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By DON MacLACHLAN,
THE 1976-77 college basketball season draws to a close this
weekend, but for some teams a "second season" will begin
March 12-13 with the opening of the NCAA Basketball Champion-
ships at eight regional sites.
Twenty-one conference champions will get berths along with
eleven at-large teams. If a conference runner-up is selected, it
gets placed in the opposite bracket from its conference champion
s" that two teams from the same conference cannot meet until the'
national finals.
If Michigan defeats Illinois Thursday night, the Wolver-
ines would clinch a berth in the Mideast Regional as the Big
Ten Champion, because second place Minnesota is on proba-
tion and ineligible for tournament action.
The Wolverines would play an at-large team in Bloomington
Sunday, March 13, assuming they win one of two remaining con-
ference encounters. The opposition in the opening round could be
one of a number of independents and/or conference runner-ups.
Here is a sketch of the tournament picture, with a lot oft
question marks to be answered on Sunday at three o'clock when
the NCAA office releases the names of the at-large institutions
receiving invitations to the tournament, along with the first round
IOW A CONQUERS HOOSIERS
State squeaks by OSU
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Bob Chapman hit a career high free throw shooting of Larry
victory over the Hoosiers
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MICHIGAN STATE'S James Coutre (45) heads to the hoop,
29 points to lead Michigan State Bolden a
to a 80-79 basketball win over ris's sh
Ohio State last night invits final Boldenh f
home game of the season. and Bur
Chapman combined with The Bu
forward Greg Kelser, who in one po
finished with 20 points and of the gt
nine rebounds, to put the last had lost
place Buckeyes out of reach Coutre o
for most of the contest. Buckey
Michigan State improved its pair of fi
conference record to 6-10 and' onds left
9-16 overall while Ohio State Ransey h
sunk to 4-13 inethe Big Ten and uerkbut i
9-18 on the year.- Bucks s
Ohio State was the victim of
a,32 per cent shooting average Kn
in -the first half while Michiganj KingC
State hit nearly 70 per cent of IOWA
its shots from the floor. scored 28
Kelser pumped in 17 first rebounds
half points to put the Spar- 80-73 bast
tans on top 46-31pon the half. dianabhe
Ohio State managed to whit-
tle the score down to 56-51 with It wa
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finished with 21 points through the first half and 44-41 13
ris 16 cat halftime. But Iowa took the't4
uckeyes closed to with~ lead for good early at 50-48 ear- 164
int in the final minutes ly in the second half on two 17
ame after the Spartans free throws by Dick Peth. 18,
Wilson and center Jim Freshman Mike Woodson of 019
n fouls.md
ye Larry Bolden sank a Indianathad atgame high 34
Tee throws with 19 sec- points to keep the Hoosiers in
and freshmen Kelvin contention. He scored 16 of In-'
hit a layup at the buz- diana's 19 points in the first 11
it same too late in theI minutes of the second half.
econd half surge. King and Cal Wulfsburg then
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controls the victory with a delay game. Ai
Iowa moved into- fourth place L
CITY - Bruce King in the Big Ten at 8-8 and 16-9 U3
S points and grabbed 15 overall. Indiana fell to 8-9 and
to lead Iowa to an 13-13. -AP ci
ketball victory over In- - ~e-yeterd - - -
is the Hawkeves' first
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. San Francisco (34)
Kentujcky (4)
1 MICHIGAN (2)
1 UCLA
. North Carolina
. Nevada-Las Vegas
. Arkansas
3 Providence
Louisville
. Tennessee
LSyracuse
: Alabama
* Minnesota
. Wake Forest
3Arizona
. Indiana St.
. Detroit
. Houston
. Oral RobErts
. Cincinnati
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COLLEGE BASKETRALL
iichigan State 80, Ohio Stat7s
wa SO, Indiana 73
;ntuckcy 77, Mississippi St. $4
labama 78, Vanderbilt 71,
SU 79, Florida 74
WC-Charlotte 85, Creighton 6
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eveland 5, St. Louis 2
dodging the defensive ploys of1
(41) and Fred Poole (31). The
win in the contest, 80-79.
pairings.
