Show V yraaLmjlaiK:-rFkP'- a' Y 1 The Salt Lake Tribune Player Shows Huskies Way to Sweet 16 Ex-Hockey THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Richmonds final 16 dreams weren't as big as center Todd MaeCulioch In a throwback to the days when the big man was the only man the former high school hockey player from Canada had 31 points 18 re- bounds and thoroughly dominated the game as Washington beat Richmond in the East Regional on Saturday to advance past the NCAAs second round for the first time since 1984 MaeCulioch gave up hockey in part because he wasnt the physical type but his imposing presence left the Spiders searching for answers that never came He fought off double teams to make 14 of 24 shots from the field and finished with only six fewer rebounds than the entire Richmond team MEN'S EAST was the first major upset of the tournament MacCuiloch ruled from the opening tipoff with 10 and six rebounds in points the first seven minutes Eleventh-seede- d 6 74-7- 18 fourth-seede- Hoosiers Richard Hamilton scored 23 points and Khalid had 22 points and eight assists for the second-seedeHuskies who trailed by eight points in the first half and by five at halftime 14th-seede- one-poi- 15 1998 C9 Brief Defensive Spurt Turns Tide for Arizona THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SACRAMENTO til the final six minutes of the game hit a game-tyinjumper and six free throws down the stretch as Maryland held off an Illinois in the West Regional nessee in Thursday's finst Vowing to pound the ball round inside Maryland instead Simon hit a layup with turned to the outside shoot1:16 gone in the half and ing of Sarunas Jasikevicius Bennett Davison scored on a who scored 20 points and tip-ithen the Wildcats Rodney Elliott who added stole an inbounds pass and 16 to overcome Illinois Simon converted it into a muscular play t led by as play Arizona Maryland forced another turnover many as 13 points in the first and Bibby hit a jumper from half and early in the the foul line second half But the brawny Then came another ArizoIllini worked their na steal and another and way back to tie the game for another Then a the first time with 7:36 to go then took their by Bibby Then another turnover by Illinois State first lead on Kevin Turners r and a dunk by Arizonas A J Bramlett that gave the WildMaryland tied it and recats a lead with 3:46 took the lead but Illinois gone in the half stayed with the Terps and tied it three more times ILLINOIS STATE (254) Hill 4 40 9 Jarrod Gee had 14 points Watkins 34 8 Hanrell 04 10 Cattail 412 and 13 rebounds for Illinois Hotastrom 4 40 0 y 40 40 0 Staler 40 MEN'S CaUf While other teams brag about 40 minutes of hell Arizona needed just 2Vi minutes of suffocating defensive pressure to turn a tie game into a second-rounrout of Illinois State in the West Regional The Wildcats forced six turnovers during a 15-- run early in the second half of their win Saturday over the Redbirds a victory that sent the defending national champions to a d game against Maryland Miles Simon had 19 points and Mike Bibby added 19 points and seven assists as Arizona (29-4- ) reached the round of 16 for the seventh time in the last 1 1 years Michael Dickerson added 14 points for the Wildcats Dan Muller had 17 points WEST n 0 82-4- three-poin- third-roun- for Illinois State (25-6- (21-1- 41-2- 9 (23-1- three-point- 49-4- 9 three-pointe- 47-3- 2 ) 17 which has never advanced past the second round in the NCAA Tournament Arkansas boasts about its 40 minutes of hell and other teams pomt to their game-lon- g defensive pressure Arizona simply compressed that kind of intensity into a devastating display early in the second half After the Redbirds tied it on Muller's just after halftime the Arizona press took over against an Illinois State team still exhausted from an overtime win against Ten- 32-3- 2 g 1 1 40 0 Crowley Vehea 41 40 48 49 Sanl-- 40 40 42 40 0 Hem 0 Van 40 A Tunis 1482 0 Gibbons ARIZONA Davison 40 2 Dicker 415 00 14 Bramlett 44 14 9 Bibby 412 47 19 Simon 19 faitar 41 40 0 Harm 421-2Tebis 40 3 Wessel 40 2 Terry 40 11 2 Jeokus Edgereon 00 0 Stewart 01 000 Totals 3147 