Lew and crew haunt NCAA
By VITO STELLINO UPI Sports Writer
It's UCLA against the field as the other 15 survivors in the NCAA college basketball tournament attempt to prevent the Bruins from winning their third national title in the last four seasons.
That's the story of the 1967 tournament which resumes Friday night in College Park, Md., Evanston, Ill., Lawrence, Kan., and Corvallis, Ore., after the seven first-round games Saturday cut the field from 23 to 16 clubs.
All the speculation about the tourney begins and ends with UCLA, which is 26-0 and meets upstart Wyoming at Corvallis Friday night. The Uclans will
probably then play defending national champion Texas Western, which meets the University of Pacific Friday night, on Saturday night.
While the Bruins are unbeaten, they are still virtually untested—and they are certainly not unbeatable.
UCLA's splendid record has obscured two main facts. The Bruins have faced none of the teams in the final top 10 and they are still a young team with four sophomores starting—even though one of them is Lew Acindor.
The Bruins are helped by the fact that their top rival, No. 2 Louisville, is also a young team with its top two stars, Wes Unseld and Butch Beard, both back next year.
Alcindor indicates that he might be happier at Stanford, Michigan, or the University of California at Berkeley. Alcindor, just a sophomore, with two more years ahead at UCLA, if he decides to stick with them, says he feels alienated and misses New York.
"It's the quality of the people out here that disturbs me," Lew says. "They are not for real. They do not seem to know what's going on around them.
NEW YORK—Seven foot, one-inch college basketball All-American Lew Alcindor is not happy at UCLA.
"I chose UCLA because it was the school which offered the most, not just in basketball," admitted Alcindor. "But had I known then what I know now," he concluded, "I would have chosen Stanford, Michigan or Berkeley."
The NCAA pairings for Friday night:
NCAA Friday pairings
East regional at College Park, Md.: North Carolina vs. Princeton and St. John's vs. Boston College.
Alcindor regrets going to UCLA
Mideast regional at Evanston, Ill.: Dayton vs. Tennessee and Virginia Tech vs. Indiana.
Midwest regional at Lawrence.
Kan.: Louisville vs. Southern
Methodist University (7:30), and
Kansas vs. Houston (9:00).
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Far West regional at Corvalis, Ore.: UCLA vs. Wyoming and Texas Western vs. University of Pacific.
Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 15, 1967
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