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i hi: coi niKK-joi iw ti.mks. Sl'MUY IKHHI AUV 22. 17U 3 One Last Hurrah for Pistol Fete LSU Students Get in Line Early to Bid Floppy -Socked Hero Farewell Afterwards, slipping into brown trousers, a yellow shirt and a soiled wind-breaker, Pete allowed as to how his hopes hadn't been too high, anyhow. "Kentucky would still have won the title, even if we had beaten them," said the young man who came from Raleigh, N.C., to LSU three and a half years ago and in two and a half varsity seasons became the greatest individual scorer in the history of collegiate basketball. "But I think it would have been good for the conference if we had beaten them.

And it would have given us something to bring into the NIT. That's what we're looking forward to." Pete has never played in Madison were their last hideouts. They stood on commodes to evade detection. Finally around daybreak the arena was cleared. At 11:30 a.m.

the gates were opened and the students some armed with pillows and sleeping bags were admitted. And if they were sleepy, it didn't show. Pete's initial appearance at 1:49 p.m. was greeted by a standing ovation. His last basket a 30-footer with one second on the clock was, too.

In between there were many others. But in the end, it was a sad day, both for Pete and LSU. Kentucky's Wildcats rubbed out the home team 121-105, ending LSU's last hope for the Southeastern Conference Championship. By DICK FENLON Courier-Journal Times Stall Writer BATON ROUGE, La. For Louisiana State's students the young people who have taken mop-haired, floppy-socked Pete Maravich to heart it was time for a last hurrah.

At midnight Friday, almost 15 hours before the Pistol was to play his last home game here, they started lining up outside creaky old Parker Agricultural Center, where LSU plays its games. At 4 a.m., some 75 students found entrance to the arena. They were eventually run out but not before leading their ejectors a merry chase. The bathrooms v. I Say Cincy Fans, And Now They Want Drake Square Garden, site of the National Invitation Tournament.

But, with a 17-7 record, LSU will certainly be invited this year, even if it loses its four remaining games. The Pistol is too much of an at-; traction for the promoters to pass up. Pete and his dad, LSU coach Press Maravich, argued that LSU was not beaten in the major areas of play yesterday. "What happened?" said Pete, repeating an interrogator's question. "Well, for one thing, Kentucky was hot as hell.

And for another, it seemed everytime I looked up one of their guards would lose the ball, it would roll through nine pairs of legs and (Dan) Issel would stick it in for a three-point play." Papa Maravich analyzed it much the same way. "The little things beat us," said the coach. "They've beaten me for four damn years against Kentucky. We shot with them. We rebounded with them.

But the ball was always squirting out of our hands, bouncing off our fingertips. And they'd just pick it up and put it in the basket." Pete was breathtakingly brilliant for all but a miniscule portion of the game. But he wasn't sold on his final home-court effort, even though his 64 points was his most ever at home. "No, I really am not completely satisfied," he said. "I missed too many easy shots.

But I did think I played better defense than I did up at Lexington. We were trying to put more pressure on their guards than we did up there and it will show up in the turnovers." In the first half, Pete not noted for his defense forced Kentucky into two turnovers himself with adroit guarding. Kentucky ended with 12 turnovers while completing a sweep over LSU this season. UK had won 109-96 at Lexington Jan. 24 in a game in which Pete scored 55 points.

Pete and teammate Al Sanders were asked to compare second-ranked Kentucky to UCLA, the nation's No. 1 team. They disagreed slightly. "Kentucky, like UCLA, is a true champion," said Pete. "I really can't say who would win if they play in the NCAA.

It will be close." "UCLA would win it," argued Sanders. "They haven't got anybody like Issel (who scored 51 points) but they've got a better overall ball club." KENTUCKY 12! Plaver fs fsa ft fta reb Pf tp Parker 9 18 0 II 3 18 Pratt 11 15 5 8 4 3 27 Issel 19 33 13 1 7 17 3 SI Mills 6 11 2 3 i 2 Dinwiddle 1 1 2 2 5 3 4 Key 1 4 5 7 2 5 7 HollenbecK 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Team 4 Totals 47 82 27 37 47 22 121 LOUISIANA STATE 105 Player fg fga ft fta rob fp tp Maravich 23 42 18 22 4 4 Sanders 5 6 1 3 15 4 11 Tnbbett 0 1 2 3 2 4 2 Hester 8 20 1 2 10 2 17 Newton 4 4 1 1 8 5 9 Hickman 1 3 0 0 1 2 2 Lang 0 10 0 12 0 Team Totals 41 77 23 31 43 23 105 Halftime-Kentucky 56-48. Field goal shooting Kentucky 57.3 per cent, Louis-iana State 53.2. Attendance 9,000. Western Roars To OVC Croivn With 98-74 Win Continued From Page CI wipe out once and for all any lingering doubts about the outcome.

