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Show I Lifestyle 85 590!ts+ + Big Ten grabs pair of top NCAA seeds W ”Monday March ‘5 The Daily Herald ' .‘21- “it” NOTABLE QUOTES: "It doesn‘t mean that much. just that you are getting old " — Joe Dumars ofthe Detroit Pistons after passing 10.000 Indiana, Michigan NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP199 top regional picks career poims Sunday against Chicago. hid Bound: By DOUG TUCKER AP Sports Writer .0. mi 20d Round: Regional W ”20-21 PYRAH SIXTH: BYL‘\ Jason Pyrah finished sixth in the mile run at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships Saturday in Indianpolis. gi\ ing the BYL’ men's team its only point ofthe meet. Pyrah ran a 4103.7 1 . The event was won by Arkansas‘ NiallBruton111-l:00.05. NCAA TICKETS: Approximately 2.000tickets. all in the EAST KANSAS CITY. Mo. (AP) — Although it didn't get as many NCAA teams as the Big Eight and ACC . the Big Ten captured 50 percent of the No. 1 seeds in this year‘s tournament. Indiana and Michigan. both Final Four teams last year. were joined by top+ranked North Carolina and Kentucky as No. 1 seeds in 18? “(:0anMater. '£~= March 2C~21 " \2" v: .... ‘ d g : 5: Ca". .{ 5 #31006 ~ .......... . Mi 9 .45.. - _............................ _ caucuses.)"""""""""""""" ...... ‘ .2 'axa -_ - .{ 4Au-;\=_: Z‘L-z “413.91% Cass 2.1}. upper concourse. were still available , the 64-team field. this morning for first- and second— 61 ngr a 19.; 5) Kane: 3!. 1940 the Huntsman Center this weekend. The tickets. w hich are $61 each. are good for Thrusday's two sessions and Saturday's single session. Each session includes two games. Tickets can be ordered by calling 1-581— UTIX. Games Thursday are Illinois vs Long Beach State: Vanderbilt vs. Boise State: Temple \ s. Missouri: and Arizona \ s. Santa Clara. .0. COACH LEAVES: University of Utah assistant football coach Sam Papalii. who has worked with the defensive secondary for three seasons and has been with head coach Ron McBride since his days at Arizona. has resigned from the Ute staff to enter private business. Papalii said he was returning to his native Hawaii in order to be near his parents. who are in poor health. “Sam‘s a darn good football coach. He‘s like a part of my family. so it‘s more thanjust losing a coach." McBride said. No replacement has been named yet. .0. ONE AT A TIME: Dale Murphy. once one ofthe most feared sluggers in baseball. is taking it a day at a time as a non-roster player in the Philadelphia Phillies camp in Clearwater. Fla. Murphy. who turned 37 last week and is trying to come back from a chronic left knee problem. is not discouraged in his attempt to prolong a 15-year career that has produced 398 home runs and 1.259 RBIs. “Everybody has been very patient with me with the Phillies.” Murphy said Sunday. "Last year was kind offrustrating and they ‘ve given me this opportunity to keep playing. " Murphy underwent surgery twice last year and played in only 18 games for the Phillies. hitting . 161 with two home runs. "ljust feel basically that I should still be playing." he said. “I don't feel my career should have ended last year. I'll never have the knee I had 10 years ago that‘s for sure. But [can play. I‘m doing everything everybody else is doing.“ SNEAD WINS: 1c. Snead shot a 2—under-par 70 for a one-stroke victory over Gary Player and Bobby Nichols in the Vantage Seniors in San Antonio. Texas Sunday. Snead. who earned 897.500 for his his first victory on the PGA Senior Tour. finished with a 2~under 214 total on the 6.814-yard Dominion course. Player closed with a 69 and Nichols shot a 73. PASSED OVER: They posted the best record ofany independent in the nation. but the 23-4 WisconsinMilwaukee Panthers failed to win an NCAA or NIT tournament bid Sunday. "We're mostly disappointed for our kids. " said Ron Hunter. assistant coach of the Panthers. “1 mean our kids did everything that you're supposed to do. “We beat Wisconsin; they're going (to the NIT). 1 think that's probably the most disappointing thing. 1 think it'sa lesson they can learn in life. that it's not always fair. ...We‘ll be back and we‘ll play hard. We‘re going to continue to win a lot of basketball games. but right now it‘s a very disappointing time for us. “ It‘s the first time since 1985 that two teams from the same conference drew" top seedings. when St. John's and Georgetown of the Big East were selected. Three Big East teams — those two plus eventual Champion Villanova — reached the Final Four that year. 31Massac’ .59"; L:-— 3)Fbrido5t.22-O 14) Eva“ m ------------------------- ""“"""'““""“"““ ABLMM Orlando, Fla. Syracuse, NY. March 15 a 20 March 19 8. 21 191m3&11.l—— 3i§390t§31£.l""""""""""" 319-0 “They were 5-5 in their last 10 games." 