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■ SPORTS EXTRA BASKETBALL UCLA leads tourney field of 64 KANSAS CITY Mo. (AIM — UCt.A. which Inst won the national championship 20 years ago in coat h John Wooden's last game. was made a No t seed Sunday in the NCAA college basketball tournament along w ith Kentui ks, Wake Forest and Kansas The M teams include the one with the worst record in 44 years. Florida International, as well as the most dominant pro gram in college basketball his ton , the top-ranked Bruins. UCLA goes into the tourna ment as the No i team in The Asso< oiled Press poll for the first time sine e 1975, when Wooden took the last of his in championships in 12 years In ail it) of those title runs UCLA entered the tournament ranked No t The Bruins (25-2). the Par-to i hampion and the No i si-e.i in the West regional, play their hrst game Friday against Florida International, winners of the Trans America Athletic Confer enr e whose it JH record is the worst by a tournament team since mil Kentucky (25-4) was made the No 1 -eed iii the Southeast after defeating defending national champion Arkansas 95-95 in overtime to win the SEC cham pionship. Kansas (23-5) was the lop seed in the Midwest despite losing in the Hig Fight confer ence tournament And Wake Forest (24- i), which heat North Carolina 82-HO in overtime to win its first ACC title since l‘H»2. headed the Fats! region. The 1995 bracket is an encouraging one for mid-level conferences which for years have complained that onlv their automate entry gets a bid while glamour leagues like the Hig Ten and Hig Fast flood the bracket. Hut extra bids this year went to the West Const, the Metro Atlantic and the Mid-America conferences "Some of these schools made an attempt to improve their schedule," selection chairman Hob Frederick, athletic director ol Kansas, said "We vu tried to encourage them to do this Them are some larger schools in some of the lugger conferences that don't r<n vDiurily do that, and have been hurt by that But I think some of thorn got th<‘ message " Kentucky plays Mount St Mary's of Maryland {17-12). yvhite Kansas takes on Colgate IK 12) and Wake Forest plays North Carolina A AT (15 14). all on Thursday The No, 2 sited in tint Hast went to Atlantic ltl champion Massachusetts (20 4) 1 he sis ond seed in the Southeast was North Carolina (24 5). while Arkansas (27 <>) got the No 2 seed m the Midwest Connecti i ut (2i»-*t). which lost the Big hast title garni* to Villanovn. wilt travel to the West regional as the No 2 seed tl field worn Georgia Tech (18-12) of the ACC, low.i (1<1-11) of tlie (tig Ten and Georgia (18-0) of the SEC. George Washington, which beat Massachusetts twice in Atlantic 10 games and won at Syracuse while finishing 18 13, also was left out of the tourna ment, \\i* took t*4 secret ballots among the committee," Freder ick said. 'We had ftO teams with 20 or more wins and 20 teams with Hi. "All of us feel bad about the teams that wore left out," he said "We know how important the tournament has become, not only to the fans and the coaches hut also to tin* kids themselves A deluge of television money has also made it a wildly luc ra live venture for schools and con fereticcs 1 hu e of the four No. 1 seeds went to si hoots with long histo ries of sin i ess in the NGAA tour nament UCLA lias a rec ord 10 national titles, while Kentucky's five titles is tied for second-best with Indiana Kansas has won th<> NCAA championship twit «• Wake Forest is the only one of the four No t st*.'..Is without a national championship Ffinleni k cited North C mill na and Wake Forest as prime examples of what made seeding the teams ’ so tough, so very tough " You have teams like Wake Forest and North Carolina w ho art' so close lo imm h other all year, and then they are semifinalists anti finalists in the ACC tourna ment." he said "And ft's an over* time gome bv two points The Big Ten ted the way among cunferetlt es with six teams making the tournament I'he sFc. Big Fight and P«< jo em h hati five tournament teams w hile the A(( and Big Fast got four bids Perhaps most xhix king among the teams making the tourna ment was Manhattan, which had -i 25-4 record but played none of the top SO teams The Jaspers lost the Metro Atlmitii Athletic Conference title game to St Peters but got tin* MAAt 's first at-large bid ever "The committee looked very closely at Manhattan College because, obv muslv, there are a lot of teams in that i ategorvFred eru k said. We looked at their suet ess against teams from ‘it to CXI ' f rod.'tk vtai Tliey were •I t against those teams Teams in confereni es like their s plav a lot of schools ranked between 51 and 1:>o Their record was lietter thiin the olfiers "Another thing that kept stick ing out to us was the fact that tfiev vii on 2:> games, but the •> :i was the deciding factor.** he said. Play begins I'hunaiay at region al sites and concludes it the Final Four in Seattle with the semifi nals on April 1 and the champi onship game on April :i Tin* final AP poll will be released Monday afternoon Oregon, an at-large so lot lion from the Pat:-10, is making its first tournament appearance since 1961, Tournament first timers include Mount St Mary's >d Maryland, Colgate, Nit boils State, Con/aga and Florida international. Committee makes things interesting (AF)— Once uxptn ted furor died down <iIk>uI who was hi and who was out of the N( AA’s 64 team fluid Sunday, a look at the lirtu kets showed thi* selection committee sot up some interesting matchups and made some interesting statements The lust of the conference championship games made selecting the top four seeds pretty easy and there wasn't any real surprise among where the top teams wore placed until you got to Utah as the 4th seed in the West. The Utes (27-5), the Western Athletic Conference regular-season and tournament champions, didn't crack the Top 25 until last week and were 26th in the KIM. the computer rankings similar to the ones used by the selection committee. Utah's seeding and that of North Carolina Char lotte. 7th in the Hast, were surprising but not shock ing That description was saved for the inclusion of at-large teams from the following conferences: Mid-American. Metro Atlantic. Midwestern Colle giate and West Coast The Mid-American was the highest-rated of those league's on the conferorit ti RIM at 12th. with the others sitting 13th (WOCJ, 19th (MCC) and 20th (MAAC) The power leagues were still well represented with half the field coining from the Big Right, Atlantic Const, Metro. Big East. Southeastern. Fat - 10 and Big Ten. the top seven leagues in the con ferenots power rankings. The last of those leagues, the Big Ten. had the most teams, six Ones the brackets are studied it's fair to say the Midwest with Kansas. Arkansas. Purdue Vir ginia, Arizona and Memphis as (lie top six seeds is the strongest Many feel that may tie so tun a use the committee wanted to even things up as Kansas could play the regional* in Kansas City’s Kemper Arena, less than an hour from its Lawreme i am pus. The first round has become almost n guarantee for an upset by one of the lower-seeded teams and a prime candidate seems to tie No. 14 Wisconsin Green Hay. which faces third-seeded Purdue in the Midwest and there isn't a ( oach alive who wants to see Dick Bennett's Phoenix on the horizon, even the Big Ten co-champion The most intriguing first-round matt hup is the 6- 11 game in the Midwest with Memphis meeting Louisville The two used to tie the marquee teams for the Metro Conferent o before Memphis left for the Creat Midwest hi 1991 and they haven't met since UCLA, the top of the West brat kot, would get the winner of the 8-4 game between Missouri and Imti ana. while Kansas would get the winner of the same matchup between Western Kentucky and Mu hi gan five schools are making tlnur first NCAA appear ance — Colgate. Florida International. Conzaga. Mount St Mary s and Nii holls State. white four others — Drexel. Nortli Carolina A&T. 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