University Daily Kansan Mondav. March 5. 1979 7 OU is conference champ Bv JOHN P. THARP. KU's basketball season is over. After losing the championship of the Big Eight Conference Post-Season Tournament to Oklahoma 80-45 Saturday, Kansas failed to get an NCAA at large bid yesterday. KU didn't even get one of 24 bids offered yesterday by the National Invitation Committee. Poor outside shooting—the abominable flaw that plagued KU through the first half of the season—returned unscheduled like a killer. Kansas City's KKer Pamera Saturday night. "We couldn't get an outside shot down, KU coach Ted Owens said after failing to capture his first post-season tournament crown. Kansas hat a miserable 33.7 percent from the field, hitting only 30 of 89 attempts. The Sooners, en route to Dallas at the NCAA playoffs, shot a respectable 52 percent. FIVE OU PLAYERS were in double figures, led by big AI Beal, the tournament's most valuable player, who scored 23 points and caught 22 rebounds. "Beal was the catalyst of a lot of things they did," Darnell Valentine said Saturday. Valentine turned in one of his poorest performances of the season, hitting only three home runs. But Paul Mokesi and David Magley, both selected to the all-tournament team, and Wilmore Fowler had good performances. Mokesi finished with 21 points and 14 rebounds. Magley had a career-high 16 steals in a season, which combined to make 50 percent of their attempts, unlike the rest of the team. Boost Neal, John Crawford, Tony Guy and Valentine could only make seven of their 39 attempts. Friday, Kansas beat Missouri 76-73 in the semifinal, shooting 44 percent from the field. In that contest, Mokeski and Valentine each had 19 points, but it was the 28 points by the bench—Magley, Power and Mac Skilchup—that kept KU in the contest. 'THE'S NOT that much difference between the starting line-up and the bench,' she said. Without the bench, mainly Magley, KU wouldn't have made it to the finals of the tournament. Magley, Mr. Basketball last year in Indiana, combined a knack to score immediately upon entering the game with outside shooting and gun penetration. But his impressive statistics and all-tournament selection didn't matter much to him. "I don't think I can handle it." "All that is not much consolation when you lose the game," a solemn Magley said. We lost, that's the important thing. Personally, we didn't, if I did, it's a great way to end the season." BUT OKLAHOMA'S season is still going. The Sooners advance to NCAA play for the first time in 32 years. Oklahoma beat Utah 14-9, and fourth victory over the Wildcats this season. Agreeing, Valentine said, "It was probably the toughest loss this year due to the fact that it might be the end of the season." "We're really fortunate to beat that team four times,"OU coach Dave Dixel said."It's a quirk.We might play them six more times and they might win five of six." But Oklahoma, 20-9, will be playing Texas Saturday. With as balanced a performance against the Longhorns of the Sooners had against the Jayhawks, the game should be interesting. Sooners Ray Whitley and John McCullough, the league's most valuable player, also were named to the all-tournament team. They combined for 32 points against Kansas. Beal was awesome in the two games. He collected 40 points, 32 goals and 8 shocks shot to help the Sooners gain respectability in a sport besides football. "WERE A GOOD shooting队, "Bliss said, "but sometimes a team that lives by the sword dies by it. By sometimes, we go with the shooting and not get it." "We just couldn't put anything down tonight, really couldn't," Valentine said. Mokeski said he liked Oklahoma's chances in the NCAA. "I think the whole team went out and played as hard as we could," Valentine said, "and we don't have anything to be ashamed of. But Oklahoma got Saturday what KU couldn't get—the ball through the hoop. "If they shoot as well as they did tonight, 'they'll go far.' Mokes said. 