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It also had six last year. but crashed in the first round and had only one member get as far as the third round. "I'm confident we'll do much Couples eases to Honda win By BOB GREEN Although he said he really doesn‘t want to talk about the Masters at this point. it's obviously has. he birdied the oi the lllsl ’i' Fred Couples could see it slipping very much on his mind. . away. Coming out of the western He saw it in the sliced 4-iron that bounced off rocks into the water swing. Couples said. “1 was shootand erased the last traces of what ing for Florida. I‘d missed a bunch of tournaments out west because I had been a four-shot lead. That was the peak. 11 \\.-s =lowed immediately by illc valley He bogey ed three of the ncxt two; holes and saw his lead cut to inc. FORT LAUDERDALE. Fla. — cent lanc open. Cuba's Javier Sotomayor continued his remarkable high jumping by clearing 740%. and M02ambique's 20-year-old Maria Mutola ran history's third-fastest women's indoor 800 in 1:57.55. The 10th PGA Tour triumph of his career wasn't easy and it certainly wasn‘t pretty. but it came at the right time and kept Couples on track for the defense of his Masters titles next month in Augusta. Ga. the track. where it belongs. McKoy had already been charged with one false start and would have been disqualified. His victims didn’t get the second chance that Canadian Julie Baumann. now of Switzerland. got in the women‘s hurdles. Knocked down by Jamaica‘s Michelle Free~ man just short of the finish line. Baumann protested. and the race was rerun with Freeman disqualified. Baumann won with the adja- Eight t'l‘l’illl‘lsflidlc‘l' (Karl .laltlcs “I like all our firstmtitid 111.119 better this time around." said Big chops." had other things to do. and 1 was And he could feel the tourna- shooting for Florida. " ment slipping away. He felt it in It‘s the same track he followed the numb hands that had no feelto the Masters green jacket a year ing. He could feel it the club "that ago: a strong finish to the western felt like an anchor. " swing in Los Angeles. then a blitz And he could feel it in the lump of the Florida tournaments. in his throat. This year. he was second in Los "I was choking like a dog com— Angeles. sixth in the Doral tournaing in. " Couples said. ment that opened the Florida swing But that only made his playoff and now the win in the Honda. victory over Robert Gamez in the "I‘m on a good pace.“ he said. Honda Classic Sunday all the more without mentioning the Masters. welcome. all the more valuable. “1 would have been disappointed if "Except for the Masters. this lhadn't won here." was the best one to win in a long time." Couples said of his erratic. _ But this one almost got away. peaks-and-valleys run to a two— just as it did last year when he lost a sudden death playoff. hole sudden death victory. At least controversy returned to l "1.1999999? . . . . . AP Golf Writer TORONTO -— Butch Reynolds won his gold medal Sunday and liked it so much that he won another. Then he tried to put 21/2 years of bitter suspension behind him in conciliatory remarks about Primo Nebiolo and the International Amateur Athletic Federation. the ruling body of track and field. “To bring a conclusion to this Butch Reynolds saga will be best for the sport." Reynolds said after winning the 400-meter dash in a personal indoor record of 45.26. +9 .5 ‘ f O)- Nebraeae 2-]: ,. g a. um-.- 5)“!!“999025-5 - f 15) 00921.9 St Reynolds wins pair of World Indoor golds By DON PIERSON hicago Tribune - - 7,1New Mex Apri15 .. .. a magmas-5 Massimino replaced long-time coach Jerry Tarkanian. who led UNLV to 12 NCAA tournaments. five Final Fours and the 1990 NCAA championship. WT ‘4; Pennsrva 9.> 5.1: .................... ‘5“ Five Big Ten schools were named to the tournament Sunday. while the Big Eight and Atlantic Coast Conference each got six teams into the field. which now begins a three-week rush toward the national champinship game April 5 in New Orleans. Left out were some of the nation's most high-profile programs. including Georgetown (16~ 12). Oklahoma (19-11) and UNLV (21—7). which stays home in its first year under Rollie Massimino. " (11)Marea"ae 235 1311293313....... ‘Fl round NCAA Tournament games at Couples was one shot back when he started the final round of the tournament that was shortened to a 54-hole format by a weekend storm. But. playing as well as he ever holes and had .i four-shot lead "It was a weird fcclin ' he said. "My hands got cold and I lost my feel. The club felt like an 11'» chor. l was feeling a little pan— icky.” o Then the water ball on the 1601 cost him a double bogey The lead was gone. lie was onc oehmd (.mmez. who was 111 the clubliotisr with a closing 03‘ anti .1 It ‘7 total. “I didn't know 1: l 31.115 qnough game to finish.” ('nnpns said, But he