| Show Standard-Examin- Sports 2C Sunday December 3 2000 COLLEGE BASKETBALL COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Utes Cougars have tough time on road Wildcats struggling after pair of home losses The Associated Press Die Associated Press ANAHEIM Calif - Motivated by John Wooden’s reminder TEMPE Ariz - Arizona State coach Rob Evans was looking for a complete game from his team and he got it “We talked about playing 40 that basketball is a simple game Brian Scalabnne focused on scoring defending and rebounding He was successful at all three Southern in helping California defeat No 18 Utah 0 Saturday in the Wooden Classic I was inspired and it carried over to today” said Scalabnne who heard Wooden the former UCLA coach speak to the Trojans a day earlier “Our team is playing hard It was a good effort from the fust to the 15th man" “ 1) 18 points and David Bluthenthal added 16 points and 12 rebounds as USC remained undefeated in four games Both players had each as USC hit four e from Phil Cullen led Utah (4-with 18 points including four of the long-rang- 2) Johnsen Utes’ 10 ad- ded 1 points and 1 3 rebounds as the Utes held a 44-3- 4 rebounding coach Steve Cleveland said 1 “Last year we played these guys at our place they don’t play real well and we surprise them at home We had a great effort by everybody and it’s easy to sneak up on people” Terrell Lyday also had 11 points for BYU but hit just shots lost for the The Cougars (2-second time in three days shooting 254 percent edge 72-6- Georgia Tech beat UCLA in the first game of the sev- 7 enth annual doubleheader No 1 Duke 93 No 17 Temple 68: At Philadelphia Jason Williams had 30 points and was a career-hig- h to from range to lead Duke (7-the eas win over Temple (4-1 No 3 Michigan State 97 lllinois-Chicag- o 53: At East Lansing Mich Zach Randolph had 19 points and 10 rewon its bounds as Michigan State (5-16th straight game No 5 Arizona 101 St MaiYs 41: At Tucson Artz Richard Jefferson joined Loren Woods on the ineligible list were never missed as but the two starters handed vvinless St ranked Arizona (5-d Marv s loss ever ) its most ' Kentucky 93 No 6 North Carolina 76: At Chapel Hill N C Kentucky ) dug deep into its bench Saturday to and end byat No 6 North Carolina (3-ii worst start in 16 years No I 7 Tennessee 79 West Vir- ginia 78: At Morgantown WVa Terrwith ence W oods hit a ral32 seconds left and Tennessee (6-lied from 10 points down in the second half to beat West Virginia (4-No 8 Seton Hall 63 La Salle 54: At New York Ireshman forward Eddie Griffin had 20 points eight rebounds and seven blocks to lead Seton Hall (4-No 9 Illinois 76 Kansas State 56: At Manhattan Kan Marcus Griffin had 20 points and 10 rebounds to lead Illinois (5-No 10 Florida 83 DePaul 76: At Gainesville Ha Ldonis Haslem had 21 points and 10 rebounds and Florida (2-o’ercame poor shooting by making 1 of 12 tree throws in the final 24 No 11 Notre Dame 77 Vanderbilt 74: At Nashville Tenn David Graves scored 13 of his 19 points in the with second half including a 3 44 left that gave Notre Dame (4-the lead for good No 12 Wake Forest 66 South thought these I guys for the first time this year really played 40 minutes” Evans said after the Sun Devils routed BYU 80-5- 2 Saturday night Chad Prewitt had a career-hig- h 20 points to help the Sun Devils (5-to their fifth win in a row and their best start in six years Arizona State dominated leading 75-3- 1 with 8:04 left in the game before both coaches began substituting It was revenge for a 78-6- 7 loss last season in Provo in which BYU’s Mekeli Wesley scored 26 points This time Wesley was scoreless in the first half and finished with 11 points on shooting “It’s a lot different being the hunted than the hunter” BYU 65-6- Scalabnne finished with and minutes 15th-rank- ICats the bas- ket "At first we just wanted to execute our offense and then I scored a couple of baskets and we said ‘Let’s take it inside and &e can still kick it outside if there’s too much traffic down there’ ” said Bachmann “We had an advantage on the block so we took advantage of it” ShofT also became a factor on both ends of the floor “We had a decisive size advantage obviously” said Cravens During the ’Cats’ 65-6- 0 over Hollis From 1C 1 uesday night against Toronto in J he Delta Center Move over Big Dipper and make