Franson is 1st-team Academic All-America

Eric Franson, a senior center from Utah State has been named to the GTE Academic All-America basketball team selected by members of the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America.

Franson has a 3.36 cumulative grade point average in civil and environmental engineering.

The Aggies' star is joined by BYU senior guard Randy Reid, who has a 3.57 in pre-medicine. Reid made the second team.

Franson was named as a repeater on to the first team, while Reid was named to the second team after being a third team member in 1994.

North Carolina State senior Todd Fuller was named the GTE Academic All-American of the Year with a 3.97 in mathematics.

Others named to the GTE first team were Baylor's Doug Brandt, 3.96 in aviation sciences; Dartmouth's Searnus Lonergan, 8.84 in chemistry, and Kansas' Jacque Vaughn, 3.70 in business administration.

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Fans wanting to follow the Utah women's basketball team to the NCAA Midwest Sub-regional in Ruston, La., can order tickets at the Jon M. Huntsman Center Ticket Office. One hundred tickets will be available for $16 each. The tickets are good for all three games in the sub-regional which features the Utes, No. 1-ranked Louisiana Tech, Southern Mississippi and Central Florida. To order, call 581-UTIX until Wednesday at 5 p.m.

St. John's fires coach

NEW YORK - Brian Mahoney was dismissed as coach of St. John's, less than a week after the team's worst season in 33 years.

St. John's was 11-16 and completed the season with an 80-72 loss to Providence in the first round of the Big East tournament. It was Mahoney's third straight non-winning season in his four years since replacing Hall of Fame coach Lou Carnesecca.

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