Show B4 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday March 25 2003 Round Continued fromBl No 2 Pittsburgh vs No 3 Marquette — The Panthers won twice with their defense as they always seem to do The Golden Eagles struggled with Holy Cross in the first round and pulled away in overtime to beat Missouri Pittsburgh’s Julius Page is one of the best defenders in the country and his matchup against Dwyane Wade or Travis Diener will be worth watching! would Kentucky-Pittsburg- h be the best of the regional finals and fans of defense will get their wish an man-to-m- seed to lose when they went the extra 10 minutes to beat Gonzaga Notre Dame came up with its best defensive effort in a while to beat Illi' nois after escaping the first round when Dylan Page of Wisconsin-Milwaukmissed a layup at the buzzer No 2 Kansas vs No 3 Duke — Neither team looked great in the first round and both were much more impreswins sive in second-roun- d over Arizona State and Cen- tral Michigan Arizona-Kanswas one of the more interesting regular-seaso- n games with the Wildcats rallying from a big deficit to win on the toad The rematch in the regional final has the potential for another classic ee as SOUTH REGIONAL WEST REGIONAL - No 1 Arizona vs No 5 Notre Dame — The Wildcats avoided being the only top No 1 Texas vs No 3 Con- necticut — The Longhorns have one of the best guards in TJ Ford The Huskies have one of the best big men in for the Soooen so far hasn’t been the opponent but Hollis Etneka Okafor This game will come down to supporting casts No 6 Maryland vs No 7 Michigan State — The Terrapins advanced to the second round with fee most exciting play of the first round Drew Nicholas’ running 3 at the Price’s groin injury His health will decide if Oklahoma can get to the Final Four fbr a second straight year The Bulldogs beat two good defensive teams to reach the round of 16 The way they shoot 3s causes worry for even a good perimeter defensive team like Oklahoma No 3 Syracuse vs No 10 Auburn — The Orangemen advanced behind their three freshmen and a bench that is suddenly contributing The Tigers spurred by foe play of Marquis Daniels and criticism over their tournament selection won two games most thought they shouldn’t have buzzer to beat North Catolina-Wilmingt- on The Spartans looked as good as they have all season in beating second- seeded Florida by 22 points in the second round Connecticut and Maryland had the best of last year’s regional finals with the Terrapins going on to win the national championship The rematch will be great even if it’s half as good as the one in the Carrier Dome last March EAST REGIONAL 1 Oklahoma vs No No Butler 12 — The biggest concern “do themselves an enormous favor” if they used foe type of thirds of all basketball players —Only six schools graduated at least 30 percent of all basketball players and seven Continued from B1 graduated at least half of their Michael from Boston College black players Men’s basketball where 37 “They can stereotype us all they want but the bottom line percent of the players are black is our kids are graduating” has the worst graduation rates of all college spots Lapchick said Calling the results “disturbwith 58 of the 328 Division I ing" the study by Richard the Institute for of teams failing to graduate a sinLapchick Diversity and Ethics in Sport gle black player in six years at the University of Central “It is a nightmare waiting to Florida found: be fixed” said Lapchick one —Five of the 16 teams had of thenation’s leading sports graduation rates a third to a half sociologists lower than the school’s overall The study lends support to athletic graduation rates NCAA president Myles Brand's — Six schools had graduation drive to reward or punish schools by tying the number of rales for black basketball play' ers a third to scholarships to graduation rates '' “It confirms what we’ve lower than overall athletic rates — Only three schools — known for some time” Brand said “It shows why we need Butler Duke and Kansas — of to take steps in order to corgraduated at least two-thirrect the situation through a their black basketball players clear and fair policy of incenwhile just those and two others — Marquette and Notre Dame tives and disincentives!" ! — graduated at least two- Lapchick said schools would system Brand favors “I think he’s got a moment in time where there have been enough scandals happening to try to mobilize