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PREP, COLLEGE BASKETBALL POLLS

Anderson Ends Season

As No. 1 In State;

Favored For Title

Anderson heads into the 64th state high school basketball tournament this week as the odds-on favorite to capture the state title. The top-ranked Indians, who started and ended the regular season atop The Associated Press poll, won each of their 20 games played. Despite being the favorite, Anderson’s journey to the crown will not be easy. They open in sectional play against No. 20 Anderson Highland, 20-1, and then it’s either Anderson Madison Heights or Lapel. Anderson received all 16 firstplace votes and a perfect 240 rating from the state’s panel of sports writers and broadcasters who voted on the final poll. Dropping from second to third was Hammond which suffered its first and only loss of the season last week. Jeffersonville, also 191, moved up to second. Jeffersonville’s Red Devils claimed 215 points to rank well ahead of Hammond with 184. On down the line, Mishawaka, 19-1, kept its No. 4 position, while Gary West moved up three places to No. 5 after closing out an 18-2 regular campaign. The. other teams in the top 10,

all of them solid contenders lor the state title, are No. 7 Kokomo with a 16-4 mark. No. 8 Lebanon at 17-2, No. 9 Rochester and No. 10 Southwestern of Jefferson County, both with 20-0 records. Penn’s double overtime victory over the No. 6 South Bend Adams sent them up four places to No. 11 while Adams fell to 13th. Lafayette Jefferson moved up to 12th. Gary Wallace is in the 14th spot, followed by No. 15 Richmond. No. 16 Terre Haute North, No. 17 Seymour, No. 18 Hammond Clark, No. 19 Union County and Highland. The only team dropping out of the top 20 was Loogootee which lost a pair of games to finish 18-2 and move from No. 16 to honorable mention. INDIANAPOLIS AP-The final 1974 Associated Press Indiana high school basketball ratings with first place votes in parenthesis, won-lost records and rating points 15 points for first place vote down to one point for 15th-240 possible: 1. Anderson 16,20-0,240 2. Jeffersonville, 19-1,215. 3. Hammond, 19-1,184 4. Mishawaka, 18-2,174. 5. Fort Wayne Northrop, 19-1,

166. 6. Gary West, 18-2,113. 7. Kokomo, 16-4,108. 8. Lebanon, 17-2,98. 9. Rochester, 20-0,90. 10. Southwestern Jefferson, 20-0,88. 11. Penn, 17-3,72. 12. Lafayette Jefferson, 16-4, 66. 13. South Bend Adams, 15-3, 64. 14. Gary Wallace, 16-4,43. 15. Richmond, 164,38. 16. Terre Haute North, 18-2, 25. 17. Seymour, 17-3,20. 18. Hammond Clark, 17-2,19. 19. Union County, 20-0,17. 20. Anderson Highland, 20-1, 15. Other teams receiving votes: Hammond Noll, North Judson, East Noble, Elkhart Memorial, Northridge, Lakeland, Floyd Central, Logansport, Muncie North, Clay City, Evansville Bosse, Loogootee. Terre Haute South, Tell City, Springs Valley, Indianapolis Broad Ripple, Anderson Madison Heights, Indianapolis Tech, Lapel, Indianapolis Arlington, Franklin, North Central Marion, New Washington, Oregon-Davis.

North Carolina State Holds Top Spot As

U.S.C. Cracks Top 10

By The Associated Press If it weren’t for its crosstown rival. Southern California would be the best college basketball team in Los Angeles. But, although USC has played second fiddle for most of the past 10 years to UCLA, the nation’s basketball virtuoso, the Trojans are on the rise and have cracked the Top Ten in the Associated Press College Basketball Poll.

Two weeks ago USC was ranked No. 13 to UCLA’s No. 1. A week ago, when UCLA made the headlines by losing consecutive games to Oregon State and Oregon, dropping to No. 3 in the rankings, USC beat both Oregon schools and crept to a No. 12 ranking. In today’s AP Poll the Bruins have clung to their No. 3 spot after convincing victories over Washington State and Washington, while the Trojans moved into the No. 10 spot after whip- - ping Washington 79-64 and Washington State 86-59. USC has won six straight games since suffering a 65-54 loss

to UCLA Feb. 2 on the Bruins’ home court. Both schools have 9-2 records in the Pac-8 Conference and take turns playing California and Stanford this weekend as tuneups for their March 9 battle at USCs Sports Arena. Barring an upset this weekend, the March 9th game-the last one in the regular season for both UCLA and USC-will determine the PAC-8’s representative in the NCAA Tournament. The only way UCLA can make it to the NCAAs and try for its 10th title in 11 years is to finish first in the Pac-8. North Carolina State, 22-1 with 29 first-place votes, stood atop the rankings for the second week in a row after knocking off Duke 113-87 and slipping by Clemson 80-75. Notre Dame, 22-1, marked No. 1 on 15 ballots, slugged Western Michigan 85-68 and West Virginia 108-80 and ranks second. UCLA, 20-3 was the only other school to receive first place votes, winding up with four.

