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SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 29, 1993
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Kansas' victory ends Indiana's season
Jayhawks' next stop: Final Four
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
ST. LOUIS — Thanks to sharp shooting and pressure defense, not necessarily in that order, the Kansas men's basketball team will again play near the banks of the Mississippi River — next weekend at the Final Four in New Orleans.
Kansas coach Roy Williams thinks that spitting in the river before a game brings good luck. His team performed the ritual a few hours before Saturday's night's 83-77 victory against Indiana in The St. Louis Arena.
Skill outweighed luck, however, in the second meeting this season between the Jayhawks and Hoosiers. Kansas shot 59 percent from the field while holding the Hoosiers to 45 percent during the 83-77 victory. Kansas defeated Indiana 74-69 on Dec. 5.
"When you play against an Indiana or North Carolina, you realize that you have to elevate your game," Williams said. "We've got five guys in double figures, and I was pleased with the way we played defensively. We'll be one of four teams left playing. That's as good as it gets for a coach."
North Carolina, Kentucky and Michigan round out the Final Four. Kansas will play North Carolina on Saturday in the semifinals.
Saturday in the semifinals.
Junior forward Richard Scott led the Jayhawks with 16 points against the Hoosiers. Junior forward Darrin Hancock, senior center Eric Pauley and senior guards Rex Walters and Adonis Jordan also scored in double figures.
Kansas led 38-34 at halftime, but the Hoosiers passed Kansas in the second half with about 13 minutes remaining. Indiana senior guard Greg Graham, who led all scorers with 23 points, scored four consecutive points and pushed Indiana ahead 50-48.
Kansas fought back with a 10-0 run that began with an eight-foot turnaround jump shot by Pauley. Sophomore guard Calvin Rayford then entered the game to give Jordan a rest.
After a three-pointer by junior forward Steve Woodberry, Rayford continued the run by assisting Walters on another three-pointer and then steal
Kansas 83. Indiana 77
KANSAS (29-6)
Player fgm/fga ftm/fa tp
Hancock 3-4 6-6 12
Scott 7-10 2-4 16
Pauley 6-12 1-1 13
Walters 4-8 3-4 12
Jordan 4-7 1-1 11
Woodberry 2-3 4-4 9
Rayford 1-3 4-4 0
Ickey 1-0 2-0 2
Ostertag 3-5 0-0 6
Gurley 1-1 0-0 2
Pearson 0-1 0-0 0
Totals 31-52 17-20 83
INDIANA (31-4)
P. Graham 0-3 0-0 0
Cheaney 10-19 2-2 22
New 3-5 3-4 9
G. Graham 8-14 4-5 23
Bailey 3-7 1-2 7
Henderson 0-1 0-2 0
Leary 2-7 2-3 6
Knight 2-7 2-3 6
Reynolds 0-1 0-0 0
Evans 1-9 0-0 0
Evans 1-9 0-0 10
20-66 12-16 77
Halftime Kansas 38, Indiana 34, 3-point
goals Kansas 4-10 (Jordan 2-3, Watters 1:
4, Woodbury 2, Pearson 1, Indiana 5)
North Carolina 27, Iowa 3, Indiana 6,
Baylor 1, Baryl 0, P Graham 1, Chester 2,
Lee 4) Rebounds Kansas 27 (Ostergate
6), Indiana (Cherey 9) Asiatis Kansas
23 (Watters 8), Indiana (Baryl 4) Total
for four Kansas 16, Indiana 20 (Attendance
18):
ring the ball from Indiana junior Damon Bailey. Rayford capped the run with a layup that put the Jayhawks ahead 58-50.
"Calvin's really stepped it up," Jordan said. "He gave me a rest, and he made a big-time steal."
Hancock, who scored 12 points and had four rebounds, made two of three outside jump shots. He also blew by three Indiana defenders along the baseline and turned around in midair for a slam dunk that put Kansas ahead 66-57 with 7:25 remaining.
"Darrin has worked hard on his jump shot in practice." Williams said. "And I didn't coach him on that dunk. I can promise you that."
Indiana cut the deficit to 76-73 with another basket from Greg Graham, but a split second later, Walters was sprinting down the left sideeline with the ball. He found Jordan in the middle for a layup.
"To tell you the truth, I wanted to score," Walters said. "But I saw Adonis in the middle."
the last meeting between Kansas and North Carolina was in the semifinals of the 1991 Final Four in Indianapolis, which the Jayhawks won before losing to Duke in the championship game.
