SPORTS
The University Daily
KANSAN
March 26, 1984 Page 14
United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Dayton guard Larry Schellenberg rejects this layup by Georgetown's David Wingate. However, the Hoyes ended Dayton's dream with a 61-49 victory yesterday. Georgetown will face Kentucky in the NCAA semifinals Saturday in Seattle.
Final Four picture complete
Houston, Georgetown advance
By United Press International
But the Demon Deacons refused to fold and scrambled back on 20-foot jumpers by Danny Young, who scored six points, and the baseline at 51.4 yards, with ten point shots, to the close up to 53-51 with 8:42 left.
All roads in college basketball now lead to Seattle.
He scored seven points during the next five minutes to shoot Houston out in front. 54-37
With No. 5 Houston's 68-63 victory over Wake Forest yesterday and No. 2 Georgetown's 61-49 victory over Dayton, the Final Four of the NCAA championship is set.
ST. LOUIS — Akeem Olajuwan's 29 points and an inspired second-half performance by Michael Young gave No. 5 Houston a 68-63 victory over Wake Forest in the NCAA Midwest Regional championship game and a berta in the Final Four for the third straight year.
WAKE FOREST coach Carl Tacy tried four different defenders — Lee Garber, Anthony Toms, Mark Cline and Danny Young — on Michael Young in the second half, but all were frustrated by a series of devastating picks by Ricky Winslow and Reid Gettsch that shook the third team All-America forward open for his shots.
Houston 68. Wake Forest 63
Close-range field goals by Anthony Treachey and Green offset a dunk by Olajuwan, and Wake Forest had two opportunities to tie the game. Matt Kwame and Sam Duncan out of bounds, and Danny Young's pass on a
The Southwest Conference champion Cougars will face another Atlantic Coast Conference school, Virginia, in the NCAA semifinal round in Seattle Saturday.
Garber sank a pair of free throws 27 seconds into the second half to cut the Houston lead to 38-26.
Young scored 13 of his 15 points in the second half to propel Houston to a school record-tying 31st victory of the season, its 15th triumph in the last 16 games.
2. on-1 fast break was intercepted by Michael Young
YOUNG AND TEACHEY exchanged lessons, leaving Wake Forest behind, 57-55, with 5:24 remaining. The Deacons then went the next four minutes without scoring.
Houston capitalized with six consecutive points with a Michael Young foul shot of his own miss, a short turnaround jumper by Olaijaum and a pair of free throws by Winslow to move into a comfortable 63.5 lead before Cline ended the match with a 22-foot jumper from the left corner.
LOS ANGELES — All-American Pat Ewong scored 15 points and grabbed seven rebounds yesterday, helping No. 2 Georgetown reach the Final Four and end Dayton's dream with a 69-49 victory in the NCAA West Regional championship game.
The Hoyas, the top seed in the West, will meet third-ranked Kentucky Saturday at Seattle
Georgetown 61. Dayton 49
Houston missed the front end of three 1- and 1-situations in the final 90 seconds and allowed the Deacons to climb back within four on two occasions.
Dayton, a 7-7 club until a shuffled lineup enabled the Flyers to put ranked team after ranked team on the deck, ended its cinderella season at 21-1. Georgetown improved to 32-3.
THE FLYERS SCORED the first four points of the second half before a Georgetown run of 15-5 decided the outcome. Ewing, frustrated in the first half by the defense of Dayton center Ed scored from down low and Michael Jackson hit the left corner for a 34-28 Hoya advantage.
After Roosevelt Chapman scored on a dunk off a steal, Bill Martin answered for Georgetown with a basket following an offensive rebound. The lone blocker was Reggie Williams hit a jumper for Georgetown.
CHAPMAN MANAGED to connect on only one of two foul shots with 11:47 remaining and Ewing then gave the Hoyas a 41-33 lead with a ferocious two-hand jam and free throw. Ralph Dalton's tip-in and Williams' 10-footer increased the advantage to 45-33.
Michael Graham followed with three consecutive dunks to send the Hows to the Final Four.
ST. LOUIS — Akeem Olajuwon prepares to dunk while Wake Forest's Dolaney Rudd tries to get out of his way. Olajuwon scored 29 points on 14-of-16 shooting yesterday to lead Houston to a 68-63 victory and its third straight berth in the Final Four.
