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T-LARGE TOURNEY PICKS DUE TODAY 7T 0 ft 0 unviialiom Readies NCAA DETROIT I RLE PRESS Thursday, Feb. 28, '74 7-D Argonauts Sold TORONTO (UPI) The Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League have been sold by John Bassett to a Toronto hotel executive for over $3 million, the CFL reported Vednesday. Cage the final round, they will meet in the semifinals because the semifinals will match East vs. West and Mideast vs. 'NTT Opens Bids Today By tht Associated Pms Nine teams will get the call Thursday morning to join in the fight to give college basketball a national champion other than UCLA for the first time in eight years.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association was scheduled to invite nine at-large 'teams to its postseason tournament via telephone calls at 9:30 a.m. local time. The National Invitation also was to begin issuing invitations Thursday to Its annual affair at Madison Square Garden which will fcegin March 16 and end March CONSIDERED shoo-ins for at-large invitations to the NCAA tournament were second-ranked Notre Dame and eight-ranked Marquette. IM.I..I...UHI II 1,11111.111.11.1 II .1. II iliui I ill.

IUM1.WI wwnnnuu-Mil ooph NCAA torunament committee is committed to select the nine best at-large teams, regardless of region, then fit them into the regional tournaments. Because the East has so many teams under consideration, it's likely at least one, probably South Carolina, will be moved to the Midwest especially if St. John's elects to go to the National Invitation Tournament rather than accept the NCAA bid as has been widely speculated. With Notre Dame and Marquette being the top-ranked teams available, the NCAA likely will leave both in the Mideast. NCAA first-round sites include Mideast at Indiana State, Midwest at North Texas State and West at Idaho State.

Five East sites (St. John's, Philadelphia's Palestra, Princeton, West Virginia, William Mary) are under consideration for the three first-round games in that region. First-round winners will advance to the regional tournaments March 14 and 16 at North Carolina State (East), Alabama (Mideast), Oral Roberts (Midwest) and Arizona (West). THE FOUR regional champions will advance to the March 23 and 25 finals at Greensboro, N.C.t where the University of North Carolina will serve as host. Incidentally, should UCLA and North Carolina State gain KANSAS CITY (UPI) No.

2-ranked Notre Dame and No. 7 Marquette seem sure bets to receive at-large invitations Thursday to play in the NCAA basketball tournament. The NCAA torunament committee will issue invitations to nine at-large schools Thursday morning to fill the NCAA's 25-team tournament. The other 16 teams will be conference champions. While Notre Dame and Marquette appear headed for the Mideast regional at Indiana State, it's quite possible an eastern team will fill one of the three Midwest regional at-large berths and another could go to the West regional.

HERE'S A RUNDOWN of at-large teams under consideration for the NCAA tournament: East Pittsburgh, Providence, South Carolina, St. John's (N.Y.), Massachusetts, Boston College, Maryland-Eastern Shore. Mideast Notre Dame, Marquette, Jacksonville. Midwest Creighton, Oral Roberts, Cincinnati. West Hawaii.

Three at-large teams will fill the East regional, two will be in the Mideast, three in the Midwest and one in the West. PAIRINGS IN each of the four regional tournaments, which begin March 9, will be made at 4 p.m. Thursday. The GreatM? bargain-priced 4-pIy tire! LEAVES HILLSDALE FOR SAGINAW Waters Takes New Grid Job HILLSDALE (UPI) -Coach Frank (Muddy) Waters, who made Hillsdale College into a major small college football power in the early George Mans Hired by Hurons had been going on for some time and Hillsdale immediately named defensive coach Jack McAvoy to succeed Waters as its coach and tabbed "I think it's one of the finest football areas in the country," Mans said. "For us to do well, we'll have to come in here and get more than our share of players." Mans, a former all-stater at Trenton, said he expects to implement a of the U-M philosophies into his EMU program, including Schembechler's "defense-first" concept.

"I don't think that 'defense first' means you can't move the ball on offense," he added. EMU already has begun playing some Mid -American Conference schools and will become eligible for MAC championship competition in 1976. Dr. Daniel Goldsmith to replace him as atheltic director. Saginaw Valley is a relatively new school, less than five years old as a full college, with a fledgling program.

