The Delaware Gazette from Delaware, Ohio • 12

12 The Delaware (0) Gazette TUESDAY DECEMBER 15 1981 Stobart Wichita State climbs Ohio Coach i of Year stuns SW Louisiana 70 65 New Orleans NEW YORK (UPI) not really that shocking to see Wichita State moving up on tho elite Wichita State led by forwards Cliff Levingston and Antoine Carr climbed two spots into the No 4 position in the weekly United Press International Board of Coaches college basketball ratings The Shockers 4 0 battling it out with Tulsa for supremacy in the Missouri Valley Conference won both their games last week including a 94 71 rout of Alabama Birmingham to unseat Virgina as the fourth rated team in the nation The top three spots remained un changed from a week ago with No 1 North Carolina 4 0 No 2 Kentucky 3 0 and No 3 Louisville 4 0 holding onto their spots North Carolina received 33 of the 39 first place votes cast by the coaches in this ratings Kentucky received four first place votes and Louisville and Virginia one first place mention each Virginia 5 0 No 4 in last ratings fell two places to No 6 despite thrashing Duke in its only outing Iowa 5 0 remained in the No 5 spot after winning both of its contests Stobart got 11 first place votes from the 26 of the 33 Ohio coaches who returned ballots in the 30th annual poll Second was Mike Kelly of Dayton whose lyers were second in the nation in the NCAA Division III Stobart got 50 points and Kelly 24 in the balloting The Rockets are in resno Calif where they will represent the MAC Saturday in the first California Bowl team was 8 3 this year and in five years he compiled a 26 39 1 record Other coaches who received votes were Ohio Earle Bruce Tom McHugh Wittenberg's Dave Maurer Tom Reed Bowling Denny Stolz Baldwin Bob Packard Mike Gottfried and Richard Strahm geographical areas of the nation comprise the UPI ratings board Each week they vote on the top 15 teams and points are awarded on a 15 14 13 etc basis for votes from first through 15th DePaul 4 0 held onto the No 7 spot but Arkansas 5 0 moved up two places to No 8 after scoring a pair of victories during the week Minnesota 3 0 remained in the No 9 position with Missouri 4 0 advancing one place to No 10 Indiana 4 1 which was soundly beaten by Kentucky for its first loss of the season early in the week dropped three places to No 11 and San ran cisco 5 0 moved up two places to No 12 Southwestern Louisiana made the biggest jump of the week climbing four spots to No 13 after boosting its record to 8 0 with three victories during the week Rounding out the Top 20 were No 14 Tulsa 4 1 following three victories during the week No 15 Alabama 5 0 No 16 Villanova 4 0 No 17 Georgetown 5 2 No 18 Georgia 3 1 No 19 Alabama Birmingham 3 1 and No 20 UC Irvine 6 0 Georgia moved into the ratings for the first time while Alabama Birmingham dropped seven places Georgetown and UC Irvine also reached the Top 20 for the first time Six coaches from each of the seven COLUMBUS (UPI) University of Toledo football coach Chuck Stobart whose Mid American Conference championship team plays in the first California Bowl this weekend is the Ohio College ootball Coach of thb Year Stobart 47 who has accepted a head head coaching job at the University of Utah after five years at Toledo won the 573 honor in balloting by his colleagues in 533 the 30th annual Columbus Dispatch 4 POll 409 349 323 i 214 204 169 154 147 134 nr 83 76 54 43 40 31 Copyright 1981 by UPI NEW YORK (UPI) The United Press In ternational Board of Coaches Top 20 college basketball ratings (irst place votes and won lost records in parentheses) (oecona wecK): 1 North Carolina (33) (4 0) 2 Kentucky (4) (3 0) 3 Louisville (1) (4 0) 4 Wichita State (4 0) 5 Iowa (5 0) 6 Virginia (1) (5 0) 7 DePaul (4 0) 8 Arkansas (5 0) 9 Minnesota (3 0) 10 Missouri (4 0) 11 Indiana (4 1) 12 San rancisco (5 0) 13 Southwest Louisiana (8 0) 14 Tulsa (4 1) 15 Alabama (5 0) 16 Villanova (4 0) 17 Georgetown (5 2) 18 Georgia (3 1) 19 Alabama Birmingham (3 1 20 UC Irvine (6 0) Note: By agreement with the National Association of Basketball Coaches of the United States teams on probation by the NCAA are ineligible for Top 20 and national championship consideration by the UPI Board of Coaches Those teams on probation for the 1980 81 season are: New Mexico Texas Christian UCLA in UPI cage ratings 0 Sports Edited by Gary Hcnery iW MW 7 Tyler fumbles Laughlin recovers (UPI) By RED LIE UPI Sports Writer Southwestern