Show SPORTS Tuesday The Salt Lake Tribune 0 2 NBA Report Western Kentucky Upsets No 13 New Orleans - At the Delta Center II 7 pm TV: None Radio: KISN-A(570) net- - JEIZZ vs work stations Season Series: Jazz lead Line: Jazz by 1312 UTolves 3-- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Miss — Western Kentucky coach Ralph Willard wont have to wonder about the NCAA tournament anymore "We showed that we deserve to be in win or lose This team has answered every challenge" Willard said after WKU earned an automatic bid Monday by upsetting No 13 New Orleans 72- 63 in the Sun Belt 0 E Continued From C-- Starting Lineups (34-25- Minnesota ) (14-41- oil ) Karl Malone (277 ppg) a Christian Laettner (178 ppg) 31 of 42 FGs vs Wolves (74) Against Jazz: 9 13 20 pts 1 David Benoit (74) g Chuck Person (175) 117 pts 40 rebs vs Minn 33 on three's: 63 on Hs Mark Eaton (26) c Luc Langley (59) last 6: Averaging 188 minutes 5 pls in 35 min vs Jazz John Stockton (152) a Micheal Williams (149) — 10 assists in 51 of 59 games Among assist leaders — 87 Jay Humphdes (87) am Doug West (188) 14 pts 8000 1 assist4000 Rising star is shooting 51 NM think this is a demotion but we really do need more Maybe we can run some scoring off the bench more stuff to help Jeff and Tyrone get going" Another reason for change? The Jazz need vast improvement defensively if they want to stay close to Houston and San Antonio in the Midwest Division In their last seven losses the opposition has averaged 119 points on 52 shooting Only one of the seven has scored less than 110 points Only two have shot less than 49 Individually the Jazz have been burned by guys who aren't exactly Charlotte's Johnny Newman scored 23 points New York's Tony Campbell (28) John Starks (22) and rookie Hubert Davis (10) combined for 60 points Atlanta's Travis Mayes poured in 23 Beyond lineup changes Sloan says "The bottom line is we've got to stop people Everybody's got to work harder defensively from the top to the botAll-Sta- or Utah tilt47 tom" roSloan also knows that changing his season-lontation with only 23 games left is a gamble But he down the realizes that the Jazz who must go stretch to avoid their worst regular-seasosince 1987 need a jump-star- t This stretch has forced his hand "When you make changes" said Sloan "you g 17-- 6 n 7 Ewing Turns the Tables on Shag as Knicks Nip Magic THE ASSOCIATED ONeol Andenon Skies PRESS NEW YORK — Patrick Ewing turned the overtime 01 I tables on Shaquille O'Neal on Monday night leaving the playoffs as the next possible meeting between the All-Stcenters Ewing scored five of his 37 points in overtime after O'Neal fouled out as the New York Knicks beat the Orlando Magic 109-10- 7 423 44 410 16 50 52 23 34 8 Williams Raf Oi Kile 19 2 6 23 1 4 4 45 45 16 633 24 17 14 i NBA Standings 1 2 46 ii 1 18 2 0 2 44 2 4 24 41 02 266 3447 273114441827 107 Turret Totals 417 FG Percentoges POW 74 64 45 35 FT 78 5 04 40 Smith 17 Ewes) 45 28 47 22 1735 31 44 25 6 4 365 8 Anthcolv StOckS Campbell Mason Rivers DCMS HWlar A PF Psi 1 3 18 1 1 142 5 37 0 9 5 0 2 27 7 45 8 2 4 4 01 1452 04 043 OA 1 1 1 2 triple-overtim- GB New York 39 18 664 — New Jersey Boston 33 25 569 612 5 W2 32 26 552 712 6-- 4 W3 Orlando 28 28 500 1012 Miami 24 Philadelphia 20 Washington CENTRAL 16 40 286 2212 W L Pet GB Chicago Cleveland 40 18 690 — 39 21 650 2 Charlotte 31 26 544 812 9 Et Wi- 1 MINNEAPOLIS — Philateams finished the season series tied but if delphia's Jeff Ilornacek had the Eastern Conference 23 points and 10 assists standings stay as they are making Fred Carter's NBA now the two teams will meet head coaching debut a sucin the first round of the play- cess Carter a 76ers assistant the last six seasons replaced offs "I'm looking forward to Doug Moe who was fired meeting them again" O'Neal Sunday Philadelphia had said "We play the Knicks lost 14 of its last 16 games tough Every time we play under Moe including a 56- the Knicks we get up for point loss Friday at Seattle them" that tied a club record for If the two teams meet in margin of defeat The Sixers April Ewing said "We know halted a seven-gam- e road it will be a tough series We losing streak and a e wanted to send them a little overall slide message We think we're a FT FO fhb better team" PHILA Min WA MA 04 A PF Ph 32 14 2431 2 In overtime Anthony Ma- Perty sons bank shot gave New 21 32 10 24 0 4 5 4 York a edge the Long Hornocek 38 1040 23 404 42 04 5 4 18 30th and final lead change of HeArts 19 02 13 the game Then Ewing con- Gilman 8c4 10 0 00 0201 13 DoMuns 8 6 0 verted a three-poin- t play Grant 3 0 with 1:03 left for a 23 Anderson 01 0 3 Shockieford 8 0 advantage I Wiens 00 00 2 Donald Royal made it 108- - Totals 240 3541 124010292920 92 106 with two free throws Peccen loges FG 432 900 FO R 1166 and Nick Anderson made 1 PAM 04 A Pt Pis Mk 34 0 2 i2 of 2 with 22 seconds remain- LOOnnef Pemon 34 3 i 916 n ing pulling the Magic within Spencer 17 4 0 02 8 33 24 3 2 one Then the Knicks' John We 7 3 33 WPNocris 8 Starks was called for travel- 0oliey 18 3 i 6 14 4 ing giving Orlando a chance ISZleY 4 to take the lead 0 PAcCcmn 2 00 II 12 4 2 0 03 00 But Tom Tolbert was whis- OlOnitS li I Maxey 2 3 0 0 02 tled for an offensive foul Seim 240 3242 162416442611 U and a free throw by Starks Wok FG 390 Ft 667 completed the scoring Brian Percentages: 444 (Anderson Point Gaols Philodebhia Hawkins OA) Minnesoio 311 Homooek Williams and Tolbert missed 273 (Person 24 Insane OA Blanks 14 shots in the final seconds OA) Minnesota Team Reboundt Philadelphia "People probably expected the Knicks to blow us out Blocked Shots Phibdelphio 10 (Peny WeothAIMS Gilliam Bolt Long Homocek when I fouled out" O'Neal eispoon Minnesota 10 (Wi cons 4 Spence! 2 West Bogey said "But we had a good Langley McCcrn) 13 (Harecek 4 Wealhchance to win at the end Our erspoan Z Philadelphia Lona OCNtiOnl Grant Anderson 18 (Person 6 2) kemesoia Shockleba learn guys are tough and we hung Wilkams 4 inettner 3 Wee 3 Langley Snell) The 2-- 2 32 429 1412 W6 37 351 2-- 8 WI 10-1- 6 9 L3 5 19 1 1 13-1- 5 21-1- 6 12-1- 9 24-1- 6 10-1- 16-2- 0 10-2- 1 15-2- 3 Li 2 WI 5 W2 29 30 492 1112 3 28 31 475 1212 4-- 6 Detroit 25 32 439 1412 Milwaukee 23 35 397 MIDWEST W L Pet GB Houston 37 21 638 — 17 20-- 9 Cord 20-- 25-1- 1 14-1- 6 23-1- 2 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Seame 9 (Kern)) 3 Mine 3 McKey 2 Paytce): Indiana 16 (Schrempt Herrn 3 Srmls 2 Richardson 2 McCloud 2 team) Sleds: Seattle 7 (Potton Z Bcros 2 McKey McMilicin Askew) Indano 3 Mlle r 2 Bernina ledincal rods Seattle Paylon 9:14 Medd Defense Seatile 1 Sou 1119 0Mooks—Ed 24 22 — 99 —105 Bob DeioneY George 33 25 34 31 Indiana RUSK 111 27 Tokyo ILITIOVEMS in there" O'Neal who outscored in the fourth quarter hit two baskets and two free