room for The Mailman But Malone feels a little uncomfortable about his impending milestone “W hen you’re climbing up the ist those guys are still alive” he said in a story by Chris Sheridan of The Associated Press "But he’s not with us anymore so it’s kind of a different feeling It's really kind of weird I don't want to use the word bittersweet but it's kind of like I’m not excited to do it "It's like certain records be should stay the way they may- are” While Wilt's scoring exploits were nothing short of spectacular early in his career - he averaged an incredible 396 points per game over his first seven seasons - Malone hds been an amazing model of consistency during his years in the league Since his rookie season when 3ie averaged 149 points per game Malone has put up seasonal averages between 217 and 310 ppg every year since Just look at his scoring averages since T 987-8- 8 his third year in the league: 277 291 310 290 15-pl- OGDEN - Perhaps a trip to a local car repair shop is in order for the Weber State women's basketball team be- cause the Wildcats desperately need a tuneup Five games into the 2000-0- 1 season the Wildcats’ talent-lade- n and in desteam is just consistent two a need of perate halves of play Weber State's latest setback a 4 loss to San Jose State University on Saturday night at the Dee Events Center was a game that WSU coach Carla Taylor felt her team could win if they played good team defense And for a while it seemed as if they were going to do just that as they jumped out to a 12-- 4 lead on a by with Kristen Clyder-Gardn13:28 remaining in the first half “We didn’t attack (San Jose State) aggressively We were trying to play them straight up and they are too athletic to do -4 71-6- er that against” Taylor said “Kristen was the only one to show up tonight the rest of team didn’t stick to our game plan” A 3 run by the Spartans erased the early deficit and gave lead at San Jose State a 36-2- 7 halftime 32-1- Weber State had several chances in the second half to close the gap but missed free throws and 10 costly turnovers cost the Wildcats any chance to catch up coming as close as seven twice in the final 10 minutes finished with Clyder-Gardn23 points on a career-hig- h shooting gunning in four and having three assists and two steals Crystal Howe notched her of the seafourth double-doubl- e son with 16 points and 13 rebounds SanJose State was led by Cricket Williams’ 20 points while Atari Parker and Danada Smith each added 14 points Next up for the Wildcats is a four-gam- e road trip beginning on Wednesday at Wyoming er 8-- CROSSROADS OF THE WEST iiiHTflirrJ"1 SALT LAECE GUN SHOW 67 City Southern Utah 47: Kansas City Mo freshmen Michael Watson and Javin Tins dall scored of 20 points and career-high- 14 points to lead Mtssoun-Kansa- (3-- 4 Southern Utah ROY DABNERThe Associated Press VENGEFUL SUN DEVILS: BYU’s Eric Nielsen (25) grabs a rebound in front of Anzona State’s Tommy Smith dunng Saturday’s basketball game in Tempe Anz ASU won 80-5- 2 Carolina State 55: At Winston-SaleN C Josh Howard and Danus Songaila scored 14 points each as Wake Forest beat South Carolina State (2-) No 13 Maryland 82 Michigan 51: At Washington Lonny Baxter dominated inside with 17 points five rebounds routin just 22 minutes as Maryland (2-ed Michigan (2-Mississippi 60 No 14 Oklahoma 55: At Oxford Miss freshman Aaron Harper scored 18 points as Mississippi upset No 14 Oklahoma and ran its winning streak against opponents to 39 games No 16 Connecticut 97 New Hampshire 70 At Storrs Conn Albert 24 points Mounng scored a career-hig- h to its filth to lead Connecticut (6-straight win George Washington 85 No 19 SL John's 75: At Washington Mike Jarvis' current team was upset by his old time loss to Princeton on Friday frqm 1C Standard Examiner staff (15-of-5- s Missouri-Kansa- ShofT did not start and played only 14 minutes recorded no re- £ strong presence under By JUSTIN JOHNSON 2) City Conference) over 2 Marquette 69 Cal State North- ridge 66: At Milwaukee a free throw by Oluoma Nnamaka and two as SirValient Brown scored Montana 68 Southeast Louisiana 59: At Missoula Mont Jared Buckmas-te- r scored 14 of his 23 points in the secover ond half to lead Montana (3-Southeast Louisiana (2-Navy 64 Air Force 62: Air Force Academy Colo Chris Williams had 17 points and five rebounds