college presidents to say this is an embarrassment to us as a group We have this window here let’s use it to do something real “The challenge is that there are going to be a lot of powerful coaches who will argue that this would deny opportunities particularly to African-Americstudents who wouldn't be able to come to their schools under a system like that" Lapchick said that under Brand’s plan those players who did go to college would be more likely to graduate Lapchick also favored making freshmen ineligible to play saying they often fall behind in the classroom and have trouble catching up “If freshmen were ineligible you also wouldn’t have kids to put the Jazz up by three Harpring added another jumper in the lane and hit two free throws with nine-tenfof a second left “Matt came up and made a couple great shots” said Stoickton who fed Harpring in the lane for his second jumper “Guys need to set good screens and that’s what you saw those last two plays!” The Jazz made their first six shots of the third quarter starting the period with a 15-- 3 run They led 73-6- 8 entering the fourth Notes: The game was delayed twice in the first quarter when the shot clock in front of the Celtics' bench went out Utah center Greg Ostertag fouled out midway through foe fourth quarter He also drew a technical with 7:43 to go after The Celtics arguing a call dropped to 38-3- 3 — the first time they were just five games above 300 since a loss to Seattle on Feb 5 Rates three-quarte- rs Jazz Continued from os B1 didn't score made a Bremer until JR again in the final seconds after the Jazz had sealed it Andrei Kirilenko started an 0 Utah run with two free : throws that tied it 88-a- ll with ' 2:38 left Kirilenko added 'another free throw then Harpring hit a jumper left but Boston 8-- : 21-fo- ot Twist Continued from B1 “If weather cooperates and you don’t have to move games around I think it's a great idea” Thome said ' Added Hansen: “I just hope it's decent weather for it If we get some games backed up it might be tough” It could be difficult if daylight runs out as well an There is no reason why foe Mustangs can’t vie for their fifth straight region crown this ! season ' “That is definitely one of our goals to go out and win region” Hansen said “We’d like to keep that string going It’s gonna be pretty tough this year “But yeah we’d like to do it” Senior Ryan Zimmertpan who has already committed to play football and baseball at Soulherti Utah in Cedar City leads the Mountain Crest players coming back Zimmerman was the Player of the1 Year in 2002as he recorded a 9-- 2 record for the Slangs to go along with an incredible 066 ERA and 1 15 strikeouts Joining Zimmerman on the hill for the Slangs this year will be Nick Eliason and Casey Jorgensen “Our pitching's gonna be pretty deep” Hansen noted “We’ve got three quality played Only four of 21 double-dig- it seeds to reach the round of 16 over the last five years made the regional final The two surprise runs will end here as well Who are going there to play for a year or two and then turn pro because they wouldn't waste a year sitting around until they became eligible” he said “You’d get people who are really committed to playing in college” Low graduation rates reflect poorly not only on the colleges and coaches Lapchick said but on the Whole education system Black students from urban schools in general are less prepared for col- lege level work he said “It’s a whole chain here” he said “There are a lot of people in our schools too many who think they’re doing young people a favor by promoting them from grade to grade believing the dream that this kid is so talented that he’s going to make it into the pros The odds remain staggeringly against a high school athlete getting a college scholarship let alone a career in the pros” Collegehall to get three football greats SOUTH BEND Ind (AP) — Joe Theismann was headed to North Carolina State before he changed his mind and chose Notre Dame “I just felt like this is where I belong” the Fighting Irish quarterback said after being selected to the College Football Hall of Fame on Monday Running backs Barry Sanders and Ricky Bell also made the hall along with eight other former college Stars and former coaches Hayden Fry and Doug Dickey Theismann was in South Bend for foe announcement and said his selection “was something very unexpected” “It was very emotional for me” Theismann who played at Notre Dame from 1968-7- 0 Theismann recalled arriving on campus as a 147-pou- nd freshman and being picked up by assistant coaches Joe Yonto and John Ray “As I stepped down the stairs Joe Yonto turned to Johnny Ray and said 'That’s that Theismann ldd foe quarterback’ “He looked at me end said 'You mean the guy who is going to be our water boy?”’ Theismann turned out to be another in a long line of Fighting Irish stars He took over in the eighth game of his sophomore season after Terry Han-rat- ty was injured in practice and led the Irish to two wins and a tie Theismann was second to Jim Plunkett in the 1970 Heis-ma- n voting “It was a great time in Notre Dmne football” Theismann said “I think we’re getting real dose to having foe opportunity to have that feeling back” Theismann threw for 441 1 yards and 31 touchdowns and ranked second in school histof ry in passing when he was done He set 19 school records and ranks seventh on Notre ! Dame's passing list Nothing in pro football ever matched foe thrill of playing for Notre Dame Theismann said “What’s at stake is pride and you really play for foe people” he said Sanders won foe 1988 Heis-ma-n TYophy while playing for Oklahoma State and became one of the NFL's best running backs with the Detroit Lions before his abrupt retirement prior to the 1999 season The Sanders who ran fix' a record 2628 yards in 1988 set or tied 24 NCAA marks at Oklahoma State In three years with foe Cowboys Sanders had 3797 yards and 55 touchdowns Bell who starred at South- ern California in the was a He led the nation in rushing in 1975 with 1957 yards and finished second in the ’76 Heisman balloting behind Tony Dorsett Bell died in 1984 at 29 of cardiac arrest brought on by rare skin and muscle disease Fry was a head coach for 37 years the last 20 at Iowa before retiring in 1998 He also coached 11 seasons at SMU and six at North Texas State posting a record of at the three schools -- all-ti- 175-pou- nd mid-197- 0s two-tim- e an 232-188-- All-Vall- ey “Yeah the ideal thing would have been to not have to play the douhleheader and play like ’’ Hansen said a Thursday Friday Saturday “Or let us start it a little bit earlier “I’m hoping it’s gonna be OK” It should be Grizzlies want a shot at region title Markworth said he wants his Grizzlies to compete for a region championship With the team he's got this season that Could he an attainable goal Of the nine starters Logan fields seven are ‘ seniors Markworth lot of have a “We experience" noted ' Especially on the riiound Senior Tyson Harris should anchor the pitchon last year's ing staff A Team Harris boasted a 246 ERA in region games going 4-- 2 with 28 strikeouts Logan will also count on pitchers Justin Kohler and Baxter Knitsch among others “You’re gonna have to find at least three good solid pitchers" Markworth said ‘‘Baxter Knitsch is another guy that threw for us last year and then we also have Riley Olsen who pitched for us last year “And then we have a good crop of juniors We have Braden Brown who throws really well We have Dallas Larsen Bob Winder and we even have some sophomores like Nate Romrcll Pat Monday — some kids who can give us some spot relief work” The Grizzlies will also count on field players starter such as Jimmy Schmidt — a three-ye— first baseman Joey Lee and catcher Greg Palmer Markworth said the key to winning the region will be for Logan to take two of three games from the teams it should beat and then steal some from the teams at the top ' first-team- All-Vall- ey er : ar Mustangs going for fifth straight MC has won four straight region championships but has shared the last two league ' titles with Roy Derek Lyle an last year should be a quality reliever for Mountain Crest as well Besides his pitching staff Hansen is expecting alot out of Brady Pond Maurisio Ayala Tom Holland and Kyle Hamilton to name just a few All-Vall- ey first-team- Herald Journal er High expectations for Bobcats View lost just three seniors off last Sky year’s team meaning expectations are pretty high in Smithfield according to Thorne The players — Todd Barr Preston Perkes and Chase Sorensen — Sky View has to replace could be a daunting task though “I was looking at that” Thorne said “We lost three seniors last year that basically accounted for 80 percent of our total offense Todd was responsible for a lot of that “It’s pretty tough to replace those guys” - 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