The Top Twenty, with firstplace votes in parentheses, season records through games of last Saturday, and total points. Points tabulated on basis of 20-18-16-14-12-10-9-8-7-6-54-3-2-1:

1. N.C.St. 29 2. N. Dame 15 3. UCLA 4 4. N. Carolina 5. Maryland 6. Vanderbilt 7. Alabama 8. Marquette 9. Indiana 10. Southern Cal. 11. Pittsburgh 12. Providence 13. Lng Bch St. 14. S. Carolina 15. Kansas 16. Creighton 17. Michigan 18. Arizona 19. New Mexico 20. Louisville

22-1 22-1 20-3 20- 3 194 21- 2 20- 3 21- 3 18- 3 20- 3 22- 2 23-3 21- 2 184 17-5 214 174 19- 6 19-6 17-5

912 844 774 599 520 456 399 340 325 288 250 246 184 99 45 39 31 27 25 19

Others receiving votes, listed alphabetically: Bradley; Centenary; Cincinnati; Furman; Kansas State; Maryland-Eastern Shore; Pennsylvania; St. John’s, N.Y.; Southern Illinois; Utah.

Fairmont State Regains

Division Summit As

Wesleyan Falls

By The Associated Press Fairmont State regained its reputation as the best college division basketball team in the nation after Kentucky Wesleyan, No. 1 a week ago, was dumped 96-86 by Kentucky State. Kentucky Wesleyan slipped to third in the weekly Associated Press poll of sportswriters and , broadcasters announced Tuesday, behind Tennessee-Chat-tanooga, which held on to its No. 2 ranking. Previously unranked Kentucky State was voted 10th among the A P’s Top 15 teams. Fairmont State, 24-2 after beating West Virginia State and Central State of Ohio, received “15 first-place votes and 536 points in the balloting. UTChattanooga, 204, and Ken- " tucky Wesleyan, 184, each received three No. 1 votes, but the Tennessee school outpolled the Panthers on points, 493469.

Evansville, Morgan State and Jackson State retained the next three sports in the voting. Evansville, 18-5, received three top votes and 453 points; Morgan State, 214, two top votes and 303 points, and Jackson State, 224, collected 229 points. Tenth-ranked Kentucky State and No. 14 Gardner-Webb received two first-place votes apiece while No. 7 Old Dominion, No. 8 Tennessee State and No. 13 Augustana, 111., drew one each. Old Dominion, 18-6, moved up from 10th and Tennessee State, 19-3, moved up from 11th. Alcorn A&M, 21-5 after splitting two games against Southern University, dropped from seventh to ninth and Kentucky State took over 10th place, occupied a week ago by Augustana, 111. Rounding out the Top 15 are Wittenberg, 19-3; Roanoke, 205; Augustana, III., which wound

up its season with a 20-3 mark; Gardner-Webb; 21-2, and Midwestern, Tex., which dropped from 13th to 15th despite a 3-0 week.

The Top 15, with first-place votes in parentheses, season records through games of last Saturday, and total points. Points tabulated on basis of 20-18-16-14-12-10-9-8-7-6-54-3-2-1:

1. FairmongSt. 15 2. UT-Chatt. 3 3. Ky. Wesleyan 3 4. Evansville 3 5. Morgan St. 2 6. Jackson St. 7. Old Dom’on 1 8. Tenn.St. 1 9. Alcorn A&M 10. 'Ky. St. 2 11. Wittenberg !4!4. Roanoke 13. Aug’tana, 111. 1 14. Gardner-Webb 2 15. Midwestern, Tex.

24-2 536 204 493 184 469

18-5 214 224 18-6

453 303 229 224

19-3 204 21-5 183 194 166 19-3 151

20-5 20- 3 21- 2 264

145 141 126 101

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