College Basketball

Rogers , also Alabama State 's top re-bounder, with 7.5 a game, might be the most complete player of the three. "I pride myself on being able to rebound, play defense and score," he says.

But it's high scoring that has become the tradition in the SWAC, especially at Southern, which has finished third in team scoring offense in each of the last three seasons. "We're the Loyola Mary-mount of down South," Phills says.

But this year is unusual even for the SWAC. Says Mississippi Valley coach Lafayette Stribling, "It seems like every time you turn around someone's scoring 40."

TIP-INS

When the women's team at Webster University, a Division III school near St. Louis , beat Principia 60-57 on Jan. 12, it was the first win ever for the program. The team had lost all 63 of its games since it began play five years ago....

UNLV 's All-America senior forward, Larry Johnson , a communications major who was refused admission to SMU four years ago when the validity of his SAT scores was questioned, made the dean's list for the fall semester....

A bad season promises to get even worse for Notre Dame (7-9 through Sunday), now that leading scorer and rebounder LaPhonso Ellis has been declared academically ineligible for the rest of the season....

In his first 16 games, Syracuse guard Mike Hopkins averaged a foul every 4.9 minutes. Said Hopkins, "I am the human hack."