Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-15
BY the Associated Press


Seven favorites and dark
horse Seattle square of to-
night in the four regional
finals of the NCAA basketball
championship after a night of
thrills that saw one game won
at the buzzer on a 35-foot field
goal and another-between two
of the Nations mightiest teams
settled in an overtime period.
Here's how they'll line up
for tonight's engagements,
from which will emerge the
four contestants for the decid-
ing rounds at Louisville, KY,
March 21-22:
At Charlotte, N. C.-Temple
VS.. Dartmouth.
At Lexington. Ky.-Notre
Dame VS.. Kentucky.
At Lawrence, KanS.-Kansas
State VS.. Oklahoma State.
At San Francisco-Seattle
VS.. California.
Victories by all except Seattle
were more or less expected last
night in the opening round of
the regional competition. But
the Chieftains came through
as All-America Elgin Baylor
let loose with a 35-foot field
shot as the final buzzer sound
ed to down the San Francisco
DonS. 69-67.
Robertson Misses Chance
Cincinnati's All America
Oscar Robertson, leader of the
scoring parade. lived up to adj
vance notices at Lawrence but
was somewhat of a goat as he
missed a free throw in the
final second that would have
sent the BearcatS off the floor
as the winner. Instead third
ranked Kansas State went on
to best second-ranked Cincin-
natl $3.50 in overtime.
Oklahoma State won the
right to meet the well-balanced
and big Wildcats from Kansas
State with a routine $40
victory over Arkansas, Temple
squeaked by Maryland 71-67
and Dartmouth dumped Man
haitian 1852 at Charlotte.
Kentucky had little trouble
against Miami of Ohio at
Lexington, winning 94-70, but
Notre Dame was pressed before
eliminating Indiana 94-87.
California joined Seattle in
the West Coast finals with a
SAB decision over Idaho
State.
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With the NCAA university
competition down to eight
teams. the organizations small
college crown in the hands of
South Dakota and the NAIA
field reduced to two teams (un-
beaten Western Illinois and
defending champion Tennessee
State), the MT in New York
moves back into the picture
with four games.
In the afternoon clashes,
Niagara meets Xavier of Ohio
and fourth-Seeded Utah takes
on st. Johns of New York,
already past the first round. in
a nationally televised game
over CHS starting at 4:30 pm.
At night Fordham plays at st.
Francis of Loretto, Pa, and
third-Seeded st. Bonaventure
goes into action against st.
Joseph'S of Philadelphia, also
a first-round winner.
1t will be a long time before
the 1882 fans who sat in on
the doubleheader at San Fran
cisco'S Cow Palace forget the
Seattle-San Francisco game in
general and Baylor. who played
his high school basketball at
Spingarn in Washington. D. c.,
in particular.
There never was more than
a APPOINT spread and the score
was tied eight times. Baylor,
who racked up IS points, was
almost unstoppable in the Sec
ond half. He dropped IN %
points. climaxed by his rair-
raising, game-winning 2 pointer.
Close at Lawrence
The defeat was the first time
in four years that the Dons
failed in the Western regional.
They won the national title in
1855 and 1856 and placed third
last year.
But another 1900 fans will
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