Friday, March 19, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section B · Page 5
Hutchinson school backs visitors
Nashville college local favorite in juco basketball tournament
The Associated Press
HUTCHINSON — Most of the teams that travel to Hutchinson for this week's junior college basketball tournament are unknown to the locals and don't have a lot of fans in the stands.
Players for tiny Aquinas College in Nashville, Tenn., get a different reception.
Young girls cheer at their practices and games and the players are asked to sign auto-
players are asked to sign autographs and have their pictures taken. It's all a pleasant surprise for a team roughly 800 miles from home.
The Cavaliers have been "adopted" by tiny Trinity High School, continuing a relationship that began in 1991.
"We got into the hotel and they had a sign up for us," said D.J. Harrison, an Aquinas forward. "I was like, 'Who's that? Trinity High School?'
Tney're Catholic, just like
us. Everybody's all being nice to us. It's nice to have that kind of support so far from home."
It all started in 1991, when the Cavaliers arrived in Hutchinson for the National Junior College Athletic Association tournament with no expectations of doing well.
So, of course, the Cavaliers won four straight games to claim the national championship.
But the team hadn't planned on being in Hutchinson all week and had only pocket money and coach Charles Anderson's credit card. And the trip ended up costing $18,000.
A Trinity parent, Annette Raya, read of the team's plight and started a fund-raising drive, which raised just more than $1.000.
by the time the Cavaliers arrived home in Nashville, other news media had picked up the story.
"The next thing you know, we were getting money from all over the country," Anderson said.
Aquinas eventually covered its costs.
Earlier in that year's tournament, two Dominican nuns who were cheering for Aquinas told a Trinity parent that their team could use some cheerleaders. So the Trinity cheerleading squad volunteered to perform at all Aquinas games.
That tradition continues at this year's tournament, with one exception. The Trinity cheerleaders sat out the Cavaliers' opener against Barton County Tuesday because one of Barton's players, Ricky Ogwal, is a Trinity graduate.
Aquinas lost to heavily favored Barton 120-66 and fell into the consolation bracket of the double elimination tournament. The Cavaliers (24-7) will play again at 1:45 p.m. today—with cheerleaders
After the Trinity cheerleaders got involved in the 1991 tournament, so did the rest of the school.
Aquinas returned to the tournament in 1995. The stay was shorter because they finished sixth. But the Trinity students once again provided support
The relationship continues partly because of the size of the schools. Trinity has 226 students in grades seven through 12. Aquinas has about 350 students, grade school through college.
The benefit to Trinity is important.
"The young people here know there is another Catholic institution where they can achieve an education in the same atmosphere," said Sister Marie Bernadette, who teaches a senior religion class at Trinity.
When a recent practice in Trinity's gym ended, some of the students handed coach Anderson cookies baked by the cheerleaders while others swarmed the Cavaliers.
They shook hands, asked for autographs and asked to pose with the players for photographs.
"I feel privileged for them to be able to come to our school," said a 13-year-old Trinity student, Sarah Thibault.
Underdog Oklahoma ready for Michigan St.
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS— When Kelvin Sampson looks at Oklahoma's game with top-seed Michigan State in the NCAA Midwest Regional, he sees
more than All-American guard Mateen Cleaves and a team that pounds opponents on the backboards.
He also sees Texas and Missouri and Oklahoma State — teams his Sooners beat on the road during the regular season when no one else gave them much of a chance.
sampson always says he looks at challenges as opportunities, and that will be the case again tonight in the regional semifinals.
"The questions are always the same," Sampamson said Thursday. "Last week, it was how are you going to guard Jason Terry? Now, it's how are you going to guard Mateen Cleaves?"
"We don't over respect. When you get this far, you're capable of winning and we've proven that."
That mind set has carried 13th-seed Oklahoma (22-10) this far for the first time since the Sooners' run-and-gun days of 1989.
Oklahoma upset No.4 seed Arizona and beat
fifth-seeded North Carolina-Charlotte last weekend by playing outstanding defense, rebounding well and shooting 3-pointers. The Sooners made 10 three pointers against Arizona. It was against UNC
Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said he was concerned about the long rebounds that result from long-range jumpers.
"That can be an advantage or disadvantage," he said. "If we get them, it can help our fast break. If we're not getting them, then it can create some problems."
The Spartans (31-4) have won 20 straight games, the Big 10 regular-season and tournament titles, and showed their mettle last week by surviving a second-round scare against Mississippi.
