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Monday, March 13, 1995
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
EAST
Winston-Salem, N.C., 24-5 Coach Dave Odom Atlantic Coast Conference
Nickname: Demon Deacons
Bld: ACC champion
Last NCAA: 1994
Appearance: 13th Overall
record: 16-12
Top Scores: Randolph Child-
dress 20.2; Tim Duncan 16.5;
Travis Banks 9.1
Top Rebounders: Tim Duncan
12.3; Travis Banks 6.7
Top Assists: Randolph Child-
dress 5.2; Tim Duncan 2.1
Three-pointers: Randolph
Childdress 85; Rusty LaRue 38
Tied for regular-season conference title, won ACC tournament
WEST
Los Angeles, 25-2
Coach Jim Harrick
Pacific-10 Conference
Nickname: Bruins
Bid: Pac-10 champion
Last NCAA: 1994
Appearance: 31st. Overall record: 68-24
Top Scorers: Ed O'Bannon 20.7; Tyus Edney 14.6;
Charles O'Bannon 14.1; George Zidek 10.9
Top Rebounders: Ed O'Bannon 8.2; Charles O'Bannon 6.3; George Zidek 5.9
Top Assists: Tyus Edney 6.8;
Cameron Dollar 3.0
Top Three-pointers: Ed O'Banon 46
Won regular-season title
NCAA men's basketball championship
Knight-Ridder Tibune, Noah Musser/KANSAN
Lawrence, Kan., 23-5 Coach Roy Williams Big Eight Conference
Nickname: Jayhawks
Last NCAA: 1994
Appearance: 24th. Overall
record: 49-23
Top Scores: Jerod Haase
15.5; Reaf LaFehr 11.6;
Greg Ostertag 10.0; Scot Poli-
ard 10.0
Top Rebounders: Greg
Ostertag 7.6; Raef LaFrentz
7.3; Scot Pollard 5.9
Top Three-pointers: Jerod Haase 64; Billy Thomas 43; Sean Pearson 37
Won regular-season conference title
Lexington, Kv., 24-5
Coach Rick Pitino
Southeastern Conference
Nickname: Wildcats
Last NCAA:1994
Appearance: 37th. Overall record: 63-33
Top Scores: Tony Delk 16.4; Rodrick Rhodes 13.1; Walter McCarty 10.1
Top Rebounders: Mark Pope 6.6; Walter McCarty 5.5; Jared Prickett 4.6
Top Assists: Anthony Epps 4.0;
Rodrick Rhodes 3.5
Top Three-pointers: Tony Delk 64; Rodrick Rhodes 38
Won regular-season and conference titles
NCAA women's basketball championship
Vanderbilt joins list of No.1 seeds
As expected, Connecticut and second-ranked Tex.
A tough schedule and strong finish enabled Vanderbilt to join topranked Connecticut, Tennessee and Colorado as No. 1 weeks yesterday in the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament.
regionals for which they are the host schools, meaning they wouldn't have to leave home to earn a trip to the
The Associated Press
Final Four in Minneapolis April 1 and 2.
Tennessee and Louisiana Tech, a No. 2 seed, extended their runs as the only schools to play in every tournament since the NCAA began sponsoring women's basketball in 1982. Mississippi and Penn State each made it for the 13th time.
The 64-team field chosen by a nine-member committee includes seven schools from the Southeastern Conference,
five
from the
Pac-10
and four
from the Atlantic
Coast, Big Eight,
Big Ten and Metro.
Competition begins Thursday and Friday at sites around the country. The 32 first-round winners will meet two days later to determine the 16 teams for the four regions at Storrs, Conn. (East), Knoxville, Tenn. (Mideast), Des Moines, Iowa (Midwest) and Los Angeles (West).
Connecticut (29-0), the only unbeaten team in Division I, is the top seed in the East Regional and Tennessee (29-2) got the top spot in the Mideast. Colorado (27-2), which has won 22 straight, is No. 1 in the Midwest.
Those three had been considered shoo-ins for top seeds. Vanderbilt (26-6) got the nod over Louisiana
While Vanderbilt would have to travel farther than any of the other No. 1 seeds to the regional semifinals, which are at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, Bruno noted that's guaranteed to be a neutral court because UCLA isn't in the
" Their strength of schedule is excellent," said Linda Bruno, commissioner of the Atlantic 10 Conference and chairwoman of the selection committee.
tournament.
terms of travel," Bruno said. "Someone has to go out there and play and what we want to do is create balance in the brackets. I think that's what we've done."
Tech (26-4) and Stanford (26-2) for the other No. 1 spot. Nineteen of Vanderbilt's games were against teams that are now or have been in the Top 25 and it won 13 of its last 15, including a victory over Tennessee in the SEC tournament finals.
Louisiana Tech, which lost to North Carolina in last year's national championship game, was given the No. 2 seed in the East. That means the Lady Techsters might have to beat Connecticut on its home floor to earn a ninth Final Four trip.
"If they do get there, that would make it more palatable in
Stanford was seeded second in the West, where North Carolina is the No.3 seed. Louisiana Tech lost to
Louisiana Tech lost to Western Kentucky
in the finals of the Sun Belt Conference tournament, but Bruno said that didn't affect Tech's seeding.
The first- and second-round games will be played at subregional sites hosted by the top four seeds in each region, with one exception. Purdue, seeded fourth in the West, couldn't be a host because of a high school tournament at Mackey Arena.
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