throws to give the lead with 1:23 Magic a left in regulation After Ewing and Anderson traded baskets Doc Rivers drew O'Neal's sixth foul with 15 seconds left but missed his second free throw tying the score and forcing overtime after neither team got a shot off in the remaining time "Doe Rivers flopped on me" O'Neal said of his last foul "That was a rookie call I'm glad this year is nearly over because next season Jamal Mashburn will get those rookie calls There were a lot of questionable calls" Ewing 10-- Anderson led Orlando with 24 points while Starks had 27 for New York Charles Oakley had 18 points and 16 rebounds for the Knicks who won their ninth straight home game lobed Min RICHFIELD Ohio — Ger- 2 95-9- 4 MOM Bowe Steal" Pteocielphio 11 (Hawkins 5 Weather2 Anderson Z G1mt Wows) Moines° ta 5 (Snell 1 Person Means McCann) Cavaliers 122 Nuggets 107 PO MA 72 34 27 44 PT 106 00 lob 0-- A PP PM 2 0 2 5 24 24 91940994:940 htinnsioto Whit CoficionMike Kjosev 10 14 24 14 —92 —43 25 30 ald Wilkins made eight straight baskets in one stretch and Brad Daugherty seven in a row in another as Ron Gorretson surging Cleveland found Pacers 105 their touch and beat Denver Cleveland broke a string of Sonics 99 INDIANAPOLIS — Detlef eight consecutive games below 50 by sinking 60 of Schrempf scored 22 of his 29 its shots The Cavaliers also the first half and in points 19 re- set a team record with 45 added a season-higbounds as Indiana ended Se- assists h attle's winning e streak The SuperSonics had won six straight on the Toad and compiled their longest 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Z 4Mannini Atlanta 13 (Wdkns 2 Wilts 2 Blaylock Koele 2 Augrnon Fonelk &anon)) 900A LA atoms 5 (Corner A Natpat 2 Soonest MiCOLSOnt Attu° JO (Koncak A MI-2 BlcAlock Gtabarni kilL29ZirflOn Atlanta Auarnon 7:43 Amt tuns 5 Ckapoos Atlonia 25 36 IOWA CITY Iowa — Iowa 34 21 Hawkeyes (20-Big Ten) broke a 17th-ranke- d 8 overall 9-- 7 losing streak e two-gam- while Northwestern fell to 18 8- - Neloms 4 Bakhkin tee (848) 15 Howell 00 4 43 Kirkpolmck 2 Pure1Y JO Williams Raytora Yonlie 01 Rankin - 0 50 IOWA (20-8- ) Winters 4 8 tookingb8 13 fart 11 Skeet flames 3 Smrth 6 Bartels Murray 8 2 Webb 14 Z 0 Totals 56 Heillime—Northwestern 21 Iowa 20 &Oat-rictBalakein goals—Northwestern Yorke i Nelms lee 0-Ptiy larY0 14 Bartels Looknobill 3 Fouled out—None Rebounds—Northwestem 42 Nelms Rankin 8alchsto 9) Iowa 39 (Earl 9) Assists—Northwestern 8 l8alawr Kirkpabck Williams 2) Iowa 11 Rat Smith 3) Total louts—North- western 17 Iowa 10 8 33 34 24 33 Brown Caret( 14 Gaspet a Oa (1010) 5 Snit Ele 5 Sanuel 24 6 Easterling 02 22 2 Fox 1 Coke 7 63 10 Mr1 11Keebiel 00 Cowie 01otals 3 11 50 1649 MASSACHUSETTS PHILADELPHIA — Lou Roe's 24 points and tough team defense led Massachusetts to a Atlantic 10 semifinal victory over Rhode Island Massachusetts (22-6- ) earned the right to defend its conference championship Thursday night at home against either St Joseph's or 01 00 O totals 114001 SLAM) U5tass 76 (20) Rhode Island 50 4 NORTIAWS11114 10 Tennessee-Chattanoog- Mid-Easte- (22-6- ) e 24 010 74 Kellogg 13 ROEP 812 Moms 1 Barbee 5 Malay Babor 24 04) 00 0 Nunez43-1Meyer 00 O Cottrell 0 Berry 11 Totals 1 5 76 37 Rhode Island 22 Halltme—Massachusetts Exam (Fax goals—Rhode Island CoSela Massachusetts 2 Easterling 10 (Barbee 011 Fctied Malloy aul-- 11 Robinson Wand 25 (Brom 