Talk about Michigan State always begins with Cleaves, with good reason. He averages 11 points and seven assists per game, and presents problems with his strength.
While Arizona's Jason Terry was quick and smooth, Cleaves "is kind of a sledgehammer point guard," Sampson said.
he dominates his position. He plays physically strong, I watched eight games where I thought he was the main reason they won at the end. He has an infectious enthusiasm about him. I think it's important for a point guard."
Top women's teams to tangle
By Chuck Schoffner AP sportswriter
AP sportswriter
Maybe, just maybe, the NCAA women's basketball tournament will get something new this weekend; an upset that breaks the form that has been followed so closely so far.
urday's games offer some intriguing match-ups in the East
While a handful of higher-
raced teams lost in the first
While a handful of higher- woh its' gand seeded teams lost in the first and made the round 16 for the first time.
urday's games offer intriguing match-ups In th at Greensboro, N.C., top-seeded Tennessee (30-2) continues its quest for a fourth consecutive national championship against No. 4 seed Virginia Tech (28-2), which won its first 18 games
Clemson (26-5) plays third-seeded Georgia (25-
round, the 16 teams that will play in the regional semifinals Saturday are the top 16 seeds, all of whom advanced by winning twice at home. Glennon (26-5) plays
ermakers will take a 28-game winning streak against fourth-
6) in the Mideast semifinals in Cincinnati, Connecticut (29-4)
meets fourth-seeded Iowa State (24-7) in the other game there.
Even if there are no upsets, Sat
The other game at Greensboro has second-seeded Old Dominion (28-3), a Final Four team two years ago, against No. 3 seed Duke (26-6), a well-balanced team that won
the regular-season Atlantic Coast Conference championship.
Top-ranked and No. 1 seed Purdue (30-1) heads the field in the Midwest at Normal, Ill. The Boil
seeded North Carolina (28-7), a quick, athletic team that almost beat Tennessee in the regional finals last year. Second-seeded Texas Tech (30-3) meets No. 3 seed Rutgers (28-5), one
of the nation's best defensive teams, in the other Midwest game.
In the West at Los Angeles, top-seeded Louisiana Tech (28-2), bent on making amends for a lopsided loss to Tennessee in last year's national championship game, travels halfway across the country to meet nearby rival LSU (22-7), the No. 4 seed. All-American Becky Hammon leads No. 2 seed Colorado State (33-2) against third-seeded UCLA (25-7).
Boxing decision under investigation
The Associated Press
THE ASSOCIATION NEWS
NEW YORK—The judge at the center of the controversial Lennox Lewis-Evander Holyfield drew said yesterday that her view of the fight was obscured at times by photographers.
Testifying at a New York state Senate hearing, Eugenia Williams also said that after watching a tape of Stern's heavyweight unification fight, she would have scored it a draw, instead of 115-113 for Hol菲夫.
That scoring would not have changed the ultimate outcome. If Williams had scored the fifth round for Lewis, her card would have been 114-114, and the decision would have been a majority draw.
But after watching a replay, Williams said she would have scored the fifth round for Lewis.
Asked by state Sen. Roy Goodman if she had second thoughts about her opinion, Williams replied: "No sir. I scored what I saw when it saw."
Williams also said that during several rounds, including the fifth, her vision was sometimes blocked by ringside photographers whom she had to push aside.
Williams, a 10-year veteran of judging who works as a $39,200-a-year accounts clerk for Atlantic City, confirmed reports that she had filed for bankruptcy recently, but denied that there had been any attempt by anyone to help her financially in exchange for influencing her judgment.
As the investigation got under way a still furious Lewis returned home to London and demanded that "everything should be looked into."
Separately, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has convened a grand jury to issue subpoenas and gather testimony about Saturday's unification bout. In addition, the New York State Athletic Commission also is investigating.
Of the other judges, South Africa's Christ Stardooulou, scored the fight
116-138 for Lewis and Britain's Larry O'Connell scored it 115-15. Most who watched the fight thought Lewis had clearly won.
In Atlanta, Holyfield was quoted as saying he understood the judges' decision perfectly.
"The judges said it was a draw." Hollyfield told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Realistically, he didn't knock me out, and I didn't knock him out. It's all based on a decision."
Holyfield said Lewis didn't do as well as some people said.
"Even with the punch stats, people say, 'Well, this man hit him 600 times,'" he said in an interview published yesterday. "But if he hit me that much, why didn't it fall? How come I was never staggered or hurt? Obviously because a lot of times he was tapping me."
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