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News Nuggets, 08.16.05
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Carnesecca takes stand in
NCAA-NIT legal clash
NEW YORK — Hall of Fame coach Lou
Carnesecca testified Monday in a dispute over whether the NCAA has tried to
hurt the National Invitation Tournaments, drawing laughter from jurors and
lawyers on both sides.
The gravel-voiced longtime St. John's
coach recalled that there was a choice in the 1960's whether to go to the
NCAA tournament or the NIT. He said that option was gone by the 1980's.
``That choice was not there at all,''
he testified before a civil jury in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, where
five New York schools that sponsor the NIT have accused the NCAA of
antitrust violations.
Asked if he regretted his trips to the
NCAA tournament, he paused and said there were times ``on second thought,
after playing the first game, I'd wished I'd gone to the NIT.''
Even NCAA lawyers laughed at the remark
by the coach, who went 526-200 in 24 seasons, all of which ended with
postseason appearances — 18 in the NCAA tournament and six in the NIT.
Carnesecca said he initially didn't
know there was an NCAA rule requiring schools to accept invitations to its
postseason basketball tournament over invitations to all others. He said he
was told verbally by his superiors that the school, if invited, had to go to
the NCAA tournament.
``I'm a good soldier,'' he said. ``I
followed orders.''
Under questioning by NCAA lawyer
Gregory L. Curtner, Carnesecca conceded that being invited to the NCAA
tournament was ``a wonderful thrill.''
He said the popularity of the NCAA
tournament ``really exploded'' after Magic Johnson and Larry Bird faced off
in the 1979 national final.
Johnson's Michigan State Spartans beat
Bird's Indiana State team 75-64 as an estimated 40 million people watched on
television.
Carnesecca said the players on the
Final Four teams ``really captured the imagination of the American public.''
NIT lawyer Jeffrey Kessler also
introduced evidence Monday to show that the NCAA in the 1950's was looking
for ways to force schools to choose the NCAA over the NIT.
He showed the jury an excerpt from a
1957 NCAA basketball tournament committee meeting in which officials
discussed warning nine schools that they would risk elimination from NCAA
team events if they did not accept invitations to the NCAA tournament.
Kessler has told the jury that the NCAA
has tried to put the NIT out of business to protect billions of dollars in
college basketball revenue — 90 percent of its income.
News Nuggets are
compiled periodically based on material supplied by staff members; data
published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools; and reports from Associated Press and
other sources. Copyright 2005
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