Staff Reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat
January 21, 1998

Sidelines

Fans who stared at a blank television screen when UA's men's basketball team's Jan. 6 game against Washington was blacked out can breathe a sigh of relief.

UA athletic director Jim Livengood negotiated with FOX Sports Net to allow the UA/Oregon State game on Feb. 19 in Corevallis, Ore., to be televised live in Tucson by KTTU-TV.

"It's good for our fans," Livengood said. "We've had one of the strongest local television packages in the league and FOX management understood that and allowed us this opportunity."

Livengood had to get FOX and the Pacific 10 Conference's permission to grant an exception for an institutionally-arranged telecast which will air essentially in the same "window" as the FOX/Pac-10 Washington at Stanford televised contest.

UA's Jan. 6 game was not televised because of those guidelines. KTTU normally televises all Wildcat games not selected for regional or national television through the league-arranged contracts.

Briefly

Once the basketball season is over, pieces of McKale Center's floor will be sold. A new state-of-the-art fixed-floating floor is replacing the existing floor, which has been in place since 1984. Pieces of the old floor range in cost, depending on the location of the piece, from $17 - $250. A 3-by-6-inch block costs $17. Fountain pens, key chains, and money clips will also be modified to have a piece of the floor displayed on them. Call 1-888-677-2287 to receive a catalog detailing the items for sale.

Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll

Rank    Team	               Record
1.	Duke (50)		16-1
2.	North Carolina (14)	18-1	
3.	Kansas (3)	        21-2
4.	Utah (2)		15-0	
5.	Stanford (1)	        16-0	
6.	Arizona		       15-3 	
7.	Kentucky		16-2	
8.	Connecticut	        16-2	
9.	UCLA		        13-3	
10.	Iowa		        15-2	
11.	Princeton		13-1	
12.	Purdue		        15-4	  
13.	Mississippi	        12-2	  
14.	South Carolina	        11-3	  
15.	Syracuse		15-2	  
16.	Michigan		13-4	  
17.	New Mexico	        13-3	  
18.	Arkansas		14-3	   
19.	Xavier		        11-4	   
20.	Florida St		13-5	  
21.	Cincinnati	        13-2	  
22.	Rhode Island	        12-3	  
23.	West Virginia	        15-3	   
24.	Hawaii		        12-2	  
25.	Clemson		        11-6	   

By the Numbers

9:

Combined number of errors committed by the Cal-State Northridge Matadors and the Arizona Wildcat baseball teams in yesterday's game. The Wildcats won the contest, 15-12. The win marked UA's fifth-straight season opening victory.