12 University Daily Kansan Sports Tuesday, April 1, 1986 Louisville knocks off No.1 Duke Punishing defense helps lead Cards to national crown DALLAS — Louisville freshman Pervis Ellison goes up for a rebound against Duke's Johnny Dawkins and Jay Bilas Ellison was named the tournament's outstanding player after his team defeated Duke last night in the NCAA championship game. Chris Magerl/KANSAN United Press International DALLAS — Freshman Pervis Ellison struck for 25 points last night to help Louisville complete its remarkable ascent to the pinnacle of college basketball, defeating Duke 72-69 to win the NCAA championship. In capturing its second National Collegiate Athletic Association title, Louisville deposed the country's No. 1 team — a squad that had won 21 straight games, had not lost in more than two months and had established a national record for most victories in a single season with 37. The No. 7 Cardinals offest the scoring of Duke All-American Johnny Dawkins and the punishing defense of Tommy Amaker with the inside pitch. A million Louisville concluded in triumph a season that began forbiddingly The Cardinals were 11-6 before rampaging through the rest of the schedule. Louisville won 20 of its last 22 games, ran off a first streak of 17 in a row and finished at 32-7, becoming the first school to win two titles in this decade. Louisville 72 Duke 69 Louisville | | M | FG | FT | R | A | F | Tp | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Crook | 32 | 5-9 | 0-1 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 10 | | Thompson | 31 | 6-8 | 1-3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | | Ellison | 35 | 10-14 | 1-3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 25 | | Hailer | 30 | 2-4 | 0-1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | | McSwan | 13 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | | Walls | 6 | 0-1 | 0-2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 | | Kimbro | 14 | 0-4 | 0-2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | | McCain | 29 | 14-12 | 1-2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 72 | Otrls 23-50 42-70 70-100 Percentages: FG. 580, FT. 667. Duke M MG FG FT A R A F TP Henderson 28 5-15 4-4 4 7 4 5 14 Alarie 33 4-11 4-4 4 6 0 5 14 Bias 32 4-11 4-4 4 6 0 5 14 Brakes 38 10-19 0-4 4 7 0 4 14 Dawkins 40 10-19 4-4 4 4 0 1 24 Ferry 20 1-2 1-2 4-4 4 0 4 1 24 Williams 2 0-1 0-0 0-0 4 0 0 0 King +13 1-3 0-0 0-0 27 12 0 Roberts 28 10-19 0-21 0-0 27 12 0 totals Percentages: FG: 403, FT: 918, Haff: 62% Percentages: FG. 403, FT 938, 'Nishf- Duke 73-34. Officials: Nichols, Rutledge HP The Cardinals led 70-65 with 27 seconds to go after a pair of foul shots by Ellison. They then had to sweat out the last 30 seconds as Duke surged. Jay Blas delivered a layup with 19 seconds left to cut the lead to 70-67. Billy Thompson of Louisville then missed the front end of a 1-and-1, giving the Blue Devils a chance. Danny Ferry, the reserve freshman center who hit the winning basket in Saturday's semifinal game against Kansas, put in a follow shot after a scramble in the lane with three seconds to play to cut the Louisville lead to one point. Milt Wagner, the Cardinal's senior guard who had a definite off night, was fouled and converted both free throws, putting Louisville ahead 72-69 with two seconds to go. The game ended on a discordant note as Hall attempted a final layup. Ferry slashed at the Louisville player, and Hall hurled the ball at Ferry as the celebrating Cardinals charged the court. "It's over," shouted Louisville guard Jeff Hall. He then secured the victory by stealing the final inbound pass. In rallying past Duke in the second half, the Cardinals were able to neutralize the pressure man-to-man defense which helped the Blue Devils compile a 37-3 record this season. Ellison with 11 rebounds and Herbert Crook with 12 helped Louisville dominate the boards 39-27 in a game that matched two extraordinarily quick defensive teams. And no one was quicker than Dawkins. He frequently left defenders in hopeless pursuit as he broke for his left-handed jumper or drove through the lane. Dawkins made a pair of free throws with 3:08 remaining to move the Blue Devils ahead 65-64. Those were the last points Duke scored until Bilas converted with 19 seconds left. Thompson then hit from the lane to put Louisville up 66-65 and the Cardinals went into a stall. After David Henderson and Dawkins missed for Duke, Ellison followed up a shot from the lane to make it 68-65 with 41 seconds to play. Henderson missed a layup on the next possession, and Ellison then sank two free throws to put the Cardinals ahead by five with just a half minute to go. Dawkins finished with 24 points, Mark Alarie hit for 12 and Amaker had 11 points, seven assists and seven steals. Thompson scored 13 points for the Cardinals with Herbert Crook adding 10. Wagner was limited to nine points. He did not score his first field goal until 5:33 remained, on a three-point play that put Louisville ahead 61-60. Duke fell short