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North Carolina wins NCAA title
By Chuck Schoffner The Associated Press
RICHMOND. Va. — North Carolina has won another national basketball championship. Only this time, Dean Smith wasn't involved.
This one belongs to the Tar Heel women, and they won it in dramatic fashion.
Charlotte Smith swished a 3-point shot at the buzzer and gave North Carolina a 60-59 victory over Louisiana Tech yesterday and its first NCAA women's championship.
With the Carolina men eliminated in the second round of the NCAA tournament, it was up to the women to carry the Tar Heel banner, and they did it well, although they had to take their title drive to the last tick of the clock. Only 0.7 seconds remained when North Carolina threw the ball back into play under their own basket for the winning shot, which denied Tech a third national title.
Stephanie Lawrence found Smith on the right wing and the 6-foot junior, a 27 percent shooter from 3-point range, buried the shot. Immediately, she was buried under a crush of bulbant teammates.
North Carolina's Tonya Sampson then missed badly on a leaner and a jump ball resulted from the ensuing scramble. The possession arrow was pointing to the Tar Heels, and they got the ball under their basket but had less than a second to score.
Tech, which had led by five points with less than 4 minutes to play, took a 59-57 lead on Pam Thomas' 19-foot jump shot with 15.5 seconds left.
Smith finished with 20 points and grabbed 23 rebounds and set a championship game record, breaking the old mark of 20 by Tracy Claxton of Old Dominion against Georgia in 1985. Smith was named the most outstanding player in the Final Four.
Sampson led Carolina (33-2) with 21 points, 17 in the first half and Sylvia Crawley added 14. Thomas' 14 points led Tech (31-4), which saw a 25-game winning streak end.
North Carolina rallied from a five-point deficit into a tie at 32 at halftime thanks to Sampson's scoring, then held Tech scoreless for 4 minutes during an 8-2 run.
The Tar Heels suddenly went cold, however, giving Tech the opening it needed to get back into the game. Tech scored the next 12 points, the last six from Thomas, to go up 53-48 with 5:06 left.
North Carolina went almost 8 minutes without a point, missing 11 straight shots and turning the ball over six times before Smith scored on a putback. She made a free throw to complete a three-point play, then scored on another reboundive to tie it at 53 with 2:45 to play.
The teams then traded baskets down the stretch before Crawley hit a 10-foot turnaround jumper in the lane with 42 seconds left and tied it for the final time at 57.
Jones went to the bench with 17:29 left in the first half after picking up two fouls 10 seconds apart, then returned less than 2 minutes later. But she soon got her third foul and spent the final 14:21 of the half in the bench. Thomas spent the final 15:29 of the half on the bench after getting her second foul.
Final Four pairs two distinct teams
By Jim O'Connell The Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Duke and Arkansas have so little in common that it should make for a great NCAA championship game.
Arkansas is looking for its first national championship, and the Razorbacks are going after it with no seniors in the nine-man rotation which wore down Arizona in the semi-finals.
The Blue Devils are going for their third national title in four years with a team dominated by seniors who got them to tonight's championship game with a great second half against Florida on Saturday.
Duke is known for its crazy fans, Arkansas for a pretty powerful head cheerleader from Washington. D.C.
Neither team was ranked below sixth all season and both were No.1; Duke for one week, Arkansas for a national-best nine.
It will all come down to match ups.
Can Duke handle Corliss Williamson, the Big Nasty, as it did Purdue's Glenn Robinson, the Big Dog? Can the Blue Devils keep Arkansas from going on one of its runs? Can seven players, and maybe less with a swollen left knee slowing down center Cherokee Parks, take on the depth that has worn down team after team all season?
Can the Razorback control Grant Hill, maybe college basketball's most versatile player and the one who sets the tone for Duke? Can Arkansas get the game going at a quicker pace to take advantage of those extra bodies? Can the players who have never been in a game this big handle the poise of a group looking for ring No. 3?
No one has the answers, but there are a lot of theories.
"We want our guys to feel this is another day at the office, another game, another tournament," Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson said. "The attitude is so important at this level."
For Duke, it could be considered another day at the office to be playing in the season's final game. But don't believe it.
Richardson doesn't seem worried about the tradition of Duke against a school that has been to five Final Fours and never reached the championship game.
"This bunch has never played Duke," he said. "It doesn't have to do with Mike Krzyzewsk and what he does. It has to do with Arkansas and what they do against Duke. We respect them to the utmost, and that's where it ends."
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