relay I\ight Morgan Faces Maryland In Crucial ME AC Battle The Mid-Eastern Athletic “Conference JMEAC) basketball race will go down to the last day of the regular season schedule and even when the seven teams com plete their regular schedule, the final seedings for the Third annual MEAC Basketball^ Tournament which will be played in Baltimore at the Civic Center February 28 March 2 may not be decided until Commissioner L.T. Walker flips a coin to decide any ties in the conference standings. There are possibilities of at least three ties in the final conference standings. Morgan State and Maryland-Eastern Shore are both in the running for the visitation cham ^-fpionship and the right toJffirst ' round bye in the conference tournament. Morgan and Maryland E.S. will meet Saturday night at Princess Anne, Maryland. North Carolina A&T has clinched the number three position in the conference standings. This is the only definite spot taken in the final league standings. Delaware State and Howard could finish in a tie for the fourth* But regardless of the flip for the positions, these two teams will meet in the first 1 round of the tournament. This i is the only match-up already 1 set as the teams go into the * final week of the season. North Carolina Central and South Carolina State could end up the season in a tie for sixth and seventh places. Since these two teams split during the regular season, a flip would be necessary to decide who plays the second place ' L-nannel j lo I Televise ACC ■ ■ ". ' . i . Tournament When America’s Lop college basketball conference teams go into action against each other in the ACC Cham pionship Tournament, who will emerge the winner? The • answer is completely unknown, but if the past is any indicator, torrid action can be assured. WBTV Channe' 3 will televise the semi-tinal and final rounds of the ACC Tournament, beginning at 7 p.m. Friday March 8. The final championship game will be carried by Channel 3 at 8:30 P.M. on Saturday, March 9. WBTV's own Jim ) Thacker, one of the nation's foremost sportscasters will describe the play by play and Billy Packer will do the color. The winner of the prestigious ACC Tourney automatically gets a com petitive berth in the Eastern Regional Playoffs. finisher and who would meet third place A&T. Morgan maintained its lead in the conference standings with a pair of wins at home last week. The Bears ex tended their record to 1(H) with victories over A&T and North Carolina Central behind the outstanding play of Marvin Webster. The seven foot All-American scored 27 points and grabbed 26 rebounds Friday night as Morgan held on to a 71-66 decision over A&T. James Outlaw was the top scorer for the Aggies with 19 points. Despite being ejected from the game with about 10 minutes left to play against North Carolina Central Saturday night, Webseter, known as the “Human Eraser" scored 31 points and collected 22 rebounds as Morgan whipped the Eagles in Baltimore, 115-88. Webster got plenty of scoring help from Billy Newton and Alvin O’Neal who scored 20 and 19 points respectively for Morgan. Allen Reddish andClarence Beaufort each tallied 20 for NCCU Maryland-Eastern Shore kept pace with the leader with a 105 -98 league win over South Carolina State Saturday night. The Hawks got their offense back in high gear Friday night with a 105-85 non conference win over Barber Scotia. Coch Jim Bates’ cagers had been averaging in a couple of games two weeks ago. However, UMES got its offense to rolling with 105 points in a pair of outings over the weekend, Maryland-E.S. now stands 1