Rose hit 9 of 16 and scored 19 points. McDaniels, connecting on several 20-footers, led Western with 36 points and made 16 of 24 shots. The Toppers hit 58.2 per cent from the field. Staff Photo THE PRESSURE of last night's frantic game with Cincinnati seems to be showing on the face of of coach John Dromo as he stands up and voices his disgust with a call that went against his team. Issel Scores 51 as UK Closes in on SEC Title half, a span in which Mike Pratt took up the slack and kept the visitors ahead with his unerring shooting.

The senior forward from Dayton, Ohio, had 19 points at the half and Kentucky held an eight point-lead at 56-48. Then, in the final half, Issel took charge. He finished with 19 field goals in 33 tries and added 13 points on free throws for the second greatest game in his career. "Out of his 19 field goals 18 were within two inches of the basket," Press Maravich said bitterly. No matter, they all counted.

"It was stupid defense on our part," said the coach. "Our big men couldn't handle him, "He knows all the tricks how to hook and how to roll and how to get his foot around the defense man. But he's a helluva basketball player." Pratt finished with 27 points for Kentucky, making 11 of 15 shots in a fine exhibition. Parker, the sophomore making his fifth straight start at forward in place of Larry Steele, played the entire game and had 18 points. Mills ended with 14.

Continued from Page 1 vich and Mike Pratt stole the ball. Again UK turned it into a three-point play by Isscl to send Kentucky ahead 90-78. It was all over. Kentucky turned it into a walkaway from there, rolling effortlessly to its 21st victory against one loss and its 13th in 14 SEC starts. Unless UK experiences the greatest collapse in its history, it is now assured of its third straight SEC title and another try in the NCAA's Mideast regional.

LSU, Kentucky's closest pursuer, now is 10-4 in the league. Both have four games left to play, but two of Kentucky's are at home while all four of LSU's are on foreign grounds. Maravich, making 23 of 42 shots in one of his better shooting performances, boosted his career scoring total to 3,429 points. Issel doesn't have near that many but the 51 points he scored to boost his record Kentucky career total to 1,915 turned the key to unlock UK's fifth straight victory. had only 18 points in the first I V.Vi vLnl vv filnm iMimiwii rliwraMMlMiiMM iiiiniiniraiiiinniniiiniiiiriniiimiO of L'S JIM PRICE drives through the lane but is closely guarded by Cincinnati's Don Ogletree.

Cincinnati rallied in the second half to win the Missouri Valley Conference game 53-52. By JIM TERHUNE Courier-Journal Times Staff Writer They came in black Farmer McCoy hats and Mexican scrapes, bank-teller caps and wide, rainbow-colored bell-bottoms, cowboy 10-gallons and miniskirts. And they snuggled up breathlessly to the door of the Cincinnati dressing room so tightly, screamed "Beat Drake, Beat Drake" over and over, and slapped each other's hands. Don Ogletree, the last of the Cincinnati Bearcats to leave the private quarters, took one step around the bend of the tunnel leading to the entrance and stopped dead. And he smiled, a smile of resignation.

He knew what was next. His people wanted Badly. They held up V-for-Victory fingers and they reached out, even though their Man of the Hour was still yards away. Gets Shoulder Ride Hesitantly, Don Ogletree walked up to the mass and was consumed by it. Then he reappeared, high upon the shoulders of the followers, who carried him bus-ward in a simulated torchlight procession through Freedom Hall's gates.

And when most of the hundreds had gathered in cars for the return trip, one lone survivor, blank of expression and messy of dress, held a big sign up for all University of Louisville fans to read. It said: "Fantastic." Last night it had been, as they say, "Fantastic." Cincinnati, steaming up the pike trying to catch Louisville and Drake in the Missouri Valley Conference basketball race, had just beaten the Cardinals 53-52 at Freedom Hall, marking Louisville's first league loss at home in 34 games. It had taken a near-perfect performance. A very physical performance. And Don Ogletree, keyed up so high he snapped at everything that moved during the game, knew it better than anyone.

