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Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1989 PHILADELPHIA "DAILY NEWS Page 79 College Football Report Payments at Minnesota (llade During E-3 I tz Era 119 Jiem: r- 'V -11 i Pittsburgh Writer Votes for La Salle The Scripps-Howard preseason college basketball poll has 31 voters. Thirty of them did not include La Salle in their Top 20. Scott Newman, of The Pittsburgh Press, voted the Explorers No. 1 "When we got his vote," said Scripps-Howard sports editor Marvin West, "we asked his sports editor to get him to send us 200 to 300 words outlining his reasons.

We're still waiting. "He is the enlightened one, so you'll have to talk to him. By the way, will La Salle be any good? They've only got one good player, right?" Well, not exactly. "They've got Lionell Simmons and a coach that used to coach women's ball," said Newman, who covers Pitt football for The Press. "Somebody has to be different, but 1 wouldn't have put it down unless I believed it.

"Maybe Jack Hurd will be an All-American, too. I think they're, a good team. I can't believe this has created such a stir. I can't believe nobody else even voted for them in the Top 20." Said La Salle coach Speedy Morris: "Whaaaaat? Maybe, he thinks (Georgetown centerl Alonzo Mourning transferred to La Salle and is going to play for us. "I could see us picked in the Top 20.

I'm a little shocked. Who's he have No. 2 anyway? "I'm not going to say he's nuts. He may know something we don't know." Dick Jerardi liams: "I hope not very many people raise their children to be like him. He said things he had no business saying to anybody." Gundy denied the accusations and said the Buffaloes made derogatory remarks about his mother during the game.

"They were doing the talking," Gundy said. "Why would I say those things? I've been here four years, and half my friends on the teaml are black. It makes no sense." Gundy also instructed reporters to read last winter's Sports Illustrated article on CU's off-the-field problems. "Go to Sports Illustrated and you'll see that Colorado has gone face to face with everything. Rapes, assaults.

Everything," Gundy said. JURY CHOSEN IN OKLAHOMA Prosecutors and defense attorneys selected seven men and five women as jurors in the Norman, trial of three former Oklahoma players accused of the rape of a woman in the athletic dormitory in January. Opening arguments are to be presented when the trial resumes today. The three defendants Bernard Hall, Nigel Clay and Glen Bell were suspended from the university in February when rape charges were filed. TOP 7 UNCHANGED The top seven teams remained unchanged in the Associated Press Top 25, but Hawaii (No.

24) broke into the rankings for only the second time in its history and Duke (No. 25) for the first time since 1971. Notre Dame remained No. 1, followed by: 2. Colorado; 3.

Michigan; 4. Alabama; 5. Florida State; 6. Nebraska; 7. Miami; 8.

Southern Cal; 9. Tennessee; 10. Arkansas. Compiled from wire reports. Former University of Minnesota official Luther Darville, accused of stealing $186,000 in school funds, testified yesterday in Minneapolis that he, boosters and assistant coaches made linder-the-table payments to athletes during a period that included the tenure of former football coach Lou Holtz.

Darville didn't say whether Holtz, now at Notre Dame, was aware of the activities. Holtz has denied engaging in any irregularities while head coach at Minnesota in 1984 and '85. "I didn't have to discuss it with IHoltzI," Darville said. "Certain things were already in place, and 1 knew what I had to do. He didn't want to be involved with matters of that nature.

He was very cautious." Darville also charged that Minnesota's current basketball coach, Clem Haskins, was aware of his payments to players. Later in the day, Haskins denied the charge. Darville, who contends he passed the money to needy minority students, including several current athletes, refused judge Patrick Fitzgerald's order to provide the names of players to whom he had given money. The judge called a recess for the day before the matter was resolved. In Other News: COLORADO CHARGES RACISM Several of Colorado's black players said Oklahoma State quarterback Mike Gundy directed racial slurs at them during last week's 41-17 Colo--rado victory over the Cowboys.

Colorado free safety Tim James told the St. Louis Post Dispatch that Gundy called several Buffaloes "niggers." "I can't count the number of times he used that word," James said. "He. has no class. There's no place for that in sports." Added CU linebacker Alfred Wil GEORGE REYNOLDS DAILY NEWS La Salle's Doug Overton glides to the hoop in the second half Simmons, Woods Star for Explorers Simmons, who shot ll-for-20 from the field and had 14 rebounds (eight offensive), scored 16 points in the first half as La Salle led, 46-35, at intermission.