'They're a male target.' "Anytime you play hard and come up short, it's tough to lose." Jayhawks . . . From page one "The season had a lot to do with the decision," Sanders said. "It's been disappointing in terms of results. We have盯 up the team as a constant effort by everybody involved. "Some players said it was a disappointing season and would be tough to go on. You can't go to a tournament and try to win it when the people aren't behind it." BOOTY NEAL, a sophomore who started in KU's 76-31 victory over Missouri in the semifinal game and also in the final contest, had to be moved when he learned KU didn't receive an NIT bid. "That's crazy," he said. "I don't know what happened. It kind of hurts a little bit. It's been a long year and I thought we might have gotten an NIT bid." "I'm not worried that much about the post-season," he said. "I have so much to work on for next year. Hopefully, the people in a much-improved ball team next year." Starter Tony Guy, a member of United Press International's Conference All-Freshman team, said he was trying to get around any more post-season play out of his mind. Reserve Mac Stallcup, who came off the bench against Missouri to tie his career-high nine points and six rebounds, said it was too much for him. But Stallcup put the NIT in perspective. "THE NCAA—that's the national title," he said. "That that's what's everybody's shooting for. Everybody thought we were going to lose." And we thought we were going to Dallas." The Big Eight representative to the NCAA plays its first game in Dallas. Stallcup, eching Sanders said that the season had been long, with many ups and downs. Some of the downs were close games. KU lost five games by three or fewer points. "We were a couple of points away from getting the NCAA bid, and winning the Big Eight championship," Sanders said. "That just amplifies our disappointment." Owens could not be reached for comment about the team meeting. One of the players said Owens had abused by a playervisionation had Kansas been offered an NIT bid "It was a hard decision to make," Sanders said. "It was just tough to make." Tourney pairings bring Sycamores to KU Sunday From Staff and Wire Reports San Marcos, CA - Reporter Indiana State No. 14637 the nation's chosen to ailen艾克垦房。 What has been speculation turned to fact yesterday when the NCAA selection committee finished its 41st annual tournament pairings by awarding 17 at-large berths. The top-ranked Sycamores get an automatic bye for the Midwest Region. In first round games, Virginia Tech, 21-8, plays Jacksonville, 10-19 Indiana State. In second round games, Florida State, Missouri Valley Conference, plays the winner of that game March 11 in the second Weber State, 24-8, plays New Mexico State, 22-9, March 9 in the other first-round contest. Arkansas, seeded No. 2, plays the winner of that game March 11. The Razorbacks, 23-4, are ranked ninth in the nation. Tickets for the games in Lawrence on sale on this morning at 8:30 in Allen Field House.The cost is $7 for each of the two nights. THE TWO WINNING teams from the second round here join the two winning teams in a second round advance to Cincinnati for the Midwest Regional semifinals and finals March 15 and May 27. From there the action goes to the National championship series March 24 and 28 in Salt Lake City. The Sooners, 20-9, not only won the conference race outright by finishing with a 14- record, two games better than anyone else, but went on to win three straight games in the three-year old post season tournament. The Sooners defeated defeated Kansas 80-65 for the championship. Two berthes remained to be filled, the Mid-American Conference. The contended state was the palachan State and Furniar in the Southern and Toledo and Central Michigan in the Mid- Second teams from a conference were placed in the same half of the bracket as the champion to prevent two teams from one championship playing for the national championship. Oklahoma, winner of the Big Eight's NCAA basketball playoff bid, will head to Dallas for a second-round game with football rival Texas Saturday. The Longhorns finished with a 21-7 record under the expert and humorous guidance of Dr. William E. Brown, a longtime member of the team. THIS IS THE first-time since 1947 that the football-oriented Sooners have sent a team to the NCAA. That team did well enough to win, but not enough to coach Bruce Brake, and had a 42-kr record. SOUTHERN CAL, Detroit and Duke were among the 17 teams awarded at-large invitations Sunday to the expanded tournament. North