Show ' £3 Saturday March 18 2000j Cpcrts ”T Standard-Examin- — i— — — — — — —— i r er I Huskies’ rebounding helps doom Aggies 'U K ' By RANDY HOLUS Standard-Examine- i CS !m opening staff r Ala — BIRMINGHAM Sticky defense and strong re- bounding were two key factors in Utah State University’s stunning The number of upsets based on seed since SieNCAA tournament expanded to 64 lovw06t 800(1 r8m0in1fl basketball success this season i985 ® win-- ” J In rattling off a ning streak and setting a new n school record for 1939 wins with 28 the Aggies had al- - i lowed their opponents an average — of less that 61 points per game 1993 and just shooting 1994 from the field And they had out-rebounded 22 of their 33 oppo- 19-ga- 4 ? V' ' 4 ’£t- — - - 14- - 5 e !K U 9 12 “ V 12““ 9 8 — - J" 157 ZZ— e — Of course they hadn’t played J®- —— too many teams quite the caliber Conferences so far of defending national champion W Conference Connecticut either two those On Friday I keysta- )ScoU3) tistics - defense and rebounding 2 west Coast (2) 5 were glaring reasons why the Big Ten (6) 7 season- - ga?2® Aggies suffered a s ending loss to the Huskies in the 3 1 Of NCAA the Mountain West (2) Opening round 1 Western Athletic (2) Tournament UConn’s 75 points were the 1 most scored by a USU opponent America East (i) 0 1 A 1 u" J 1998 ZZ nentS ) 12 jj 40-perc- : i 5 single-seaso- ? - no Low' £ 7 13" 3 ’r" Pet- -- L 01K 0 1000 1 833''’' 75-6- i - since Brigham Young University a scored 82 back on Jan 8 span of 20 games By no small m mm coincidence hadn’t lost g®g) ei- - ““IConnectict (1) Athletic (i) Mdwestem Collegiate (1) also connected on 48 percent of its shots from the 4 0 field only the third time since that loss to BYU that an Aggie opponent had shot over 45 per-ED REINKETrieAssociaied Press Ohio State’s Boban Savovic looks for an outlet pass after winning a scramble for a loose ball against Appalachian State’s Matt NCAA Tournament game in Nashville Tern McMahon during Friday’s first-rou- game for the sixth straight d staff and wire services Bob Knight went quietly The Indiana coach engulfed in controversy over allegations that he once choked a player could do little as Pepperdine routed his Hoosiers 7 Friday night in the first round of the East Regional in llth-seed- ed 77-5- Buffalo NY "“We just got pounded” Knight said Knight who has led Indiana to three national championships was accused earlier this week by - 0-- 4 former player Neil Reed of a practice in 1997 (25-8- ) took con- eighth-seede- trol right away against the Hoosiers (20-9-) using a 12-- 0 run to take a 24-- 8 lead Indiana missed 12 of its first 14 shots from the field 3) Brandon Armstrong scored of his 22 points in the first half for the Waves and Nick Shephard added 17 Indiana senior AJ Guyton had only three points - all on free throws in the first half - and took only two shots Guyton averaged 203 - first-rou- ca points this season Kyle Hornsby led Indiana with 15 points Pepperdine will play Oklahoma State on Sunday The Cowboys routed Hofstra 86-6- 6 While the Waves breezed into the second round Kansas Seton Hall and Florida survived overtime games In the East Regional in Winston Salem NC eighth-seede- d ‘ Kansas outscored DePaul 10-- 0 in the final 1:57 of OT to ad- vance to the second round for the 17th consecutive year The Jayhawks face (24-- 9) top-seed- ed 5 winner over Duke an Lamar Kenny Gregory matched his with 22 points season-hig- h from the shooting field and Nick Bradford added 14 points and had a key block in 82-5- 12 the seconds final 2) 72-7- Tull-cou- rt - lOth-seed- ed (21-9- 73-4- fayette “Growing up as Tulsa’s David Shelton (left) aid Eric Coley celebrate in the closing moments of the Hurricanes’ 89-6- 2 win over UNLV on Friday in Nashville Tenn HAPPY HURRICANES: a little kid you watch the NCAA tournament and you see people doing stuff like this and you say to ourself "One day I want to be a part of that” said Holloway ho also bad a layup jn overtime off a steaL Oregon's Frederick Jones hit two free throws with 87 