Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 165, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 March 1985 — Page 7

Greencastle High School athletic honors for the 198485 winter sports season were announced during Monday nights banquet. Kiwanis MVP Awards were announced, but will be presented during the spring honors convocation. Tiger Cub MVP were: (front row, from left)

Who will be Cinderella?

By BEN WALKER AP Sports Writer It seems to happen every year. Who will it be this time? Which unheralded school will leap into the national limelight by upsetting some college basketball giant early in the NCAA tournament? “I don’t want to sound flip, but there’s always the chance anything can happen,” said Lehigh Coach Tom Schneider, whose team takes on No. 1 Georgetown in an East Regional game Thursday. “We’ll have trouble matching up,” Mercer Coach Bill Bibb said, looking ahead to his team’s first-round game against No. 6 Georgia Tech in the East Regional. “I don’t imagine our players know too much about Middle Tennessee State,” said Dean Smith, coach of No. 7 North Carolina, preparing to face the Blue Raiders in the Southeast Regional Thursday. “Middle Tennessee is certainly capable.” Last year, Dayton provided the shock twice. The unranked Flyers' knocked off No. 7 Oklahoma and then tripped No. 15 Washington. The previous season, Utah surprised No. 7 UCLA. The year before, it was Middle Tennessee State’s turn, when it toppled No. 15 Kentucky. But perhaps the biggest upset in recent NCAA tournament history came during the 1980-81 season. DePaul, led by All-American Mark Aguirre and Terry Cummings, sailed through the regular season with a 27-1 record and was ranked No. 1 in the nation.

NIT ready to open

By KEN RAPPOPORT AP Sports Writer Preoccupied by rumors of a job change and the flu, Gary Colson has had his mind on just about everything but the game at hand in recent days. But tonight, the New Mexico basketball coach has his sights set only on Texas A&M. “Shelby Metcalf is a veteran coach and he’ll bring his club in here relaxed,” Colson said as he prepared his Lobos for the Aggies in the opening game of the National Invitation Tournament at Albuquerque, N.M. It is the only game scheduled tonight in the NIT, which continues Wednesday night with Canisius at Nebraska. The remaining 14 first-round games will be played the following two nights at sites around the country, 10 of them on Thursday night. Colson spent most of the past few days denying rumors that he would replace veteran Marv Harshman at Washington, calling it “fictitious.” He has also been laid low by the flu of late. “It hasn’t been an easy couple of days for me,” said Colson, whose Lobos were beaten over the weekend by San Diego State in the Western Athletic Conference tournament. The Lobos had a 24-10 record last season before losing in the first round of the NIT last year. This year, they have fashioned an 18-12 record with a virtually new team and gave top-ranked Georgetown a tremendous battle at their home court before losing by eight points. Colson feels his team will have to rebound better to beat Texas A&M. “Their strength is offensive rebounding,” Colson said. “We’re not a very good rebounding team ourselves. We’ll just

Kim Sheldon for girls basketball, Mike Cooper boys basketball (back row, from left) David Singer and Pat Meyer a co-MVP's of the wrestling team and Bob Nealon for the sectional champion swimming team. (BannerGraphic photo by Steve Fields).

Hoyas No. 1 in final poll The Top Twenty teams in the final Associated Press' college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, total points based on 20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13 12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, record through Sunday, March 10 and last week’s ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Georgetown (63) 30-2 1260 1 2. Michigan 25 3 1175 3 3.St. John's 27-3 1124 2 4.Oklahoma 28-5 1061 4 5. Memphis St 27-3 1004 5 6. Georgia Tech 24-7 901 9 7. North Carolina 24-8 794 6 8. Louisiana Tech 27-2 737 8 9. Nev.-Las Vegas 27-3 724 11 10. Duke 22-7 653 7 11 Va Commonwealth 25-5 581 12 12. Illinois 24-8 518 14 13. Kansas 25-7 506 10 14. Loyola, 111. 25-5 417 16 15. Syracuse 21 -8 351 13 16. N. Carolina St. 20-9 262 18 17. Texas Tech 23-7 222 18. Tulsa 23-7 138 15 19. Georgia 21-8 132 17 20. Louisiana St. 19-9 105 19 Others receiving votes: Temple 75, Ohio St. 58, Alabama 55, Washington 49. lona 46, Auburn 42, Maryland 29, Purdue 24, Southern Methodist 24, Villanova 23, lowa 19, Ala.-Birmingham 16, Navy 14, Notre Dame 14, Southern Cal 13, Arizona 10, San Diego St. 9, Oregon St. 8, Virginia Tech 8, Michigan St. 7, Boston College 4, lowa St. 4, Fresno St. 3, Illinois St 3, Dayton 2, Ohio U. 2, Arkansas 1, DePaul 1, Wichita St. 1

The Blue Demons were favored to win the NCAA tournament going into their first game, against lightly regarded St. Joseph’s, Pa., 22-7. Yet at 3:30 p.m. on March 14,1981, in the Mideast Regional at Dayton, Ohio, the

have to block out and work harder. ” The Aggies have a 19-10 record following their loss to Texas Tech in the semifinals of the Southwest Conference tournament. Meanwhile, Nebraska practiced twice Monday because the Cornhuskers hadn’t worked out since last Tuesday’s Big Eight Conference loss at Kansas.

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unexpected happened: in the hectic last seconds, John Smith, a hard-working forward, wound up all alone under the basket for a layup at the buzzer that gave St. Joe’s a stunning 49-48 victory. “Oh, we knew we could win that game,” said Smith, now a sporting-goods salesman in southern New Jersey. “But we knew we had to play hard and play together. Our plan was to control the tempo, and that’s what we did.” Smith had some advice for the teams that are big underdogs going into firstround NCAA games this week teams like Lehigh, rated 31 points under Georgetown; Southern, a 20-point underdog to St. John’s; and North Carolina A&T, listed as 23 points under No 4 Oklahoma. “Any team is susceptible to losing,” he said. “You concentrate on what you do best, and about how you can attack their weak points.” That’s just the way Schneider is approaching Lehigh’s game with the toprated Hoyas, owners of a 30-2 record. “I’m more concerned with executing the things we want to do than with what Georgetown does,” he said. “We’ve played some good teams in the last two years Arizona State, Marquette, Notre Dame so I don’t think our players will be awed.” Tom Green finds himself in position similar to Schneider. Green is the secondyear coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University, which faces No. 2 Michigan, 25-3, in the Southeast Regional on Friday.

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