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Effective in 1977-78 Championship Transportation Guaranteed 100% During the 1977-78 academic these expenses, the Executive competing teams in those cham- most qualified persons are per- year, the Association will guar- Committee allocated $482,000 pionships which generate net re- mitted to enter and receive the antee payment of 100 per cent of from 1976-77 excess receipts and ceipts. expense allowance.” transportation expenses incurred $588,000 from the 1977-78 general A substantial increase in the The Executive Committee has by teams and individual medal operating budget. The remaining football television rights fees as authorized the Officers to appoint winners in all NCAA champion- amount will be realized from a special committee to review the well as an increase in net re- ships, it has been announced by transportation funds not expend- qualifying standards in all sports ceipts from the National Col- Edgar A. Sherman, NCAA sec- ed in 1976-77. prior to the 1978-79 season. retary-treasurer. The increase legiate Basketball Championship New Procedure Interim Step was approved by the NCAA will produce sufficient funds to Executive Committee at its The Executive Committee also guarantee transportation and a As an interim step toward full August 1977 meeting. adopted a significant change in per diem allowance to every stu- funding of championships ex- championship a c c o u n ting pro- penses in 1978-79, the Executive Last year, the Association guar- dent-athlete who competes in an cedures. In the past, after pay- Committee voted that before di- anteed 80 per cent of transporta- NCAA championship in 1978-79. ment of game expenses, receipts viding net receipts (above and tion costs only in those sports were used first to pay transporta- “We estimated the cost of this beyond expense payments) which did not produce sufficient tion and per diem to the compet- program to be $3 million during among the competing institutions revenue to pay these costs. ing institutions. Beginning in the 1978-79 academic year,” in the individual-team cham- pionships of 1977-78, transporta- The full cost of transportation 1977-78, transportation will be Sherman said. “However, the tion and per diem of a number of for teams and medal winners in paid from separate funds estab- governing sports committees additional competitors (approxi- the NCAA’s 39 national cham- lished for each division. There- must establish stringent entry EDGAR A. SHERMAN mately equal to the number of pionships will be approximately fore, an additional $250,000 will requirements in the individual medal winners) will be paid or $1.3 million in 1977-78. To meet be available for distribution to NCAA Secretary-Treasurer sports to insure that only the prorated. VOL. 14 l NO. 10 OCTOBER 15, 1977 Committee Outlines Seeding Details For Basketball Details of a seeding procedure No. 4 seeded at-large entry vs. effective for the 1978 National No. 1 seeded automatic qualify- Collegiate Basketball Champion- ing conference. ship have been outlined by the No. 3 seeded at-large entry vs. Division I Basketball Commit- No. 2 seeded automatic qualify- tee. ing conference. All automatic qualifiers and at- No. 2 seeded at-large entry vs. large selections for the 32-team No. 3 seeded automatic qualify- tournament will be affected by ing conference. the new seeding format, accord- No. 1 seeded at-large entry vs. ing to Committee Chairman No. 4 seeded automatic qualify- Wayne Duke, Big Ten Confer- ing conference. ence commissioner. Seeding in each region will be JOHN NABER CRAIG VIRGIN DANIEL MACKESEY A maximum of four automatic based on current won-lost rec- University of Southern California University of Illinois Cornell University qualifying conference teams were ords, strength of schedule, and seeded in each of the Champion- eligibility status of student-ath- Winter-Spring ship’s four regional brackets by letes for postseason competition. the Basketball Committee in Au- The Committee stated that the gust. These teams were seeded East Coast Conference champion based on their respective con- ~111 br one of the four at-large ferences’ won-lost percentages “Top Five” Finalists Selected in tournament play during the cntrics in the East region; the Pacific Coast Athletic Associa- past five years. Two Olympic gold medalists Each finalist is selected on the for a total of 15 NCAA titles tion champion will be one of the and a two-sport all-America basis of his athletic ability and overall. Thr remaining 16 bracket four at-large entries in the West head an outstanding group of six achievement, character, leader- It was Naber’s two individual berths, consisting of champions region; and the three Eastern individuals selected as winter- ship, extracurricular activities gold medals in the loo-meter from other automatic qualifying Collcgc Athletic Conference re- spring finalists for “Today’s Top and