Guard Orjan Andersson scored 17 points and former Villanova star Stewart Granger added 10 points and seven assists for Alvik. The Explorers open their regular season next Friday at the Coors Light Classic in Fresno, against Southwest Missouri. Lionel Simmons scored 28 points and Randy Woods contributed 22 points and six assists as La Salle pounded Alvik of Sweden, 92-61, last night in a basketball exhibition game at the Civic Center. Doug Overton added 15 points and four assists for the Explorers, who shot 12-or-27 (44.4 percent) beyond the three-point arc. Overton was 3-for-5 and Woods and Bobby Johnson (nine points, seven rebounds) each were 3-for-6 from threepoint distance.

1 SE I in mm ponooDg Simmons Named to Preseason All-America Team 4' 1 Stevenson Back With Owls After Suspension Ventres Stevenson, Temple's star running back, returned to the Owls yesterday after a one-game suspension and will play the final game of his college career Saturday against Rutgers at Veterans Stadium. Temple coach Jerry Berndt said he reinstated Stevenson after a long meeting, which centered on the circumstances behind Stevenson's missing the team bus to the airport last Friday. Berndt did not wish to elaborate on the suspension, or why he did not allow Stevenson to board the team's flight to East Carolina after Stevenson arranged his own transportation to the airport. Two Temple players confirmed last night that Stevenson, who never has had any trouble with the team before, got to the airport in time to travel with the team. Stevenson, a senior candidate Associated Press Nevada-Las Vegas basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian hasn't had a team atop the polls since the 1986-87 season, when his Runnin' Rebels held that spot for 12 weeks.

Yesterday, he was back in the No. 1 position when the Associated Press released its preseason Top 25. "I just hope they're all right," Tarkanian said of the nationwide panel of sports writers and broadcasters that made the Runnin' Rebels No. 1 with 30 of 65 first-place votes and 1,555 points, comfortably ahead of Louisiana State, Syracuse, defending champion Michigan and Georgetown. Temple is 15th in the poll.

Also yesterday. La Salle's Lionel Simmons was named to the AP preseason All-America team along with LSU's 1 Chris Jackson, Georgetown's Alonzo Mourning, Michigan's Rumeal Robinson and Syracuse's Derrick Coleman in voting by the same nationwide panel that selects the weekly Top 25. Former Dobbins star Hank Gathers, who led the nation in scoring and rebounding last season at Loyola Mary-mount, topped the remaining vote-getters. Nevada-Las Vegas added Junior College Player of the Year Larry Johnson to an already deep and experienced roster that fell one win short of making the Final Four last season. "I like our team very much, I like our kids very much," said Tarkanian, whose club opens the season tomorrow night when it hosts Loyola Marymount in the first round Complete AP Basketball Poll: Page 84 of the Big Apple NIT.

"They've got a great ethic and the want to win." Asked how he though his team would respond to being No. 1, Tarkanian said: "There's always pressure whether you're No. 1, or No. 3 or 4. I'm happy we're No.

1. 1 don't think it puts any more pressure on us than being ranked No. 3 or 4. "We never talk about the ratings. We haven't talked about the ratings all year, and we've been rated No.

1 by some of the preseason magazines." LSU, which will feature sophomore sensation Chris Jackson as well as a frontline bolstered by freshman Shaquille O'Neal and Proposition 48 sophomore Stanley Roberts, had 14 first-place votes and 1,447 points. 16 more than Syracuse, which had eight first-place votes. Michigan was next with seven first-place votes ar.d 1,415 points, just three ahead of Georgetown, which had four first-place votes. Arizona, North Carolina, Illinois, Arkansas and Duke rounded out the Top 10. Arizona, the No.

1 team in last season's final poll, had one first-place vote, the same number as Arkansas, the seventh and final team to be No. 1 on a ballot. Missouri was 11th, followed by Louisville, UCLA. Indiana, Temple, Oklahoma, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, North Carolina State, Minnesota, Oklahoma State, Georgia 'Tech, Florida, Memphis State and St. John's.

Ventres Stevenson: missed bus 841 yards (93.4 per-game average) in nine games. "He violated a team rule, is all I'd like to say about it," Berndt said. "That's in the past now. Ventres and I sat down and had what I would call a good discussion, and I was satisfied with what Ventres had to say." r- Kevin Mulligan for All-East honors, has rushed for in:.