Marquette refuses Midwest bid
NCAA extends post season invitations
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) — The National Collegiate Athletic Association's prestigious postseason basketball tournament lost 10th - ranked Marquette to the National Invitational Tournament Tuesday because the Warriors felt they were being treated like "patsies" by the NCAA
The NCAA quickly named unranked Dayton (17-7) to fill the void in its 25-team bracket and the Flyers were just as quick to accent.
Al McGuire, Marquette coach, said the Warriors' refusal to accept the bid resulted from the NCAA's plans to move his team out of the Mideast Regional and into the first-round of the Midwest Regional at Texas Christian March 7.
"I'm disgusted," McGuire said. "We take basketball seriously here. Maybe it was something between me and the committee. I don't know."
McGuire, who said he was "shocked" at the NCAA's plans to move his team into the Midwest, charged the NCAA had "buckled under" to a power complex within its ranks in asking the Warriors to play anywhere but in the mideast.
"They've treated us like little brother." he said.
Tom Scott, Davidson athletic director and NCAA tournament Committee chairman, said "Our selection committee ranks the teams in each region and Marquette was third in the Mideast, behind both Notre Dame and Jacksonville," Scott explained. "We have only two at-large
berths in the Mideast and so, the third team is the 'swing' team—the team we can, according to the book rules, move to another regional.
"Our purpose is to select the 10 independent teams we consider the best in the country and we certainly feel Marquette is one of those teams." Scott said.
"They speak out of both sides of their mouth," McGuire said. "First they speak about schedules, then records. We can't do any better than we did. What do we have to do? 23-0?"
McGuire felt that because he had four starters back from the team that was runnerup to Purdue in last year's Mideast tournament, because his team had the best record normally of the independents in the Mideast, and because his team had been in the Mideast tourney two successive years, Marquette should stay in the Mideast.
"I am very disappointed," McGuire said.
Dayton, which will be making its sixth NCAA trip as Marquette's replacement, joined nine other at-large selections named earlier Tuesday, including St. Bonaventure (19-1), New Mexico State (21-2) and high - scoring Jacksonville (20-1), the nation's
Nos. 4, 5 and 6-ranked teams in this week's United Press International ratings.
Also invited were Houston (20-3), tied with North Carolina State as the nation's No. 11 - rated team, 15th - ranked Notre Dame (19-5), Utah State (18-5), Villanova (17-6), Niagara (19-4) and Long Beach State (21-3).
All except Jacksonville, the nation's No. 1 scoring team this season with an average of 103 points a game, Niagara's Purple Eagles, led by a standout Calvin Murphy, and Long Beach State have appeared previously in the NCAA's University Division championships.
Pairings for nine first - round games March 7 will be announced Wednesday.
First - round winners will advance to the four regionals—East, Midwest and West—on March 12 and 14. The finals are slated for March 19 and 21 at the University of Maryland, site of Texas - El Paso's then Texas Western 72-64 championship game upset of Kentucky in 1966.
Top-ranked UCLA will be shooting for its fourth consecutive NCAA cage crown and its sixth in the last seven years, a string broken only by Texas - El Paso's title in 1966. The Bruins will be one of seven conference champions who draw first-round byes into the regionals.
St. Bonaventure, led by 6-11 pivot and All-America candidate Bob Lanier, the nation's No. 5 scorer (30.7) and No. 8 rebounder (16.6), was one of five teams selected from the Eastern Time Zone and coach Larry Weise said the Bonnies' decision to accept "unanimous."
Jayhawks only team left to catch K-State
Kansas State can clinch the title outright with a victory over Colorado in a regionally televised game Thursday night in Manhattan, Kan.
Those two games left Missouri with a 6-6 record and Oklahoma at 5-6. Now only Kansas, with a 6-5 conference record, retains any mathematical chance of catching Kansas State, which is 9-2 with three games to play.
Kansas, which has not lost a home game nor won a road game in conference play, won when
Two more teams were mathematically eliminated from the Big Eight basketball race Monday night, although league-leading Kansas State was idle. Kansas jarred Missouri, 63-45, and Nebraska pummeled Oklahoma, 79-66.
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"Somehow," said the $125,000 pitcher, "there's a feeling of uncertainty every year about this time. You say to yourself, 'can I do it again?' But then you press forward and try again. A pennant has to be the team goal, 20 games the individual goal."
The Tigers, down 33-23 at halftime, pulled within six at 37-31 before hitting the cold snap. Kansas scored nine straight free throws to pull away at 46-31.
Missouri went seven minutes without a field goal in the second half.
Gibson, 34, was four days behind other pitchers in arriving.
Tom Scantlebury scored a career high 28 points, including 22 in the second half, for the Cornhuskers. Leroy Chalk had 17 and Bob Gratopp 14 for Nebraska. Garfield Heard paced Oklahoma with 33 points.
Dave Robisch led the Jayhawks with 23 points, while Roger Brown and Bob Kivisto added 12 each. Henry Smith scored 14 and Dave Pike 10 for Missouri.
There are no games scheduled until Thursday's Kansas State-Colorado contest. Saturday contests will match Kansas State at Oklahoma, Kansas at Oklahoma State and Nebraska at Missouri.
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The two contests Monday night increased the Big Eight's home-court advantage to 37-8 in conference play.
Weise said the groundwork for the team's decision to accept the NCAA invitation was set two years ago when the Bonnies were drubbed twice—by North Carolina and Columbia—in the East Regional when Lanier was a sophomore.
West - at Brigham Young (doubleheader): Big Sky Conference champion vs. Long Beach State and Western Athletic Conference champion vs. Utah State. Regionsale-March 12 and 14.
Midwest - at Texas Christian (doubleheader): Dayton vs. Houston and Southwest Conference champion vs. New Mexico State.
East-at South Carolina: Southern Conference - St. Bonaventure winner vs. Atlantic Coast Conference champion and Ivy League-Niagara winner vs. Middle Atlantic-Villanova winner. Winners meet March 14 for Regional title.
tallest front line in the annals of college basketball, averaging 7 feet, and the country's leading reboucher in 7-2 center Artis Gilmore.
"Those losses will certainly be a factor in our play in this year's tournament," Weise said. "We certainly haven't forgotten what happened . . ."
Houston will be making its fifth NCAA trip in seven years and coach Guy Lewis said the invitation "was something we set out to accomplish back in October." Lewis' 1967 Cougars finished third in the NCAA classic and wound up fourth in 1968.
Mideast - at Ohio State: Mid-
American - Notre Dame winner
vs. Southeastern Conference
champion and Ohio Valley -
Jacksonville winner vs. Big Ten
champion. Winners meet March
14 for Regional Title.
New Mexico State acceptance assured the Aggies of their fourth straight trip to the NCAA and Jacksonville's Dolphins have the
"As an independent," Lewis said of the invitation, "it is ultimate."
Johnny Dee, Notre Dame coach, said he was pleased to accept for the Irish, noting that "this is the first time Notre Dame has ever gone to a major tournament three years in a row and the second time any Notre Dame team ever has won 20 or more games three years in a row."
Mideast - at Dayton (doubleheader); Mid-American Conference champion vs. Notre Dame and Ohio Valley Champion vs. Jacksonville.
The NCAA Tournament Pairings:
1st Round-March 7
Conference champion vs. Villa-
nova.
East - at St. John's: Southern Conference champion vs. St. Bonaventure; at Princeton: Ivy League Champion vs. Niagara; at Pennsylvania: Middle Atlantic
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