Hillsdale had recently curtailed its program. WATERS CAME to the college in 1953 as athletic director and an assistant to coach Charlie Bachman, and took over from him the following season, immediately beginning a reign so successful it ultimately led to the school being asked to leave Hie Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The Chargers won seven straight league crowns from 1954 through 1960 and won 34 straight games from 1954 through 1957. His 1957 team earned Waters coach of the year honors from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Waters has four sons.

One of them, John, starred on Hillsdale's team last season as a freshman after being named Michigan prep player of the year the season before. Continued from First Sports the former U-M star would be missed. "George has done a tremendous job," said Schem-bechler. "He's got a great reputation in the Detroit area. He did a heckuva job recruiting.

"We're kind of pleased he got the job, though," Bo added. "That's three guys from our staff have got major college coaching jobs in the last two years." A year ago, Schembechler's defensive co-ordinator, i Young, was hired at Arizona, where he produced an 8-3 season, the best in the school's history. MANS, a three-year letter- POLYESTER CORD Br. tWid, ggresivt 7-rib I Fourjtrongpliei mm9" 1 triad tor ucillint 9 of mooth-nding friction, handling 1 polyester cord V. and molded tread -Cross cut" triad I gives ful tread-to-rpad Xtk Vv'A.

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AddititMMl ft tltt jT Si. I Xr -r 1950s, has resigned after 20 seasons to accept the coaching post at Saginaw Valley College. Negotiations for the switch man end and the 1961 captain of the U-M football team, has spent 11 years as an assistant coach, including the last eight at U-M. He coached the offensive receivers for six years and defensive ends tvo years. His name had been mentioned as a possible director of player personnel for the Wheels, but decided when the EMU job came open, he was more interested in it.

"I was anxious to get a chance to be a head coach," Mans admitted. "I'd been an assistant for 11 years and I felt I was ready. It was a matter of being patient and waiting for the opportunity." Mans said he intends to continue recruiting the Detroit area for EMU. leg Other candidates were 11th-ranked Pitt, I2th-ranked Providence, No. 14 South Carolina, No.

16 Creighton, Boston College, Maryland-Eastern Shore, Massachusets, Rutgers, t. John's of New York, Syracuse, Cincinnati, Dayton, Detroit, Marshall, South Alabama, Southern Illinois, Houston, Oral Roberts and Hawaii. A school that gets an at-large bid has 30 minutes to accept, and it is rare for such a bid to be refused. THE NINE at-large teams will be joined in the NCAA tournament by winners of 16 major conferences, including the Pacific-8 in which UCLA currently is tied for first place with Southern California. Flrst-rcund NCAA games will be played March 9.

The four regional champions will advance to the national semifinals March 23 at Greensboro, N.C., and the championship game will be played at Greensboro March 25. The NIT in recent years has drawn runnerup from several major conferences but this year it will be hampered by the debut of another tournament the Collegiate Commissioner's Association. THE CCA has agreements with eight conferences to send teams to a tourney to be held March 14, 15, 17 and 18 at St. Louis. The teams will be determined after conference titles are decided.

The Big Eight, Big Ten, Missouri Valley and Western Ath-1 1 1 conferences will send teams to the CCA, and four re-maining teams will be picked from the Mid-American, Pa- cific-8, Southeastern. Southern and Southwest conferences. With the Pacific-8 involved, the first CCA tournament has a chance to land UCLA. U-D Needs Victory to Stay Alive Continued from First Sports day by Vitale admits "I'd be shocked if we were among the first teams picked now." LOYOLA, fresh from victories over Bowling Green, Cleveland State and Western Michigan one of U-D's con-querers will bring a 12-13 record into the U-D Memorial Building. "It's their last game of the season," Vitale noted, "and they'll be trying to finish at .500 percent." Loyola has a balanced offense, with four of its five starters averaging in double figures.

Freshman forward Tony Parker is the club's top scorer with a 17.4 average. Center Paul Cohen is averaging 13.5, forward John Davis is averaging 11.7 and guard Frank Sanders has a 13.8 average. Rounding out the starting lineup is guard John Willey. THE TITANS'S top scorer and rebounder is forward Owen Wells, who pumped in 37 points against Xavier after be-low-par performances against Marquette and Xavier 10 days ago. "We may make some changes," Vitale said Wednesday.

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