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A Rosetta Ti lbiuie SK)i ts Wi iter For followers of the I muisit) of CINCINNATI ik.m-u- s basketball program an awful lot of memories weie revived Thursday night a lot of awful numortes th.it is, of anothei NCAA Midwest Rtpmnal in 1477 at Noiman, Okla s tin li.ioi backs blew a 17 point had in the wiond half Thursday night at the Riverfiont Coliseum to the Louisville Cardinals manv rimcni-bue- d that March night in 1977 when Wake toast shot down a big Arkansas h ad to win 80 80 But the Hogs have Sidney Mont riel this vrai, and Mom ,( f s imed to say to himself this is mv voai and my game and when he and his Arkansas teammatis weu through talking down the stutih 02 w in ov er Louisv die and a hei lh r Kansas had a 7 in the Midwist ILgional finals Saturday at 1 07 p in y 4 i 1 MSI Almost Suet u mired almost suttumbed to a stifling Hogs 2 2 Louisv die full couit pi ess Montrief tailed it a one with everyone turning to the ball on the hist pass What the press did simply, wnis pate a 71 14 Arkansas lead and tuin a very ho hum basketball game into a 5 55 Louisville lead with 5 50 left And the ciowd of 17 000 which had theered Ai Kansas to its advantage was stirred into a frenzy by the Cardinals thi ough their momentous comeback Mon But while Arkansas had its tritf wheeling and dealing for 27 points, the Cardinals were foieed to go most of the second hall with their All American Darrell Griffith m foul trouble Matter of fact, after a slain dunk eai ly in the half Griffith did not stole anothei point the test of the game and finished with just 12 The Titan Women Win Thriller From Bountiful. 8 The Louisville rally staitlod the vast assemblage including most of the people on pi ess row The Razoi backs had switched defenses on the Cardinals effectively and shot well while Louisville known as the Do toi s of Dunk was unable to peneti ate lot ev en a single dunk until the second half 67-4- 6 Suddenly , the Cardinals began soh ing ev ery thing lake, for instance, how to keep Arkansas from getting the ball down the court Ironically, the Louisville comeback began just after Gnflith left the lineup w'llh his fourth foul with 12 minutes left to play 1 8-- Wi. kMmU up oi ing on sc knew I had to stay in the game the picked up his fourth foul with just over eight minutes left) I just think we got too cautious with our big lead but you have to give Louisville ciedit in that they duin t quit after getting w ay dow n " the 6 6 Monet lef concluded I Continued from Page 5 in Salt Lake City, if thev sides'ep Dc Paul Coach Dan Belhioiuini of USF sum maried the game pretty well in his brief post game statement when he said, played extiemcly well in the fust half but Holland and Hamilton tinned the game around in the second half UCLA Is a fine ball club Whin a team makes those s it s pi ettv tough to beat them, or even get up a defense against those bombs We played haid, but I felt we ran out o' gas in the last eight or nine minutes But Im proud of our kids Thev had a good season, the Dons coach said Holland was (he biggest surprise of the tournament, for the Bruins at hast He hit fiv e of 10 ft om outside in the fu st hall to keep the Bruins in the game and in the second halt he was six for eight from the field all hut four of them fiom outside At the 11 25 maik with I CL ahead To open the second half, the Missouri Valley Conference champion Sycamores steadily pulled away, wnth Nicks and Reed leading a fast break and Bird popping home three straight fielders from the perimeter, to balloon the lead to 63 51, with 11 28 left W hen the All American Bird left for a rest at 9 10 40 everyone pressed so hard to take advantage of his absence, that there was no scoring until he icturned to hit a free throw two minutes later 6-- We just did a good job on them inside," Hodges said "We intended to work on (John) McCullough, since we felt be makes them go, and Brad Miloy did a tme job on him early Then their other tug man, AI Beal got into foul trouble, and we took advantage of that Larry Got Hot Then Larry got hot, and they had to double-teahim and that always frees someone else up, and Alex Gilbert started hitting for us, and that's what makes us such a club, Hodges added Even Bclluonum was astonished at Hamilton s ability to peneti ate and hit the intensive boards Give Hamilton and Holland a lot of ciedit said Belluommi They turned the game completely around in the second hall I fdt all along (hat if Hamilton went to the offensive boaids we could release a guard eailv and get some easy baskets But Hamilton got those offensive rebounds and put them bai k in much to my astonishment ' Hamilton hnnselt who suipas.ed Ins college career high of 30 points when a sophomore against Tennessee, admitted that this was his line s! outing as a collegian pi ev mils ALL SEASON STPPI RC1 TErt RADIAL TIRES B-- It was a typical Sycamore explosion at the end of the half, a balanced attack which sent the Sooners looking for luggage Bird, I wren Staley, Steve Reed and Carl Nicks contributed to the blitz from the five minute mark to the buzzer 66 i2 Holland hit thiee swishers from long distances, to put the Brums sufelv out front with a lead tney never sui rendered Then just to show his versatility , the senior guard made two beautiful dm mg layups late in the game to nail the Dons to the wall oulv B-- Sycamores Halt Sooners for Conquest No. 31 Continued from Page 5 in a losing effort In the first game Thutsday against Arkansas Tied Five Tunes The game had been tied five times (the last at 23) and the lead changed hands eight