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Show Daily Utah Chronicle 10 Thursday, March 24, 2005 Knight heads to i Utah's Josh Cooper slings one into play at Ute Field March 8. Cooper will look to slow down a torrid Cougar attack this weekend. BASEBALL continued from page 7 have chances to win." The Cougars are the type of team that can take advantage of holes in a pitching rotation, with a very explosive offense. BYU scored 13 runs in their last game against UVSC and have put up big numbers throughout the year. The Cougars put up 22 runs against New Mexico State and 15 in an earlier game against UVSC. Most of the players in the Cougar batting order are hitting at least .300. Sean McNauhgton leads the team with eight home runs and has also driven in 22. Bran Taylor leads the team in RBI with 26 and Casey Nelson leads the team with a .425 batting average. As a team, the Cougars are batting .329 and will be more than a good test for the Utes pitchers this weekend. Game one will be tonight at 7 p.m. Game two will be Friday at 7 p.m., while the final game of the series is on Saturday at 1 p.m. akudiya@ chronicle.utah.edu Words off Wisdom The Chronicle loves to receive reader mail. Give us a piece of your mind and send a letter to the editor. letters@chronicle.utah.edu In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is. -Chuck Reid ••1 PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE AN AGENT-WHO TAKES CARE OF THEM? CALL ME FOR A FREE PROTECTION REVIEW. JOHN THOMAS 582-6600 231 SOUTH 1300 EAST (I /2 block off campus) f l BioLife PLASMA SERVICES § Help Save a Life! Donate Plasma Today. Receive $45 each week. Call 801-363-7697 609 S. State, SLC,UT 84111 www.biolifeplasma.com Bring in this ad for a $5 bonus. (New Donors Only Please) /instate Specials Daily From 4pm to 8pm You're in good hands. Allstate Property and Casualty Company, Northbrook, Illinois. ©2000 Allstate Insurance Company 2182 So. Highland Dr 484-9467 Mon: Pizza & Pitcher $10 Tues: $1.50 Drinks Wed: Pizza & Pitcher $10 Thur: $1.50 Drinks Fri: Fun, Fun, Fun! Sat: 'U1 Game Day Must be 21 to enter it TV S c r e e n G r e a t r o o d , B f v e r a j * o f. • MAGIC: T H E GATHERING • * GAMES WORKSHOP • • | • • ROLE-PLAYING GAMES • • ONLINE COMPUTER GAMING STORE HOURS: MONDAY - THURSDAY 1 1AM TO 1OPM FRIDAY 1 1 AM TO M I D N I G H T SATURDAY IOAM TO M I D N I G H T SUNDAY NOON TO 5PM QU N.M. — tournament field and how the • There's stil^plenty of bite left Red Raiders, like the Mounin Bob Kjii&ht; even without taineers, have overachieved in getting this far. the bulhfrhip. \ '•. Knight, in tiro regional, semi"Nobody picked this team finals for the first time since higher than seventh in the Big 1994 and tryjhg td get .Texas 12 and no one picked them to Tech to jhe round of ^igftt for go to the NCAA tournament," the first time, wasted naUime Knight said. "Getting into this putting ths; censors-to i^ork tournament is the culmination Wednesday. v ; ^ j '" ••" of a lot of work. Anything you •••AsvJjSiSght tqpk to the.$odi- can do from that point on just 'urn for a news^confererice.-'h'e adds to it." t6ok a few good-narujqjjsfcrTexas Tech beat UCLA 78bal jabs afr'an-itfCAA'mt^^Era- 66 and Gonzaga 71-69 to reach tor. The coach callediS'e'iriod- the round of 16. Guard Ronald erator a tough guy "vWtl^a lot Ross, a former walk-on, has of rules, sprinkling a couple of emerged as the Red Raiders' expletives in along jthe >¥§&« leader. He scored 24 points, Sixth-seeded.TeiaVTecirRS- including a 3-pointer with 1:06 10) plays seventh-seeded West left that put Tech in front for Virginia (23-10).on Thursday good in the win over Gonzanight, featuring two teams ttiat ga. started the NCAA tournament Ross said the Red Raiders with modest expectations and are a collection of role players now are a two wins away from who find a way to win. the Final Four. "Everybody on our team The winner will play ei- is good at certain kinds of ther Washington or Louis- things," Ross said. ville on Saturday, and there is Ross has become one of the tantalizing possibility of Knight's favorite players, but a matchup between slick and in this case, he differed with stylish Rick Pitino and Knight, his guard on the idea that a coaching icon of a whole dif- Knight is a master at turning ferent sort. role players into winners. Wearing a purple sweater "That may be, but I'd rather and taking a swipe at the recruit five Michael Jordans — NCAA for making him drink see if I could get five Michael out of o n e of its specially Jordans and let them define sponsored paper cups, Knight their own roles," said Knight. was his usual contentious self West Virginia is in the during his 15 minutes on the round of 16 for the first time podium. He took his custom- since 1998 and a win over the ary pokes at the media and Red Raiders would give the questioned why anyone would Mountaineers their deepest think his best years were fee- run into the tournament since hind him. ' • •.•.;'•£..£' Jerry West led the school to a Of course, this was pow- runner-up finish behind Calider-puff stuff compared to the fornia in 1959. show he put on here 13 years Unlike Knight, who is makago. ing his 27th appearance in the Knight brought Indiana to tournament, West Virginia The Pit in 1992 for an NCAA coach John Beilein is not a tournament game against regular. This is just his third Florida State and stirred in- trip. Nor is Beilein anywhere stant turmoil by "jokingly" near the celebrity as the guy raking a bullwhip — which he'll face Thursday. The West he described as the best mo- Virginia coach's news confertivational tool ever invented ence was about half as full as — across the butt of Hoosiers Knight's. guard Calbert Chaney during "We are fortunate to be a practice session. here," said Beilein, whose During an earlier press con- team beat Creighton by two ference, Knight had asked for in the first round, then needa glass of water so he could ed double overtime to defeat dip the tip of the whip. Hurts Wake Forest in the second. "A more when it's wet and cold, bounce of a ball or an official's call could have changed the he said. Chaney, who is black, said at outcome of the game." the time that he and some of The Mountaineers opened the other Hoosiers bought the the season with 10 straight whip for Knight as.a joke,-but wins, then hit a slump in the the escapade produced more Big East season. It got so bad, than 100 telephoned com- Beilein considered going with plaints to the local NAACP younger players and looking chapter. to next season. This time, there were no vi"Nobody believed in each sual aids. At practice, he sat other, but all we needed was a' calmly, legs folded, and barely win," Beilein said. said a word. At the news conThat win came at Proviference, he had his moments, dence (82-78) in late January but nothing out of control. and since then the MountainHe mostly talked about how eers are 11-4. tough it is to make the NCAA The Associated Press VICK ing and said he feels confident that the mistakes are in continued from page 8 the past. sophomores Sean Glennon "Marcus is a good person and Cory Holt listed ahead of who made a couple of queshim, but said he hopes to earn tionable decisions," said the job in workouts. 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