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NCAA Tournament
Tuesday March 17, 1998
K-State's Snyder thinks Bishop was falsely jailed
The Associated Press
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Kansas State quarterback Michael Bishop, who was arrested but not charged following a fight, may have been jailed just because he's a prominent Black athlete, coach Bill Snyder said.
Bishop's arrest during the fight last month in Manhattan's night club district may have resulted from Bishop being a high-profile young guy, and unfortunately, because he is Black, Snyder told The Manhattan Mercury in a story published Sunday.
Snyder said he thought
Bishop was wrongly identified by witnesses as being involved in the fight. He said Bishop had been emotionally hurt by the incident and that he had to obtain an emergency student loan to pay his legal expenses.
Bishop also has received critical letters from the public and was reprimanded by a woman at a mall for his alleged wrongdoing.
"He's suffered from this," Snyder said.
Snyder made the comments to The Mercury on Friday after the newspaper contacted him for comment about another story.
snyder: Says his quarterback was unuily injured.
Bishop told the newspaper he thought the media had treated him unfairly, but he declined to comment further.
Bishop, 21, was arrested Feb. 22 on suspicion of two counts of aggravated battery and one count of battery stemming from an early morning brawl.
But prosecutors later said there was no evidence Bishop had committed a crime and declined to file charges.
Also, two of the three people who filed battery reports against Bishop said publicly that he was not the person who had hit them. One of the men said Bishop helped him up on the ground, and a young woman said Bishop protected her from the fight.
Riley County Police Department Director Al Johnson said his officers handled the case just like every other one, and that they showed neither favoritism nor animosity toward Bishop because of who he was.
Snyder said he did not fault police and attributed the arrest to unfortunate circumstances.
Johnson said such presentations are routine in high-profile cases; Snyder said he had been to the police department to review cases involving his players before
Snyder uses the information he gathers to decide about discipline of his players and to warn them about situations they should avoid.
"Michael Bishop was not guilty of a thing." Snyder said. "He attempted to help other people. Michael helped one of the people involved in the altercation."
Bishop led the Wildcats to an 11-1 record last season, his first at Kansas State after two years in junior college. He passed for four touchdowns and scored another in the 55-18 Fiesta Battle of Syracuse.
Rams fever spreads in Rhode Island
SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — The school from the smallest state pulled off the biggest upset of the NCAA tournament and now faces the most unlikely team left in the round of 16.
The Associated Press
Rhode Island knocked off top-seeded Kansas 80-75 Sunday in the second round of the tournament, setting up an intriguing match with Valbariso.
Rhode Island coach Jim Harrick will face his son, Jim Jr., an assistant at Valparaiso. The Crusaders, the 13th seed, have their own father-son story. Coach Homer Drew's son Bryce, who hit the buzer-bezing three-pointer to knock off Mississippi in the first round, is the star player for the Crusaders.
"It will be an emotional game," Harrick Sr. said. "But once the ball goes up, you are not thinking about who you are playing. You are just thinking about how you are playing. There are no friendships. All bets are off once you step on the court."
Some of Harrick's players said Sunday's win was redemption for their coach. Harrick is in his first year at Rhode Island after being fired as coach at UCLA in a scandal about an expense account one year after winning the NCAA championship.
"He's proved he could do it before," said forward John Bennett. "Now he is getting a second chance."
But Harrick said he wasn't thinking about vindication in the game with Kansas.
"I have turned the page; that chapter is over." Harrick said of his tenure at UCLA. "I know who I am. I've put that behind me. I've learned
The regular season did not go as smoothly as the first weekend of the tournament did. The Rams (23-8) started the season in the top 25 but dropped out by the end of the season. They came into the tournament as the No. 8 seed in the Midwest.
a lot from that trauma. What do I have to complain about now?"
"This is the most improved basketball team I have ever coached," Harrick said. "There is no doubt in my mind that we can go all the way."