seconds left in overtime to give the Ducks (22-8-) a 0 lead A few hours later in Winston Salem Mike Miller scored on Florida’s “Home Run” play to ed ler Miller drove through the lane to hit the winning shot at the buzzer Officials went to video replay using a rule that was added at midseason to verify the basket Miller who finished with 16 points got the chance to win the game after Butler’s LaVall Jordan missed two attempts with 81 seconds left Florida (25-7- ) 8 winner plays Illinois a 68-5- (23-8- Andrew ) with 20 points East Regional ) Temple 73 Lafayette 47: At NY Pepe Sanchez had a 1$ assists for Temple er-high Sanchez who did not score came within one assist of the East Regional record set by Sam Crawford of New Mexico State in 1993 The NCAA tournament record is 18 by Marl Wade of UNLV in 1987 Quincy Wadley led Temple (27-5- ) with 17 points Tyson Whitfield had 15 for Lafayette (24-7-) Oklahoma State 88 Hofstra 68: At Buffalo NY Desmond Mason scored 30 points two off his career d Oklahoma State high as improved to 16-- in the first round Frednk ionzen added 13 points at the Cowboys (25-6- ) gave coadi Eddie Sutton his 30th tournament win Speedy Claxton and Norman Richardson each had 20 point for Hofstra care- third-seede- 1 (24-7- ) Duka 82 Lamar 55: At waming-ton-Sale-m NC Jason Williams has IS points and seven assists and Carlo Boozer added 16 point for Duke Boozer made five The straight baskets in the aecond half to (28-4- ) Devil Blue be Ip the pud away with Kenyon Spear led Lam (15-119 points ESnois 63 PcnntyhfanU S3: At top-seed- ) I te first-roun- e: f!archK2±ies3 Check out all the action at wwwstandardnet sportssportsnetasp secon- d-seeded BulTalo fast-bre- ak 71-7- fourth-seede- 60-5- Gators a give the fifth-seed69-6- 8 overtime victory over But- Pennsylvania Paul over Graves led Butler McPherson and Quentin Richardson each had 21 points for DePaul In the opening game in Buffalo Seton Hall beat Oregon 1 on Shaheen Holloway’s dash in the final seconds Executing- a play called "Quick” to perfection Holloway banked in a shot with 19 seconds left The last of Holloway’s Seton 27 points sent into the second Hall ) round against second-seede- d Temple a 7 winner over La(21-1- MAflKHUMPHREYnwAMoaetodPreM NC Freshman Frank William compensated for a poor outing by Cory Bradford with a 21 points sending fourth-seedseason-hig- h Illinois into the next round Bradford averaging 153 points managed only five points Marcus Griffin added 17 points and 10 rebounds to help Illinois (22-9- ) snap Penn's winning streak Ugorma Onyekwe bad 17 points far Penn (21-Wilmington-Sale- m ed South Regional S4-6- RegionaL “It's really nicejust to be able to fo- cus on basketbaUr Madsen taxi “It's nice to pul the textbooks down” Never before baa a No IS seed won and Stanford made sure it dtd not happen tha tune The Cardinal (27-won its epea- 3) d win in six years Tony Heard and Greg Harrington each scored 16 points for Tulsa (30-4- ) Kaspara Kambala led UNLV (23-with 21 points k Ohio State 87 Appalachian State 61: At Nashville Tenn Scoonie d Penn scored 23 points as Ohio State opened Ms bid for a second straight Final Four appearance I from the field Pena was Michael Redd hitting added 21 points for Ohio State (23-6-) which wtQ Cm Miami on Sunday Tyson Patterson led Appalachian State (23-9- ) with 15 points Miami 75 Artanm 71: At Nashville Term Johnny Hcmsley hit mid scored 20 poroti for live d Miami Joha Salmons added 16 for the Hurricanes (22--1 Ok Tedwith 14 dy Cipsoe led Arkansas (19-18) Stanford 84 South Carolina St3t8 65: At Birmingham Ala Casey Jacobsen Mark Madsen and Stanford easily passed their first test Jaoobeen one of eight player who took final exams the day before in a Birmingham hotel room scored 18 points and Madsen bad 14 points and 13 rebounds as the Cardinal ennsed pest South Carolina Sum 5 on Friday night in the first round of the South top-seed- sevent- first-roun- third-seede- ) Both-seede- poets 6--8 to® b®n second-chanc- coach Stew Morrill said “We had a heck of a time trying