Louisiana which opened its season by winning the Great Alaska Shootout in Anchorage got burned in the bayou Monday night The Cajuns No 13 in the country won their first eight games this season more victories than any major school Playing at home Monday night in Blackham Coliseum in Lafayette La against the likes of the University of New Orleans Southwestern was ex pected to have an easy time of it But New Orleans backed by Mark Pet 22 points and 12 rebounds made off with a 70 65 victory just a matter that they did their things better than we did said Sports Sked 8 akt Tuesday highschool basketbIll 5 Capital Conference Whitehall at Delaware Hayes JVs 6:30 pm Varsity 8 pm RESHMAN HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Central Buckeye League Buckeye Valley at Marysville 6 pm HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Area Non League Buckeye Valley at Marion Elgin 6 30 pm GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASTICS Mount Gilead at Buckeye Valley 6: 30 pm Wednesday COLLEGE BASK ETBA LL indlay vs Ohio Wesleyan 7:30 pm at Rickey Arena HIGH SCHOOL SWIMM ING Area Non League Lancaster vs Delaware Hayes 4:30 pm at Pfeiffer atatorium girlshigh school swimm ing Area Non League Lancaster vs Delaware Hayes 4:30 pm at Pfeiffer Natatorium Southwestern coach Bobby Paschal kids have won eight out of nine ballgames I sure as hell am not going to get down on them for losing one UNO was the quickest team inside that we have played all UNO may have been quick but Southwestern exactly help its own cause The Cajuns down 31 27 at the half shot just 42 percent from the floor and were seven of 16 from the line UNO made 12 of 17 free throws or Southwestern Alford Turner had 21 points Johnny Collins 14 and Graylin Warner 12 UNO hardly a basketball power had a 13 14 record last season This year in its previous two games they beat Pomona Pitzer and US International not the most luminous names in college sports But few will dismiss the victory over Southwestern Elsewhere in the Top 20 No 11 In diana beat Tulane 77 59 and No 16 Villanova dropped Towson State 85 55 At Indianaplois Ted Kitchcl scored Holtz staying AYETTEVILLE Ark (UPI) Arkansas football coach Lou Holtz says he will not leave to become the new head football coach at South Carolina has to be one of the best places to be and I feel fortunate to be the head Holtz said in a statement issued Monday don't have to be very smart to know that it is much better to say you are at Arkansas than from Arkansas true they (Arkansas) deserve a better coach than he added not going to rectify their mistake of hiring me by leaving to go to another school I have never thought of leaving Arkansas since I got here suicide yes leaving 23 points and Steve Bouchie added 18 as the Hoosiers broke it open in the second half and ran their record to 5 1 Paul Thompson led Tulane with 15 points year we depended on Isiah Thomas and Ray (Tolbert) to score but this year I think the guys look to Kitchel said I get the ball inside I look to draw the foul and put ball in the At Villanova Pa John Pinone scored 25 points on nine of 11 shooting and freshman Ed Pinckney had 22 hitting 11 of ll as the undefeated Wildcats reeled off their sixth straight Villanova with Stewart Granger running the backcourt and picking up eight assists shot 62 percent from the field Wendell Henry had 14 points for Towson State In other games Dale Ellis and Willie Burton scored 17 points apiece as Tennessee dropped Cleveland State 74 58 Ken Bannister fired in 27 points lift Indiana State over Tennessee Tech 92 74 Bowling Green bounced St Bonaventure 65 55 behind Marcus 25 points Tennessee Chattanooga defeated Appalachian State 5242 in a game in which a point was not scored in the first seven minutes Clemson crushed West Chester 96 56 to raise its record to 6 0 Vanderbilt hammered North Alabama 116 88 with Willie Jones scoring 19 points Eric Harris and Brad Leaf scored 12 points each as Evansville downed Valparaiso 78 56 Darrell Browder had 16 of his 18 points in the second half to carry Texas Christian past Iowa State 72 63 Creighton edged St 73 72 on Tony drive with 33 seconds left and Alex foul shot with 16 seconds remaining David Little tossed in 37 points to push Oklahoma past Pan American 92 82 SKI COLORADO lete' You can spend your money getting there This winter ski Boyne Mountain The cost com parison says it all! 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