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Next year’s girls cage tourney will delay boys one week

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - While the boys are waiting excitedly for the 65th Indiana high school basketball tournament to begin this* week, the state’s female prep cagers are quietly preparing for their own—in 1976. Phil N. Eskew, commissioner

Floyd Central, Loogootee rate in south

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A pair of familiar names head into the Indiana high school basketball tournament this week as the teams to beat in the Evansville Semistate area. No. 8 Floyd Central and Nc. 13 Loogootee, both winners of the semistate tourney at the University of Evansville’s Roberts Arena in the recent past, stand at the head of the most

Marian's Giants keep eye out for David

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of the Indiana High School Athletic Association, told The Associated Press that the monthlong boys tournament will be pushed back one week next year to allow prior completion of the girls tournament. “The girls tournament will be held in February and will go for

wide open field in years in this part of the state. Floyd Central’s Highlanders went from here to the State Finals in 1971, while Loogootee did the same in 1970. This time around, Coach Joe Hinton’s Highlanders and Jack Butcher’s Lions aren’t about the surprise anybody. Floyd Central is 20-0 and Loogootee 19-1 going into this week's sec-

make an appearance in the gleaming, new Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Saturday, March 22. But the Giants are hardly a cinch. The sernistate at the Allen County Coliseum March 15 could well be an all-star show, with as many as ranked teams squaring off for the honors grabbed in 1974 by defending state champion Fort Wayne Northrop. Marion appears a sure thing in iis own secticna, but could

four weeks, just like the boys,” Eskew said. “We don’t want them to compete with the boys tournament, so we’re pushing the boys back a week and working on the scheduling of the girls tournament.” “It’s not set, yet, but the girls’ sectionals probably will

tionals. And that loss by the Lions was in one of the state’s rare forfeits, levied when Loogootee officials declined to play a home game against nearby rival Shoals because of possible crowd control problems. Loogootee won the first meeting between the two teams this season and they could meet in the Washington sectional.

well run into defending state scoring champion Kyle Macy and his Peru teammates in the Giant regional. Peru’s No. 20 Tigers would up with 17-3 record. Fort Wayne Elmhurst and city rivals Snider. North and Northrop appear ready to battle in out for Fort Wayne sectional honors. And one of those teams, with Elmhurst Prep poll INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Here Is the final Indiana high school basketball poll of the 1975 season by The Associated Press, with first place votes in parentheses, won-lost records and rating points~24o possible: 1. Hammond (8), 19-1, 217. 2. South F> n nd Adams (1), 192, 290. 3. Mario . 19-1, 198. 4. Mime .yrth(l), )&■ , 177. 5. Gary Emerson (2), 19-2, 175. 6. Martinsville (1), 19-1, 167. 7. Michigan City Elston, 18-2, 155. ' Penn (1), 19-1,155. 9. Mishawaka, 173, 79. 10. Lebanon, 18-2. 65 11. Indianapolis Tech, 19-3, 48. * 12. .Loogootee. 19-1, 47. Winchester, 16-2, 47. 14. Floyd 15. Lafayette Jefferson, 16-4, 34. 6 Northwestern (Howard), 20-0, 30 17. Anderson, 16-4, 27. 18 North Judson, 19-1, 22. 19. Gary West, 16-5, ifi. 20. Peru, 17-3, 13 Other teams receivving votes: Fort Wayne Elmhurst, Euge Chicago Washington, Princeton, Gibson Southern, Avon, Rossville, Cloy City, Fort Wayne North, Anderson Madison Heights, Morgan Township, Tippecanoe Valley, Columbia City, Lakeland, Vincennes Evavesviile Central.

be played on Thursday night and Saturday morning or afternoon. And the regionals, semistates and finals probably will be Saturday afternoon.” Eskew added, “It may be that the girls finals will be Saturday afternoon and night, because by that time most of the

