Evening star., 1960-03-12
Top Teams Win
Other Games in
NCAA Tourney
BY the Associated Press

An unheralded bunch OF
Oregon Webfoots from the tall
timber country of the Pacific
Northwest was the surprise of
the NCAA championship bas-
ketball tourney last night.
Beaten nine times during the
regular season, Oregon was
considered a setup for sixth
ranked Utah t25-2), champions
of the Skyline Conference. But
almost before the Utes knew
what was happening they had
fallen IL points behind. They
never caught up and were
beaten 1854 in the Far West
regional semifinals at Seattle.
The surprising Oregon boys
face California, the defending
champion, in the regional final
tonight.
Cincinnati, California and
Ohio State, rated 1923 in the
final Associated Press poll of
the season, had little trouble
joining Oregon in the national
quarter finals. However, fifth
ranked West Virginia, like Utah,
bit the dust. The Southern
Conference champions were
tripped by New York University,
82-81, in overtime. Georgia
Tech, Duke and Kansas also
reached the round of eight.
PairingS Listed
This is the setup for tonight's
regional finals to determine the
four teams to go to the ma
tional semif1nals and final at
San Francisco next Friday and
Saturday:
Eastern at Charlotte, N. c.:
NYU VS.. Duke.
Mideast at Louisville, KY:
Georgia Tech VS.. Ohio State.
Midwest at Manhattan,
Kans.: Kansas VS.. Cincinnati.
Far West at Seattle: Oregon
VS.. California.
Firing also resumes today in
the National Invitation Tour
ney tNIT with afternoon
night ouble-headers in New
York.
The first matinee game pits
st. Bonaventure against Holy
Cross. In the second, to be
nationally televised CWRC-4,
a p.m0, Utah State battles
Villanova. The night twin bill
finds Dayton against Temple
and st. Louis against Provi-
dence.
In the NCAA regionalS, Ohio
University nearly surprised
Georgia Tech, but the South
eastern Conference boys fln-
ished in front, 57-54, led by
Roger Kaiser and Daven Den
ton who found the basket at
the right time. Kaiser finished
with Is points and Denton is.
Buckeyes Rally
Ohio State, the Big Ten
champion, was seven points
behind Western Kentucky at
halftime. then virtually blasted
the Hilltoppers of the court
at Louisville with a 61-point
second half for an easy 98-79
victory. Jerry Lucas, an ALI
America sophomore, equaled his
own scoring record of So points
Kansas trailed Texas at the
half. too, but rangy 6-foot-s
Wayne Hightower caught fire
for the Jayhawkers in the Sec
ond half and they whipped the
Southwest Conference cham
pions, 90-81. Hightower scored
"a points, % of them in the
second half. Jay Annette tai
lied "a points for Texas, but
"a of them came in the first
half.
It was cakewalk for Gin
cinnati and Oscar Robinson as
they walloped DePaul, $3.50.
Robertson concentrated on
handing out assists and bagged
only" 20 points.
1t was a breeze for Cali
fornia. too. The defending
champions walloped Santa
Clara, 69-49, and their famous
defense was never sharper.
All-America Darrall Imhoff
and Earl Schultz each scored
16 points for the winners.
Evansville Repeats
eileen Moore, CT pivot man.
spanked the Oregon upset. He
held Utah's ace, 60 Billy Nc
Gill, to a mere six points for
the entire game. Moore was
ably assisted by little Chuck
Rask who virtually took care
of Utah's full court press all
by himself. Rask finished with
l8 points and Moore 10.
Evansville Qnd) College won
the NCAA small college
championship for the second
straight year with a 90-6O
romp over Chapman (Calif.)
in the tourney final at Evans
vile.
The Westminster Titans of
New Wilmington, Pa, ended
the three-year reign of Ten
nessee A&I State as NAIA
champions. They nipped the
Southern team 1898 in the
semif1nals of the NAIA tour
ney at Kansas City. Southwest
Texas beat William Jewell,
82-44, in the other semifinal