Kansas center Eric Pauley and forward Darrin Hancock go up to block a shot against Indiana's Calbert Cheaney. Both Pauley and Hancock scored in double figures to help lead the team past Indiana 83-77.
Defense slows Cheaney
Four court national title in New Orleans
The four NCAA tournament division champions will meet this Saturday in the semi final round at the Superdome in New Orleans. The winner of each game will play for the national championship Monday night.
By David Dorsey
Kansan sportswriter
Cheaney, who played 40 minutes and made 10 of 19 field goals, said that the Kansas defense eventually wore him down.
NCAA National Championship Game
"He's a great player." Woodberry said. "We knew we'd have to do a lot of things to stop him. We just wanted to be there and contest every shot that he took. Unfortunately, you can't stop a good player."
Cheeney was named the Midwest regional's Outstanding Player. His teammate, senior guard Greg Graham, finished with a game-high 23 points and also made the Mid-West regional team. Jayhawks Adonis Jordan, Richard Scott and Rex Walters were also named to the队.
On the road to New Orleans
"They got me out of sync," Cheaney said. "They played tough defense. Anytime I came off a screen, they had somebody waiting for me."
ST. LOUIS — Shutting down Indiana's All-American forward Calbert Cheaney became the emphasis for the Kansas defense on Saturday. Although several Jawhacks guarded him, he still managed 22 points in what would be the final performance of his college career.
Superdome,
New Orleans
Mon. April 5,
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Kansas junior forward Steve Wood- berry said that defending Cheaney was tough.
Indiana coach Bob Knight said he was impressed by Kansas.
On the road to New Orleans
They did a good job on Cheaney. He got 22 points, and that's his average."
"Calbert Cheaney and Greg Graham were sensational today." Williams said. "We knew we wouldn't be able to shut them down. What we wanted to do was hold their percentage down."
"Their defense was tough," Knight said. "They made some big individual defensive plays that resulted in three or four baskets for them.
got 22 points, and that his average.
Kansas coach Roy Williams said he knew stopping Cheenay would be difficult, if not impossible.
Kansan staffreport
Junior forward Richard Scott guarded Cheaney shortly after tipoff. Woodberry, Darrin Hancock and Patrick Richey also took turns defending him.
Sean M. Tevis / KANSAN
ST. LOUIS — The Jayhawks shot 56 percent from the floor and 73 percent from three-point range during the 93-76 victory against California last Thursday.
Senior guard Rex Walters led the Jayhawks with 24 points and made four of five three-pointers. Senior guard Adonis Jordan scored 15 and made three of four three-pointers to go along with six assists in 31 minutes of play.
Second half scoring runs of 11-0 and 8-0 sealed the victory for the Jayhawks
"Basketball is a game of runs," said California coach Todd Bozeman.
Kansan staff report
ROSEMONT, III. — Two days after defeating Ball State 94-72, the Kansas men's basketball team used a 10-0 run to pull away from Brigham Young University late in the second half, on the way to a 90-76 victory March 29.
Kansas senior guard Rex Walters scored a career-high 28 points. Nick Sanderson led the Cougars with 24 points.
Source: The Associated Press, CNN
Kansas senior center Eric Pauley said he felt a sense of relief after getting past the second round. The Jayhawks were upset last season by the University of Texas-El Paso in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Kansan staff report
ROSEMONT, III. — Kansas guard Rex Walters tied an NCAA Tournament record by making six three-pointers without a miss during the Jayhawks' first round victory March 18 against Ball State.
Walters finished with 23 points and made 7 of 9 field goals during the 94-72 victory.
Ball State kept with the lajahays until midway through the second half, when forward Steve Woodberry ignited an 8-0 run in which he made a three-pointer, a steal and an assist.
Five Jajahws scored in double figures, including forward Richard Scott, who scored 18.
Tar Heels advance
Three-pointers secure victory for North Carolina
The Associated Press
The top-seeded Tar Heels, 32-4, had a chance to beat second-seeded Cincinnati, 27-5, at the regulation buzzer yesterday, but Brian Reese missed a dunk after taking an inbounds pass with eight-tenths of a second to play.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — A dunk didn't do it in regulation, but three-pointers in overtime did. And now, North Carolina is going to the Final Four for the ninth time under Coach Dean Smith.
on to play.
Donald Williams took care of things in overtime, making consecutive three-pointers as North Carolina beat the Bearcats 75-68 and kept Cincinnati from returning to the Final Four.