8) Mama:hoses 51 tWilkirre 11) As sists—Rhade Island 12 (Easterling 5i Mamact)th sells 16 (Kelaga Barbee 41 total island 25 Massachusetts 21 tecbrocats—FeeyJanes 1Sagoy Orrym 7 Robinson son 00 Paciaa Oie Temple AP Top 25 Record poll with BYU out of the Top 25 North Carolina remained the team collectAP's No votes The ing 59 of 65 rest of top five includes Indiana Michigan Kentucky and Vanderbilt Arizona fell from No 3 to No 6 after losing at California Kansas is No 7 followed by Duke Seton Hall and Florida State The second ten includes Cincinnati Wake Forest New Orleans Arkansas the Utes Louisville Iowa Purdue Big West member UNLV and Massachusetts New Mexico State (No 24) also of the Big West is cracked the poll at No 24 UNLV meets Utah State in the quarterfinals of the Big West tournament at Long Beach Calif 1 2 3 first-plac- e 4 5 6 7 8 9 it 11 12 11 14 It ST GEORGE — Playing in 70 degree temperature Texas A&M shot identical 18 hole rounds of 309 for a 618 total to grab the lead over 14 other teams at the Jones Women's Golf Sport Classic at the Sunbrook golf course Monday Oregon is trailing in second place with 635 strokes and BYU trails with a 636 in a tie with Nebraska for third place Holly Reynolds of Kansas who carded rounds of has a edge on Christel Tomori of Oregon in the individual chase Freshman newcomer Ai Lian Lim turned in the best score for BYU for 10th with Other Cougs are Anna Sralla Eve Sutter (indv) Doreen Ng 80- (indv) 79-- 159 Kara Weitz Lisa Christie Robin Ziola and Tara Wilde (indiv) "It's almost as if we are too excited to play" said BYU coach Gary Howard one-strok- 19 —413 —4 24 -2 05 °Mods—Jock Madden Steve Joee Cced Jones 418- 392' 21-- 197 21-- 4 21-23-- 6 23-- 7 24 16 377 23 260 19 217 18 191 2a 193 148 21 BIT Tied for 3rd Pepperdine 642 Wichita State 644 Boy la 645 and WYonling 645 Missoul 646 Kansas 650 UTEP 685 Base Side 6E4 Indiyiduolt Nosy Reynolds Kansas 7673 149 Chrldel 152 156 Shamon Malec Oisioon mot Oregon 153 Joonne Lefton MM 76- Stephanie Rood Netwaska 77 153: Kristina Editors MR 7678 154 Winona) Geobei A&M 154 Jeome On WM° St 155: Amo SdI rett 155 Al ban Urn EMJ i56 Jennder Layman Coq 156 Bed bet 7581 156 Rondo Terninaro Poppe lane Foss" Wash 9 7 156 OYU 636 Netxm Oteaon Dot 639 -!! 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15 North Carolina (59) Indiana(4) Michigan(2) Kentucky Vanderbilt Arizona Kansas Duke Seton Hall Florida St Cincinnati Wake Forest New Orleans Arkansas Utah 16 Louisville 17 Iowa The 643 27 47 PM FT 615 1513 0 overcame its worst first half of the season to defeat Northwestern handing the Wildcats their 27th consecutive loss in Iowa City The FT 31 15 38 NOM1011 LA 16 113 13 4 I 5341 (23-9- d top-seede- Iowa 56 (17) Northwestern 50 Utah-Dixi- e 00 3 240 54-4- 9 Madison 3 Weans 9 Mason 3 McDonald 23 0 4 Gar6 oche rett 24 12 Johnsch 4 Simon 64 22 Totals 63 Nalthme—New Orlems 34 Western Kentucky 31 (Mee gocis—Westem Kentucky Bel 141torn 14) New Otecns 69 tMocksdn Willsams Fated oul—Stmce Rebounds—Western Kentucky 21 (14all New OP leans 32 (Johnson 8) Assets—Western Kentucky 12 (Ed 41 New Otterre 18 (Williams 6) Total fouls—Western Kentucky 10 New Orleans 19 SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE Wash at Charlotte 5:30 pm LA Lakers at Detroit 5:30 pm Seattle at Chicago 5:30 pm Atlanta at Milwaukee 6:30 pm Miami at Houston 6:30 pm Dallas at San Antonio 