times in the first half But that was the last time the crowd, the largest ever to witness a basketball game in Ohio, had any thing to get excited about DePauls Mark Aguirre (32) during their Western Regional game at Provo Thursday. UCLA Blitzes USF , But just as suddenly as Louisv llle had come to life Moncnef jostled the Hogs from their siesta and scored three free throws and a pair of field goals and with three minutes to go Arkansas was back in command at 62 56, after Louisville had gone thiee minutes without a point We were just standing atennd on their puss " Moncrief said, but even though we lost our lead I thought we kept our poise and responded to what Coach (Eddie) Sutton asked of us Finally , we stopped standing and got a couple of breaks winch we ended Associate Press Laserphoto dont! Marquettes Odell Ball (51) goes high in the air to block a shot by No you 6-- McCray Turner and Branch then put a tluiry of points on the board and it was Branch s two liee throws that shoved Louisville m liont, 56 55 completing a 22 4 scoring burst in a penotl ot eight minutes Continued from Page hangup his h. ad 111 d.' Jppot'tlment the m dnlity of the Wai downplayed Me the ycr Chili h snd DePaul C'oai h U ad hold the s to run jolly 37 year nvntor wlose tnajot of Seven to luiveisifv the eight or nine points does not aspnation is a trip moan much today m college basket Utah and the finals March 21 and 2o Thats not said Raymonds I breathe a hte easiei when ball We vc Watkins gews to the flee ttnow line in a typical of this Marquette team ' continued it, on able to hold a lead thin year but situation Meyers pit ssuie ty veiy tiled 'When they fouled Cuitis I said That s Bernard tloonc) got and Di Paul picked oui pocktts again it the game is ovei We played too conserv atiye down the Sjadl Difference stutch and that also hint If theie was a single yaidstnk that Tiailing 59 54 late in the game could be used to determine the sun css was still in good position 1u Maiquette ol DePaul and the downfall of Maiquet foi a one point loss Fell 24 to atone te it would be the turnovers DePaul DePaul in Chicago But fieshman which handled the ball w ith git at caic Mu had Wilson soaicd into the air and the committed only six turnoveis lor found himsi If with no plat e to go H meanwhile was game Marquette was assessed an often ive foul lus fdth bothered by a sticky Blue Demon press of the guru and pi evented the W ai was and throughout the second half wot king the clock loi tin from hois guilty ot 17 tu novers final shot Let that be the W at riors c pit aph Watkins then followed with two Im ' ve said all year long that Marque t tluows Aguirie popped m anothei pair tc never beats itself" analyzed Dc Lai land hit a single free throw and You have to he.it Paul s Meyer Biadsluw swislud two mole with cmi Maiquette yourself, but they helped us second left to account for the six point a little bv turning it ovei so many II toIV times Those turnovers tell the storv of the whole game Marquettes Toone sometimes nm mng, sometimes walking, but always scoring poured in 16 fu st halt points to keep the Warriors in conti nlion But 3,3-3- 2 despite Toones accuracy, DePaul Marquette, lto, dm mg the closing nine and a half minutes to Kathv Lindquist stepped to the toul assume a intei mission edge line with five seconds left in the game and calmly swished two Im glad to be rid ' ol Toone " Thursday night to thiows fioe Oly mpus a thi tiling of one give He is chuckled DePauls Meyer the finest shooting big men in college 3? V12 victory over Bountiful in the gills basketball today We cheated to 4 state basketball championship torn Toone s side defensively in the second named at Univei xity of Utah Olympus thus led the parade in the halt and it seemed to wot k He s been a maich and will plav s for of four championsmp mine nemesis yeai Hillciest Fi iday at 8 50 p in Finishes W ith 26 Othei winners Thuisday included Indeed DePauls concentrated de 49 33, ovei Oiem and Cltai Hillciest, fense affected Toone s scoring ability field a victor over West Highland 6 9 The 20 minutes the closing daring 45 40 edged Layton, 10 hall second to limited Toone was and Reams xtat Fridays Bnghton points, ..ud was the lone Marquette 11 50 a m with a championship at for the double to reach plav figures player contest East plavs Cottonwood at night with 26 iO p m and Viewmont takes on The Wail iors, w ho blew to an 0 lead Skyline at 3 10 p m in another champ to begin this semifinal confrontation of unship lound game All tho,e games Midwest independents enjoyed a six or are in upper bracked seven point adv antage thioughout most In lower btacket contests. Bountiful of the first half But DePauls rails to meets Orem at 5 50 p m , Highland close the first half took the momentum plays Clearfield at 7 10 p in and then from the Warriors comes the windup at 8 50 between Marquette Coach Hank Raymonds Oly mpus and Hillcrest 1 1 Bobby Turner canned a pair of free tluows and then the press was implemented Junior guaid Tony Branch and senior forward Lairy Williams turned three steals into baskets for Louisville, and then Aikansas' pioblems were comixninded when senioi center Steve Sc hall absor bed his fifth foul at 8 10 Scores Free Throws Turner dropped in the subsequent tree throws and 8 senior center Scooter McCi ay hit a lay up at 8 18 and it was 51 46 for Arkansas Branch scoied on a driv mg layup to make it 51 48 and tinully guaid U S Reed put home a lay up otf a fast In eak for Ai Kansas to snap a five minute point drought 9 APPEARANCE BLEMS. 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