech 'blew an 11-point lead, then bounced back the last 10 minutes for a 69-67 victory over Houston and third place. Texas Tech, Southwest Confer- ence chiampion and a 78-55 loser to Cincinnati last night, finally put away the consolation match with Houston when a free throw by little Del Ray Mounts and field goals by Roger Henning and Mac Percival built a 65-59 advantage with two minutes left. Far West Utah 88, Arizona State 80 PORTLAND, Ore. (M)-Uncanny Bill McGill, aided by fine defen- sive play from his mates, led the University of Utah to an 88-80 NCAA Western Regional Basket- ball victory over Arizona State last night. * . . Loyola 69, S. Cal. 67 (Third) PORTLAND, Ore.(P) - Loyola of Los Angeles endged out a dis-. spirited Southern California bas- ketball team, 69-67, for third place in the NCAA Western Regional Tournament last night. - . -I k - - - I MEN'S kt { f " 0 OPEN RUSH ORE copies per inking (20,000) than from any silk screen mimeograph on the market. MORE copies per pound of paste ink. Approximately twice the -amount obtainable from any silk screen mimeograph EASIER to operate than any silk screen mimeograph. No buttons, dials or levers. Corpleely auto- matic Inking system. CLEANER to use color than any silk screen mimeograph. No inky rollers. No messy screen to remove. Dear Rushee: Open rush here at Michigan is designed to give both the fraternities and rushees an opportunity to become better acquainted between the formal rush periods. While bids may be extended and accepted' during this time, many rushees use this period to familiarize themselves with more fraternities and aspects of fraternity life which are not always apparent during formal rush. Open rush begins the second Monday following the close of the formal rushing period, in this case March 20, and continues for the remainder of the semester. During this time it is perfectly legal and proper to attend any fraternity activity to which you may be invited; this includes lunches, dinners, parties, dances, and any other activity in which the fraternity might be involved. It should be noted, however, that an invitation from the fraternity is necessary in order for you to attend any such activity. It is not necessary for you to register with the IFC in order to participate in the program. It is our intention to supply the Michigan fraternities with the names of those men desiring to participate in open rush. This will provide them with the opportunity of meeting persons whom they might otherwise fail to contact. If you would be interested in being included with this group, please contact me at the following address: John Meyerholz 1510 Student Activities Building Ann Arbor, Michigan Include in your note, your name, address, phone, year, and hometown. This is not to imply that you must register with the lFC in order to participate in opeh rush nor does it imply that you will be invited to every fraternity participating in open rush. It is quite probable, however, that you will be contacted by some of the fraternities in regard to attending certain of their activities during the open rushing period; we here at the Interfraternity Council strongly encourage you to take advantage, of this opportunity. 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