6:30 pm Minnesota at Utah 7 pm Phoenix at Sacra 8:30 pm Gu idinget Totals 2755 A&M Enlisters Revel at Dixie Classic 7 12-2- 5 0 4 6 Robeson 041 6 Totals ii40V) MEANS (264) NEW University of expected Tuesday's Games Atlanta 121 LA Clippers 113 Cleveland 122 Denver 107 Indiana 105 Seattle 99 New York 109 Orlando 1070T Philadelphia 92 Minnesota 83 n 72 After losing at New Mexico and Texas-E- l Paso last week Utah slipped from No 9 to No 15 The Utes lasted just one week in the top 10 BYU which won at UTEP and lost by three points at New Mexico went from No 21 to No 25 The Cougars kept their position in the rankings by a solid margin over Marquette the No 26 team Utah and BYU are seeded Nos 1 and 2 for this week's WAC tournament at the Delta Center and could only meet in Saturday's championship game The Utes are No 13 in the CNNUSA Today 6 5 9-- 9 5 6 (23-6- 14 Frahm( a 4 Bunton far 3 LstIO Strk Home Away 19-1- 1 3 W3 24-- 2 LA Clippers 29 Golden State 25 18 23-1- 2 13-1- 1 WESTERN KENTUCKY (24-5-) 18 Bea Mee 6 0- Nail Horn 9 64 1- PRESS THE ASSOCIATED The NCAA tournament will take Manhattan for the first time in 35 years reIt also gets East Carolina and it's cord the first team with a losing mark to make the tournament in seven years It will have Western Kentucky along with — most likely — the team the Hilltoppers beat for the Sun Belt championship Monday night No: 13 New Orleans And Southern Illinois got its first berth since 1977 and only the second ever The NCAA field of 64 had eight qualifiers heading into Monday night's action Five more teams would join that group rallied to beat Niagara 68- Manhattan ) 67 adding the Metro Atlantic Athletic Confertitle ence tourney crown to its regular-seasoEast Carolina the eighth team to get into the NCAA festivities with a losing record did it by for the Coloupsetting James Madison nial Athletic crown used two hot runs to ) Southern Illinois Illinois State in the Missousubdue ' " ri Valley Already in were No 2 Indiana winner of thg Big Ten and No 6 Arizona which has clinched crown Ivy League chafnpicni the Pacific-1Penn also has made the field which will be completed Sunday Other conference tournament titlists are Coastal Carolina in the Big South and Tennes see State of the Ohio Valley Coppin State of a Athletic the in the Southern and Northeast Louisi: ana in the Southland Yet to be decided Monday night was the West Coast Conference crown with Santa' Clara meeting Pepperdine 34-3- 1 Utah and Brigham Young University fell in this week's Associated Press Top 25 — but not all that Cord 16-1- 3 23-- 5 Denver 255 2112 62-4- 9 eight points all season led at halftime but failed to take advantage of some early second-hal- f opportunities The Privateers hit just one of five free throws and were unable to convert a 3- on-break during Western Kentucky's initial run "The press got us We handled it well for most of the game but they got some quick picks and Horn got a quick shot off the first one" Floyd said "I've been saying all year that Western Kentucky was one of the best teams we've faced I'm not shocked we lost" SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE 4 Western Conference San Antonio 3 As 2 13-1- 8 WI 4-- 6 10-- e NCAA Hosts Hodftepodge of Tunis Utes Cougars Drop in AP Poll Following Losses 6 5 LstIO Strk Home Away 4 1 18-1- 18-1- 2 105-10- 1 20-- 7 Li Indiana four-gam- 20-1- 0 