THE DAILY COLLEGIA.IN DA ILY T iii 111 Daily %la: To whom did the Penn State men's basketball team lose in the 1954 Final Four? Yestoiday's Question: What was the Penn State women's basketball team seeded in its first NCAA Tournament appearance? Amen Penn State was seeded fourth in the Mideast Region in the first NCAA Tournament in 1982. NCA Os • NCAA Tournament Today's opening round matchups All times EST Chicago Regional The Wolstein Center, Cleveland No. 5 Alabama vs. No. 12 Wisc.-Milwaukee, 12:25 p.m. No. 4 Boston College vs. No. 13 Pennsylvania 2:55 p.m The RCA Dome, Indianapolis No. 8 Texas vs. No. 9 Nevada. 7:10 p.m. No. 1 Illinois vs. No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson. 9:40 p.m Taco Bell Arena, Boise, Idaho No. 3 Arizona vs. No. 14 Utah. State, 7:20 p.m. No. 6 LSU vs. No. 11 Alabama-Birmingham, 9:50 p.m Austin Regional The RCA Dome, Indianapolis No. 2 Kentucky vs. No. 15 Eastern Kentucky, 12:20 p.m No. 7 Cincinnati vs. No. 10 lowa, 2:50 p.m. The McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz. No. 3 Oklahoma vs. No. 14 Niagara, 12:45 p.m. No. 6 Utah vs. No. 11 Texas-El Paso, 3:15 p.m. Albuquerque Regional The Wolsteln Center, Cleveland No. 2 Wake Forest vs. No. 15 Chattanooga, 7:10 p.m No. 7 West Virginia vs. No. 10 Creighton, 9:40 p.m. Taco Bell Arena, Boise, Idaho No. 8 Pacific vs. No. 9 Pittsburgh, 12:40 p.m. No. 1 Washington vs. No. 16 Montana, 3:10 p.m The McKale Center, Tucson, Ariz. No. 3 Gonzaga vs. No. 14 Winthrop. 7:25 p.m. No. 6 Texas Tech vs. No. 11 UCLA. 9:55 p.m. N CAA L. A D NCAA men's basketball Division I Individual leaders Scoring I.Keydren Clark, St. Peter's 2.Taylor Coppenrath, VMT 3.Juan Mendez, Niagara 4J.J. Redick, Duke s.Rob Monroe, Quinnipiac 6.80 McCalebb, NO 7.lke Diogu, ASU. B.Tim Smith, ETSU. 9Jose Juan Barea, Ntheastn 10. Ryan Gomes, Prvdnce Assists I.Marcus Williams, Connecticut 29 2.Damitrius Coleman, Mercer 28 2.Wi1l Funn, Portland St. 28 4.Aaron Miles, Kansas 29 s.Filiberto Rivera, UTEP 31 6.Walker Russell, Jacksonville St. 29 7.Jose Juan Barea, Northeastern 30 B.Javier Mendiburu. Wis.-Green Bay 26 9.Travis Diener. Marquette 23 10. Raymond Felton, North Carolina 30 Field goal percentage G FGM I.Bruce Brown, Hampton 30 178 2.Nate Harris, Utah St. 31 166 3.Chad McKnight, Mrhd St. 27 155 4.Andrew Bogut, Utah 32 260 s.Aaron Andrews, Mrgn St. 28 140 6.Michael Haney. Eastern Ky.3o 168 7.Eric Williams, WF 31 186 NOT INVITED TEAMS Butch Ireland Associated Press Texas A&M's Acie Law tries to steal the ball from Clemson's Akin Akingbala during the first half of a game in the NIT. The more notable of the national tourneys starts today. 8 Kyle Hines, UNC Grnsboro 30 175 9.Carl Landry, Purdue 25 160 10 Quincy Davis, Tulane 28 153 Rebounding I.Paul Millsap, Louisiana Tech 29 2.Andrew Bogut, Utah 32 3 Lance Allred, Weber St. 29 4.Michael Harris, Rice 30 5 Dwayne Jones, St. Joseph's 30 6 She!den Williams, Duke 30 7 Wayne &mien, Kansas 25 B.Lawrence Roberts, Mississippi St. 30 9.Sean May, North Carolina 31 10.1uan Mendez, Niagara 29 Free-throw percentage G FTM I.Blake Ahearn, SWMS 30 86 2 J.J. Redick. Duke 30 186 3 Chris McCray, Maryland 27 87 4 Vince Greene. Illinois St. 30 81 5 Jamaal Hilliard, Lafayette 28 91 6.Salim Stuudamire. Ariz. 32 106 7 Steve Novak. Marquette 30 76 8 Derek Raivio, Gonzaga 29 100 9 David Doubley, Pacific 29 85 10 Jerry Johnson. Rider 30 107 3-point shooting 1 Pat Carroll. St. Joseph's 29 2 Keydren Clark, St. Peter's 28 2.Brendan Plavich, Charlotte 28 4 J.J. Redick, Duke 30 5 T.J Sorrentine, Vermont 29 6.Wi1l Whittington, Marist 28 7.Jerry Johnson, Rider 30 8 Salim Stoudamire. Ariz. 32 9.Erik Benzel. Denver 30 SCOREBOARD 10Ed McCants, Wis.-Milwaukee 29 Steals 1 Obte Trotter. Alabama A&M 31 2 ChakotAby Hicks, Norfolk St. 27 3 Keydren Clark. St. Peter's 23 4.Eddie Basden. Charlotte 4 Hosea Butler. Mississippi Val. 8 6 Kevin Hamilton. Holy Cross 30 7 Ibrahim Jaaber, Penn 28 8 Mardy Collins. Temple 29 9.DaShawn Freeman, Sacrament:: St.2B 10.Damarius Coleman. Mercer 78 Blocks 1 Deng Gal. Fairfield 30 2.Shawn James. Northeastern 2 , 1 3 Shelden Williams, Duke 30 4 Kyle Hines. UNC Greensboro 00 s.Yemi Nicholson, Denver 30 6.Chaz Crawford. Drexel )R 7 Josh Boone. Connecticut 29 8 Anthony King. Miami (Fll.l 28 9.Ronald Alexander, Nlissrssipp 2. i 10 Justin Williams, Wyoming 28 Major League Baseball Spring training scores Dodgers 3 Red Sox 6 Twins 2 Cardinals 5 Nationals (ss) 4 Mets Yankees 11 Mariners 11 Rangers (ss) I Cubs 6 White Sox 8 USBWA selects Wright for All-America squad Penn State's