But there were questions before playing Kansas (35-3), the team that had won 14 straight games and led the nation in victories. The Jayhawks have reached the Final Four 10 times, Rhode Island has been to the round of 16 just twice.
But the Rams responded Sunday in Oklahoma City behind Cuttino Mobley, Tyson Wheeler and Luther Clay, who scored 14 points against Kansas All-American center Raef LaFrentz.
"We played very hard and I think we wanted it more," said Wheeler, who scored 20 points against Kansas. "Everyone had their doubts, but we just kept fighting and proved them wrong."
Many Rhode Island students, who doubted their team's chances against Kansas, are now believers. Hundreds of followers greeted the Rams at the airport at 3 a.m. yesterday and now are planning trips to St. Louis for the regional.
"Everybody is talking about it," said Dean Copans, the student body president. "It's been a little crazy. Everybody thought they were going to get knocked out, but they came through."
Kansas guard Billy Thomas, Rhode Island guard Cutton Mobley and forward Antonio Reynolds-Dean grab for a rebound. After defeating Kansas 80-75, the Rams will move on to the next round of the NCAA Tournament in St. Louis later this week. Photo by Steve Puppe/KANSAN
Valparaiso provides Cinderella story
Valparaiso center Antanas Vilcinskis calls for the ball as center Zoran Viskovic and guard Bryce Drew attempt to grab it. Photo by Steve Puppe/KANSAN
The Associated Press
VALPARAISO, Ind. — This is the kind of place where everyone knows the basketball players by their first names.
"If you've ever talked to Bryce," said the clerk in the printing shop, "he's the nicest guy you could ever meet."
It's the kind of place that anyone who's ever dribbed a basketball in their back yard is embracing as their very own — at least for this week.
This is the home of Valparaiso University, the tiny school (3,500 students) in northwest Indiana with a feel-god father-son story that's the talk of the NCAA Tournament.
It started Friday when Bryce Drew, son of coach Homer Drew, hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to upset Ole Miss in the opening round. On Sunday, the Crusaders beat Florida State in overtime.
And thus began their magical run toward the regional semifinals. Now the whole country is tagging along.
"People didn't even know who Valparaiso was," said Jamie Sykes, whose three-quarter court pass set up Drew's game-winning shot Friday.
Before we go any further, it's Val-puh-RAISE-
oh. not Val-puh-RISE-oh.
And if you can't imagine this team winning it all, think back to the movie Hoosiers, with Homer Drew as Gene Hackman and Bryce as Jimmy Chitwool. Against all odds, Hackman coaches Hickory High to the state championship.
"It's about a small school having a dream," Bryce Drew said at yesterday afternoon's raucous pen rally for the team.
He knows something about having a dream. As
the 1994 Mr. Basketball in a state where basketball is practically a religion, he could have gone anywhere. Big-time schools like Stanford and Syracuse came calling.
So did his dad. And it just so happened that Bryce wanted to play in an NCAA Tournament with his father on the bench. He also wanted to hit the game-winning shot that he'd been practicing in the back yard all his life and make a small school famous.
So he gave up the big names and the television time — the Mid-Continent Conference isn't exactly a big draw — and stayed in a place where loyalty and good deeds never go unrewarded.
"It's nice to see them have some success," said Eric McMullan, a clerk at BRQ Quickprint near the town's main square.
The players mingle in town like any other students, though they're more than happy to sign autographs.
"They're just regular guys, just like the guys you went to school with," said Lee Kleist, sales manager at B&E Honda, across the street from campus.
When the word got out that the players were returning to the Athletics-Recreation Center, or "The Arc" as its called, more than 1,500 people were there to greet them.
Even though the bus was almost two hours late, it took five minutes to clear the crowd and get the door open. As the players got off, they slapped hands with anyone who could get a hand near them.
The Valparaiso fans especially love Coach Drew, who gets teary-eyed anytime someone asks him about how special it's been to coach his son. One fan even carried a sign that read, "Bobby who? Gene What?" Homer for President."
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