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Tuesday, March 4, 1975
University Dally Kansan
By Staff Photographer ROD MIKINSKI
Trophy returns home
After a four-year absence, the championship trophy from the Big Eight indoor track meet has returned to the University of Kansas, where it had been for seven of the last 10 years. Returning the trophy are, from left, Chuck Neilson, Big Eight
commissioner, Eddie Lewis and Tom Koppes of the KU track team Bob Timmons, KU track coach, and Randy Smith of the UTEC team.
NCAA invitations up for grabs
From the Associated Press
Being independent isn't all it's cracked up to be. It's time for the NCAA basketball tournament.
When invitations to the NCAA tournament go out Wednesday and Thursday, some of the nation's top independent teams will be waiting anxiously by their telephones.
The reason is that this year the NCAA not only has expanded its tournament field by seven teams but also has given itself the opportunity to more than one team from each conference.
Thus, some of the 16 berths remaining after conference champions are selected won't necessarily go to independent teams, as had been the case in the past.
Pan American University, which has the highest enrollment, is isabelle because of infractions.
But others who seem assured of berths are Marquette, 21-3; Cincinnati, 20-5; Memphis State, 20-5; Creighton, 20-4, and Utah State, 19-5.
At this time in the season most of the champions usually are already settled. But this year, only seven of the 15 titles have been determined.
Four other berths for independence will be decided Saturday in the finals of the East Coast Athletic Conference's four regional tournaments. The team with the best record in that tournament is Rutgers, 2046, which is in the New York-New Jersey region.
Already in the fold are:
East: Penn of the Ivy League.
Tennis team nets big win
The University of Kansas tennis team defeated Northwest Missouri State University 7-2 Friday at Lawrence Racquet Club.
KU overpowered Northwest Missouri State by winning all but one singles match and one doubles match. The win gives KU a 4-1 record this spring.
Over spring break, KU will make its annual trip south. On the trip, KU will play against Tulane. Nichols State, Louisiana will play at and at a tournament at Southwest Louisiana.
KU to be host for tournament
The University of Kansas will host the third annual Region VI basketball championships of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women this weekend at Robinson Gymnasium and Allen Field House.
This will be the first time KU has hosted a regional championship in a women's sport.
The other teams competing in the tournament will be Dickinson State University of North Dakota, South Dakota State University of Nebraska, Nebraska, Mankato State College of Minnesota, William Penn of Iowa and Southwest Missouri State.
The Region VI winner will advance to the National Semifinals. 2b-22 at Madison College of Maryland.
and place WMUs. also place WMUs.
Thursday at- 2, 7 and 9 p.m. in
Ribbon Gymnasium.
Brown gymnasium.
Friday- at 2 and 4 p.m. in Robinson
Gymnasium and at 7 and 9 p.m. in Allen
Field House. Saturday 8 at 10 and
10 at 6 and 8 finals, in Allen Field
House.
Mideast: Indiana of the Big Ten and Middle Tennessee of the Ohio Valley.
Midwest: Louisville of the Missouri Valley.
West, Nevada-Las Vegas of the West Coast Athletic Conference, Montana of the Big Sky Conference, Arizona State of the West Coast Athletic Conference, Georgia State of the Pacific Coast Conference.
Long Beach State has wrapped up the Pacific Coast crown but is on NCAA
Gym team loses to OU
Despite its second best team score this year, the University of Kansas gymnastics team lost to Oklahoma 200-195.8 Saturday afternoon in Norman.
Jody Sumers was Kansas' only winner. He scored a personal record of 8.85 out of 10 games in his first season.
KU coach Bloock Loodword said Sunday that KU was doing very well until the final two events. Then, Lockwood said, KU had a poor performance on all barls and did poorly in the high bar.
"That really hurt our team score," Lock-
wood said.
probation and can't participate in the tournament.
Although freshman Les Kerr was hampered by a slight case of the flu, he placed second in the all-around competition with a score of 45.75 out of 50.
Other Jayhawks who placed were Mark Smith, second in the pommel horse; John Nunley and At Overton, tie for second in the high jacket; and John Whitehead, third in the high bag.
Going into the final week of play, UCLA leads the Pacific Eight and Alabama leads the Southeastern Conference. If Alabama beats Abuam Saturday night, it will win the SEC title if Alabama doesn't win and be beaten by either Jackson or Kentucky will be the championship.
UCLA must beat Southern California Saturday night to wrap up its ninth straight invitation to the NCAA tournament. But UCLA losses and Oregon State beats Oregon, between UCLA and Oregon State will determine which team goes to the tournament.
Three conferences automatically have playoffs to determine their NCAA representative. They are the Atlantic Coast, Southern and East Coast conferences. Maryland is favored to get the Atlantic Coast conference invitation, Purdue is in the Southern Conference and LaSalle is favored in the East Coast Conference.
Other berths to be determined are the winners of the Southwest, Big Eight and
In the South Western Conference, Texas A&M and Texas Tech are tied for the lead. Kansas and Kansas State share the lead in the Big Eight, and Bowling Green, Central State and Tolsoe are in a three-way tie for the lead in the Mid-American conference.
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Overton finished fourth in the all-around category at the Big Eight meet last year, and ranks as one of the top five scores in KU history in three different events.
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Injuries plague gymnast
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But things have been going downhill for him since Christmas. He has suffered strained ligaments in his knee and in his shoulder and has been held out of competition in the all-around category for the past five meets.
Overton had high goals for this season. He wanted to break the KU record in all-around competition, and to finish second in the tournament at the top in vaulting at the Big Fight meet.
He had good reason to set high goals. He began working in gymnastics as a youngster and had worked out daily during high school, even though his high school, Raytown south, didn't have a gymnastics program.
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"I went into this year with big ambitions," Overton said Monday. "I knew it would be a good year. I knew he had a lot of friends, so we, I thought I would be in good shape."
For an athlete like Overton, who thrives on competition, sitting on the sidelines watching his fellow gymnasts hasn't been easy.
"It's too hard just to sit there and not do anything," he said. "I know I want taking the risk of hurting my knee, but I really want to do it." And he's just a question of what I want to do.
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"When you get injuries, it slows you down. You just can't do the things you've planned on doing. After you've been injured for awhile, you tend to get psyched down, and your goals become lost. That's what has happened to me," he said.
But Overton can salvage something from this season at the Big Eight Championships on March 14 and 15 at Ames, Iowa. By then, he said, he hopes to compete in four events.
Despite his injuries, his determination remains.
"I've been doing a lot of thinking about the Big Eight meet," he said. "I think I can make the finals in a couple of events, but it's going to be hard. The rings are all so tough and it has a lot of tough competition. I'm going to have to do the job to get in the top eight, but I think I'm good
Although Overton's competition is gymnastics will end with the Big Eight meet, his involvement with the sport won't. He will graduate with a degree in education this spring and hopes to open a gymnastics club this summer, he said.
enough if I'm hitting my routines."
The Midwest has become interested in gymnastics more slowly than have other areas. This is because gymnastics club, he said, he hopes to provide youngsters in this area a chance to start working on gymnastics at an early age. He also wants children from 5 to 20 years old.
"I've done pretty well," Overton said, but "I'm not really satisfied. I hope that I can help them realize that when they're about 25, they won't have to leave the house." But he had it ready. If I can help those kids become what I wanted to be, I will consider it a success.
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