
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, February 4, 1994                   TAG: 9402040172
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-7   EDITION: METRO 
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BIG EAST TAKES STEP CLOSER TO EXPANSION

Although no formal vote was taken, the Big East apparently is moving toward expanding from a 10- to a 14-team basketball conference after a three-day meeting that ended Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Such a move would bring Rutgers, Temple, West Virginia and Virginia Tech - already part of the eight-team Big East football conference - into the league as full members, allowed to participate in basketball as well as the other 18 sports sponsored by the Big East.

"The issues are going back to committees for studies on how everything is going to work," said one source familiar with the talks, which included a wide range of topics. "But the fact that people are going back and talking is a good sign. It's just a matter of putting it on the agenda at the presidential level and seeing if everyone can agree to getting this thing done."

Another source said the vote on expansion could come in the next 10 days.

The 1995 World Cup of Golf will be played in China, the International Golf Association announced. It will be the first major international golf event in China. The World Cup, with two-man teams from 32 nations, will be played at the Mission Hills Golf Club in Guangdong Province near Hong Kong.

by CNB