Wednesday, March 12, 1958 University Daily Kansan
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West Virginia Is First NCAA Victim
By UNITED PRESS
They're ripping the form sheet to shreds in the NCAA basketball tournament, with national champion West Virginia and Pittsburgh the first major upsets.
West Virginia, ranked the nation's No.1 team at the close of the regular season, was impolitely booted out of the NCAA Tournament in the very first round Tuesday night by Manhattan, 89-84, in the biggest upset of the season.
Pitt Falls, 82-77
And Pittsburgh, despite 28 points by half-pint powerhouse Don Hennon, was dealt an 82-77 defeat by Miami of Ohio in another first-round game.
The other four opening round games went as expected: Dartmouth's Ivy League champions drubbing Connecticut, 75-64; Maryland's Atlantic Coast Conference kings romping over Boston College, 86-63; Notre Dame rolling up the round's highest score, 94-61, over Tennessee Tech; and Oklahoma State pulling its old defense game to defeat Loyola of the South, 59-42.
In Tuesday's only other game bearing on the big tournament, Arkansas downed Southern Methodist, 61-55, at Shreveport, La., in the special playoff for the NCAA berth from the Southwest Conference.
The first round will be completed tonight with a doubleheader at Berkeley, Calif., in which Wyoming (13-13) plays Seattle (18-5) and Idaho State (21-4) meets Arizona (Tempe) State (13-12).
First-round winners advance to the regional tournaments Friday and Saturday at four different sites, where they clash with the eight conference champions who drew first-round byes. The four regional winners proceed next week to the national championship semi-finals and finals at Louisville.
Snaps 12-Game Streak
West Virginia's defeat was only the second in 28 games for the Mountaineers this year. It snapped a string of 12 straight victories and also marked the fourth straight year that West Virginia has won the Southern Conference tourney only to lose an NCAA first-rounder at New York's Madison Square Garden.
Here are the opening round regional pairings Friday night:
At Charlotte, N. C.—Maryland-Temple, Manhattan-Dartmouth.
At Lexington, Ky.—Miami (O.)-Kentucky, Notre Dame-Indiana.
At Lawrence, Kans.—Oklahoma St.-Arkansas, Kansas St.-Cincinnati.
At San Francisco—San Francisco vs. Seattle-Wyoming winner, California vs. Idaho St.-Arizona St. winner.
KU's intramural swimming meet will begin at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 26. All preliminaries will be swam that day except diving.
Intramural Swim Meet Scheduled March 26
The four best qualifying times in each event will swim in the finals at 4:15 Thursday, March 27.
All swimmers must get a minimum of six practice hours. Those failing to do so will not be permitted to compete in the meet. Swimmers may practice from 4-5 and 7-9 Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and from 2-4 on Saturday.
All entries must be in the intramurals office by Tuesday, March 25 No late entries will be accepted An organization may enter as many as they want in each event but individuals are limited to two events
The events included in the meet and their order on the program are 60-yard breaststroke, 60-yard freestyle, 60-yard backstroke, 40-yard freestyle, 60-yard individual medley, diving, 180-yard freestyle relay and 120-yard medley relay.
Extinguisher Follows Torch Bearers
KANSAS CITY, Mo., — (UP)— Western Illinois' 27 relay runners arrived at Municipal Auditorium Tuesday night with a victory torch to give their top-seeded team a sendoff in its first-round NAIA game.
Each running a mile, the relayers left the University at Macomb, Ill., Sunday.
Eighteen runners from St. Benedicts College of Atchison, Kan. which defeated Western Illinois in the 1954 NAIA finals, arrived soon after the Illinois torch entry—with a fire extinguisher.
A female housefly may deposit up to 2.500 eggs during a life span of two to four weeks.
Western Moves Into 2nd Round
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —(UP)— Highly-ranked Western Illinois and Tennessee State moved into second round NAIA basketball championship play today, but former winner St. Benedict's was sidelined.
Western Illinois, ranked the nation's third-best among small colleges, trimmed a stubborn Georgia Teachers Tuesday night, 74-62 as the first round came to a close. It was the 24th straight victory for Western.
The field has been whitttled from a start of 32 teams to 16-including surprising Drury of Springfield, Mo. and Coe College of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Tennessee State romped past Northern Michigan Monday night, 113-45.
St. Benedict's of Atchison, which took the NAIA crown in 1954, dropped a 71-52 decision to lightly-regarded Northern State Teachers of South Dakota Tuesday night.
Coe upset Portland, Ore. University 63-61 Monday and Drury moved past Lenoir Rhyne of North Carolina, 78-73.
A knotted string was used as the measuring instrument in building the Great Pyramid in Egypt. It was measured so accurately that modern instruments show only one-half inch error along the 755-foot side.
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