"Generally, you let down after a missed chance like that," Smith said. "We regrouped against an excellent basketball team, a difficult team to play against."
The Tat Heels were in trouble in the first
North Carolina will meet Kansas in the national semifinals Saturday in New Orleans.
half when Cincinnati guard Nick Van Exel snapped out of a tournament-long shooting slump with 21 points, all but three on 3-point field goals. The Bearcats led by as many as 15 points in the first half.
North Carolina rallied to take a lead late in the half and clamped down on Van Exel, holding him to two points after haftime.
"I probably wasn't looking for my shot in the second half as much as I should have, but I was trying to get everyone else involved in the scoring." Van Exel said. "Down the stretch, I didn't hit the big ones."
n mammals, North Carolina's only legitimate perimeter threat, finished with 20 points, but the big six came on the overtime three-pointers, which gave the Tar Heels a 74-68 lead with 1.53 to play.
"In the second half, we wanted to make sure we ran at him, but we have to give credit to Derrick Phelps." Williams said. "He did an outstanding job on him, wearing him down and getting him tired."
Williams thought North Carolina guard Derrick Phelps had a lot to do with it.
"I didn't get any shots at the end of regulation because they were expecting me to," Williams said. "In the overtime, as soon as I crossed midcourt I could hear coach yelling 'knock it down.'"
Final Four trip caps Wildcats' resurgence
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Four years after Coach Rick Pitino arrived at Kentucky to find a basketball program in shambles, the Wildcats are as healthy as ever.
The Associated Press
"It's an unbelievable feeling," Pitino said Saturday after Kentucky won the Southeast regional with a 106-81 victory against Florida State. "Everybody dreams about going to the Final Four, and we're one of the lucky ones this year."
The Final Four berth is Kentucky's 19th, but its first since 1984.
since 1894, the Wildcats have endured a recruiting scandal that forced out Coach Eddie Sutton and landed Kentucky on NCAA probation for two years.
When Ptinio left the New York Knicks to coach at Kentucky in 1989, he found plenty of emotional wounds and just eight scholarship players.
So Pitino went out and signed Jamal Mashburn, a 6-foot-8 forward, who has proven to be the cornerstone of the Wildcats' rapid resurgence.
Now, Kentucky is headed for New Orleans, gunning for the school's sixth NCAA championship.
The Wildcats shot 54.3 percent for Florida state. While the Seminoles' speed helped them for a while against Kentucky's pressure, the Wildcats eventually wore them down to produce another blowout.
The Associated Press
Michigan eliminates Owls
SEATTLE — Instead of excitement in the Michigan locker room, the prevailing mood was sheer relief, a sense that all the pressure the team had put on itself and felt from critics was suddenly wiped out.
it was wiped out with one super second half after starting out with a dismal
"We've been feeling the pressure," sophomore forward Ray Jackson said. "This whole tournament we've been playing not to lose. I think now that we're back to the Final Four, we're going to let everything hang out."
The Wolverines told as if this victory finally would end the criticism that Michigan doesn't play up to its potential for 40 minutes a game.
It was wiped out, at last, by a 77-72 victory yesterday against a good, disciplined Temple team that could not match Michigan's strength, talent and depth in the NCAA West regional final.
"We've been labeled as underachievers, people who would rather showbout than work hard," sophomore guard Jimmy King said. "But there's nothing wrong if you showbout, work hard and get to the Final Four."
Sophomore guard Jalen Led michigan with 17 points — 13 in the second half — as he took control of the offense along with King, who had 14 points. Sophomore center Chris Webber, who survived a beating under the boards, had 13 points and 12 rebounds and was named the West regional's outstanding player.
For the third straight game, Michigan played inconsistently. Fortunately for the Wolverines, they put together their best play in the second half against the Owls, coming back after trailing by 10 points.
"My first two attempts, I made it the Final Four," Webber said. "A lot of fifth-year seniors can't say that. I'm not relieved. I'm confident."
Sophomore guard Rick Brinson led Temple, 20-13, with 21 points. Junior swinger Eddie Jones, troubled by early fouls, scored 18.
Michigan, 30-4, was aided in the final minutes by a technical call against Temple coach John Chaney. The Owls trailed only 67-62 with 149 left when Chaney screamed about a call. Chaney argued afterward that he was yelling at his own player.
that, and other calls, allowed Michigan to pull away with five free throws — and a 72-62 lead with 136 left.