Word: villanova
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After eliminating the also-rans, Fitzsimmons narrowed his choice of schools to five: North Carolina, Harvard, Duke, Villanova, and South Carolina. He had just settled on Harvard when the Duke recruiting machine zeroed...
...game this season. Carr, said Cleveland Coach Bill Fitch, was the best "available" player in the country. Among the unavailable players was 7-ft. 2-in. Artis Gilmore of Jacksonville, who had been snatched up by the marauding Kentucky Colonels of the A.B.A. for a reported $2,600,000. Villanova's Howard Porter, the Most Valuable Player in this year's N.C.A.A. playoffs, was also bypassed by the N.B.A. teams in the first round because he supposedly had been spirited away by the A.B.A.'s Pittsburgh Condors...
...N.C.A.A., alarmed by such campus raids, announced last week that it was investigating reports that seniors from U.C.L.A., Villanova and Western Kentucky, the three top finishers in this year's N.C.A.A. playoffs, had signed pro contracts before their college seasons ended. If any or all of the reports prove true, the N.C.A.A. can invalidate the player and his team's entire season...
...other Regional games, Wester? Kentucky trounced Kentucky, 107-88 Drake beat Notre Dame, 79-72, in over time, Villanova downed Fordham, 85-75 and Ohio State upset second-rank? Marquette...
...Villanova won the meet, its fifth consecutive team title, by scoring 42 points. Pittsburgh and Pennsylvania tied for the runner-up spot, scoring 21 points apiece...