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...N.C.A.A. basketball championships at Louisville. With 7-ft. 1⅜-in. Lew Alcindor pouring in 20 points and picking off 14 rebounds, the heavily favored Bruins closed out their season with a perfect 30-0 record. In New York's National Invitation Tournament, the other big post-season playoff, Southern Illinois made it a clean sweep for favorites by beating Marquette in the finals...
...month-long gap between Harvard's 14-week winter sports season and the brief 7-week spring fling is adequately filled each year by championship tournaments. But seldom has a post-season weekend been as interesting to Boston and Harvard fans as the one just passed...
...league record by stealing 104 bases, and in the two seasons that he has been team captain of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Dodgers have won two National League pennants. The most common story was that Wills had angered Owner Walter O'Malley by quitting the Dodgers' post-season tour of Japan. Yet O'Malley is one of baseball's shrewdest judges of talent, and he may simply feel that Wills, 34, and injury prone nowadays, is over the hill...
...ever since that last-game loss to Southern Cal knocked Notre Dame out of the No. 1 spot in the 1964 rankings. "Sure I want the title," Parseghian admits. "What else is there to shoot for, since we don't belong to any conference or go to post-season bowls?" In the meantime, though, he is playing it mighty cool with his sensational sophomores. "They have a lot of ability; that has been proven. Just give us credit for recognizing it," he says. "But how good they will be, only time will tell...
...Yale decided this year that it would not play any more post-season games. It's simply too long after school is over," Howard F. Gillette '35, General Secretary of the Alumni reported...