European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday match 14,1989 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports Illinois Georgetown Arizona Oklahoma top tourney seeds Kansas City to. A second in the big ten. Illinois is first in the Midwest. Second in the big might tournament. Oklahoma is first in the Southeast. Indiana plays in Ati Ona and Arizona in Idaho. The Mcaa basketball pairings turned nut to be As unpredictable As Many expect the tournament iisclftobt1 111 is year. Ari Ona and third ranked Georgetown got no t is eds As expected inc wildcats in she West rounds a the Hoosier Tome in Indiana. Showdown time for hi1 Humen of a basketball and the Nulin Nul invitation tournament Hyrc also announced sunday. Fur detail on these Nho Downs see pages 22 and 23. Polls and was banished to the West regional As Lite no.2 seed. Widrick Dempsey. Chairman tit the nine Man Selec Tion com Millet Suid lie i look re fell Bat k because the first response Bizilj was to nationally seed them on theasis of com Pell i Ion All year translation winning the big ten was t enough to overcome two losses to Illinois. And two losses in the hoosiers last three Barnes. Plus he said the Zillini benefited from a late surge six straight victories and nine in 10 games and sit return of guard Kendall Gill from a broken tool thai did t sit Well with Indiana coach Bobby Knight. If the dig ten Champion does t get inc first seed the Beil league country according 10 Ever Power rating i be seen then Why the hell play it he said before the seeding were announced. What wrought to do is schedule 18 Hoosier conference even Illinois coach Lou Hanson had t expected it saying beforehand i think under Normal conditions if you win the big ten you probably arc going to get the no. I the seeds were determined while some conference championship games were still be int played and there fore did no reflect Oklahoma s 98-56 loss to missourian inc big Light final less than an hour later. Overall the draw was Long on competitive balance Shorter than expected on Home area advantages an noticeably lacking the Power Ouw second round matchup thai have spiced the tournament in Rocen years the. Atlantic coast conference had Llic most entries with a record to Itig six. The big East Southeastern conference and big ten had five each and the Pac la theme and the big eight four apiece Indiana s Bubby kit Tull. Disagrees with seeding eighteen teams Wilh at least 20. make the Field including new Mexico a 20-game win Ner but not selected 10 the Mcaa Field forthe third straight year there is no question that at the top of the bracket we have great parity Dempsey. The Arizona athletic director said. There Ore a number of teams capable of being in Seattle for the final this is the richest Mcaa tournament Everi with.all6 1 teams guaranteed a least $250,000, and thess first round winners a 1500.000 apiece. Each final four team is guaranteed.$1,231.000, the acc. Tournament Iii Amish. Duke and North Carolina were made second seeds Llic Blue devils behind Georgetown in the East and the tar heels Back of Oklahoma in the Southeast. Syracuse of he in East was second seeded in the Midwest Anil Indiana out West. No 3 seeds included Stanford in the East Missouri in the Midwest Michigan in the Southeast and scion Hall in the West. Iowa in inc Hast. Nevada Las vegas in the Wisl Louisville in the Midwest and Honda Kiaie in the Southeast were the fourth seeded teams. Misting from inc held is defend ing Champion Kan Sas which won 19 games but Mccume inc first Champi on barred from defending its ii tic under terms of a probation for recruiting Yip Lions. Georgetown will open against Ivy league Champion Princeton in Providence on Friday Anu Ari Ona will play Robert Morris Champion of the Northeast con Ference on thursday in Boise Idaho. Ironically when Robert Morris won its conference signs saying we wan Illinois will open thursday against Mcniese state i Indianapolis and Oklahoma will Piny against East ten Nessee slate in Nashville As Lite tournament i of Mizee did its Best to Lake the Home court Advance away from top seeds. Oklahoma for instance was expected to end up in Dallas an easy trip for sooner fans and North Carolina could have been at Greensboro in the East instead of Duke Arizona was not permitted to play in Tucson on ils Home court being sent to Boise instead. Mayhe Jou re belter off not being a no. I seed said Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs Obi Otchy disappointed Al being sent to inc Southeast. Everybody in our league gets sent to the my Decsi Region but okla homa., Kansas and. Kansas Sta in Wen t there last Yea r. We would like to go to. Our natural hash it at some pain i m .-., flip committee did iry to keep teams close to Home North Carolina will Lay in Atlanta the same City where it won the acc championship with a 77-74victor 1 Over Duke earlier sunday and Georgetown will open in Providence Home of a big East rival. Texas the 11th seed in the Midi est will play i Dallas Middle Tennessee slate. No. 13 in the South East will open in Nashville and Idaho no. 13 in the West will be in Boise on the same court where it won he big sky tournament saturday. Second round Winner Advance to the regional semifinals the following week. The East and Midwest re to vials will be held March 24 and 26 at East Kuther 3rd, n.j., and Minneapolis the West and Southeast at Denver and Lii Nylon ky., on March 13 and 25. The four regional winners gather in Seattle for inc tournament semifinals on april i with the championship game april 3. In team overlooked this year besides 20-10 new Mexico were new Mexico stale 21-0 Boise , 23-6 Georgia Southern 23-5, and Akron 21-7. Dempsey indicated that parity among the top icbms made committee s task tougher than usual the committee s responsibility is to Schect the bust 34at-largc.iear�s, regardless of geographic Loca Tion or conference affiliation he said. We also have a responsibility to balance the bracket As Mueh As we Missouri upsets sooner 98-86 by the ask Cru d i Resi Byron Irvin scored 29 Points and Doug Smith had 22 Points and m rebounds As Lola ranked Missouri upset the second ranked Oklahoma sooner 98-86 Lou in the Hig eight and an automatic Mcaa bid. Mib Nuri had a great game. They shot Welt an whipped us on the boards Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs said they did about everything you have to do to la was a special occasion said Smith who was named the tournament s most valuable player. "1 jus tried logo out and do what i be been doing All along i just had a great game s Mother Kathryn Droe 14 hours to Kansas City to ice her son play for Missouri inc first Lime. Oklahoma s Stacey King dominated inside against College basketball Misouri scoring a Tournai mini record 38 Points but the soon cars perimeter game produced Only 19 Points. It was a great win for us said Missouri interim coach Rich Daly who took Over when Norm Stewart was hospitalised feb. 9. For three Days inc player shave really worked hard on defense Missouri 27-7, is the no. 3 seed in the Mcaa mid West regional and will play Creighton in the first round Otia homa. 28-i, the lops a in the South East regional and will meet East Tennessee stale in inc opening round also winning conference tournaments and automatic Mcaa bids sunday were top ranked Ari Ona no. 3 Georgetown no. 9 Nonh Carolina no 16 Louisville Alabama Arkansas Ball state and Southern him e Arizona routed no. 12 Stanford 7j-5i in the pacif-ic-10 Georgetown beat no. 5 Syracuse 88-79 in the big East North Carolina edged no. 7 Duke 77-74 in the Atlantic coast conference Louisville downed no14 Florida Siale 87-80 in the metro1. Alabama topped Florida 7 2-60/ Iri the Southeastern Arkansas crushed Texas 100-76 in the Southwest no 19 Ball state edged Kent stale 67-65 in the mid american and soul hem ump nil beat Texas Southern 8641 in the southwestern athletic conference. Pae-10 no. 1 Ari Ona 7j, Stanford 51 scan Elliott had 21 Points As Arizona took com Mand Early and cruised to ils ninth straight win. The wildcats 27-3, took the Lead for Good after Les Sixtan six minutes and went on to Lake a 43-27 halftime see College on Page 23