MIDEAST REGIONAL
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA
Michigan versus at-large team
M A C Champion (C e n t r a l
Michigan, Northern Illinois,
or Miami of Ohio) versus at-
large team
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA
Ohio Valley Champ (probably
Austii Peay) versus at-large
team
SEC Champion (Kentucky or
Tennessee) versus at-large
team
MIDWEST REGIONAL
OMAHA, NEBRASKA
Metro-Seven champ (Louis-
ville or Cincinnati) versus
at-large team
Missouri Valley champ (prob-
ably New Mexico State) ver-
sus at-large team
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA
Big Eight champ (Missouri or
Kansas State) versus at-
large team;
Pohits
2 4 384
2z2 2 325
21-3 294
22-4 224
21-4 193
23-2 184
25-1 140
24-3 64
21.4 63
204 57
23-3 34
20.4 30
22-3 28
26-6 20
21.4 18
23-2 14
24-2 13
24-8 I2
21.5 16
22.4 9
SWC champ (Arkansas or'
Houston) versus at-large The Top 2u
team
WEST REGIONAL
POCATELLO, IDAHO
UCLA versus at-large team
PCAA champ (probably 'Long
Beach State) versus Big Sky
champ (either Weber State
or Idaho State)
TUCSONaARIZONA
WAC champ (probably Utah)
versus at-large team
San Francisco versus at-large
team
EAST REGIONAL
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA
VMI or Furman versus Vil-
lanova
ACC champ (probably North
Carolina) versus at-large
team
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Hofstra versus at-large team
Ivy League champ (Princeton
or Penn) versus at-large
team
By The Associated Press
1. San Francisco (50) 29-0
2. Kentucky (7) 22-2
3. MICHIGAN 21-3
4. U.C.L.A. 22-4
5. Nevada-Las Vegas 23-2
6. North Carolina 22-4
7. Arkansas 25-1
{8. Providence 23-3
9. Minnesota 2?-3
10. Louisville 21-5
11. Tennessee 20-5
12. Alabama 20-4
13. Syracuse 23-3
14. Cincinnati 22-4
15. Detroit 24-2
16. Wake Forest 20-6
17. Arizona 21-4
18. Clemson 21-3
19. Marquette 18-6
20. Utah 20-6
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The three other conference champs invited to the tournament
will come out of the ECAC. Three regional champions will move
on to the NCAA's. Providence or Holy Crass will probably win the
the New England Regional, while Syracuse and St. John's rate
as the favorites in the other two regionals.
So much for the 21 conference champs - what about the
at-large teams? In the ACC, Southwest and Metro Seven Con-
ferences, a tournament is held to establish an NCAA repre-
sentative. Thus, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Louisville -
the regular season champs - are not assured of a berth in
the tournament. However, if they lose in the conference tour-
naments, an at-large bid would be possible.
Creighton, Detroit, Indiana State, Marquette, Nevada-Las
Vegas, Notre Dame, North Texas State and Oral Roberts are all
powerful independents.
Oregon, Arizona, Cincinnati and the ACC and SEC runner-ups_
are second place teams that deserve invitations.
Purdue, currently in third place in the Big Ten, must win
its remaining two games with Michigan State- and Michigan and
hope for Wisconsin or Northwestern to upset Minnesota if it is
to gain an NCAA berth as the Big Ten runner-up.
Key games this weekend are Marquette-Creighton, Notre
Dame-San Francisco and Kentucky-Tennessee. Al McGuire and
his Warriors must beat Creighton if they are to proceed into the
NCAA's. By the time Marquette tips off with Michigan on Sun-
day the at-large teams will have been selected.
If Tennessee beats Kentucky, the Vols would be placed
in the Mideast Regional with the Wolverines - and would
prevent Kentucky from grabbing a possible home court ad-
vantage in the regional semi-finals - to be held in Rupp
Arena on the Kentucky campus.
Who will Michigan play? It could be Detroit, Oregon the
Pac 8 runner-up, Arizona, the WAC runner-up (a possible con-
frontation between Michigan coach Johnny Orr and one of his ex-
assistants Fred Snowden), the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame or
even Marquette - if theWarriors make it. An ACC representative'
is also a possible opponent.
The Big Ten winner proceeds to play the winner of the Ohio.
Valley - at-large game. In the example, if Michigan wins, it,
would face Notre Dame or Austin Peay in Lexington on March
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