IMS 81 Halftone Aruona 30 Illinois State 27 Poto (teals Illinois State Hill (Muller Cartmill Hansell Holrastrom Hem 01) Arizona 027 (Terry Tebbs Simon Pastner Bibby 01) 0 three-point- MARYLAND 67 ILLINOIS 61 SACRAMENTO Calif Obinna Ekezie scoreless un- - ILLINOIS Hestcr6-115 Johnson 00 10 Gee 09 14 HeMman 9 Turner 00 10 Chukwudebe 00 00 0 Davis 01 0 McClain 3 Totals 0 44 61 MARYLAND ProfA 9 Elliott 04 16 Ekerel-8 Stokes 00 10 Jaakeviaus 20 Kovank 00 2 Mardeach 00 2 Moms 3 00 0 Totals 67 Halftime Maryland 35 IUinots 27 Goals flhnois (Heldman Turner Hester Davis01 McClain 01) Maryland 17 tJasikeviaus Stokes 2 7 Moms 01 Profit 02 Elbott 03) 0 0 W VIRGINIA 75 CINCINNATI 74 BOISE Idaho Of course the hero for West Virginia would be a guard named West Jarrod West banked in his fifth of the s of a game with second to play as the Mountaineers the No 10 seed in the West stunned No 2 seed Cincinnati It was the first time that West Virginia had won two NCAA games in a row since 1959 when Jerry West led the Mountaineers to the championship game Thirty-nin- e years later it was another West who brought down the mighty Bearcats just as Cincinnati's DJuan Baker seemed to have pulled his team from for the second consecutive game r Baker whose with 36 seconds left gave 2 Cincinnati a win over Northern Arizona hit two of them in the last 1:02 Saturday His second one put the Bearcats on top ) with 71 seconds remaining West Virginia en) tered the tournament on a e losing streak three-point- eight-tenth- near-disast- three-pointe- 65-6- first-roun- d 74-7- 2 (27-6- (24-8- three-gam- WEST VIRGINIA Owens 013 Soineun 00 10 Lewtn 8 Pledger 10 West 09 0 15 Gorce 4 10 Kearee 01 ! Bevnon 00 0 0 0 Jones 01 7 Total 71 CINCINNATI 274 Patterson 016 25 Braonen 01) 11 13 Martin 01 6 Baker 014 25 Horton 150 2 2 Levett (M Fletcher 02 000 Myrlrh 2 Petrus 00 000 Total 74 Halftime West Virginia 34 Cincinnati 33 Goals West Virginia 014 iWest Jones Pledger 01) Cincinnati 0 3 Baker 8 Horton 01 Patterson 02 Lerett 02) It til 0 21 d (22-7- d (23-8- 0 9 ter rallying to beat the Sunday March d 40 4 Httbos 45 40 Carolina-Chnrlott- WASHINGTON Connecticut will be taking another trip to the final 16 af- n MICHIGAN 8TATT ) Smith 34 22 8 Has 24 1 (W) INDIANA 88 Wash- (1741 Kreujto 14 41 4 Lnran 418 41 18 Goraiirt 714 45 10 Bill 413 40 IS Hodcr- 24 8 Wlttflfl 40 40 4 Beta 40 40 0 Rem 40 40 0 Irak 34M 418 M 6 U CONN 78 ington (20-9- ) which beat No 7 seed Xavier in the first round reached the mark for the first time since the 1986-8- 7 season Jarod Stevenson scored 21 points to lead d Richmond whose jubilant ) victory over No 3 South Carolina on Thursday PRINCXTON 6 36-2- 9 64-4- 8 the best In school history and the longest In the nation and It came on a day when the Tigers had one of their worst shooting games ' of the season 0 - 17 winding street 11th-seede- d RICHMOND Stevenson 21 PUnck 40 40 0 Poole 10 Brown 49 40 8 Baker 411 40 10 Caeto 012-2Obrer Philips 2 Kauffman 04000 Houston 003 Henael Totals 2543 418 M WASHINGTON (209) Luton 6 10 18 Green MseCnllodl 1424 34 31 Wooten OO 2 Walla 34 9 Mont 04 0 Dtckau 4 2 Thompson 00 2 Verrhuerea (Ml 0 Femeriog Jchnsot 04 0 Brown (M (W) 0 Wakott 1 2 5 Totals HMstiN 81 36 Richmond 20 Goals Richmond (Stewuon Brown Baker Houston Cueto Oliver Green Washington (uton Mont Dtckau Johnson Wooten points in the first 10 minutes of the second half including nine in a row as the Huskies turned a halftime lead into a advantage with 9:56 to play and coasted the rest of the way ton'i 27 Bdl 8 Ttamm 41 bring a winning 8Ctara41364 Dkva40400 Prareon4144Granrer streak into the East Region- 400 41 2 2 2 Wile 48 40 6 Took 2449 1419 42 al semifinal against Hkttdnie MidugttStte33 PnDcetixiS! 