— The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1998 NCAA Continued from Page 10. enced the NCAA Tournament feel ing before. "It was amazing," said Morett. "I was on the phone with people from B.C. and they are asking me what to do next. "I said, 'Come on down here to play us.' " While Morett continues to plead the Lions' cause, the committee must also toe the fine line of select ing bubble teams. After this past weekend, several more bubble teams appeared on the map. In the Northeast, both Northeast ern and Boston University have legitimate claims for a position in the tournament. In the cluttered south, North Carolina, a team which has been in the top 10 in the nation, may have seen its tourna ment hopes and aspirations slip away when an up-and-coming Maryland team stole the ACC Russian team impressed by lady cagers By DAN GIGLER Collegian Staff Writer Your home is half a globe away, you've spent most of the last week on a bus, and now you have to play basketball against one of the rising squads of the Big Ten. That's the dilemma the Russian Select Team (Rossiyanka) faced as it headed into last Friday night's exhibition game with the Penn State women's basketball team at The Bryce Jordan Center. The Russian team is in the midst of a two-week, nine-game whirlwind tour of America. Heading into its game with the Lady Lions, Rossiyanka was 2-2, with wins over lowa and Duquesne. However, in Friday's game, Rossiyanka's play mir rored the current economic and political climate of its homeland weak and unstable. 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Fraser St., State College, PA 16801 championship from the Tarheels. Coaches, players and prognosti cators can talk all they want about brackets and bubble teams. But everyone must wait until tomorrow when the brackets come out. Play coach Pavel Nourazera said, "This game was our most unsuccessful of the tour." He said Penn State, if com pared with the other teams Rossiyanka has faced, is, "the most well-balanced. I wouldn't name a weak point." He added that his team's interaction was affected by the size of the Jordan Center. "We have no gyms of this size in Russia," Nourazera said. "There was so much space, the girls didn't know what to do." Nourazera also complained about the fatigue his team was battling. "It's a nightmare," he said. "Two days ago we had a 12-hour bus ride." Following the game with the Lions, Rossiyanka con tinued its hectic itinerary with a trip to the University of Massachusetts for a game yesterday. Nourazera said he wished such tours would be organized differ ently, but said right now the team has "no choice." Lion head coach Rene Portland conceded that the Russians' sloppy play made it hard to use the game as a barometer of her own team's performance. "They're on the road, playing someone different every night," Portland said. "When it's this late in their tour, you can't judge how you did." VALID WEIN "ALL YON CAN EA GPA of 2.0 or better 20/30 vision or better Pass aviation exam ers must be ready for anything. "I definitely want to play at home," Penn State defensive back Traci Anselmo said. "But if we have to go on the road, we will stick together and he fine." ELGEG ar TRON s ICS SAVINGS UP TO T 3% 90 W/channel, 852. AV Receiver with Fully Digital Dolby Pro Logic and 5 L e i Surround Modes. $399 Retail 750 TX-5V535 90 W/channel, 6Q. AV Receiver with Fully Digital Dolby Pro Logic and 5 Surround Modes. 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After trailing 17-3 early in the game and 24-9 in the second half to then-No. I Ohio State, Michigan State rallied to take a 25-24 lead on Sedrick Irvin's 3-yard touchdown plunge with 14:20 left, upending the Buckeyes 28-24 and readjusting the top five with a new No. 1 sitting atop the ranks No. 1 Tennessee 37, UAB 13 The Volunteers improved to a perfect 8-0. their best start since 1956, and gained the top spot in the rankings for the first time in 42 years with a 37-13 victory over Alabama Birmingham. Tennessee coach Philip Fulmer, defending his decision to keep quarterback Tee Martin in until late in the fourth quarter, said his team needed to impress the pollsters. Tennessee rolled up 27 first downs and 447 yards of total offense in grabbing the eyes of the voters. No. 2 Kansas State 42, Baylor 6 In scoring on the game's final play with the Baylor home crowd booing, Kansas State also tried to impress voters in its 42-6 win. Coach Bill Snyder later said the score was a "bad choice." But Kansas State extended its winning trend to 17 nonetheless, and gave Snyder his 75th victory at the university. Kansas State, which jumped to No. 2 in the AP poll, is now 9-0 the first time the Wild cats have won their first nine games of a season. The Wildcats can prove the validity of their ranking with a win next week against Big 12 foe No. 11 Nebraska. No. 3 UCLA 41, Oregon State 34 First it was Pac-10 weakling 199 Stanford that gave LA a tough time two Saturdays ago, a game in which the Itruirin escaped with a 2t 24 win. Then thin week, the Brit ins needed a late 61 yard touch down strike from quarterback Cade McNown to receiver Brad Meishy to edge Oregon State in n 41-34 victory. IJCLA, which also is perfect at 80, did riot ski p to No 2 as some of its playe.rn said they thought the Bruins would UCLA, off to its bent C(101 it after eight games since the 1954 squad jumped out to 9 0, takes on Wash ington Saturday . 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No. S Florida State 45, Virginia 14 Florida State absolutely dominat ed then No 12 Virginia in picking up coach Bobby Bowden's 290th win 'I he Cavaliers turned the ball over five times and netted just 96 rushing yards. Florida State gained 406 total yards of offense in enhancing its record to 9-1. The Seminole, take on Wake Forest Sat urday before hosting Florida the following week for the state title. Collegian Graphic/Suan Mayes and Erin 149
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