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Show Cleveland 107, Golden Stale 101 @ TENNIS: VENUS STRUGGLES IN AUSTRALIA D-2. Cougs Earn Big Victory Over UNLV TUESBAY #2 Tenn. 66, #21 Miss. St. 58 520 Clemson 87, #25 Vigna 71 @ GOLF: WILLISCONQUERS TUCSON D-5 mCLASSIFIEDS D-6 _nen JANUARY16, 2001 JAZZ 116, ROCKETS 104, OT BYU pummels Rebels in Big Mondayreturn BY PHIL MILLER ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE PROVO — Big Mondayis even bigger and better than Brigham Young everimagined. The Cougars, missing from late-night network TV almostas long as Johnny Carson, madetheir first ESPN appearance ofthe seasona terrific one, routing the distracted and disheartened UNLV Rebels 91-63 at the unusually rowdy Marriott Center. On Family Home Evening in Provo,last season’s Mountain West co-champs should have stayed home. The embarrassed Rebels (10-7, 1-2 Kent C. Horner/The Associated Press Utah's Britton Johnsen grabs a rebound during the first half Monday night at the Huntsman Center. MWC)fell behind10-0, shot only 34 percentanddid little to contain the Cougars’ Big Three of Trent Whiting, Terrell Lyday and a Classic Utes career-high 26 points, Lyday alternated timely three-pointers and emphatic dunks for another 23 and Wesley added 14 as BYU (1344, 2-0) extended its homecourt winning streak to 15 games in frontof 13,605 fans. BYU hadn’t appeared on Big Monday in six seasons, and the Cougars gave their fans six years worth of celebrating with their flashy, dunk-filled Shut Down | San Diego game. The Rebels could have been more concerned about who will be their coach next week. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that Utah defense overwhelms Aztecsfor4th straight win BY PATRICK KINAHAN Malone Owns OT ’s game, With Wesley, Erie Nielsen, Nate Knight and even freshman Jake Chrisman draped all over him, Kambala had more turnovers (three) than 3 GAM The Cougars had notseen first-half blitz like this since . . . well, since the last time UNLV and E AT AGLANCE BYU met, last March in the Mountain West tournament championship game. This time, though, the roles were reversed. Last year, the Rebels treated BYU like a junior-high team, scoring 24 straight points and taking a 26-2 lead. eerily amehag ply taesceysept " Houston 104, OT of the game, falling behind a fired-up BYU team, 104.Tes ened ae OE hat wid . Eee tees, ting made sure this lead. would stand. The Utah 116 Fest at: Exinzanen cENntntele at Lag tareiektpn. MST IHL ALL-STAR GAME Wolves Quietly Post Surprising Shutout LAKE : BY STEVE LUM Grand Rapids Coach Bruce DS @ OstertagSituation Settled THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE The young, feisty Houston Rockets f ballgame,” Coach Jerry Sloan said. “But are you tough enough to overcome it in over- learned a lesson Mondaynightthat many time? That's the most importantthing.” probablygoing to hurt you. Malone got two opportunities to whack said. “Butthat’s what he’s been able to do _hyis whole career.He picks it up to another NBA teams have been taughtover the years: If Karl Malonegets enough chances, he’s See ene acumenon te tated ints, incinding five straight to close the halfand. five BYU a 4526 lead. BYBRETTPRETTYMAN The fact the Utes hammered. San Diegd State 58-39 was no surprise — they are 22 against the Aztecs in the Huntsman Centet. The way they did it was reminiscent of what has made Utah a nationally respected pto- Mailman comeson stronglate in Utah’s win over Houston fight. The forward scored 20 points and added nine rebourida: committed four turnovers in thefirstfour minutes : the Rockets at the Delta Center, and on the second try, he succeeded. _ i Malonewas tough enough. “Heplayed terrific in overtime,” Sloan level atcertain points in the ballgame.” “We probably should never have gotten ttteae = ot he Te there,” Malonesaid.