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Owls winners of 2 USC. By STEVE PARKER Asst. Sports Editor Carolina's basketball team begins its post-season play Sa turday night when they face Temple University in the first round of the NCAA tournament at Williamsburg, Va. The winner of the Carolina - Temple encounter will con tinue on in the tournament to play the winner of the annual ACC tournament, while the loser's season will abruptly conclude. Temple has reached the tournament, the 13th time they 3 games , Temp have gone on to post-season play in the last 17 years, with a 23-7 record on the regular season. What specifically allowed the Owls to reach the NCAA's was their victory in the MAC playoffs, in which they defeated Lafayette and St. Joseph's on successive nights. Both Carolina and Temple enjoyed a 4-1 mark against common opponents; both teams defeated California, Pittsburgh, Fordham, and Manhattan and both lost to Villanova (USC suffered a one point defeat while Temple was le oper handed a 16 point setback.) Carolina proceeds to the NCAA's with a 22-4 regular season mark, their fourth consecutive season with 20 or more victories, in this, their first year as an independent school after withdrawing from the ACC. Temple coach Harry Lit wack, the Owl mentor for the last 20 years, has produced 13 straight winning campaigns, while rolling up a 356-182 coaching mark. Litwack's 1969 squad cupped the NIT championship. sale of maker co originally 7.0( $4 Cotton-polyester coordi care-for wardrobe fashions. Short sleeve coordinate with skirts. sizes s-m-1; skirts, 5 tc GIRLS' MASCULINE maker, sizes 5 to 13, orlit young junior sports devison's open 10.00 a.m.-shoj 15?? momn sfreet. columbi, .C NCA The leading scorer and rebounder on the Temple team is 6-6 forward Ollie Johnson. Johnson, the only senior on the Owl's starting squad, averaged 16.9 points a game and 9.9 rebounds an encounter during the regular season. Holding down the other forward position is the team's second leading scorer and rebounder, Mike Jones. The 6-4 junior averaged a 13.1 showing during the campaign pointwise and grabbed down 7.6 stray shots a contest. The starting center for the famous ordinates I to 15.00 99 ,iates make an easy-to of interchangeable print and solid tops Blue or wine. Tops in '13. CUT JEANS, famous inally 8.00Oto 15.00 5.99 and 8.99 wear, upper floor t monday and friday '#il 9 call 779-5700 onylime day or night 4 play Owls is 6-9 sophomore Joe Newman, who carries a scoring average of 8.0 Into the tourney. He also maintained a rebounding average of 6.6 recoveries throughout tho 6eason. In the backcourt for the Owls are two sophomores, John Kneib and Rick Trudeau. Kneib scored at a 10.9 pace, third best on the Temple team, while Turdeau provides ball handling talents and owns only a 4.3 scoring average. The top reliever for the Temple squad is 6-7 senior Lee Tress, who swings with Newman at the center position. Newman has been given the starting assignment for the tournament game due to his heighth advantage of two In ches over his senior teammate. Another non-starter who sees frequent action is 5-10 senior guard Paul Collins. Averaging 5.4 points a contest, Collins act ually owns a higher scoring average than starting guard Trudeau. As a team Temple scores some 70.8 points a game while limiting opponents to merely 64.0 points a contest. The leading scorer for the Gamecocks is their 6-10 senior forward Tom Riker. The first team All-America star averaged 19.2 points a game in the regular season and 10.4 rebounds a game. Junior guard Kevin Joyce pumped in points at a 18.4 clip per contest, while leading the team in time played. Averaging 14.7 points a game and leading the team in re bounding with 11.2 a game, was 7-0 center Danny Traylor. Traylor, who blocked 111 op ponent shots, will enjoy a three-inch heighth advantage over his Temple counterpart Newman. Rick Aydlett also scored in - double figures during the regular season wars, giving he Gamecocks four starters - who held such an honor. USC soccer club to open with Erskine 'Ibe Carolina soccer club has Innounced that it will open its pring season March 18 on In ramural Field "A" versus the Erskide College Flying Fleet. This vill be the first of a four game slate or the club. "Practices have been going easonably well, despite the field being too small and no practice tets in the goals," said Ken Mc 'ord, newly elected President of he club. The club is still looking for any apable players, although they nust be undergraduates. Iraduate students and faculty rmembers are eligible to be eferees, however, and will be paid wr their services.