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Show - irTxiP I" l J Scoreboard r Barhses " Wettfeer EDITOR: V.".tf' t " I". ..B4 1 run E5 B8 STEVE CAMERON MARCH 25, 1998 WEDNESDAY. THE DAILY HERALD 3 I: L (, 7 I: W f (- - Steve Cameron T The worst news: Selleaze, Garrett aren't coming back ! j i ! ! ! ! Don't be fooled by the wording. .In this case, "indefinite suspension" means, well, forever. . " Incredibly sad as it might seem, Ron Selleaze and Michael Garrett the guys expected to lead BYU back to basketball's promised land are from the program. jgone Permanently. 1 ' Oh, I know: Coach Steve Cleveland .seemed to be leaving the door open Tuesday when he announced the s pair's suspension for participation in party that included marijuana. And Cleveland will admit straight-- 1 away that he loves these two young men, that theyYe great kids who . made a silly mistake. Z; '. Selleaze is almost part of the Z Cleveland family. The coach would kid rather see this onetime dead-en- d " from the streets of Oakland become a responsible adult than win any ol' basketball game. And yes, clemency of some sort : especially since surely is an option the Provo police ultimately may drop all charges anyway. MARC LESTLRThe Daily Heralii Out of reach: Karl Malone, above, hits the floor chasing a loose bail Tuesday against the Suns. Beiow, Greg Foster throws down a reverse jam. ! ! ! ! I By DICK HARMON i And his Nikes, for traces of Whatever happens, happens." Foster started at center in Flubber stuffed in the heels. The Daily Herald h to career-higa soared Foster place of the recovering Greg scored 15 rebounds and Ostertag (recently returned SALT LAKE CITY from a stress fracture) and Utah to lead the 12 points They're still inspecting Greg had to lift his game due to a on Phoenix Jazz past Foster's feet. Arid his lower leg tendons, Tuesday in the Delta Center. hamstring injury that has "I had a lot of fun out sidelined Antoine Carr. To top for some kind of superficial there," Foster said. "As much it off, Karl Malone was bothgrowth. And his blood, for traces of fun as I could. And my ered by flu symptoms. Dennis Rodman's cells. Or approach from now on is to Ostertag played in the have as much fun as I can. blowout of Phoenix, but it was gazelle DNA... ' 92-7- 3 ft p! ANTONIO on purely a rience for the wind-buildin- expe- g out-of-sha- it ,' V. Texan. The scary part is Foster appeared on track to surpass Malone's personal game-hig- h rebound mark (23) with 12 caroms in the first half. Foster's previous career high for a game was 11. His 12 rebounds at inter- - m V -- .,,Jf. See JAZZ, B2 I BUST- , ; u.i.j.L.. ,u ..,u.. m BUT IN case anyone's been doubt-- ! ing the steel beneath Steve Cleveland's pleasant exterior, here was the clincher. Cleveland could not convince him-- ! self that either BYU basketball or the players involved would benefit from I, a.m.. 1 i. -- iu.oy - v. - ; ; ! SilS F leniency. -- Months ago, in response to a ques- -' tion about drug policies at another university, Cleveland said: "That's an area that ought to be crystal clear. No exceptions. Everyone would be better off if athletes knew that right from the start." Clear enough: Zero tolerance. So sometime soon, word will come down that these "indefinite suspen- sions" are permanent. Cleveland has to be aching, as are Selleaze and Garrett. Tears have been shed more than once the past few ! ', ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! . Outside the Marriott Center on Tuesday, assistant coach Heath Schroyer and administrative assis-- ! tant Brian Santiago just wandered the lobby, engulfed in the gloorn. i, "Except for somebody dying," Schroyer said, "this is about as awful as I can imagine." i 'OBVIOUSLY, THE loss of Selleaze and Garrett in one horrific j stroke sets the program back several notches. And the timing? Well, signing date is April 8 and Who knows how those JC stars the i Cougs are courting will react to BYlTs sudden talent drain? The gifted Garrett never played he was spending the year in here school to get eligible for 1998-9but the staff gushed over his skills. And Selleaze? All he did in 21 games this season was become something of a a Cougar cult figure who was hugely popular with students and . fans. Selleaze wanted so much to pay back Cleveland for giving him a 'chance, to hand over excitement and 'victory to the school he had come to I I I ; I . By MIKE KERN So what were ANAHEIM, Calif you doing on March 19, 1966? Utah coach Rick Majerus, who Saturday afternoon added a berth in the Final Four to his resume, has never