Show Page 20— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday March 26 2000 ame AUBURN HILLS Mich (AP) — AH night long coach Larry Eustachy was on hit feet op and down in front of the Iowa State bench touting at hia players ihouting at the officuds just plain shouting This was after all no small piece of business against Michigan State The coach's seat on the bench was there strictly for decoration Eustadiy certainly didn’t need it In the end though the coach’s carrying on went too far in the NCAA tournament’s Midwest Regional final Saturday nightEustachy wound up in the dressing room thrown out on a hand with an attitude by both teams “I didn’t even comb my hair today” said Iowa State guard Michael Nurse ‘‘because I knew it would be a dogfight” Emotions ran high all night long ' and Eustachy wasn't the first coach to get in trouble with the officials Michigan State's Tom Izzo drew his own technical foul with 5:49 left dropping the Spartans into a seven-poiJjole at 59-5-2 :: “I ask my players to stick up for what they think is right and I stick up for what I think is right” he said So did Eustachy nt double technical foul in the final minute of Michigan State’s 4 vic- Shortly after Izzo’s technical Eustachy’s pressure cooker began to build With 3:43 to (day Iowa State’s Paul Shirley got locked up under the 73-6- was much closer rtmi that tory This game was played hand-to- - basket As Shirley’s shot went in it trouble or if we have a lot of fouls was waved off by the officials No V we play the same way basket Instead a fifth personal foul Now after being beat off the an night long Michigan State boards onShirley ' turn that of screamed at began asserting itself under the basEustachy events crucial at that juncture with ket — just in time Andre Hutson Iowa State’s lead down to three grabbed three rebounds in a row and t : ' v ‘ the Spartans converted each time to points t i It would get worse Wv take the lead' Marcus Fizer was : The game had turned In the final already laboring under the burden of minute Iowa State was down by five four personal fouls but Eustachy points at desperate for pull the centerpiece ofJiif- - ketr Inzer went up for a shot and again team off the floor at that stage So there was the dreaded whistle Another Fizer stayed And so did Nurse also personal foul this one Nurse’s fifth Eustachy went ballistic Players playing with four personals “We play hard no matter what’’ tried tq keep tocrtiwcut coach away he said “If Coach catches you playbut he tore past them to confront offiing soft because of fouls he’ll take cials Curtis Shaw Frimk Basone and t you out Whether we're not in foul Lonnie Dixon ' s an Then came perhaps the biggest play of the game Confirmed from Page 15 going to the Final Four You have to give them all die cred- it” Jamaal Tinsley scored 18 points Michael Nurse had 17 and Marcus an Fizer added 15 for the second-seedewho Cyclones (32-5- ) d were bidding for their fint Final Four appearance since 1944 “We made a lot of good semifinals next Saturday in Indianapolis Wisconsin threotime losers to Michigan State this season beat Purdue 0 in die West final in Albuquerque NM Iowa State took a 59-5-2 lead with 5:49 left on Kantrail Horton’s two free throws But successive by Granger and Peterson plus two free throws by Charlie Bell narrowed the gap to 0 with 64-6- 61-6- left Bell's jumper from the right side put the Spartans ahead 1 with 2:54 left — their first 62-6- lead up an pass that alley-oo- p S Confirmed from Page 13 how-har- news conference “Wisconsin’s a great team” 64-6- 1 lead and sending the he said “I really couldn’t do too partisan crowd at The Palace much so my hat’s off to them” — about 80 minutes from East from to field Cornell in Wisconsin’s victory over Lansing — into a frenzy “We wanted to get a Purdue two weeks ago in basket and I think that’s first round of to Big Tfen touras for sure as you can get’’ nament was this time from Granger said “It was a big range We wantmomentum-changThe loss deprived Ready of ed to get to crowd on its feet his first trip to Final Four It and that did job” was to second time to BoilerMichigan State coach Tom makers have made it to a Izzo said it was Peterson who 20 final in called the play in the huddle a regional school Ready’s lost to at to They yean few moments earlier Duke in the Southeast in 1994 “That play usually cornea off when we screen and rePeterson riammad down with left giving Spartans a to 2-0- 3 - to for-su- re int r-7 to to Ready said “You know it is and if that bothen a coach he probably ought to get out of iL” BoilerThe Badgen beat to makers three consecutive times after losing at Purdue early in to conference season When it was over as the band blared the old fight song “On Wisconsin’’ Badgers players and fans rushed to to center of the court Three players jumped on a courtside table in front of a large section of shrieking Wisconsin '"w AP photo fans The table cbllapsed Purdue coach Gene Keady watches In the final minute as foe sending the players onto the Boilermakers lose to Wisconsin 0 in the NCAA West Regional 64-6- court bit no one was hurt final Saturday in Afouruetque NM screen’’ Izzo explained “Morris said ’What do you think about screen and rescreen?’ and I said it sounded Now three-fourt- hs to 21214 fans over of them wearing green and white could sense the dream had been revived “That really turned the whole thing around" Cyclones guard Kantrail Horton said “That was great exe- cution" Peterson hit four free throws and Cleaves made one down stretch while to Cyclones — hurrying their shots now — to began to fire wildly' until since-di- e to half i - r TPC year not to see Tiger or DuvaL but to see No 17 Confirmed from Page 13 back of green and another even larger running down left side of hole Brian Southerland woke up at 330 am Saturday and drove two hours from Daytona Beach to sit at No 17 He and his friend Mike Harrison showed up at the island at 9 am to fetch one of few remaining prime seats right behind ropes They set up camp same There’s a huge hill in the Yet it seems so simple At 137 yards it’s the short- est hole on the course It’s On tardy mote tom ah any calm day when a $6 milium purse isn’t up for grabs no pro would think twice on about smoothing a pitch onto foot green “It was something to cherish just a special moment you to “Wejusttry to play great if that gets you to the Final Four great’! basketball and er things happen throughout the game” Fizer said “We also made a lot of mistakes That team right there is playing to be national champs” The Spartans who have won three straight Big Ten champi-onships will face conference rival Wisconsin in the national 4:01 Mateen Cleaves who had only one assist to that point threw bas-could- 69-64a- -- Quickly Dixon called a technical and that just incited Eustachy even more He was out on the floor push-- : ing players away appearing to make contact with Basone Quickly he drew another tedinical In an instant the coach was gone Moments later so was the game “The first technical foul was for excessive demonstration and cun- -' ing” Shaw said “The second technical was for coming out on the floor and being outside the coaching box ' “We don’t have any Choice It was done strictly by the book” Afterwards Eustachy was contrite “Officiating is part of the game and you’ve got to play through it whatever it is” he said “You’ve got to play with what you’re dealt” 90-by-- may never have again” Azinger said He was one of the few to enjoy his experience Through three rounds the hole was playing at an average of 3339 strokes third most difficult on the course Nineteen play- ers had recorded triple bogey or worse Omar Ufesti had a quadruple bogey Saturday and fell from second place to 28th “It’s a very unique hole” Ben Crenshaw said “I think it’s a fair green It’s just that there’a a very tough penalty for missing" And that is breMfs to reason No 17 has a culture of its own to to to to to to to three hours before the first group arrived and planned to stay until to bitter end “This is probably most famous hole in golf” Harrison said “You want to watch this one and just see if they can keep it on there” Through two days a total of 65 balls had gone-ithe 45 to lagoon compared through all four rounds last to n year The reason was the swirling winds The winds died down Saturday and only 11 balls went in But course can make for that managers up to They’ll just (dace pin in a more difficult location to The target for Sunday’a round will be “kiddie-poit wasn’t even Originally Tom Lehman who said size” be to an island supposed Things changed when to sand enters the final day in third surrounding to area that is now (dace “You have to go at that the green was used to build pin in order to get it dose But other fairways Course designer you can’t go too far left” Or you could end up like Pete Dye struggled with design ol ideas until his wife Alice suggested an island green island could be Now most recognizable golf hole in world It has its own web site its own and its own fans Thousands of people come to this tournament each to to to rts Jazz Confirmed Ikon Page 13 Jan 26 Despite shooting 27 percent from the field in the first half Vancouver was tied at the break and led 7 after three quarters “We were in the ballgame” 68-6- Scott Gump who hit his tee shot at No 17 too final-rou- nd far last year and watched to helplessly as it landed in water His closest competition DuvaL smoothed a wedge to within six feet and made birdie to 1 Midlead atop west Division Notes: The Grizzlies played their first game without forward Grant Long who was lost for the season when he cracked a bone in his right hand Thursday The Grizzlies began play Saturday with 175 lost to injury this man-gam- 4w " i 4to:H ‘11 toil &M I I ia flSla MS'I A h fjl 11' it:!' 411 iii n ijilu l ii to tr tii'iA - yen V ini ! ii (! m i lUtitui i ' 1 ' 4itdi 5fl ' ''Otfii 4ii ilf: Ml 1 I es season Utah’s total: Nine games “Look at the games Vancouver coach Lionel we’ve missed" Sloan said Hollins said “I thought it wu “Some of these guys (in the a good opportunity to get me NBA) get a sprained ankle and rt but we made some crucial it’s like they’ve had turnovers in the fourth as we surgery” Olden Polynice -were trying to get back” with 11 matched a season-hig- h open-hea- The win maintained Utah’s 3 3 an 411 iViqNi:iairirv points for Utah I i4nai KSB& |