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Wednesday, March 16, 1994
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Purdue's Robinson an All-American
The Associated Press
They were joined on the first team by Donyell Marshall of Connecticut and Grant Hill of Duke, both three votes shy of unanimous, and Clifford Rozier of Louisville.
Purdue's Glenn Robinson, the nation's leading scorer, was a unanimous selection yesterday to The Associated Press All-America basketball team, and California's Jason Kidd was named on all but one ballot.
Robinson was the first unanimous selection since Duke's Christian Laetner in 1992. The 6-foot-8 junior forward averaged 30.3 points and 10.1 rebounds and shot 49 percent from the field, including 36 percent from 3-point range.
"This is a very deserving honor for Glenn because of all the players I ever coached, he's the best," Purdue coach Gene Keady said. "This guy can do it all, and he's a great person."
Robinson, who led the Boilermakers to the Big Ten title, is Purdue's first team, All-American since Joe Barry Carroll in 1980.
"He's a great team player, and he plays for his teammates, and he proved that by staying here this season," Keady said, referring to the opportunity Robinson had to jump to the NBA after earning second-team All-America honors last season. "He's
been fun to coach, and we did a pretty good job handling all that pressure he had. We didn't have a problem with that."
Kidd's selection gave California a first-team All-America for the first time since Darrell Imhoff in 1960, which also was the last time the Bears reached the Final Four.
Kidd was selected to the first team by 64 of the 65 voters on a national media panel and finished with 323 points, two behind Robinson.
The 6-4 sophomore guard, considered an outstanding defender, led the nation in assists at 9.1 game, but the other numbers showed his all-around game: 16.8 points, 6.8 rebounds and 3.1 steals. He and third-team selection Lamond Murray combined to lead an injury-depleted Cal squad to a second-place tie in the Pac-10.
Marshall, who had 319 points, is the first Huskie to be named to the first team. The 6-9 junior forward led Connecticut to its highest ranking ever — No. 2 — and the regular-season Big East championship. He averaged 25.8 points and 8.9 rebounds, was named the league's player of the year and defensive player of the year.
Hill, a third-teamer last year and the national defensive player of the year, is the third straight first-team selection from Duke, two short of the record set by UCLA from 1971-75. The
6-8 swingman was the only senior on the first team after getting 317 points. It was his veteran leadership that allowed the Blue Devils to win the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title.
Hill averaged 17.3 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5.1 assists and did everything the team needed, from directing the offense to taking over the game at both ends of the floor.
"He's been incredibly consistent," Duke coach Mike Kryzewski said. "I think he's helped us become a balanced team in not trying to take too many shots and making sure he was available to do the dirt work and not just shooting the basketball. He's really as good of a team guy as we've had here."
That would include Laetner and Bobby Hurley, each a first-teamer the last two seasons and Hill's teammates when the Blue Devils won consecutive national championships his freshman and sophomore seasons.
Rozier got 26 first-team votes and 198 points, becoming Louisville's first first-team since Darrell Griffith in 1980. The Metro Conference player of the year the last two seasons, the 6-9 Rozier averaged 19.1 points and 11.2 rebounds, leading the Cardinals to the league title. He transferred to Louisville after playing as a freshman at North Carolina in 1991 when the
The Associated Press All-America Team
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Player School Pts. Rtn.
Glenn Robinson Purdue 30.3 10.1
Jake Kidd California 16.8 6.8
Donyell Marshall Connecticut 25.8 8.9
Grant Hill Duke 17.3 6.5
Clifford Rozer Louisville 19.1 11.2
Tar Heels reached the Final Four.
"It almost feels selfish to think about yourself, but any award an individual gets points directly at the team," he said. "You want to go out every night and try to help the team play as hard as you can. This means a lot, though, because it shows people appreciate you and makes you want to play harder."
The second team includes Jalen Rose of Michigan, Corliss Williamson of Arkansas, Khalid Reeves of Arizona, Eric Montross of North Carolina and Melvin Booker of Missouri. It was Montross' second year in a row on the second team.
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The third team had Bryant Reeves of Oklahoma State, Murray, B.J. Tyler of Texas, Juwan Howard of Michigan and Damon Bailey of Indiana.
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NEW YORK — He is on the cover of "Sports Illustrated" wearing an Arkansas warmup jacket, and he's seen inside the magazine watching the team on television and in person. Also, there he is, posing for a photo with the Razorbacks.
President Clinton, former governor of Arkansas, is hog-wild about the Razorbacks, the nation's secondranked college basketball team and the top seed in the NCAA Midwest Regional tournament, which begins tomorrow.
Clinton is such a rabid Razack-backs rooter that he's planning to be at
Charlotte, N.C., next month if Arkansas makes it to the Final Four.
"If they go, I'm going," the president is quoted as saying in this week's SL. If not, "I just may go anyway," he said.
The president, who was a reserve on the Oxford University B team when he was a Rhodes Scholar from 1968 to 1970, talks as if he is a basketball junkie.
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— "It's a fabulous game, isn't it?" he said. "It makes me wish I wore two inches taller and 20 pounds lighter. With a 4-foot vertical jump, I could be doing something else."
— He was "a little too chunky and slow to be very commendable on the basketball court" at Oxford, he said.
— "If you look, you'll see Georgia's turnovers are 22 and Arkansas' points off turnovers are 31," he said, after watching on tape the Razorbacks' 95-83 victory against the Bulldogs in the quarterfinals of the recent Southeastern Conference tournament. " ... Here we are five minutes from the end of the game, we're up by five now. They are playing this half-court trap defense that worked very well. They got about three charges, which really helped them."
— And, on the Razorbacks' star player, Corliss Williamson: "He
reminds me of Larry Johnson when he was at UNLV," the president said. "The same kind of player, same abilities — he's always around the basket, he can always get open. On offense he can move people away who are a lot bigger than he is, or at least taller... He only plays about 27 minutes a game, which shows you how deep they are."
Sitting unopened in the Arkansas basketball office is a bottle of champagne that then Governor Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, sent coach Nolan Richardson in 1985.
"I hope he'll open it if he goes all the way." Clinton said.
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