Virginia, Kentucky relax after victories Ralph's gone but Cavs win
By United Press International
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
University of Virginia Coach Terry Holland has six days to prepare his team for the NCAA Final Four in Houston. The captain he's simply enjoying the Cinderella night in Atlanta.
After a devastating and unexpected victory over Indiana Saturday in Atlanta, Virginia proved they didn't need Aliph Sampson to make a play.
The Cavaliers will take on powerful Houston in Seattle. Houston defeated Wake Forest Sunday to reach the finals.
AS THE INCREDIBLY calm Holland watched the post-game pandemonium erupt all around him in Atlanta following the upset over Indiana, he may have reflected on the scientific nature of the basketball fates.
All the forecasts said Virginia, with a 17-11 record going into the NCAA tournament Eastern Regionals, couldn't pull it off this year — the year after Sampson graduated. With Sampson as center, the NCAA Finals had eluded Holland for two years.
But Virginia slipped past Iona by one point, grabbed an overtime victory over Arkansas and then ran
over Syracuse and Pearl Washington to enter the Eastern Regional finals.
"I am not as good a coach as I will be made out to be for this accomplishment," said Holland, and not only did he have the last year when we did not, "o
The planets were aligned, the stars were all in the right place for Virginia.
"I DO BELIEVE that Somebody un there likes us." Holland said.
In Charlottesville, a lot of folks like the Cavaliers, and one fan who will be paying particular attention to the team will be Bob Rotella, the head of UVA's sports psychology department.
Rotella leads the team in "relaxation training" to rid them of tensions and enable them to get a night's sleep before the big game.
Illini upset bid falls short
"It certainly doesn't guarantee you will win." Rotella said, "but it gives you a chance, a little edge to play and play your best basketball."
"We will rehearse things in our mind like going out and playing with great intensity from the beginning of the game until the end." Rotella said. "Or we might rehearse seeing ourselves execute on offense and defense or we play the last few minutes of a game."
And the Wildcats weren't just being polite or gracious in the flush of their 54-31 victory over the Illini AA Mideast championship Saturday.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky's third-ranked Wildcats just couldn't say enough nice things about No. 6 Illinois.
By United Press International
Even though the Wildcats were taller, faster, deeper in bench strength and probably more talented than the Illini, even though they were playing on their home Rupp Arena court before more than 20,000 screening, adoring fans, they were lucky to win the game and a berth in the Final Four next weekend in Seattle.
They had, in all honesty, been impressed, probably even frightened by Illinois' effort.
And well they should have been, because the bare facts of the contest were impossible for them to ignore.
A couple mistakes and a couple bad breaks in the final frantic moments Saturday were all that prevented Illinois from pulling on an upset. And though Illini Coach Lou Henson declined comment,
some experts and observers also will argue that questionable calls against the Illini and lack of the Kentucky contributed to the outcome.
Even though the Wildcats were able to take control of the boards in the second half, and even though they were in the bonus foul situation the last 6:13 of the game, they found themselves physically exhausted clinging to a two-point lead, 50-48 with less than a minute to play.
Illinois' goal was to wear the windlows down to a point of vulnerability by making them play long and difficult. And the theory was the right one.
"I want to compliment Illinois."
Kentucky Coach Joe B. Hall said.
"They played us tough. They would
good representative to the Final Four.
The Illini, who finished at 26.5, only led once in the game, at 5-4, but they dictated their own patient pace on the entire contest.
But Illinois allowed a crack to open in its previously unpenetrable defense, and Kentucky guard Dicky Beal, at 5-foot-11 the smallest player on the team, slipped through for an easy lapup and a 54-50 lead
Football assistant resigns. takes job at Iowa State
By MATT DeGALAN Staff Reporter
KU assistant football coach John Fox resigned Friday to accept a coaching job at Iowa State, leaving heard football coach Steve Miles as the only two assistants on the eve of spring drills.
Gottried said the positions probably wouldn't be filled until after spring practices had ended in late April. He said, however, that the shortage of coaches would not hamper spring practices, which begin tomorrow.
Besides the position vacated by Fox,
KU is also lacking a recruiting coordinator.
LAST SEASON, Fox coached the defensive secondary, but in February, Gottfried made several changes in the defense. Fox and Fowx was moved to receiver coach
At Iowa State. Fox will coach the defensive secondary.
Throughout his playing and coaching career, Fox has been involved with the defense. Gottfried said he thought that Fox had decided to leave because he wanted to continue to coach the defensive secondary.