But both the Lions and the Highlanders appear strong favorites to grab their own sectional titles. Then the Highlanders are likely to have to cope with 1974 Evansville winner Jeffersonville and dangerous New Washington and host Seymour at the regional level. Loogootee appears a shoo-in

given a bit of an edge, is likely to make the semistate show. No. 7 Penn first has to get by unset-minded Goshen (the only other team to beat No. 2 South Bend Adams this season ; in the Elkhart Central sectional, then could run up against the likes of tiny toughies Columbia City or Tippecanoe Valley in the Elkhart regional. It certainly wouldn’t be surprising if any combinations of the teams mentioned wind up in the Coliseum, but Marion, Elmhurst unpredictable Kokomo or Anderson and Perm appear the best bets tc make it to Fort Wayne. And a peek at the recent history of that semifinal shows a tendency toward upsets. In fact, the biggest upset of the 1973-74 season occurred at the Fort Wayne semisrate when Northrop knocked off top-rank-ed and unbeaten Anderson in the finale. College poll By The Associated Press The Top Twenty, with firstpLa .e votes in parentheses, season records through Sunday, Fib. 23 and total points. Points tabulated or. basis of 20-18-16-14-i2-10-9-m?te.: 1. Indiana 1 47) 26-0940 2. Maryland 20-3798 3, Louisville 20-263 20 3639 20-3624 6.Marquette 20-3470 7.N.C. St. 19-4405 8 Alabama 20-3379 9.Arizona St. 20-3281 10. Pennsylvania 20-4195 ll.demson 158178 12 S Calif. 16-6140 U.Creignton 19-4118 14. N. Carolina 16-772 15. Texas-El Paso 18-461 16. Notre Dame 16854 17 .Oregon St. 15-952 18. Pan American 21-247 19. Arizona 18533 2G.Washington 16-730 Others receiving votes listed alphabetically: Centenary, Cincinnati, DePaul. Furman, Kansas, LaSalle, Memphis State, Michigan,- Middle Tennessee, Minnesota, New Mexico State, Nevada-Las Vegas, UNC-Charlotte, Oregon, Purdue, Rutgers, Stetson,' Tennessee, Texas A&M, Tulane, Utah State

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boys teams are getting ready for their tournament and action kind of tapers off on Saturday of the last week. “And, during the first three weeks,” he said, “we’ll probably try to avoid conflicting with the boys Friday and Saturday night schedule for now.”

in the Washington regional. Princeton, beaten by 19 points on its home floor by Gibson Southern will have to turn that around to get to the Evansville Regional, where the winner at Princeton is likely to find Evansville North, Tell City and Vincennes. A darkhorse in the semistate could come out of Terre Haute in the form of little Switz City Central, led by state scoring leader Rusty Miller. The 5-foot--9 guard is carrying a hefty scoring average. Other outstanding individuals to keep an eye on in the south include Floyd Central’s Dwight Moore and Junior Hor y and Bill Butcher of Loogootet.

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The finals of the boys tournament will be played in the new 18,000-seat Market Square Arena in downtown Indianapolis. But Eskew said the girls probably will play “at a smaller gym, like Butler.” “I doubt if it would go that big on the first year and we’ll just have to wait and see what the crowd situation is,” he explained. Some boys teams may move their season-opening opponents to the end of the regular season schedule in order to fill in the vacant week created by the new tourney calendar. Another more immediate move by the IHSAA has caused a bit of a stir in athletic departments throughout the state. Eskew said the payoff for schools involved in the 16 regional cage tournaments will be sliced to a flat SI,OOO plus expenses. That is a large cut in the amount most of the 64 schools that get to the second round of the tourney have been taking home. An example of this is Richmond, which participates in the New Castle regional tourney. In 1974, Richmond was paid $5,614.52. That represented the local high school’s share on an

enrollment basis and included S6B for lodging, $lO2 for meals and $43.52 for mileage. The reduction this year to sl,000 plus expenses could hit the schools hard. “The regionals will now be just like the other three tournaments—sectiona, semistate and finals,” Eskew said. “In the past, about 125 schools, over the years, have been getting that money and splitting it up. Last year, we were sponsoring six tournaments and one was paying, now we’ll have 17 tournaments (next year;, and only about three are paying.”

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“We need more mone to operate on,” Eskew explained. “We’ve got a bigger staff now and there are more sports. The other way, only 64 teams each year got that money.” The commissioner also pointed out that there has been no surplus in funds the past several years to spread among the schools not getting a basketball payoff. “We’ve been hit hard on attorney fees the last couple of years and, of course, everything is getting more expensive,” Eskew related. “If we do have money left, we hand it back equally to the schools.”