Michigan, Kentucky
can’t touch UCSB
The host record ihis season in college basketball doesn t belong
to any of the Final Four teams. Or any Division I program
At 33*0. Cal State Bakersfield is the first college team on am lev
el to finish a perfect season with that many v ictories
Three thousand fans c hanting '33 and O' lammed the i ity s small
airport Sunday night to greet the Div ision II national c (tampions I he
Roadrunners defeated Troy State (Ala.) H5-72 Saturday in the title
game at Springfield. Moss
A national title is big nows in Bakersfield, a c ity of 250.000 lies!
known ns the hometown of four-lime Indianapolis 500 winner Kit k
Mears.
"It's pretty impressive to hove a team from Bakersfield because the
people on the Fast Coast don’t give the teams in Division II on the
West Coast much credit." Mayor Bob Pric e said
Price is planning a Wednesday rally at City Mall He s got a hand
signed up and will present a proclamation honoring the team
"We re gonna whoop and holler and yell, he said
The Roadrunners are the biggest game in this farming town about
100 miles north of I .os Angeles The Dodgers (.lass A team plavs in
Bakersfield, but the university doesn't have a football team,
"Bakersfield is different from anywhere in the state as far as the
support." coach Pat Douglass said Monday by telephone We were
selling out our games. It was an incredible experience
The Roadrunners play in a 3- year-old gym that seats 4.000
lust like big-time i ouiiterpart Boh Knight of Indiana. Douglass has
his own TV show And three loc al TV stations regularly cover the
team. The local newspaper plans a 14-page spread this week on Bak
ersfield's championship season.
"We get more attention than UCLA does." Douglass said I mean,
in I.os Angeles there’s the Lakers and other teams 1 think we gel
too much attention sometimes
However, it helps Douglass recruit players who otherwise believe
a Division II program is beneath their talents
"We gel good players because of that." lie said "I ve had some
Division I offers, but 1 do have a good job It would have to be some
thing equally as good for me to leave."
Tyrone Davis sc ored 27 points against Troy State and was named
the most valuable player of the Division II tournament Troy State
scored an NCAA single-game record 25H points this season.
"The team had scored 12B points the* night before, and there was
a lot of talk they were going to run ns out of the gym." Douglass said.
"We pretty much controlled the game from start to finish "
Bakersfield shut down Troy State s 3-point shooting The Trojans
set a tournament record for 3-pointers with 23 of 44 in the semifi
nals Against Bakersfield, they were 5 for 23
The Division II tournament is more grueling than the Division I
tournament. Bakersfield played two games in two days to qualify for
the eight-team competition this past weekend.
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