European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 11, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday March 11, 1986 stars and stripes Page 23 Urcla seeks repeat of nit championship new York a teams from Texas and California including defend ing Champion Urcla dominate the 32 team Field for the 50th annual National invitation tournament. Urcla 15-13, one of four California teams will seek to become the first team in More than 40 years to win two consecutive nits. The Only repeat Winner since the tournament started in 1938 was St. John s in 1943-44. The Bruins who once won nine Mcaa titles in 10 years will play Host to California Irvine 16-12, in their opening round game on thursday. We re looking Forward to defending the title we won last year Urcla coach Walt hazzard said. The tournament begins tuesday with Montana 21-9, playing Host to 21-8 Texas Christian one of five Texas teams in the nit. The Southwest conference saw Post season tournament Champion Texas tech As the Only team invited for the 64 team Mcaa Field leaving regular sea son co champions Texas am thu and Texas along with Southern meth Odist to Settle for the nit. Lamar from Beaumont also is in the nit Field. We re very pleased with the nit selections and disappointed in the Mcaa Sec commissioner Fred Jacoby said. Some conferences Are Over rated and some underrated and we had teams that improved dramatically late in the year. But it s obvious we were in a transition year. We Don t have name players like Akeem Abdul Olajuwon Jon Koncak Joe Kleine and Clyde Drexler like we had the last few  All four Sec teams have to go on the Road in the first round. In addition to thu at Montana on tuesday thursday games will find Texas am 20-11, at Wyoming 20 11 Texas 18-12, at new Mexico 17 13 and sum 18-10 at Brigham Young,16-13. On wednesday Dayton 19-8, will be at Mcneese state 20-10 Pittsburgh 15-13, will travel to Southwest Missouri state 22-7 and Providence 15-13, will Host Boston University 21-9. Eleven More games will follow on thursday including the Irvine Urcla new Mexico Texas Texas am Wyoming and sum Brigham Youn contests. They pair George Mason 19-11, at Lamar 18-11 Southern Mississippi 17 11, at Florida 16-12 Georgia 16-12, at Tennessee Chattanooga 21-9 Louisi Ana tech 16-13, at Northern Arizona 19-10 Loyola Mary mount 18-10, at California Berkeley 19-9 Drake 19 10, at Marquette 18-10 and Middle Tennessee state 23-10, at Clemson 17-14. The final first round game on Friday will have Ohio state 14-14, at Ohio University 22-7. The second round games will be at regional Sites on March 16-17, followed by quarterfinals at regional Sites on March 20-21. The semifinals and final will be at Madison Square Garden on March 24 and March 26. The Ohio state Ohio University game will match two state rivals but it will also feature fired buckeyes coach Eldon Miller against one Man rumoured to be his successor Ohio coach Danny Nee. But Nee disregards that perspective on the game. The spotlight should be on the play ers and the game not the coaches he said. The game and the players Are More important than who is going to be coaching at Ohio state next year. I Don t want that to be a distraction to my  St. John s Berry honoured Greensboro . A Walter Berry fifth ranked St. John s leading scorer and rebounded sunday was named Winner of the 10th John r. Wooden award As the nation s top College basketball player by the los Angeles athletic club. Berry a 6-foot-8 Junior received 556 votes from More than 1,000 sports writers and broadcasters to become the second straight Redman to win the award. Chris Mullin won it last year. Duke s Johnny Dawkins finished second with 511 votes followed by Len Bias of Maryland with 346. Berry will receive the award from wooden the former Urcla coach in los an Geles april 2. Berry helped St. Johns 30-4, share the big East conference s regular season title with Syracuse and saturday night he pre served the redmen s 70-69 big East tournament Victory Over Syracuse by blocking dwyane Pearl Washington s shot just be fore the Buzzer. He is averaging 22.9 Points heading into the Mcaa tournament. The other top finishers in the voting were Kenny Walker Kentucky 283 Brad Daugherty North Carolina 215 Steve Al Ford Indiana 185 Danny Manning Kan Sas 158 Mark Price Georgia tech 116 Dell Curry Virginia tech 51, and Ron Harper Miami of Ohio 37. 76ers whip pacers to reach playoffs lakers Clinch title from press dispatches Philadelphia Moses Malone scored 34 Points and pulled Down 17 re Bounds As the Philadelphia 76ers Defeated the Indiana pacers 120-102 sunday in an Aba game. The Victory snapped the 76ers three game losing Streak and assured them a Posi no Roundup Tion in the playoffs for the Lith straight year. The loss was the eighth of the last 11 games for the pacers who have dropped 10 straight games in Philadelphia Over the past three seasons. Philadelphia led 58-51 at halftime and moved out to a 78-60 advantage on a three Point shot by Charles Barkley with 6 35 left in the third Quarter. Indiana never got closer than 12 Points. A driving Layup by Julius Erving with 4 01 left in the fourth Quarter gave the six ers a 117-94 Lead the biggest of the game. Philadelphia had leads of 10 Points twice in the first Quarter but Indiana trailing 28 18 with 51 seconds left scored seven straight Points to close the Gap to 28-25 at the end of the