Penn Earns Rematch With Princeton for Bid

Pennsylvania kept its hopes alive for a fourth consecutive Ivy League title and an NCAA tournament berth with its eighth consecutive victory over Princeton, 63-49, at Philadelphia.

The triumph put Penn, 17-9 overall and 12-2 in the conference, in a tie for first place with the Tigers (20-6, 12-2). The two teams will meet Saturday night at Lehigh, with the winner going to the NCAA tournament.

Only Steve Goodrich, who scored 26 points, including Princeton’s first 14 points in the second half, was able to penetrate Penn’s tenacious man-to-man defense.

“I don’t think we can play better defense than that,” said Penn Coach Fran Dunphy, whose Quakers caused 17 turnovers.

TOURNAMENTS

Mid-American--Earl Boykins scored 26 points and Brian Tolbert 20 as Eastern Michigan (22-5) took advantage of strong free-throw shooting to beat Kent (14-13), 84-72, at Ypsilanti, Mich., and advance to the second round. In another game, Landon Hackim scored 29 points to lead Miami of Ohio (21-6) to an 81-53 victory at Bowling Green (14-13) at Oxford, Ohio.

Mid-Continent--Bryce Drew scored 23 points as Valparaiso (21-10) captured its first NCAA tournament berth by defeating Western Illinois (17-12), 75-52, to win the title at Moline, Ill.

Midwestern Collegiate--Mike Hartke scored a career-high 18 points at Dayton, Ohio as Northern Illinois (20-9) earned an NCAA tournament berth for the first time in five years with an 84-63 championship-game victory over Detroit (18-11).

Sun Belt--New Orleans (21-8) earned an NCAA tournament bid when Tyrone Garris drove the lane and connected on a scoop shot as time expired in a 57-56 victory over Arkansas-Little Rock (23-6) at Little Rock, Ark.

West Coast--Portland (19-10) reached the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1959 on the strength of Kweemada King’s 26 points in a 76-68 victory over Gonzaga (21-8) at Santa Clara late Monday night. Portland also became only the second fifth-seeded team to win the tournament.

College Basketball Notes

Senior point guard Raimonds Miglinieks of UC Irvine was named the Big West Conference player of the year. Irvine’s Rod Baker was named coach of the year, and New Mexico State’s Charles Gosa was named freshman of the year in voting by the league’s 10 head coaches. Miglinieks, averaging 13.7 points and a nation-leading 8.6 assists per game, is joined on the All-Big West first team by James Cotton and Rasul Salahuddin of Long Beach State; Olivier Saint-Jean of San Jose State; Daniel Watts of Nevada, and Eric Franson of Utah State. . . . Arizona State Coach Bill Frieder said he initially considered resigning after the arrests of freshman recruits Tommie Prince of Compton, Rico Harris and George Gervin on sexual and physical assault charges involving a female student and another woman. However, he said he quickly reconsidered because “that would be running away from a tough situation. That would be running away from my kids.”