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  • Page 14/THE WESTERN CAKOl IN1AN/March o, 1980 Surles on sports by Steve Surles Enough is enough. I mean really, this new NCAA Basketball Championship Tournament format of 48 teams is just too much. There are too many teams, too many seeds, numbers, dates, arenas, and first round byes. The average fan Just can't possibly keep up with the process well enough to identify with it. And when such "national powers" as San Jose State [14-U|, Bradley, South Alabama, etc, et al. start infiltrating the national tournament in such great numbers, doesn't it appear to be time to put a quietus on the foolishness? After all, this is to determine, In essence and theory, the National Championship in collegiate basketball; it's not a charity all-comers. Let's cut all the trouble that committee of bigwigs went through this weekend; all the analysis of schedules, won-lost, tournament history, who- beat who and-where, and last but certainly not least, politics. I propose we simplify this selection process. Drastically simplify it. I know it can be done. First of all, let's face it, forty-eight teams is a lot. And I really don't think, to be honest with you, that there are four dozen national championship contenders in American today. [There's probably not that many In the world.] I say we cut the tournament down to 24. Two dozen of the nation's finest. The number is not arbitrary at all, as I like even numbers. Now, for the tough but vital part. How do we determine our magnificent 24? I again have the answer, and one that eliminates all the mumbo-jumbo of the Shawnee Mission Commission, and really concentrates on the important stuff. I say let's determine our tournament teams by the fool proof method of working, so to speak, with oranges and oranges; apples and apples. Let's put the nation's colleges on equal terms with each other—and not by the subjective analysis of athletic administrators who often have lots to lose, or gain by their machinations. For example, I say let's give 12 of the 24 seeds in my tournament ta the real class of college sports — the major independents, Metro 7. Big East schools and the successful football/basketball conferences In all sports- Notre Dame, Penn State, Louisville the ACC. the Southeastern, Big Ten, and Southwestern. Any number can come from each league and independents with at least one from each except the Big Eight conference who has never developed the same kind of basketball as it has football [Nebraska, Oklahoma, etc.]. They only get a seed when one of their teams does not win the football national championship. I believe the schools with the developed total athletic programs are a different breed anyway and they can't be considered for tournament play in the same sense as many other schools who can concentrate on just building a basketball program. So, 1 say we'll give a seed to the best of the smaller Division I schools, like the Ohio Valley teams and the Southern Conference, who have such a struggle in the college athletic world. After the regular season they all get together to determine two seeds in the 24 team tournament, and I say we give these Furman's and Western Kentucky's a first round bye, to make up for all those year's they were cannon fodder for the Marquettes, Notre Dames, North Carolina's and UCLA's in the first rounds of the Regionals, Sub-regionals and Sub-sub-reglonals. For the schools who concentrate on only basketball |shame on you], one berth goes to the overall winners in the non-secular (religious] division—you know all those schools with the funny names, mostly New York and California. The St. Bonaventure's, St. John's, NIagra's, Pacific's, DePaul's and Marquette's. These guys should have super basketball teams as they have no $50,000 a year football coaching salaries or Title IX to worry about. But think of the possibilities for this playoff. Madison Square Garden, 10,000 fans and nuns, Marquette [the Jesuit entry] versus DePaul [the regular Catholic | for the right to go to the National tournament; it's a natural moneymaker. No, we won't call it the "mackeral snappe" or "Holy Mackeral Tournament"—really, I'm trying to infuse a little class. Our secular non-football schools—the Sun Belt, Trans-Am conferences and some independents [UNC- W, Stat son |, get a tourney seed by the same process. Just one seed though, but we'll let them play anywhere they can find 45-second shot clocks and three-fourths empty coliseums. Also, the one seed from this group gets paired every year with the Big Ten champ every year—that'll give them something to talk about during the fall and summer. To schools rumored to have football teams [Davidson, Marshall, Rice, Vanderbilt, etc] but couldn't prove it by their won/lost records, we'll give a bid after a playoff, too. A real national champion sleeper