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...Niagara University took to the court for a game against the University of Pennsylvania in the first round of the post-season N.C.A.A. tournament, all eyes were on Niagara's Calvin Murphy. While the sellout crowd in the Princeton gym roared its approval, Murphy moved into the keyhole and fed passes to teammates moving around him in a fast, figure-eight weave. Looking one way and passing another, he fired the ball behind his back, around his neck and through his legs. At one point, he fell down but somehow kept dribbling the ball while rolling on the floor...
...seemed caught in a tangle of defenders, he would uncork a pass to a teammate standing wide open under the basket. Late in the game, in a desperate attempt to contain Murphy, Penn switched to a zone defense (illegal in the pros), but it was too late. Underdog Niagara won 79-69, with Murphy hitting for a game-high total of 35 points. Last week Villanova went into an aggressive zone defense at the tipoff and, with four and even five players hounding Murphy at once, held him to a low 18 points...
...paid $3,000,000, but to them land is no mere matter of money?it is a spiritual as well as a sustaining resource. The Tuscaroras of New York lost 553 acres to a reservoir in the late 1950s. They were paid $850,000, only to learn that nearby Niagara University got $5,000,000 for just 200 acres...
...unfinished is what should be the centerpiece of the show-a twelve-foot stroboscopically lighted waterfall. The visitor will crawl through an access tube into a clear plastic enclosure, where he may sit, perfectly dry, while water cascades all around him. "He will feel as if he were under Niagara," says one of its designers...
...Knights are now 2-3 (not counting the results of a late game against Niagara last night). They have fallen to a powerful Penn squad 80-71 at home, to Columbia in New York. 61-42, and to a Delaware team that they defeated last year by 32 points...