“Butit was kind ofneat nes sah of regulation, i In the final 14.6 seconds ofguys things.” ‘jfthedid Jazza lot hadofnot claimed their 14th win with secondsOpehoes to go, hethe leftautistying Houston’s meray5.8Weis 0 Geir he would have caught mostofthe opt berth heisiegete anew Malone missed a pair of free throws. Then, three-pointer. “We made some mistakes late in: the the way we finished it off in overtime. A lot in thelast 15 meetings with Houston, Mal< | gram. F ‘ f a moter,nickMajerusmisteen have smiled when he heard UTES 58 the score. “It was a bit ofa vintage Utah game,” said AZTECS 39 acting head coach Dick Hunsaker. Not counting three non-Division I games, the Utes (11-6, 3-0) had held only three teamsto fewer than 60 points this season. Not coiti¢e dentally, they won twoofthem. In conference games, Utah had given uro average of 70 points. But, in winning their fourth consecutive game, the Utes smothered San Diego State into 31-percent shooting. Randy Holcomb,a contender for Mount West Conference newcomer of the year, was held to 12 points, five below his average. did a nice job defensively dag “Weilented ae San Diego against State: }| toeHinisaker ans : | nN OK,he's stretching ita bit there. See UTES, PageD-3 See JAZZ, Page D-5 | Luck of theIrish or Divine Intervention? Irish beat UConn, snap 30-game winning streak i Lady VolsLoseStar. (si @@ Texas Bounces Back D-3 TevasonoesBack_0* BY CHUCK SCHOFFNER first timein 12 tries. Ruth Riley, showing noill ef- THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS fects from a sprained ankle two SOUTHBEND,Ind. — Another basketball winning streak came crashing down at Notre Dame,this time on the women’sside. Responding to the largest home crowd in school history, No.3 Notre Dame beat No. 1 Connecticut 92-76 Monday to end the Huskies’ 30-game winningstreak and hand UConn its worst loss in more than seven years, The Irish played almost perfectly on a momentous day in the same building where the Notre Dame men ended UCLA's 88-game winning streak with a 71-70 victory on Jan.19,1974. “Tm still kind of shocked,”said Notre Dame guard Niele Ivey.“It’s just.a great feeling.” In a showdown between the nation’s only unbeaten Division I teams, the Irish ended an oe drought against top-ranked and cgpaied Connecticut for the the days earlier against Virginia Tech, had 29 points and12 rebounds for Notre Dame (17-0, 6-0 Big East). Connecticut (13-1, 4-1) missed six of its first seven shots and neverled in losing for the first time since Feb. 2, 2000 — 72-71 against Tennessee. It was their first Big East loss since Boston College beat them on Jan.23, 1999. When Notre Dame's Imani Dunbar hit a three-pointer at the buzzer, fans. rushed from the stands to join the players and cheerleaders celebrating at mi court as the UConn playei trudged dejectedly off the floor. “T'm embarrassed personally, said Connecticut's Sue Bird. “A of people did come out to play 6 our team, butcollectively, no We just didn’t play the way normally can, for what reason.” +e Fhe ees eee ee Semen co i. at| Only UNLV’s Dalron Johnsonput up much ofa The natural order of Utah basketball — an ugly, defensive-minded struggle — was TP stored Mondaynight. Viger « twopoints. oints. It was th Sth straight guesITU bei its ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune Utah's Jacque Vaughngets a tittle too’close to Houston's Cuttino Mobley and gets called for a foul. AI. Athletic Director Charlie Cavagnaro will fly to Miami today to meet and presumably hire former Kentucky and BostonCeltics coach Rick Pitino. With their disinterested play, UNLY’s players may havecasta vote for Pitino over current boss Max Good, who took over when Bill Bayno was fired last month. Kaspars Kambala was particularly absent; The all-conference center, who barely put up a fight in the lane, went withouta field goal and scored only |