academic achievement. Only and 200-meter backstroke, and confcrenccs, second conference gional champions will be placed Five Student-Athlete Award.” seniors from the current calcn- legs on the gold medal 800- teams, independents and repre- as at-large entries in any of the John Naber, a ten-time NCAA dar year are eligible for the hon- meter freestyle and 400-meter sentatives of allied conferences four regional brackets. swimming champion and four- Ol-. medley relays, which boosted which do not receive automatic Chance Eliminated qualification, will bc placed in time Olympic gold medalist, and Key Leaders the United States to a sweep in Rodney Strachan, a two-time 12 of 13 men’s swimming events appropriate regionals and seeded “Seeding will provide for more balanced pairings because the NCAA swimming champion and Naber and Strachan were in- at the 1976 Olympics in Mon- by the Committee at its March Olympic gold medalist, provide strumental in leading Southern treal. He established world rec- 1978 meeting. possibility of the two presumably the University of Southern Cali- California to four consecutive ords in the loo-meter backstroke strongest teams competing in the Seeding Procedure first round, as was the case in the fornia with two finalists. National Collegiate Swimming (55.49) and the 200-meter back- chance of the ‘blind draw,’ has Daniel Mackesey. an all-Amer- Championships during their col- stroke (1:59.19). The Committee will pair teams been eliminated,” Duke stated. ica goalie in soccer and lacrosse orful four-year careers. Strachan won the NCAA 400- in each of the four regions by the at Cornell University, joins Na- No other swimmer in NCAA yard individual medley in 1976 following procedure: Continued on page 3 ber and Strachan, along with history accomplished Naber’s and 1977, and captured the gold other finalists Michael Bourdeau, feat of winning ten individual medal in the 400-meter I. M. at a two-sport star in soccer and championships. He also became Montreal in world record time baseball at Randolph-Macon Col- the first swimmer to capture four of 4:23.68. PostgraduateScholarship . lege; Bryan Rogers, an Aca- consecutive individual titles in Two-Sport Star demic all-America baseball play- two different events. Mackesey completed a brilliant Nominations Deadline Oct. 31 er at Delta State University; and Naber won both the loo-yard Nominations for NCAA and preferably one candidate Craig Virgin, one of America’s backstroke and the 200-yard career at Cornell by collecting all-America honors in both soc- Postgraduate Scholarships in may be nominated from each premier distance runners at the backstroke four straight years. the sport of football must be University of Illinois. He holds American and NCAA cer and lacrosse. Twice he was a institution. member of Cornell’s National submitted to appropriate dis- Of the 80 scholarships worth These six finalists were select- records with a 49.36 in the lOO- trict vice-presidents no later Collegiate Lacrosse Champion- $1,500 each awarded annually, ed for participation in winter- yard event and a 1:46.09 in the than October 31. spring sports during the 1976-77 200. ship team, and tied the tourna- 33 are presented in football, ment record for most saves in Each member institution’s academic year, and will be In addition, Naber won the faculty representative was 15 in basketball and 32 in joined by other finalists at the 500-yard freestyle in 1974 and the finals with 28 against Mary- “other” NCAA-sponsored land in 1976. mailed nomination forms Sep- conclusion of fall competition for 1975, and was a member of five tember 30. No more than two SpXtS. selection as Top Five recipients. first-place relay teams at USC Continued on page 5 The Editor’s View Columnary Craft Reprinted below is an ercetpt from the writing of a news columnist commenting pertinently about intercollegiate athletics. It is selected because the NCAA NEWS feels it makes a point and discusses a topic Improving “March Madness” which will interest readers. Publication herein, however, does not impl!l NCAA NEWS endorsement of the views expressed bv the How does a great event become greater? other phase in the Championship’s aging aulhor. The same way most things earn a reputation process which will go into effect for the 1979 as being in a class of their own-it matures Championship. Beginning that year, the with age. Committee’s first burden of selecting auto- Gitschier Carries In the case of the National Collegiate matic conference qualifiers for the Cham- Basketball Championship, the aging process pionship will be solved. Each conference will has provided it with a reputation as being be required to “earn” its way into touma- at the top of the list for providing intense ment automatic qualification based on its FBI’s Message.. excitement and superb competition as much success in Championship play over the previ- as any single sporting activity in America.