Gottfried said the pay raise Iowa
State had offered Fox also influenced his decision to leave the Jayhawk coaching staff. He also said he wasn't worried that Fox position with Iowa would give him an opponent, would give the Cyclones an inside track on KU's game plan.
"Sure, we well-wear of our system, but we'll both have played five games."
BY MID-SEASON, he said, both teams will have had the chance to scout each other, thus reducing the importance of Fox' knowledge of KU's game plan.
In 1979 he was defensive coordinator at United States International in California A year later he coached defensive backs at Bose State In 1980 he coached defensive backs at Long Beach State
Fox served in 1982 as a defensive coach for Utah and came to KU the following year.
Jayhawks try for split today at Quigley
Fox began his coaching career at San Diego State, his alma mater, in 1977 and has coached at six schools in seven years. He hasn't spent more than one season with any team since his career, especially with San Diego State in 1977 and 1978.
KU's bats fall silent as Oklahoma wins 2
By PHIL ELLENBECKER
Sports Writer
The Kansas baseball team, 9-8, got off to a shaky start in the Big Eight conference race with a pair of shutout home games. Oklahoma yees terday at Quileguy Field.
OU, 18.4, won the first game, 19.0,
and the second game, 5-0 KU will try to
salvage a split in the series when they
lose. The team has a double-bearer starting at 12:30 p.m.
KU HEAD COACH Marty Pattin said
Kroeker is 1-1 on the year with a 270 earned run average while Copley is 1-1 on the year.
Kevin Kroeker would start the first game and Dennis Coplan would start the second game if his sorter left elbow. Hosman will start if Coplan isn't read.
The Jayhawks managed only three hits in each game yesterday against OU starting pitchers Bobby Witt and Mike Santiago.
Witt, a redshirt freshman, walked three batters and struck out six in the first game and ran his record to 4-1. He
had 40 strikeouts and 27 walks in 28
innings coming into the game.
"THE GUY IN the first game threw the ball harder than anybody we've seen this year, but the guy in the second game was no different from what we've seen all year." KU stoplight Joe Heeney said. "We just weren't aggressive enough at the plate. We were taking a lot of pitches we shouldn't have been taken. We haven't been outside in over a week so that hurt us."
Witt had a fastball clocked at over 90 mph and a slider clocked in the middle
Jayhawk first baseman Phil Doherty slides back into first as Oklahoma's loe Neely digs out the ball. The Sooners swept KU, 19-0 and 5-0, in yesterday's double-header at Quigley Field. The two teams will meet again today.
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Chuck Christenson, Rob Thomson and Phil Dohrhoff had the only Jayhawk hits in the first game, and Christenson had the only extra-base hit, a double.
Pattin tried four different pitchers in the game. Starter John Heeney, 1-2 on the year, gave up five runs, three earned, in $1\frac{3}{4}$ innings and took the loss. He was relieved by Brett Morris, who gave up four runs, three earned, in two innings before giving way to John Quinn.
QUINN GAVE UP ten runs, eight of them in the seventh innings and only five of them earned, in $3^{th}$ innings. He had the only shutout inneting of the game for the Jayhawks. John Schneider came on to get the final out in the seventh.
OU had 20 hits, seven of them for extra bases and three of them home runs. The first game was scheduled for June 16 but after seven because of the ten-run rule.
In the seven-inning second game, KU starter and loser Charlie Buzard, 1-2 on the year, shut out the Sooners for the first four innings, but gave up five runs, only two of them earned, in the final three innings.
"Charlie pitched a heck of a ball-game, but when you make throwing errors behind him like we did, it's kind of tough to win." Pattin said.
BUZARD HAD STARTED against the Sooners last week at the Pan American tournament in Edinburgh, where he gave up five earned runs in 2:13 innings.
"He got the ball in the strike zone today." OU coach Enos Messe said in explaining the difference between Buzard's performance last week and yesterday. "When he gets that curve he touches his to tough. He's got good stuff."
KU had only two runners in scoring position in the game against Santiago, who ran his record to 4-0. Hugh Stanfield tripped in the second with two out, but was left stranded on a pop-up by Christenson.
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Thomson, who had the other two KU hits, led off the seventh with a single and moved to second after Heeney walked, but consecutive flyouts by Dan Christie, Mike Ingram and Todd Siegert ended the game.
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