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Givens leads Kentucky to hooo crown
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Explosive
Jack Givens, continually finding
seams in the Duke zone, fired in a
near-record 41 points Monday
night, and Kentucky’s pressure
proof Wildcats roared to a 94-88
victory over the Blue Devils in the
championship game of the 40th
NCAA basketball tournament.
The Wildcats, playing under
what Coach Joe Hall called the
most intense pressure of his six
year career at Kentucky, clinched
their fifth national title behind a bril
liant one-man show by their
6-foot-4 senior.
The left-handed Givens scored
23 of his points in the first half to
power the nation’s No. 1 team to a
45-38 lead at intermission, then
continued his one-man assault on
the basket in the second half.
Duke was able to stay in the
game in the first half by virtue of its
brilliant free throw shooting. The
nation’s top foul-shooting team
made its first 12 attempts from the
line and finished with 20 of 21 for
the half.
Givens sank three baskets dur
ing an 11-2 burst as the Wildcats
moved into a 66-50 lead with
12:42 left in the game. That moun
tainous 16-point lead was enough
for Kentucky to withstand a flurry
by the Atlantic Conference playoff
champions, who fought back val
iantly but could get no closer than
four points.
In fact with a lead of seven
points, Hall began to substitute.
Then, finding his team’s lead
slowly eroding, he had to let his
regulars return to the game. Gi
vens performance was just three
points shy of the record for an
NCAA championship final set by
Bill Walton, who scored 44 points
for UCLA in this same building
against Memphis State in 1973. At
that time, the building was known
as the St. Louis Arena; it is now
called the Checkerdome.
A crowd of 18,721 gave Givens
a standing ovation, roaring his
nickname of “Goose" as the bril
liant Kentucky forward left the
game with 26 seconds remaining.
He later returned with the rest of
the starters.
The Blue Devils made a frantic
rally near the end of the game and
cut Kentucky’s once-formidable
lead to 92-86 after Hall had re
moved his seniors from the lineup
in the last half-minute.
Then, with 10 seconds left and
Kentucky’s regulars back on the
floor, Mike Gminski hit a 15-foot
jump shot to trim it to 92-88. But
Givens, Rick Robey and company
held to clinch the Wildcats' victory.
After Kentucky broke Duke’s
full-court press, James Lee, con
sidered by many the best sixth
man in college basketball, put the
finishing touches on the triumph
Baseball out
of A’s hassle
NEW YORK (AP) — Commis
sioner Bowie Kuhn said Monday
that Oakland A s owner Charles
O. Finley’s refusal to accept cer
tain non-financial terms for selling
his team and having it transfer
red to Denver has caused
baseball to withdraw from negotia
tions.
"We are terminating our efforts
to work out a solution to move
Oakland to Denver," Kuhn said.
Originally, Finley had balked at
paying more than $1 million of the
$3.25 million required to settle the
A’s lease with the Oakland Col
iseum stadium. But Kuhn said
money was no longer a problem
and that Finley’s original com
mittment of $1 million would be
sufficient.
‘‘We’ve told him that if the other
matters could be worked out the
money would not be a problem,”
the commissioner said.
Bliss sixth
at nationals
Scott Bliss was the only Oregon
wrestler to place in the NCAA
wrestling meet held at Maryland,
March 16-18.
Bliss finished sixth in the
150-pound class after losing twice
to top seed Joe Zuspan of Ok
lahoma. Zuspan finished fifth in
the weight division.
Seniors Dan Hollembaek and
Randy Besaw both won opening
matches, as did sophomore Don
Brown, but all were eliminated in
subsequent rounds.
Iowa upended defending
champion Iowa State for the teanp
title.
Prep gymnasts
sign with Ducks
The top two Oregon prep
women gymnasts have signed let
ters of intent to attend the Univer
sity and compete for Henriette
Heiny’s squad.
Sara Gustafson from Parkrose
High won the state all-around title
last fall while Dawn Haberland of
Sunset High was second.
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with a dazzling slam dunk in the
closing seconds.
The victory was especially
sweet for Hall, who had insisted in
his pre-game press conference
Monday that his senior-studded
team had faced almost unbeara
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He also talked about pressure
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They were pinned with the label
“the Fold-up Five" by some of
their hard-line fans, even though
they lost just two games in 32 all
year.
Hall, however, was greeted by
the song, “My Old Kentucky
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court to recieve the NCAA champ
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