Free Throws Do It Ogletree, a senior guard who would like nothing better than to make an NCAA appearance, had hit two pressure free throws with 17 seconds left that put it out of reach for the hosts. "Yeah, it was a pressure game all the way," he said before stepping into his compatriots' clutches. "It had to be. We had to win this one if we were going to keep any hopes for a championship. And the free throws didn't come easy." Ogletree had missed one only 25 seconds earlier, and he had missed some in the late stages of Louisville's 64-63 victory at Cincinnati Jan.

10. "That made up for it," he said. "I feel a lot better now. And after that first one dropped in (it was a bonus situation), the second one came a lot easier. "But mainly we've kept our momentum going, and we sure need that for Drake (the once-beaten MVC leader that goes to Cincinnati Tuesday)." Mike Grosso, although he didn't hear Ogletree's testimonial to momentum, agreed wholeheartedly.

"We've gotta look at it this way," said Louisville's 6-foot-9 center. "They get fired up and beat Drake, then we beat Drake (the teams meet next Saturday), win the rest and we're in, because we'd Staff Photo (' Cincy Snaps of String With 53-52 League Win Morehead, which played without guard Jerry King who is nursing a knee injury, was led by Jim Day's 18 points and 15 by Bobby Hiles. However, the visitors, finding West-, ern's defense intimidating on the inside, shot only 42.9 per cent from the floor, mostly at long range. Western, which became the first team officially to enter the NCAA field, now prepares to host Dayton University Monday night. A victory will enhance, the Hilltoppers' chances of moving up from 16th place in the Associated Press rankings.

MOREHEAD 74 Player FG Gathright 5 Day 7 Mann 0 Hiles 7 Sandfoss 1 Byars 2 Conley 1 Sewell 0 Hueseman 3 WESTERN 98 FT TP Player FG FT TP 4-5 14 Perry 8 0-2 16 4- A 18 Glover 4 1-1 9 5- 9 5 McDaniels ..16 4-4 36 1- 1 15 Rose 9 1-1 19 0-0 2 Bright 3 0-0 6 2- 2 6 Haskins 2 0-0 4 0-0 2 Banks 10-1 2 0-0 0 Johnson 0 0-O2 6- 6 12 Davis 1 0-0 2 Sundmacker 2 0-0 4 Michaels 0 0-0 0 Eaton 0 0-4 0 22-29 74 Totals ....46 6-14 98 3rn 50-28. grab a 43-37 lead with 13:35 left in the game, but the visitors then made seven trips downcourt without scoring. of took advantage of its opponents' offensive failures to edge ahead 44-43 before Cincinnati ended its drought with a jumper by Wenderfer with 8:06 to go. of L's last lead was at 46-45. A wheeling, four-foot bank shot by Grosso cut Cincinnati's lead to 51-50 with 4:01 to go.

In the final four minutes, Cincinnati missed all three of its shots from the field while of made good on only one of six Bacon's follow. of plays two home games this week, a non-conference contest Wednesday against Georgetown and then a big one Saturday afternoon against Drake. 4 A Staff Photo blown 'em out in the first half if I hadn't got in foul trouble." Cincinnati center Jim Ard, at 6-8 a fine outside shooter with excellent one-on-one moves to the basket, had picked up three fouls in the first eight minutes. The same thing had happened at Cincinnati and Ard then, too, was forced to ride the bench much of the time. "I really thought I had Ard goin'," said Grosso.

"Then I got into trouble and neither one of us did much." With both centers out, of coach John Dromo sent Vilcheck, a 6-9 forward, into the pivot and Cincinnati's Tay Baker went with Dennis Bosse. "I moved to center in a couple of other games," said Vilcheck. "1 only had trouble tonight with one of our plays. Be-sides, I haven't forgotten how I did it in high school." And neither will of forget two free throws by Don Ogletree, who may still be swinging through Cincinnati streets atop serapes and cowboy hats. Scores Over State Davidson 91, George Washington 74.

Duke 87, Maryland 76. x-Denver 85, Air Force 84. Fairfield 71, Manhattan 69. Florida State 97, Georgia Tech 80. Fordham 91, Rutgers 70.

Furman 53, Virginia Military 52. Georgetown D.C. 90, Catholic U. 58. Houston 97, Centenary 72.