did. After another slice put him in a bunker on the 17111. Couple. hofcd a 30-foot sand shot 11‘ :1 l-- in. then scrambled out oi two buns. to a last—hole put that cotttidcto‘. : shaky round of 70 and a spot 11‘ ‘n; playoff. The first hole was linih'd in pars. but when Game] clllll‘lk‘tl lli\ third into the wait-r on the second playoff IlUlC. (‘ouples Izc‘cdt‘tl will} a two-putt par to win it. BYU gets Southern Methodist in NCAA opener Lists could: COACNII WHO MACH“ 5001M VICTORY TN! FASTEST 1. Jorry Torinnion — 201h your 2. Donny Crum — 22nd your a. boon Smith —- 23rd your. 4th game 4. Henry ibo — 23rd your. 19th game 5. Lou Comomcl — 23rd your. 19th onto 9 6. John Wooden -- 23rd your. Nth m 9. e WOIU.;IWII:IIO m I“, World Footwoo yndico . w 85 hr your on It moo. Bond Iolo to sports mum. no. lo: ooo. mph Shodo, NJ. mu. looiudo mo. oddrooo. phono numbor and-com. Roger Reid's first reaction to playing Southern Methodist in the Midwest Regional NCAA first round? “It isn‘t Shaquille O'Neal. “ A year ago the Cougars won the Western Athletic Conference. won the post-season WAC tournament. got the league‘s automatic NCAA KiSN AM - O [9. . Drog not (ESPN) EM.) p. . Sportl Byino US (KOOL 108.5 slap in the face. But for Reid. it knows they do not have a Shaq. was his the third NCAA berth in SMU won the Southwest Con- gl .m. NBA. Jon ot Movoricito PSN. bid and had to face LSU and O'Neal. the best college player in Sports Editor America and the NBA‘s sure-bet ” rookie of the year this season for play No. 10 seed Southern MethOrlando. in the sub-regional in odist from the Southwest ConferBoise. ence. A year ago the Cougars were While Reid has a lot of respect rewarded for their efforts with a for former Notre Dame player No. 10 seed. It was more like a John Shumate‘s Mustangs. he On the air 1 . a: 33:... - 8 .m. NBA. Lokors of S n TN 0 6 3111. Auto racing (ESPN;l ( T) - o .m. Spam toil: (K001. 106.5 FM 0 10 pm. Auto rocing (ESPN) Tuoodoy - 11 am. Tennis. Lipton Championship: (ESPN) - p.1n. (PSNl arms") . n no Chori Cioooic iv three years. Grateful and thankful. he took the Cougars to Boise. And got Shaqued. ference and ended the season 22—9 This is BYU's 16th appearance after losing the initial game of the in the NCAA Tournament. The Cougars have won 10 games and lost 19. For SMU. this is the ninth appearance and the Mustangs are SWC post-season tournament to Sunday was different. Reaping Texas Christian. the last-place rewards of a tough schedule and WAC co-championship, the Cou- gars were given a No. 7 seed and similar to New Mexico. But while the Lobos utilize a lot of threepoint shooting. SMU likes to push the ball and run down the court. SMU starts four seniors including Mike Wilson. a 6-foot-5 guard. who leads the team with a 19.5 average. Forward Tim Mason averages 18.0 points and guard Gerald Lewis adds 13.8. The other starters are 6-11 center Greg Kmzer and guard Chad Allen. “We dominated the conference all year long." said Shumate on ESPN Radio Sunday night. On BYU. Shumate commented: “They are deliberate. They have an inside attack. It will be like playing against five Danny Ainges." team. 72-71. SMU had a 12-2 mark in the SWC and use a three-guard lineup 10-11. The last SMU appearance was in 1988. Reid said he was shocked the NCAA gave the Cougars a No. 7 seed. considering how the WAC has been viewed in the past. But BYU‘s schedule which took them to Maui for wins over Oklahoma and Memphis State may have helped. Memphis State ended up 20-11 and in the Southeast Regional while Oklahoma. 19-11. did not make the field. BYU ‘s scouting coordinator Jeff Reinhan and video specialist Chad Bunn already have four tapes of SMU on file. Sunday the coaching staff immediately reviewed and prepared scouting videos from those tapes for team meetings today. The Cougars leave Tuesday White Sox organization; l\c\ l'i Nixon‘s family lives jUs! U\L‘1'l\\it hours away in lowa. and President Rex Lee attended law school in Chicago. None of that will likely help the Cougars defeat SMU. howm ct If the Cougars get by the kids tangs. they will play the wow." " N0. 2 seed Kansas and .\o. 15 “All State. The winner of that bracket \\ ll. advance to St. Louis and could play Duke. if the Blue Denis ad— vance. The No. 1 seed in the Mid west is Indiana. “We are pleased to be invited. Any time you get an invitation to the NCAA Tournament. it is a great honor. Our players have looked forward to it and we‘ll ap night for Chicago where they will proach it as if it is anew season and stay in the Airport Marriott. The Midwest Regional in Chicago gives the Cougars several ties to the Windy City. Reid played minor league baseball for the Chicago we are 0-0.“ said Reid The SMU-BYU game will be televised on CBS (KSL-TV). but the game times were not available at press time today. |