period. Erving scored 22 Points for Philadelphia and Barkley added 18 Points and 13 re Bounds. Wayman Tisdale had 20 Points and 12 rebounds for the pacers while Vern Fleming added 16 Points. In other games sunday lakers 108, supersonics 106 Seattle the los Angeles lakers behind Earvin magic Johnson s 32 Points clinched their fifth straight Aba Pacific division title with a 108-.106 Victory Over Seattle. It was the third straight 30-Point game for Johnson who scored 30 Points against the Golden state warriors on thursday night and 33 against the Sacramento Kings on saturday. It was the fifth straight win for the lakers. The last time the lakers failed to win the Pacific division title was in the 1980-81 season when they finished second to the Phoenix suns. This season los Angeles leads the second place Portland Trail Blaz ers by 16 /2 games. Bulls 114, kicks 101 Chicago Sidney Green scored a Ca reer High 31 Points and George Gervin added 27 sunday to help Chicago break a three game losing Streak with a Victory Over new York the kicks eighth straight Road loss. Gervin moved past John Havlicek into seventh place on the Aba s career Point list. After Gerald Wilkins Dunk moved new York within 70-68 Early in the third Quarter the bulls outscored the kicks 16-6 Over up photo Moses Malone .34 Points 17 rebounds the next 5 30 to seize control. Nets 115, suns 111 East Rutherford . Albert King scored 28 Points and Otis Birdsong added 27 As new Jersey Defeated Phoenix. King collected 12 Points in the fourth Quarter to help the nets overcome a 104 100 deficit. The suns led 106-105 before Birdsong and King hit successive jump shots to Eive the nets a 109-106 Lead with a 1 51 to go. Alvan Adams s foul line jumper pulled the suns to 111-109 with 52 seconds remaining but Birdsong connected on a running jump shot with 33 seconds to go. Two free throws by Adams with 14 seconds left Cut the deficit to 113-111, but King iced the game with two foul shots five seconds later. Nuggets 123, clippers 121 los Angeles Alex English scored 36 Points and Reserve guard Mike Evans scored 14 of his 24 Points in the final period As Denver outlasted the los Angeles clippers. The nuggets who trailed 56-55 at half time despite 23 Points by English took an 89-82 Lead into the fourth Quarter. Led by Evans and Calvin Natt who scored 11 of his 24 Points in the final period Denver ran off an 8-2 string to stretch its Lead to 97-84. Mavericks 117, Kings 102 Sacramento Calif. Brad Davis scored a season High 23 Points including 11 Down the stretch As Dallas beat Sacramento. The 6-foot-3 Dallas guard muscled his Way underneath As Well As hitting from the outside to score 13 Points in the fourth Quarter neutralizing a Kings comeback at tempt. Mcaa from Page 21 Field were Boston University 21-9 Fairleigh Dickinson 22-8 pan american 20-8, and former basketball Titan Urcla 15-13. Schultz said that several teams got at Large berths with impressive victories in the final week. There were several teams with big wins the last week of the season that were on the Fence Schultz said. He specifically mentioned Depaul in this group. Schultz predicted that parity would be come evident in the first round games. There Are some dynamite games in the first round he said. There is going to be some great first round  survivors of this coming weekend s preliminary rounds will Advance to regional Competition at four Sites Houston in the West Atlanta in the Southeast East Rutherford ., in the East and Kansas City in the Midwest. Starting times for first round games were to be announced on monday. In the Southeast regional at Baton Rouge la., on thursday it will be second seeded Georgia tech against no. 15 Mari St no. 3 Memphis state is. No. 14 Ball state no. 6 Purdue is. No. 11 Louisiana state playing on its Home court and no. 7 Virginia tech is. No. 10 Villanova the de fending Champion. First round action in the Southeast at Charlotte Friday includes no. 4 Illinois is. No. 13 Fairfield no. 5 Alabama is. No. 12 Xavier Ohio and no. 8 Western Kentucky is. No. 9 Nebraska making its first Mcaa appearance. In the West at Ogden Utah on thurs Day second seeded Louisville meets no. 15 Drexel no. 7 Bradley tackles no. 10 Texas Elpaso no. 3 North Carolina faces no. 14 Utah and no. 6 Alabama birding Ham plays no. 11 Missouri. In the West at Long Beach on Friday it will be no. 4 Nevada Las vegas against Northeast Louisiana no. 5 Maryland is. No. 12 Pepperdine and no. 8 Auburn against no. 9 Arizona. Other first round games in the East regional at Greensboro on thursday Are fourth seeded Oklahoma against no. 13 northeastern no. 5 Virginia against no. 12 Depaul and no. 8 old Dominion is. No. 9 West Virginia. First round action in the East at Syra Cuse n.y., on Friday matches second seeded Syracuse is. No. 15 Brown no. 3 Inot Ana against no. 14 Cleveland state no. 7 Navy against no. 10 Tulsa and no. 6 St. Joseph s against no. 11 Richmond. In the Midwest Region at Dayton on thursday other first round games Are fourth seeded Georgetown against no. 13 Texas tech no. 5 Michigan state against no. 12 Washington and no. 8 Jacksonville is. No. 9 Temple. First round action in the Midwest on Fri Day in Minneapolis pairs second seeded Michigan against no. 15 Akron no. 3 notre Dame against no. 14 Arkansas Little Rock no. 6 North Carolina state against no. 11 Iowa and no. 7 Iowa state against no. 10 Miami Ohio