Kansas Slate 69, Nebraska 62. Kent State 85, Western Michigan 82. Marciuelte 80, Detroit 60. Miami (Ohio) 66, Xavier 59. Missouri 72, Oklahoma State 61.

Navy 70, New York U. 62. New Mexico 87, Arizona 85. New Mexico State 87, West Texas State 73. Niagara 72, St.

John's (N.Y.) 70. North Carolina Stale 104, Wake Forest 86. Ohio U. 91, Virginia Commonwealth 75. Oklahoma 75, Iowa State 73.

Oregon 78, UCLA 65. Penn 84, Brown 56. Penn State 61, Pittsburgh 48. Providence 84, Holy Cross 67. Rice 75, Texas 67.

Richmond 78, William Mary 60. South Carolina 79, North Carolina 62. St. Bonaventure 71, LIU 61. Stetson 95, Miami (Fla.) 86.

St. Joseph's (Pa.) 86, Seton Hall 77. St. Peter's (N.J.) 96, Marshall 80. Temple 76, American University 66.

Texas A8.M 85, So'ithern Methodist 81. Texas Tech 76, Arkansas 71. Utah 113, Wyoming 82. Utah Slate 82, Seattle 81. Vlllanova 96, LaSalle 85.

Virginia 94, Clemson 79. Washington State 74, California 63. Yale 65, Princeton 58. OTHER INDIANA COLLEGES Franklin 89, Wabash 73. Goshen 82, Bethel 66.

Hanover 69, Taylor 65. Oregon Upsets UCLA EUGENE, Ore. UCLA, the nation's No. 1 ranked team and the last of the unbeaten teams, was upset by the University of Oregon 78-65 here last night in a Pacific-Eight Conference basketball game U.C.L.A's record now is 2M. 1 only have two losses and everyone else three or more." Grosso, of course, is right, and that's exactly what of must now rely on.

It must recover from last night's sweatbox. All parties Ogletree, Grosso and Al Vilcheck agreed it was the most physical game either team has been involved in this season. Contact away from the ball was rough. Contact under the backboard, when a rebound was imminent, was rougher. "Sure it was tough, the toughest yet," said Grosso.

"And we played a good game, I thought. Cincinnati was just better." That Cincinnati was charged with just seven turnovers to of L's 14 prompted Ogletree to say that "this was our best floor game, teamwise, of the year, except a couple times when we got out of our patterns." But Grosso, who- usually shoulders the blame for a defeat, said: "We could have Basketball x-Overtime. SEC Florida th Mississippi State 70. Georgia 94, Mississippi 79. Kentucky 121, Louisiana State 105.

Tennessee 77, Alabama 70. Vanderbilt 92, Auburn 74, OHIO VALLEY CONFERENCE x-Austin Peay 98, Tennessee Tech 90. Middle Tennessee 74, Eastern 68. Murray 99. East Tennessee 86.

Western 98, Morehead 74. MISSOURI VALLEY Cincinnati 53, Louisville 5S. Drake 80, Tulsa 74. North Texas State 83, Bradley 75. St.

Louis 78, Memphis State 68. COLLEGE TOURNEYS KIAC TOURNEY First Round Rio Grande 104, Berea 99. Union 68, Campbellsville 60. OTHER KENTUCKY COLLEGES Bliss (Ohio) 102, Calvary 95. Cincinnati Frosh 82, Louisville Frosh 69.

Georgetown 95, Northwood Institute 67. Kentucky Frosh 78, Louisiana State 77. Kentucky Wesleyan 66, Southern Illinois 63. Transylvania 98, Lambuth (Tenn.) 53. West Virginia Tech 42, Ashland 37.

BIG TEN Mlchiqan 95, Minnesota 87. Michigan State 78, Indiana 66. Northwestern 82, Wisconsin 75. Purdue 88, Illinois 81. Iowa 97, Ohio State 89.

OTHER MAJORS Arizona 86, Texas El-Paso 72. Army 79. Syracuse 54. Baylor 92. Texas Christian 81.

Bowling Green 82, Toledo 62. Brigham Young 96, Colorado Stata 84. Canisius 84, St. Francis (Pa.) 78. Colorado 81, Kansas 73.

