Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-03-13
Weird Doings
Feature NCAA
Cage0peners
N. c. State Bumped
In Four Overtimes,
Holy Cross Ousted
By the Associated Press


The NCAA Examinations got
under way in the National cham
pionship basketball tournament
last night with the wrong man
sinking a winning basket. near
record team point total, two up
sets and a minor riot.
Temple gave Holy Cross the
boot, 74-72, and Canisius upset
North Carolina State. ranked No
2 in today's final Associated
Press poll, 1913. in a record
four overtimes at Madison
Square Garden. Morehead tKy.)
State rolled up a 1922 victory
over Marshall and Wayne
(Mich.) upset DePaul, 1858, in
a pair at Fort Wayne, Ind, and
Seattle hung on to beat Idaho
State, 68-66. at Seattle.
The first-round firing in the
NCAA tourney that winds up
March % at Evanston. ILL.,. con-
tinues tonight with Connecticut
Manhattan and West Virginia
Dartmouth at Madison Square
Garden, and Southern Metho-
dist-Texas Tech and Oklahoma
City Memphis State at Wichita,
KanS.
Temples surprise success
against Holy Cross came on a
Jump shot by 6-foot-7 Fred Co
hen with 8 seconds remaining
But it wasn't planned that way.
Hal Lear, who paired with Soph-
omore Guy Rodgers as a pesty
front line in a 2-1-2 zone. was
to have taken the last shot. 1t
was the 5-foot-11 Lear who
matched All-America Tom Helm
sohn of Holy Cross with &c
points.
Fans Chase Officials
1--WE had set up the play for
Lear" said Harry Litwack. Owl
coach, but Heinsohn, appar-
emily coming out to help a team
mate in the rush for the ball
left Cohen uncovered so Fred got
the ball and let it CO."
Holy Cross, the 1947 NCAA
champion, tried desperately to
recover, passing the ball into the
i6-foot-7 Heinsohn after a time
out with 31a seconds remaining
HeinSohn's jump shot bounced
off the board back into his hand
and he shot again. That one hit
but the officials ruled it was
after the final buzzer.
That decision brought a flood
of irate Holy Cross fans to the
floor, but Referee John Stevens
and Umpire Vic Di Gravio man
aged to escape.
1t was a jumping one-hander
by Sub Frank Corcoran-his only
basket of the game-that belted
N. C. State in the last five Sec
onds of the fourth overtime,
which was a tourney mark. The
winning play was set UP when
John Maglio. who with Phil
DiNardo had given State a 1877
lead with two field goals in the
last minute, missed a free throw
with IA seconds left and Canisius
grabbed the rebound.
Shavlik High With rs
North Carolina State, the At
Ilantic Coast Conference cham
pion, trailed most of the way,
catching up at 65-all just as
regulation time ran out.
The teams played cautiously
through the first three overtimes,
which brought the score to H.
II, and then after Maglio and
DiNardo had sent the Wolfpack
in front Corcoran came through
to provide the clincher.
Ron Shavlik. 6-foot-8 and han
dicapped by his broken wrist and
four fouls, was high with Is
points for State. Hank HoWak
scored 90 for Canisius.
Temple meets the Connecticut
Manhattan winner and Canisius
takes on the West Virginia Dart
mouth winner in Fridays second
round at Philadelphia.
Morehead, which had a record
major college average of sc
points a game, fell just one short
of the NCAA team mark in clob-
boring Marshall's Mid-American
Conference champions for a
third time this season. Utah
holds the record with it's 108-85
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