8-- Atlanta B league" LstIO Strk Home Away Cod 13-1- 4 3 W3 26-- 4 2712 L Pet 0 0 27 409 O'Neal took advantage of Totals Ewing fouling out in a 102- - Percentage" FG 474 Ft 114 3Pooni Gods Onando 364 (Soles 24 e 100 Magic victory in Anderson toted 02): New York Duvts 04 Rovers on Feb 14 but this (Starks Reb)und' Onanao 7 New York 6 time it was O'Neal who left team °cited Shots OrSando 3 (O'Nel Z 8 New York (Eyeing) the game with six fouls He lliams) turnovers Oriolao 15 (Skies 5 3 O'Neal scored 23 points before de- 2 Andosat Z Tolbert) New YorkRoyal 14 (Storks 7 3 Oakley Smith Anthonv Mason) Ewing reseconds parting with 15 Steals Okra° 4 (toted Mattoon Viltcms New York 3 (Oaluey Starks Mason) maining in regulation Po) lechncal "It was good to see him second Fouls: New York Smith Z :337 foul out instead of me" said tediat New York Smith 337 second 24 29 26 14 10 —407 Ewing who made 17 of 35 Osiondo shots and grabbed 17 re- Now169 26 24 26 19 12 —109 -2 40 bounds eight more than Moab—Joke ODomell ei SOCI Tommy O'Neal "I'm motivated for Nona every game but I wanted to have a big game against one 76ers 92 of the premier centers in the Timberwolves 83 Eastern Conference W 7 championship game "There are no more questions to answer We're in I thought we were in before this tournament but this answers all doubts about our team" Darnell Mee scored 18 points as Western Kentucky (24-5- ) broke the Privateers' winning streak and earned its 14th NCAA bid and first since 1987 The No 2 seed Hilltoppers opened the second half Monday with a 10-- run and never trailed after Cypheus Bunton followed a miss with a slam dunk WKU built as much as a lead after that WKU wore down New Orleans (26-3- ) with pressure defense and ran off a 12- point spurt converting consecutive turnovers into Darrin Horn's and Darius Hall's inside basket The Hilltoppers had their after biggest lead at Mee the tournament MVP hit from inside New Orleans which had won its previous 20 games this season against Sun Belt opponents had 10 of its 17 turnovers in the second half "I don't know about a turning point but the stretch we had against their press and their big offensive after we got a couple of stops were really big because we then had to inbound against the press" New Orleans coach Tim Floyd said "We didn't do a very good job against that" New Orleans which had not trailed by more than put-bac- ATLANTIC Reis TOR Min Ooktey All Times MST 871 El FO tournament Conference sometimes see problems that need to be rectified later on When you lose and make changes you often find out where problems are But I'm not searching for problems I'm searching for answers" Karl Malone said "I'm no genious by any stretch of the imagination But if we — as a whole team — don't react to this in the right way it could be terrible It could definitely be a disaster" Meanwhile Jeff Malone claims his priority involves adjusting to a new role and not creating controversy "It'll be different playing with the second unit" he said "I haven't played a lot with some of those guys Maybe I'll get more looks at the basket I don't know But the way things are going we don't need more problems or any more distractions It might take a couple games to get used to this but I'm a professional and I will" Managing a smile Malone joked "Hey what about the Sixth Man Award? 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