contender could come from this school, and just think how happy the winner here would be—then they could justify all those 1-10, 1-9 football seasons, and quarter to half-million dollar basketball budgets. Two seeds go to the Western United States, or the "criminal division", we'll rename it, and these include all the teams out west either on or going on probation. This is a big group [hence, two seeds] and includes some super basketball teams, New Mexico, New Mexico State, ail the Pac-10 next season, etc. Truly a if PIRCIDJUlOTi©^ f) The Nee Ningy Band sings and plays traditionally-based music country and country blues English Irish and Scottish melodies Medieval dance tunes Cajun music / fiddle tunes originals The wide variety of instruments includes: fiddle / mandolin cornetto / jaw harp Eastern reed instruments Irish bodhran / Scottish bagpipes flutes and flageolets double tub bass harps, played by the European Harmonica Champion Coffee House Presents Monday, March 17 8:30-11pm Cherokee Room Admission is Free if You Wear Green. 50< Others "Erin Go Bragh" playoff here could be one of the best anywhere. Another seed could be added, depending on the amount of under-the-table-payoff I get from the tournament director, Norm Ellenberger. In the playoffs, Ottawa of Kansas gets to play with all of New Mexico's suspended players, and of course, UN-Las Vegas gets a permanent bye to the semi-finals. Schools with very similar and confusing names get a chance to seed a team in our new tournament set-up. This guarantees a minimum of Miami's [Ohio] - [Florida], St. Peter's [NY-NJ], Loyola [Chicago-California], and just for kicks, California University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania gets in this one, too. I want to give a bid to a playoff of schools, that by name, give us absolutely no idea of their location, like Northeastern [of where], Gonzonga, Weber and Murray State (when did they get admitted to the Union?]. All the schools with the names of past or present golfing partners surely deserve a chance too. Just a few are, Lamar, Brown, Mercer, Howard, Butler, Georgia [Howard's wife], Bradley, etc. I'd be sure and eive a seed for sure to the schools that represent our nation's great history and heritage. Just think of a playoff between George Washington, Washington and Lee, William and Mary, Sam Houston State. James Madison, Robert Morris and George Mason. And the winner here hits a first round bye in the national tournament just for posterities sake. Every year, I'd give the schools a bid that had the unfortunate bad luck to go through a coaching change during the season. We'll let the Florida's, Tennessee Tech's, etc., playdown for one-bid to the nationals. Any school can qualify, whether the coach left by firing, retiring or insanity. I want to group all the teams with a city name [San Francisco, Detroit] and give a chance to make the final 24. Did you ever notice how most of these schools are in cities you'd just as soon not be in? Well, regardless, If one of these teams makes it to our final four, that city hosts the National Championships. And just think of the possibilities of a wonderful weekend in late March in some of the more cosmopolite! towns like, Evansville |Ind.|, Cincinatti [Oh], Baltimore [MD], Pittsburgh, Akron, Toledo or, heaven forbid, Cleveland [Cleveland State.) Now, as you can see I've only scratched the surface on this national championships selection process, and I admit my plan, still in the rough, planning stages has a few kinks and chinks in the armor, But I'm on the right track [remember oranges/oranges and apples/apples]. And really, Isn't anything better the way they do it now? Lady's gymnastics Western Carolina's women's gymnastic team hosted the State NCAIAW Division I and II Championships in Reid Gym Saturday, and despite finishing last in the overall competition, put together some very fine individual performances. Beth Myers, Western's top point scorer most of the season, placed second in the Division II competition with a 29.60 total score behind East Carolina's Elizabeth Jackson (30.20) and tied with ECU's Susan McKnight. Myers earned the highest marks for Western of the day with a 8.3 mark in the floor exercises and with a 8.15 in vaulting, was close behind teammate Jill Kaufman and her 8.3 score. Myers finished the day as the eleventh highest scorer in the entire competition. Duke's Jodi Cote completed the dav as the individual medalist with a 34.00 score, with UNC's Tia Walker close behind with a 33.20 score. UNC edged Duke for the Division I championship 131.10 to 130.25 with East Carolina outpointing Western 118.50 to 107.75. Addressers Wanted IMMEDIATELY! Work at home-no experience necessary-excellent pay. Write American Service, 8350 Park Lane, Suite 127, Dallas, TX 75231
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