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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, March 30, 2000
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Matt Doherty's Irish to play in NIT final
NEW YORK — After years of studying under some of the top coaches in college basketball, Notre Dame's Matt Doherty is prepared for his most difficult test.
The Associated Press
The Irish play Wake Forest in the National Invitation Tournament final at Madison Square Garden tonight — the schools' first meeting in basketball.
"Playing an ACC team brings back good memories for me," Doherty said yesterday. "But I want to create new memories."
Doherty played for Dean Smith at North Carolina from 1980 to 1984 and was a starter for the Tar Heels' 1982 NCAA championship team. He later spent seven seasons as Roy Williams' assistant at Kansas.
"About 75 to 90 percent of how I am comes from Dean Smith and Roy Williams," the first-year coach said. "But I've sprinkled my own personality into the team."
The Irish (22-14) have used a tough, physical style of play, combined with a stifling zone defense to get to their fourth NIT final, and first since losing to Virginia in 1992.
Doherty was frustrated when the Irish weren't selected to play in the
term what he "I'm excited to be in the NIT, and I wouldn't trade a first-round loss in the NCAs for a shot at at play for the NIT championship," Doherty said.
NCAA tournament, but he is content with his team's situation.
The trip to New York City has been something of a homecoming for Doherty, who was a McDonald's All-American at Holy Trinity High School in Hicksville, N.Y. He had a large contingent of family and friends on hand for Notre Dame's 73-52 rout of Penn State on Tuesday night.
"This is a business trip for me, but I have to say that standing at center court during warmups. I saw people I haven't seen since eighth grade." Doherty said. "People were waving and calling me, and that's really nice. But I haven't had a chance to relax yet. I'll be able to relax after Thursday night's game."
Notre Dame beat Michigan 75-65, Xavier 76-64 and Brigham Young 64-52, all at home, to get to Madison Square Garden. The Irish got 18 points and eight rebounds from Troy Murphy, and held Penn State to just 33 percent shooting.
Doherty doesn't expect it to be as easy against Wake Forest (21-14).
which uses three 6-foot-9 players — forward Darius Songa, center Rafael Vaidrureta and backup Josh Shoemaker — to dominate the boards. At 6-9, Murphy is the only Notre Dame starter taller than 6-6.
peers, and we will show how that goes against our zone."
Doherty: Hopes to end his first season with a win.
The status of Notre Dame starting point guard Jimmy Dillon, who sprained his left ankle Tuesday night, is also a question.
"His ankle's pretty bad, and it's being treated," Doberty said. "But we don't know at this time whether he'll be able to play or not."
the Demon Deacons outrebounded ACC rival North Carolina State 46-31 and held it to 29.5 percent
shooting (18-for-61) in their 62-59
overture victory in the semifinals
Despite the win, Demon Deacons coach Dave Dove was alarmed at the uncharacteristic 23 turnovers his team committed.
"That was not us out there." Odom said.
write Wake Forest led the ACC with under 14 turnovers per game, Odom knows his team must handle the ball better against Notre Dame if it is to win its first NIT title.
"They're as good a team as any in the country as far as playing as a team," Odom said. "They play with a great deal of physicality, shoot the ball and play together defensively as much as they do on offense."
Odom acknowledged one thing his team might not be able to control Thursday night — the crowd.
"Every Irish Catholic that can get a ticket will be in Madison Square Garden," Odom said. "I don't think there are too many Southern Baptists in New York."
Another key for Wake Forest, which won at Vanderbilt, beat New Mexico at home and won at NIT defending champion California to get to New York, will be the play of senior guard Robert O'Kelley.
Carruth accused of paying to have girlfriend beaten
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rae Carruth, formerly of the Carolina Panthers, paid $2,000 for someone to beat his pregnant girlfriend and cause a miscarriage in the weeks before her fatal shooting. *The Charlotte Observer* reported.
The newspaper cited sources familiar with statements made to police by three men accused with Carrith of killing Cherica Adams last year.
The Observer reported an alleged co-conspirator, Van Brett Watkins, was paid $2,000 to break into Adams' home and beat her.
the death penalty
Prosecutors have said Carruth masterminded a plot to kill Adams.
Adams was never beaten, but on Nov. 16 she was shot four times while driving in Charlotte. Doctors delivered Carruth's child, Chancellor Lee Adams, by emergency Caesarean section after the shooting. Cherica Adams died Dec. 14.
According to *The Observer*, sources report that statements by Carruth's co-defendants describe how Watkins, 39, was hired by Carruth to break into Adams' home and beat her. Watkins said he didn't take Carruth seriously but later feared Carruth might target him, too, because had taken the $2,000 and done nothing.
after the shootout, Carruth was charged with murder along with Watkins, Michael Eugene Kennedy and Stanley Drew "Boss" Abraham. Prosecutors plan to seek
The sources said that co-defendants' statements described how Carruth plotted the attack on Adams and gave Kennedy $100 to buy a gun and ammunition hours before the 24-year-old woman was shot.
The Observer reported that Kennedy told police that Carruth had called him as Carruth and
Sources said that the men told police that after buying the gun, Kennedy, Abraham and Watkins waited in a gas station parking lot near where Carruth and Adams were watching a movie.
Adams left the theater, Kennedy, Watkins and Abraham were supposed to follow Adams' BMW in their car, while Carruth drove a Ford Expedition in front of Adams.
Kennedy drove, while Abraham was in the passenger seat and Watkins in the back seat, sources said. When Carruth stopped the Expedition Adams was forced to stop, too, and the men pulled alongside the BMW, stopped and opened fire, the newspaper reported.
A magistrate, in denying bond in the case, previously identified Watkins as the triggerman.
The co-defendants told investigators that they had tossed the gun and other evidence out the window after fleeing the shooting scene, the sources said.
Meanwhile, Adams dialed 911 on her cell phone to report she was shot and needed assistance.
Carruth's lawyer has said the former wide receiver was miles from the shooting scene, talking on his cell phone to a friend in Atlanta.
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