Carolina, winner of the Atlantic Coast Conference post-season tourney, was in second-place Notre Dame, an at-large entry, was given the top seeding in the tournament. ference; Rutgers, the Eastern Eight champion; Connecticut, the New England ECAC winner; Penn, the Ivy League champion; Georgetown, the ECAC Souther-Upstate New York champion; Iona, ECAC Metro winner; Virginia Tech, Metro Conference winner; University of the pacific, Pacific Coast Athletic Association champion; Jacksonville, winner of the Sun Belt tournament, San Francisco, the West Coast Athletic conference champion, and Brigham Young the Western Athletic Conference titlist. Last year's NCAA 32 team bracket has been expanded to 40 teams. All Division conferences received automatic qualifications. The 16 conferences, including the Big Eight, with the best nondose percentage in tournament play over the past five years, received first-round byes. The remaining automatic qualifying conferences, independent and second conference teams. Automatic qualifiers in the tournament so far include: Michigan State of the Big Ten; Texas A&M; and Stanford. Two of the most powerful teams from the Midwest Region DePaul and Marquette, who have been in the league since 2015. In the West Regional, Pac-10 champion and third-ranked UCLA was seeded No. 1. First-round action begins Friday at four locations. Determined Darnell KU's Darnell Vernail sleeps into the air and slams into OU'%k John McCullough for an offensive foul on Saturday's Big Eight conference post season tournament championship game in Kansas City's Kemper Arena. KU beat Missouri 76-73 in the NCAA Basketball Pairings By United Press International semifinals, and OU beat Kansas State 72-48. The Sooners, regular season champs, went on to a 86-45 victory over KU, which ended Kansas' basketball season and sentOU to the NCAA playoffs for a game Saturday with Texas in Dallas. Numbers in parentheses indicate a team's seeding within a reign. EAST REGIONAL. Temple 25-3 (7) vs. St. John's 18-10 (10); Iona 23-4 (6) vs. Penna 21-9 Georgetown 24-3 (2) vs. Rutgers 21-6 (6); Syracuse 25-3 vs. Connecticut 21-7 (6). Ison-Pennerwitt v. North Carolina 32-5 (1); Temple-Sk. Jon's winner v. Dukke 27-6 (1). Tennessee, Tenn. Detroit 21-5 (7) vs. Lamar 20-8 (10), Tennessee 30-1 (1) vs. Eastern Kentucky 21-9 (7). LRSI 23-8) vs. Southern Conference winner—ether Apple Arizona game; euther Tokyo endgame—a conference竞接—ether Todosela endgame Wether State 24-4 (7) vs. New Mexico State 22-9 (10) Virginia Tech 21-6 (8) vs. Jacksonville 15-10 (9) MIDEAST REGIONAL Tennessee 108, Miami 72, Notre Dame Tennessee 108, Detroit 74, Michigan 114 (12). Detailed L-lane winner in Michigan 114 (12). Louisville 28-3 (1) vs. Southern Alabama 20-6 (6); Texas 21-4 (1) vs. Oklahoma 20-9 (5). March 11 at Murfreesboro, Tenn. Virginia Tech-jacksonville winner vs. Indiana State 29-48 Walter State-Nevada State winners vs. Arkansas 31-45 Regional Semifinals and Finals March 15, 17 at Philadelphia March 10 at Bloomington, Ind. MIDWEST REGIONAL LA Aggie Baskets Southern Cal 194-197 (10), Utah State 194-198 (10), Utah 206-99 vs. Pepperdine 214-199 (9) WEST REGIONAL Ua-Ilu-Pepperson winner vs. UCLA 24-11 (1); Southern Cal- Ua-IluState winner vs. DePaul 24-2(1). Marquette 21-0 (3) vs. Pacific 18-1 (6); San Francisco 14-2 vs. Virginia Young 18-7 (5). Regional Semifinals and Finals March 15-17 at Provo, Utah Alcorn, Ohio State lead 24-team NIT NEW YORK (UPI)—Undefeated Alcorn State, 17-ranked Ohio State and defending national champion Kentucky head the 24-team field announced yesterday for the upcoming National Invitation Tournament. The only spot in the field still undecided is the representative from the Mid-American Conference. Toledo and Central Michigan still have to play Tuesday night for the title, with the NCAA to the NCAA and the looser to the NIT. The tournament will feature three teams from the Big Ten - Ohio State, No. 18 Purdue and Indiana, three from the Atlantic Coast Conference - Maryland, Clemson and Virginia; three from the Southeast Conference - Kentucky, Alabama and two from the Soutwest Alabama; and two from the Soutwest Alabama and Texas Tech and Texas A&M THE NIT, the oldest of the post-season tournaments, will