to board with them “I don’t know how to neutral-ize height The only thing we could do was compete and battle Their size not only their height but the physical sfrength of their bothered us Ihey’ve got a of big bodies they’ve re- cruitedThey’ve got Big East na- timal-tevtype competing for e We J50 1 000 000 500'’' jjj 000 000' 000 000 1 1 1 1 000-- - 1 1 1 000" 000 £ 1 0 ooor 000- £00 J'- 000 ooq 000 oocr? and y player coming in off: scored 16 points on” baskets m' A J®® sad Sha the second half-- who scored 17 pomts Dels State team that has a for only talf only player over - V ey wore down and physi-tea- m scond-l- ot 7 br5® dow“ m balf ” uc?“n forward Kev Freeman el tod 818 Rodney DanrfieM Ho-- “Our guys have fought hard the whole year long We were a hard tune guarding them particularly their second shots They’re just really strong in there” Monill said UConn with a starting front University s reserve center-Io- rward Brennan Ray The public £im Ray Brennan"— no relation to Walte- rlay-- 7 after Ray scored on a first-ha- lf up then called him “Benjamin Ray" later in the game USU points or even gone ahead wg might’ve had a chance to win - game If we could’ver gotten ahead in the second half we might’ve gotten them tel tight- en up a little bit But we couldn’t v 18 socs I®® tf® Mid-Easte-rn choking him during Pepperdine year “It’s nice to have that one under your belt You have the potential burden of 16 vs 1 which lurks somewhere in the back of your mind” coach Mike Montgomery said Stanford held a size advantage in every matchup and even its tree mascot 'pushed South Carolina State’s big- -' headed Bulldog to the flow at halftime For good measure the Cardinal hit 13 a school record in the NCAA tournament Mike Wiatre scored 17 points for South Crirolina State (20-1The Athletic Conference champions overall in NCAA tournament fell to ' ' play North Carolina 84 Missouri 70: At Birmingham Ala Brendan Hay28 points and wood had a career-hig- h 15 rebounds for d North Carolina Ed Cota had 10 assists to become only the third player in NCAA history to reach 1000 for his career Capel added 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Clarence Gilbert led Tar Heels (19-1with 16 points Missouri (18-1“This was not a make-u- p game but I was definitely not pleased with my performance against Weber State last year” said North Carolina’s Brendan Haywood who had a miserablegame against the Wildcats “We didn’t want to go out in the first round again this year” Of Missouri’s pregame trash talking Haywood said: “Anybody can talk but it takes heart to go out there and play” Tennessee 63 Louislana-Lafay- ette 58: At Birmingham Ala Tony Harris made two free throws with 108 d Tenseconds left to lift nessee After Harris missed a free throw with 15 seconds to play and Tennessee Ron Slay got the rebound up 8 and was flagrantly fouled by Smith -allowing Tennessee to keep the ball after the flee throws After Slay missed both flee throws the Volt in bounded to Harris who was fouled Harris and Slay led Tennessee (25-6- ) with 15 points each Lonnie (25-Thomas led Louisiana-Lafayet19 with points Tennessee’s CJ Black on how he and his teammates planned to savor d win over Friday’s narrow Louisiana-Lafayett“We’re going to celebrate by having a couple of root beers and a lot of barbeque ribs at the rib place tonight” And this postgame summation from Tennessee coach Jerry Green: “It was almost like a basketball game broke out at a fistfight” Cincinnati 64 North Carolina Wilmington 47: At Nashville Tenn Pete Mickea! scored IS points as Cincinnati without injured Kenyon Martin easily advanced DerMarr Johnson added 13 points for tha Bearcats (29-3- ) who play Tulsa on Sunday Victor Ebong led the (18-1with 15 points UNLV 62: At Nash-vil- le Tutsa Tenn David Shelton scored 21 points as Tulsa beat UNLV the h-seeded Golden Hurricanes’ fifth Trans America Athletic (1) Missouri vaney (23 plus a season long “We just got worn down phys- ically with their size" Utah State I £00 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 