and Navy (4-withstood a furious second-hal- f rally to defeat Air Force (1-- (5-- 20 Syracuse 88 Virginia Tech 68: At Syracuse N Y DeShaun Williams and Damone Brown each No scored 26 points both career htghs as Svracuse (7-beat Virginia lech (2-to win the Carrier Classic No 23 Wisconsin 61 Xavier 46: At Madison Wis Kirk Penney scored a 24 points and Wisconsin (3-career-hig- h routed previously unbeaten Xavier (4-in acting coach Brad Soderberg's first game as Dick Bennett's replacement Marshall 67 No 24 Dayton 65: At Dayton Ohio Tamar Slay scored 19 held olT a late-gapoints and Marshall (3-surge by Dayton (2-No 25 Arkansas 74 Memphis 68: At Fayetteville Ark Teddy Gipson dribbled inside to produce two key baskets late in the second half and help Arkansas (5-beat Memphis ) bounds and scored just two points On Saturday however his physical presence kept the Ra- vens away from the lane It also helped to create mismatches on the offensive end “We had to go to our strengths” said Shoff “In this game it was our size” Princeton 49 Gall State 47: in the tournament's title game the Tigers (2-deficit in overcame an eight-poithe second half to spoil the party for Ball State (2-Theron Smith scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Cardinals but he was unable to hit a shot that would have tied the game at the 28 0 270 252 267 257 274 270 23 8 and 255 OK maybe that’s too many numbers to deal with at one time But let's look at two more Malone brought a career scoring average of 260 points per game into this season and his average going into Saturday night's game agamst Charlotte - a disappointperformance - was ing nt 23 8 Yep You look up the word “consistent" in the dictionary and it might have Malone's picture next to it A All-StMalone is the only player in NBA history to score 2000 points in a season 12 times And barring injury - he’s missed only-thregames to injury in his entire career - he’ll reach 2000 points for the 13th time this season While Chamberlain was an giant who overpowering terrorized an era of smaller opponents with his size strength and agility Malone is a physical marvel in his own right 259-pouA chiseled physical specimen Malone has worked extremely hard to make himself a better player each yedr And while Wilt was seemingly bom to be a basketball superstar Malone has 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Game notes: Bachmann scored 39 points and pulled down 10 rebounds in Bachtwo games for the Wildcats from the foul line on mann went Saturday and as a team WSU shot 80 6 percent from the foul line against the Ravens Tebbs finished with 25 points and went from the foul line in two games WSU forwardcenter Pat Danley made his debut on Saturday scoring two points and grabbing three rebounds in five minutes The Wildcats’ next game is Tuesday on the road against UC Riverside irrv time in 1997 when the NBA assembled its 50 greatest players of all time at the All-StGame in Cleveland ar “I found myself talking to him a lot more than a lot of the other guys” Malone told The Associated Press “and it was kind of neat to talk to somebody of his stature “He told me something I’ll never forget: ‘I like the way you play and don’t ever change the way you play no matter what anybody says Just keep playing like you're playing’ ” Indeed when people talk about the greatest players of all time they're always bound to include Chamberlain and Abdul-Jabbin their conversation And if they didn't already they'd better mention Malone's name in that conversation from now on too - '' f i -- t' e career mark reach but within is scoring the Malone would need to maintain his current scoring pace for 3 12 more seasons to pass the former Los Angeles Lakers center T-- 1 J v f I f ) V— r K ’s Regardless of what happens from here on out Malone's place in NBA history is secure And in Wilt and Kareem he's in mighty good company jr ) i ar Abdul-Jabbar- 4 c'rmm m Z'ZIa o JEW CV 9-- "‘"'V y-Golf School Golf School HOLIDAY Sunday 5 y ' GET YOUR 9-- LIMIT ONE COUPON PER ADULT zzzzzzuzu more by Cordell Henry all in the final a wm over Cal 124 gave Marquette (3-for the championState Northridge (4-Coca-Col-a Blue of and the Gold ship Classic points to lead George Washington one Saturday 32 (4-- s READY NOW! -- er HOLIDAY SALE! 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