begin at various sites around the country and finish up with the Madison Square Garden March 19 and 21, Madison Square Garden March 19 and 21. The other teams selected were Rhode Island, Oregon State, Wagner, Old Dominion, St. Joseph's, St. Bonaventure, Dayton, New Mexico, and Nebraska-Robe. Play begins Thursday night, with seven first-round games being played. The remaining 10 teams will play their first-rounds Friday night. Purdue was one of the three teams tied for the Big Ten lead with a 134 conference record. The NCAA, which has a championship in Iowa and in Michigan State, both with higher national rankings, and that led Purdue for the NIT, Otto State, which led the conference until the second-to-last season, finished fourth in the standings. The NIT committee was said to have been counting on St. John's as a local selection, but the Redman, 18,100 were a clear target. The NCAC chose which elected to take part in the NIT after the snub. St. John's lost to Iona in the ECAC final after narrowly defeating National Invitation Tournament Pairings By United Press International Nevada-Reno, 18a to Oregon State, 18.9 Colorado, 18.9 to Oklahoma State, 18.9 Joseph, 19a to Ostate State, 17.4 Charleston, 16a to Kentucky, 18-11 Charlotte, 18-11 to Alabama, 18-11 Santa Barbara, 18a at Arizona, 18a Bonaventure, 18a at Arizona, 18a Acorn State, 20 at Michigan State, 19-6 Central Michigan, 19-7, or Tulsa, 14 at Furious, 19-8 Indiana, 18-12, at Texas Tech, 19-10. Holy Cross, 17-10, at Dayton, 18-0 Texas A&M. 22-8, at New Mexico, 19/ Jayhawks lose to Rebels Kansas let a victory slip in the final eight minutes of Saturday's women's basketball game against no. 10 University of Las Vegas. KU lost 96-81. The Jayhaws led by as much as 40-25 in the first half on the strength of 10-of-14 field goal shooting by Adrian Mitchell, who ended with a career-high 41 points to lead all But fools hurt Kansas in the second half and allowed the Rebels to catch up and gain the lead for the first time, 72-71, with eight minutes remaining. A dispute by KU coach Marian Washington over a call with 6:51 left the coach the first two technical fouls she has been charged with in her coaching career at Kansas. The Rebels, who were on defense, threw four free throws given them in the situation. The loss drops KU's record to 26-7. Kansas, ranked No. 14,去es to Minneapolis which for the Region VI tournament. Barnett FG FT REB PE TP PP Goodwin, 34 10 2.9 3 5 2 Knox 0.6 2.2 1 1 2 Patterson 1.4 2.0 1 0 2 Mike 1.4 2.0 1 0 2 Sanders 0.2 2.0 2 4 4 Mitchell 19.33 3.5 6 4 41 Joseph 1.4 2.0 6 4 41 Woodland 8.20 1.1 24 4 17 Haleben 2.80 1.1 1 24 4 Staples 37.71 1.9 5 18 41 | | FG | FT | RES | PF | TP | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Hamilton | 6:12 | 4:4 | 3:5 | 16 | 16 | | Calvayle | 6:13 | 4:3 | 3:5 | 16 | 16 | | Carter | 1:0 | 1:4 | 8 | 0 | 4 | | Glover | 1:0 | 1:4 | 8 | 0 | 4 | | Ingram | 10:5 | 7:1 | 0 | 1 | 27 | | Willis | 8:21 | 7:9 | 7 | 2 | 23 | | Odhosa | 5:5 | 7:4 | 7 | 2 | 23 | | Washburn | 5:5 | 7:4 | 7 | 2 | 23 | | Totals | 26:76 | 20:21 | 35 | 16 | 96 | | | FG | FT | RES | PF | TP | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Kansas | | 46 | 35 | -- | 81 | | Texas | | 6:12 | 4:3 | 3:5 | 16 | Kings snap home streak with loss KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) - Clifford Fray hit two free throws with 14 seconds remaining to give Golden State a 111-104 overtime victory over Kansas City yesterday to snap the Kings' 15-game home-court winning streak. Ray's tiny free throws gave the Warriors a 111-108 lead and a basket at Sam Lacey narrowed the margin to one 10 seconds later. The Kings forced a jump ball on the inbounds play and won the tap but could not get off a shot. Jo Jo White scored a season-high 30 points and John Lucas added 25 for Golden State. Otis Birdsdon led the Kings with 22 and Bill Robinhunt chipped in 20, but it wasn't the fourth time Kansas City from losing its four second-round game, its longest loss streak of the season. The Kings held a 13-point lead, 64-7, at the half and a six-point margin, 81-75, after three quarters. But the Warriors hit 12-18 last quarter shots to gain a 104-104 tie. The victory was only Golden State's second in its past 21 road games.