Columbia 94, Harvard 69. Cornell74, Dartmouth 72. Davin 74, DePaul 63, Continued From Page 1 a bonus try, were the first points scored by either team in 3 minutes and 44 seconds. Hustling Henry Bacon ended the scoring for of with a follow shot with five seconds to go. Afterward, Bacon complained mildly that he was fouled on the play by Cincinnati's Steve Wen-derfer, but the officials didn't see it that way.

i. "I drew him to me," Bacon said in the focker room, "and when I went up, he hit on the shoulder blades." Bacon finished with 12 points and 14 rebounds in an outstanding effort. Fouls Also Hurt Grosso Cincinnati, surprisingly, achieved the victory with virtually no help from its All-Conference pivotman, Jim Ard. The 6-foot-8 senior missed all but one of 13 shots from the field and finished with a total contribution of two points and six rebounds. He entered the game with averages of 19.9 points and 15.9 rebounds.

"We did a good job on Ard," said Dromo. "I wouldn't have believed we could hold him to two points and lose the game." As in a 64-63 loss to of at Cincinnati last month, Ard was called for three quick fouls in the first half. He was removed from the game with 11:41 left in the opening half. Soon after, of L's 6-9 Mike Grosso also picked up his third personal foul. 'Grosso didn't play the last 8:10 of the first half.

Moreover, of L's 6-9 Al Vilcheck, who bagged eight points and eight rebounds in the first half, got into foul difficulty in the second half and was good for only two rebounds after the intermission, He played just seven minutes of the second half. biggest failing was that we got our big boys in foul trouble," said "It really hurt us. But I'd say we played the best game we've played all year, Our kids did a good job on offense and a great job on defense." Cincinnati coach Tay Baker like- wise gave his players superior grades for thair defensive work. "Offensively, we didn't have a good -game, but we were tough real tough-on defense," he said. "It's kinda hard to evaluate a game like this because there was so much tension and pressure." So close was last night's game that the score was tied seven times and the lead changed hands on 17 occasions.

Cincinnati shook loose momentarily to Totals 26 Attendance 13,804. and Nation Louisiana-New Orleans 88, Ball State 83. Notre Dame 114. west Virginia 78. Valparaiso 95, DePauw 84.

KENTUCKY HIGHS Louisville Area Atherton 71, Canevville 38. Bishop David 95, Iroquois 64. Central 72, Manual 70. Country Day 54, Evansville Country Day 49. Lexinston Tates Creek 92, Seneca 66.

Male 75, Paducah Tilghman 61. Owensboro 79, Flaget 63. Pleasure Ridge Park 104, Fern Creek 82. Southern 59, Trinity 58. 'I nomas Jefferson 59, Stiawnee 55.

Western 48, Ahrens 47. Elsewhere in Kentucky Anderson County 59, Bardstown 56. Bath County 54, Lewis County 50. Bellevue 66, Bishop Brossart 62. Belfry 73, Mullms 61.

Breathitt County 86, Ashland 60. Clark County 66, McDowell 61. Covington Latin 78, Lebanon St. Francis 54. Eminence 85, Elkhorn City 65.

Ft. Thomas Highlands 88, Woodford County 71. Gamaliel 85, Austin-Tracy 77. Garrard County 59, Jessamine County 57. Greensburg 105, Wolfe County 72.

Hancock County 74, Livermore 59. Hart County 77, Elizabethtown 63. Hazel Green 55, Riverside 48. Henderson 76, Hughes-Kirk 65. Henderson County 61.

Daviess County 59, Johnson Central 73, Maysville 67. Johns Creek 73, Wheelwright 68. La Rue County 63, West Hardin 53. Lebanon 89, Adair County 74. Lee County 69, Leslie County 54.

Jackson County 67, London 59. Moade County 65, Breckinridge County S. Mayfield 87, Caldwell County 71. M. C.

Napier 94, Jackson 73. Montgomery County 76, Mason County Mt. Washington 83, New Haven St. Catherine 59. Nelson County 79, Taylorsville 53.

Oldham County 86, Williamstown 37. Owen County 87, Frankfort Good Shepherd 58. Prestonburg 93, Salyerville 68. Richmond Madison 85, Georgetown 64. Russellville 75, Ft.

Campbell 65. Russell 85, Millard 84. Trimble County 89, Raceland 69. PREVIOUSLY UNREPORTED COLLEGES x-Cal ifornis 91, Washington 86. Weber Slale 58, Montana 51.

Si 4 Wow 'Bout It, Gang? CINCINNATI head coach Tay Baker yells some words of encouragement in last night's game with Louisville at Freedom Hall. His team responded with a 53-52 win. Assistant cxach John Bryant is at left..