Sport: Scoreboard: Mar. 31, 1961

¶ In one of the year’s most startling upsets, the hustling University of Cincinnati beat Ohio State’s defending champions in the finals of the N.C.A.A. tournament in Kansas City by the score of 70-65. to snap the Buckeyes’ winning streak at 32. Meanwhile. Providence won the National Invitation Tournament in Madison Square Garden by beating St. Louis, 62-59.

¶ After his Philadelphia Warriors lost three straight games to Syracuse early in the N.B.A. playoffs, lantern-jawed Neil Johnston quit as coach, convinced he could never handle Wilt (“The Stilt”) Chamberlain, who runs a one-man show on court.

¶ Britain’s amiable Henry Cooper, 26, whose craggy face cuts at an angry glance, put himself in line for a shot at Champion Floyd Patterson by beating Welshman Joe Erskine in five bloody rounds.