4 Gwb 'Jirl 410 Lewub Washington on Peta ta 14 Gtmdnch 14 Mtttkgho 44) Nbdugu Thursday Connecticut's 31 State 44 (Oares 45 Bell 11 Ktan 41 wins matches the school record set by the 1989-9team the first under Coach N CAROLINA 93 Jim Calhoun to reach the 83 NCAA Tournament HARTFORD Conn Calhoun is 15-- in seven NCAA appearances at This is why North Carolina avoided its neighbor from UConn Charlotte all these years INDIANA (3412) The and Recter Gladness Patterson 23 Jimeoet 417 (HI 3 Goto Tar Heels needed 44 17 Miller 7 Lews 5 SKbardsoa overtime to defeat North Total e CONNECTICUT in the ) freeman 10 Hamilton 23 schools first meeting and 24 12 Moore 5 advance into the East ReJooes 04 iKlaber Hantoett 0 Wane 2 Totals 241 78 gional semifinals Halftime Indiana 41 Connecticut 36 3 North Carolina (32-3- ) Pehn Goals Indiana (Milter Jimena Lewis Rearer Patterson Guyton UNCC 19-in overConnecticut 20 (Hamilton time after the 49ers tied the Moore 4 score in regulation on Diego Guevara's leaning MICHIGAN ST 63 with 29 seconds PRINCETON 56 left HARTFORD Conn It North Carolina advanced took an impressive perforto Its 16th regional semifimance from the Big Ten nals In 18 years Shammond player of the year and some Williams led the Tar Heels solid defense from Michigan with 32 points and Antawn State for it to advance to the Jamison shut down for most third round of the NCAA of the game scored six of his Tournament and end the 19 points In overtime best season in Princeton's NORTH CASOUNA CHARLOnt (1411) 23 Shaw Johnson 0 Price 2 history 8 Cobon HUJ0 Young The Spar4 Toomaa 6 Guevara M 00 16 2 tans ) rode the 27 Toilivor 00 OO 0 Tttab 13 NORTH CAROLINA 214) points nine rebounds and CtulrJa SO SO 10 Cartar 15 34 Ndtaya five assists of sophomore 00 4 Sh WtilUm 1014 60 32 Cota 042-OO 2 Jimlsoo 018 19 guard Mateen Cleaves to a 2 Haywood 3104 2126 2 victory over the North Carolina 32 ) in the East Gab UNCC 026 Tigers Colson Guevara Thomas Johnson Regional M Yoons 02 Hill 03) hhC 1020 The loss snapped Prince- 09Outa SO Okttlkja Richmond tried to guard him with Eric Poole who is 4 inches shorter and 55 pounds lighter and Nick Patrick who gave up five inches and 65 pounds 81-6- 6 MaeCulioch scored before coming back to win The Huskies (31-4- ) will COLLEGE BASKETBALL fifth-seede- d (27-2- r s Midwest Will Get Defensive in Todays 2nd Round THE ASSOCIATED PRESS d Kansas (35-3- ) couldnt help itself in destroying No 16 seed Prairie View A&M 110-5Now the Jayhawks play No 8 seed Rhode Island (23-8- ) which averaged 77 per game before Friday Mississippi played Into our hands yesterday" Rhode Island forward Antonio Reynolds-Deasaid Saturday "Kansas will slow it down because weve got quick guards" Kansas point guard Ryan Robertson disagreed "The last thing we want to do Is slow it down and have a halfcourt battle he said Wed be dumb not to utilize some of our speed and some of the finishers we have At the other end of the floor Kansas will present a much tougher de OKLAHOMA CITY No 2 Kansas scored 110 points in the first round of the Midwest Regional more than any Jayhawks team ever in the NCAA tournament Florida State scored a season-hig96 in its victory over Texas Christian Rhode Island went up and down the floor aU night in scoring a season-hig97 against Murray State Only Valparaiso held form The Crusaders needed Bryce Drews dramatic mark just to reach the against Mississippi could look Uke more Todays games that one because the points will almost certainly be tougher to come by h first-roun- d n h three-point- game-winnin- g fense than the Rams saw against Murray State Rhode Island shot 60 percent in the second half and 55 percent overall in a game that looked Uke something off the playground Kansas limited Prairie View to 23 percent shooting and for the year is holding opponents to 40 percent Reynolds-Deaand Luther Clay give the Rams two good rebounders in the frontcourt and the backcourt of Tyson Wheeler and CutUno Mobley is outstanding "Usually you can say Hes a driver give him room or Hes a shooter so get up on him Kansas Coach Roy Williams said "But with these kids you dont have that luxury because they are so versatile and can do so many things 2 n Air conditioning leasing le Side-impa- protection and Reduced Force Air Bags Saturn SL Three-co- paint job 19-lit- Torque-heav- y engine Long-lastin- g Stainless steel exhaust steel timing chain 26 psi of fresh Tennessee air Dent-resista- polymer bodyside panels Steel spaceframe with crumple zones BFGaotkichf H&IEKgBtiHiLQEX! 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