2 sunBeit(i) - 37-2- Good KnieM to Hcosiera amain Standard-Examin- cent 7507 1 Patmt League (i) Southern (i) Southland (1) Southwestern Athletic (1) And the Huskies hammered the Aggies in the rebounding do-2 partment by a decisive margin which was USU’s worst beating on the boards by far all FLOOR GAME: g 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 coianed(i) ivy League (i) Metro Atlanta (i) the Aggies also a game since then 1 1 1 01 BgSky(i) - a v? 1 From IB to have kids who have been there before” “It definitely helps to be here ever quite get that done We before and be confident” said couldn’t quite get over the hump4 “I’m really proud of our bas-Connecticut senior forward Kevin Freeman who had 13 points ketball team and how hard we and four steals “In the stretch competed They played extremely We you have to stay confident you hard and kept competing had one of those special specif cannot get nervous” guard Khalid years” Morrill said led UConn with 14 “We’d rather play a team that’s a little higher-rate- d but points before suffering a sprained ankle late in the game Albert hasn’t won as many games” CalMorning also had 14 points for houn said “Teams that win don’t the Huskies and Tony Robertson know how to lose they knpvr how to win Down the stretch of added 10 off the bench With the win Connecticut the game (the Aggies) kept comadvances to face Tennes- ing back (25-see in Sunday’s second-roun-d ac“Stew does a terrific job of) tion of the South RegionaL maximizing his talent They just And Utah State its school-r-e play as winners and they should cord winning streak be proud of what they’ve done ‘ stopped at the hands of the Hus They had a great great season” kies goes home Troy Rolle the lone senior on “It was great to go win 19 Utah State’s squad scored 18 points in his final straight” Daniels said “It’s too game-hig- h bad we couldn’t extend it to 20 collegiate game He and Daniels Now we need to concentrate on Were the only Aggies in double figures as Curtis Bobb was next-ifrying to get better next year” line with nine points off the Yes there’s always next year And after piling up (he most vic- bench and Jorssen had eight But USU’s leading scored tories in school history on their way to a memorable 28-- 6 overall sophomore Tony Brown strugrecord this year the gled through a shooting performance and wound up with Big West Conference champions can’t feel too badly about the three only points And point way it ended guard Bernard Rock normally scorer for Still they had their chances another double-digagainst the Huskies trimming a the Aggies had just two lf 6 deficit to just two “It was our first NCAA tour7 with an run to nament and a lot of us had bugs points in our stomachs” Rock said start the second half UConn built its lead back up “We were missing easy layups 5 to nine but Utah State making turnovers We were misfe again chipped away and got with-i- n ing shots we normally make We 1 five points on a layup probably got uptight I didn’t balL It was kind of slippery by Daniels with 10:15 remaining hands The Aggies could get no clos“Toward halftime we got er however as Freeman scored buckets to give the calmed down But we made cxifC Huskies some breathing room dal turnovers at the wrong time They eventually went back up by in the second half and couldn’t 4 13 points and time finally get over the hump ran out on Utah State’s hopes “It feels weird to lose We “Our guys thought they could knew it was going to happen ” Rock sooner or later but win this game” second-yeUSU coach Stew Morrill said said “Our guys really felt like they Obviously they were hoping lr could beat Connecticut would be much later “There were couple of times Randy Hollis carers USU athlef in the second half when if we ks far the He could’ve gotten over the hump cm be reached at or rho£ and got it down to a couple of lif&tandardjiet -- ’ an in X 9) 19-ga- n over-achievi- ng it 31-1- first-ha- 39-3- 8-- 0 54-4- like-th- e 56-5- in-m- y 1 back-to-ba- ck 67-5- ar Standard-Examin- er 625-42- 69 |