Show Page 6 February 24 1994 & v The drought continues in the BDAC by Randall Harrington sports editor The multi dimensional facilities at Athletic Center gymnasium have been used to house College of Eastern Utah volleyball men's and women's basketball and now let us add the weekend amateur fights to that distinguished list but more on that later The men's team wrapped up their home season in the same manner they have played throughout the year losing Despite playing hard and keeping the games close for 30 minutes the Eagles ended up losing to the Dixie College Rebels on and to the Snow 3 Saturday -- the Bunnell-Dmitric- h 94-8- 1 College Badgers on Friday The Dixie Rebels came to Price needing a win to remain tied with the North Idaho College Cardinals for first place in the conference "We easily could have folded camp after last night (the Snow loss) and come out and get beat by 30 tonight but they didn't They played hard" CEU head coach Ronnie Stubbs said Early in the game it looked like the Eagles would play the season out and let the Rebels coast to die conference lead CEU faded to an deficit with 10 minutes left to play in the opening half However led by Cory Jones Malik Salim and Toby Bush EU came back and actually took the lead with seven minutes left in the half at 28- 87-7- 13-poi- nt 27 Jones started the 12-- 0 run with a bucket followed by a gorgeous Salim layup Driving hard to the hoop Salim faked a deliberate Magic-typ- e pass to the left the ball back to his chest brought between two defenders and slipped laid the ball up for two points After another Salim layup Bush scored five straight points off a trey and a two-hand- ed jumper The game remained close until CEU center Leon Carter picked up his fourth personal foul with 13:42 remaining This forced coach Stubbs to go to his bench "When Leon goes out we struggle to keep that same level of play" Stubbs said Rebel players Faron Hand and Spelling Davis took this opportunity to destroy any hope the pesky Eagles had at winning with a second-hal- f rampage Hand finished with 26 points and 11 rebounds while Davis had 20 and 12 respectively “I think that Faron (Hand) did a good job We've kind of come to expect that from him The guy 1 think really gave us a lift was Spelling Davis coming in off the bench" Dixie head coach David Rose said EU fell behind by 20 points with 10 minutes to play and the rest was academic Friday night CEU tried to gain some kind of revenge against Snow loss for the suffered in Ephraim 13-fo- ot five-poi- As the teams exchanged the lead several times Snow looked to break the game open by taking a 10 point lead with less than four minutes to intermission CEU mounted a charge during which Rosell Ellis threw a high lob pass over the basket for Bush Charging down the floor Bush reached for the stars caught the pass and threw down a thunderous Tarzan dunk into the break the Going Badgers had one-hand- rim-hangi- a 42-4- 1 edge "They made a big run on us and came back at the half" Snow head coach Jon Judkins said "I was a little upset with that but we came back in the second half and were aggressive with our offense" Going down to the final five minutes it was still anybody's game until the officiating and freshman mistakes cost the Eagles the chance for a rare win Jones fouled out of the game with 4:22 left depleting the forces by one Then Ellis picked up his fifth foul and his ticket to the bench He also took a technical with him for unsightly sign language towards the officials "Freshman mistakes stupid freshman mistakes It's frustrating (see Not Quito on page 7) Toby Bush lets out a Tarzan yen at he dunks In front of surprised Snow Badger Justin EnglebrighL (photo by Lonnie Behunln) nt NBANCAA statistics and standings With the second half of the NBA season underway and college hoops March Madness' only a few weeks away I thought I'd throw out a few stats and picks n Top Five NCAA Basketball The NCAA Tournament will be starting in a few weeks Already there are quite a few teams who have a "lock" on an invitation even without winning their conference's automatic bid Listed below are teams from the 10 biggest conferences who as of now have most assuredly gauranteed themselves a spot in the field of 64 teams NBA LEADERS Atlantic Coast Conference Duke North Carolina Maryland Wake Forest Atlantic 10 Massachusetts Temple Big CrcitMldffBt Marquette Saint Louis Alabama-Birmingha- m Cincinnati El till Arizona UCLA California East Connecticut Syracuse Boston College Bln Eight Missouri Oklahoma SL Kansu Southeastern Conference Arkansas Kentucky Florida Southwest Conference Texu Texu AAM Baylor If Rodman stays healthy and doesn't get scalp poisoning from his rainbow of hair colon no one will even come close to challenging him for the what Jordan was to rebounding title Rodman is to rebounding master The NBA Finals? Seattle over the Knicks in seven games The Final sMVgjgg scoringthe Big Ten Michigan Indiana Purdue me Mexico New BYU The next two weeks will go a long ways in deciding the WAC's regular season champion Four teams: New Mexico BYU Fresno Sl and Hawaii all have a chance to take the title Fresno SL will travel to UTEP and New Mexico BYU will have home games against Utah (this Saturday) New Mexico (March 3) and UTEP (March 3) Besides their away game against BYU New Mexico will be on the road against Utah Hawaii who hu been a force when playing on the island should not be much of a factor once they hit the main-lan- d Look for New Mexico to win the regular season title The WAC Tournament will be held in the Delta Center March 2 9-1- |