forgotten. A senior at Marquette High in Milwaukee, he sat in a cramped gym ANAHEIM, Calif. -- OK, so maybe it isn't big enough mini-legen- d, news to be announced, amid the requisite glamour and fanfare, from the stage of the Shrine Auditorium, or anything. But it just might be the biggest thing to come out of the current NCAA Tournament. Team basketball is back and thriving in the college sport. All those flashy, ! ! thrill-a-minu- enjoy. half-'ho-ur y d. te slammin-and-jammi- As for Cleveland, ! ; hell worry about the program later. At the moment, this situation called for some seriously tough love. Now we know he can deliver it. . ; ! Steve Cameron is sports editor Tne Daily Hettxld. ! 3R COPY of i LH)t Cl.AS C. HI.At ihc AKxmol Prcw Ute panel: Utah players, from left, Hanno Mottola, Michael Doleac, Britton Johnsen and Drew Hansen enjoy one of the answers from head coach Rick Malerus durins a Dress conference Tuesday in Sail Lake City. of the guys. Willie Cager, David Lattin, Orsten Artis. Bobby Joe Hill was fat. The last time I saw him he looked like a jockey. He was my hero. Those were " my 'Boys of Summer.' This Saturday in San Antonio, Majerus will finally get his chance to coach a big game in a monumental setting. His Utes (29-3-) knocked the defending swagger out of national champion Arizona (30-5- ) in the NCAA Went Regional final at the Arrowhead Pond, They'll now the North Carolina, play East champ, in the national semifinal doubleheader at the Alamodome. Majerus plans to make sure Haskins is in the house. top-seede- 76-5- 1. top-rank- i I "The biggest compliment I ever got," Majerus said, "was when he put his arm around me and said, 'Son, you " play defense the way we used to.' who didn't score a field The Utes goal in the final nine minutes of their three-poi- nt win over lOth-seede- , West d See MAJERUS, B2 NCAA survivors show team play back in fashion 9 shat-tere- "v Philadelphia Daily News all-whi- te ! step back into that street-part'past, Ronnie's dream has been . (now Texas-E- l Paso), which started five blacks, beat Kentucky in the NCAA championship game. "I can still remember all the players, and all the plays they ran, as if it were yesterday," Majerus said. "I fell in love with (cdach) Don Haskins. The whole setting was unbelievable. I wished I could play in a game like that. But I couldn't play. "I was down there when they named the arena for him, and I got to meet all ' Then with one mistake, one , black-and-whi- I ' '' ' ' giaS Fous1 in front of a little television and watched Texas Western ! ' ' .: Zdays. ! (X leave-earl- t y NBA wannabes seem to have been replaced by a load of the more t"ne-it-dow- n, stay-in-scho- grf r':A v : ' ?g first and shooting latei. U da is the postseason of the Final Four by Committee. Call it the Ensemble Tournament. College basketball's answer to "The Full Monty." There is Utah, with a centhe non-star- s, . ter whose grade-poi- aver- nt age is even more impressive than his scoring average. c And a guard who is proving you don't necessarily need a familiar name to become a great college player. There is Stanford, where players arrive with better SAT scores than Nike camp recommendations. Where a skinny backcourt kid overlooked by all the schools pops up to make the biggest single splash of any blue-chi- ( work-ethi- high-scho- big-tim- e Jamison, and a collection of noted athletes who nonetheless emphasize the teamwork as first taught them by Dean Smith and now reiterated by his folksy successor, Bill Guthridge. ol Steve Bisheff player at this prestigious university since, well ... maybe Hank Luisetti. There is even North Carolina with its unanimous Player of the Year, Antwan squad. No one who can light up a scoreboard or dazzle the NBA scouts. No one soon to , sign a $20 million shoe con- tract. Just as it wasn't any one guy for Utah in that shocking upset of Arizona's No. 1 seed. Watching the undeniably bright Utes on television was like viewing some beautifully conceived master plan unfolding perfectly before your eyes. Every cut, every screen, every defensive move, was so crisp, so precise. Teamwork Uvea The kids from Princeton observing back in New Jersey must have enjoyed it almost . ,' high-profil- ABOVE ALL, though, among these four NCAA survivors, there is Tubby Smith's Kentucky team, showcasing a wonderful group of players with relatively moderate skills who somehow have meshed to truly personify what this renewed team-plathing is all about. There is no Ron Mercer or Antoine Walker or Jamal Mashburn on this Wildcats y e; Sec BISHEFF, B2 |