Tanisha Wright added to her growing list of accolades when she was named a first-team All-American by the United States Basketball Writers Association. Wright was one of 10 players selected to the prestigious team, which was announced yesterday. Already this season Wright has brought home a variety of honors. An All-Big Ten pick, Wright also garnered her third consecutive Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year Award, and is the only player ever to win the award more than once. On the other end, she fin- ished the regular W right season as the Big Ten's leading scorer, averaging 19.6 points per game. She also ranked among the league's best in assists and steals during the season. Penn State's senior guard is currently averaging 19.3 points per game, and is closing in on the 2,000- point plateau with 1,976 points to her credit entering Sunday's NCAA Cham pionship first round game versus Liber ty. The Lady Lions face Liberty at 9:30 p.m. on Sunday in College Park, Md. The game will air live on ESPN2 and ESPNU and on the radio on the Penn State Sports Network and www.GoPSUs ports.com. Should Penn State win, the Lady Lions will face either Virginia Tech or DePaul on Tuesday at 7 or 9:30 p.m. Palmer learns to adjust to life without Masters BLK 165 129 113 106 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Arnold Palmer is going to the Masters without his golf clubs. "I'm not going to play in anything at Augusta this year," Palmer said yesterday. "I'm going to say hello to my friends and do a couple functions that I would like to do, and then come back home." Palmer played in his 50th consecutive Masters last year and said he would no longer compete in the major champi onship he helped put on the map with charisma and four green jackets. But as the Masters approaches, Palmer real izes he will have to adjust to being at Augusta National without having a spot in the field. 3. 10 Innings De,ll Rays 5 2. 11 innings Orioles 4 Indians (us) 3 ndians (s.s) 5 Martins (us) 5 Athletics 4 Rockies 0, 10 innings Royals 1 Angels 5 That means no practice rounds, not even the Par 3 Tournament. And while Palmer said he might con- sider becoming an honorary starter, it won't be this year. Instead, he'll attend the Champions Dinner on Tuesday night and chairman Hootie Johnson's buffet on Wednesday, and spend time in between chatting with his legion of friends and fans. "I have no intentions of going on the golf course," Palmer said. "I'm just going to socialize. I may change that in years to come. But at the moment, I just feel like I want to get my feel for not playing in Augusta. l'or 511 straight years, I played and I loved it. And I would still enjoy it. "But I just want to get the feel for not doing anything." This could be the first year without Palmer or Jack Nicklaus, a six 4 Masters champion, since 1954. Nicklaus had planned to play, but he said chances were between "slim and none" that he would play the tournament because he wants to spend time with a family still grieving over the recent drowning of hi; 17-month-old grandson. Nicklaus said he would be at the Champions Dinner and probably would play a practice round, perhaps even the Par 3 Tournament. And he did not rule out playing Thursday if he felt up to it. O'Neal likely to sit out rest of Pacers' season INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Pacers for ward Jermaine O'Neal likely will not play again this season because of a shoulder injury he sustained nearly two weeks ago. Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said that doctors are still wait ing for the swelling to subside and that, no decision has been. made on whether the' All-Star forward will' need surgery O'Neal "We have to go on the idea that he's not going to be here," Carlisle said Tuesday. "That's how we have to' approach it. We can't be hanging our, hopes on his return. It's going to be awhile if he comes back at all." O'Neal, who is averaging a career high 24.8 points, was hurt March 3 when his right arm was pulled back by Den ver's Francisco Elson on a drive. He has not played since, and will miss his sixth straight game when Indiana meets Utah on last night. While the Pac ers have won three of the five games; since the injury, they went 5-10 during , O'Neal's 15-game suspension for his role in the November brawl at Detroit. If they struggle the same way over the season's final 20 games, the Pacers (31-31) could slip out of the playoff race. ' March. 17, 2005 I 11
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