in its bid to cap a near-perfect season. "You can talk about our great year, but we didn't win the big one," said guard David Henderson. "We felt positive about our game. But the shots didn't fall and that's what counts." Dawkins said. "You have to give Louisville credit. They broke us down at the end." "We took our shots when we had them," said Henderson, who missed 10 of 15 attempts. "We didn't do Duke also had foul trouble. anything different. If we had good shots, we took them." "For me, I think some of the calls were questionable," Bilas said. "They were not fouls on the ball, but on screens. I don't think that was a major factor. We still had a chance to win the game. We didn't score the points. "The thing is that nobody remembers who finished second. I hope history will be kind to us." Freshman leads way on offense By Frank Hansel Associate sports editor DALLAS — Louisville freshman center Pervis Ellison, who had played in the shadow of seniors Milt Wagner, Jeff Hall and Billy Thompson, grabbed the spotlight last night in the Cardinals' 72-69 NCAA championship victory over Duke at Retirement Arena. Ellison became the first freshman since Arnie Ferrin of Utah in 1944 to be named the tournament's most outstanding player. He scored a game-high 25 points, including four crucial points in the last 39 seconds that helped Louisville to maintain the lead that Duke had held for most of the game. Ellison kept the Cardinals in the game in the first half by scoring 12 points and grabbing five rebounds. Duke led 37-34 at halftime. "We knew they had an advantage in quickness and we had a height advantage at one spot," Louisville head coach Denny Crum said. "We took advantage of the height with Pervis. He made two or three key plays in the second half." Duke head coach Mike Krzewzki said the Blue Devils played well defensively but they weren't able to block out as well as they should have. In the second half, Ellison connected on five of six shots from the floor and had six rebounds. "Ellison was terrific, and he couldn't stop him," Krzyezwski said. "We took their guards out of the game, but he's such inside threat." Louisville guards Wagner and Hall scored nine and four points respectively, but the front line of Ellison, Crook and Thompson combined for 48 points. Ellison also used his height advantage to alter Duke's inside shots. "In the first half I was trying to get good position on defense and that caused me to get some early fouls and that limited my play as far as trying to block shots," Ellison said. The foul trouble didn't limit Ellison's scoring. As a result, Louisville has a national championship and its star center for three more years. Questions abound after Javhawk defeat Rv Frank Hansel Associate sports editor DALLAS — Kansas basketball fans will have plenty of time to talk about the Jayhawks 71-67 loss to Duke on Saturday afternoon in Reunion Arena. Most of the conversations probably will begin with the question, "What if?" What if Danny Manning had more points than fouls? Manning, Kansas' all-everything forward who averaged 17 points a game during the season, was held to just four points on two-of-nine shooting from the field. Duke forward Mark Alarie was the primary hitter for the 6-foot-11 sophomore was unable to get on track offensively. "I didn't stop him by myself," Alarie said Sunday. "I worked very hard, but my teammates did their part too. I was very happy with my performance yesterday and I never thought I'd say that about a 12-point game, but points aren't anything." Manning's baskets came at the 18:36 mark of the first half and later with 4:23 left in the game. In between, all Manning did was get into foul with 10:35 left and went to the bench for the rest of the first half. Kansas head coach Larry Brown said, "We were in the game. Greg (Drelling) was in foul trouble, Cedric (Hunter) was in foul trouble, and I was just hoping to buy some time. I would have come back if we had got six or eight points down, and I thought we were losing it." Manning said the loss was a hard one. "Alarie always had a hand in my face, but I took some shots that I shouldn't have," he said. "It was a tough way to go out." Dreiling, who only played 16 minutes in Kansas' NIT loss to Duke, once again got into foul trouble What if Dreiling and Hunter also had kent out of foul trouble? against the Blue Devils. Dreiling picked up his first foul just 17 seconds into the game and had two fouls by half time. He had only four points. He was one of six from the field and two of two from the free-throw line. "Usually one of us (Dreiling or Manning) will bust out and do something," Dreiling said. "What a time to have a bad game." In the second half, Dreiling scored only two points while picking up three fouls. He fouled out with 5-41 remaining and the score tied at 61-61. Hunter, who was assigned to guard Duke All-American Johnny Dawkins, went to the bench with his third foul with 9:56 left in the first half. Mark Turgeon replaced him in the lineup. Brown said, "If you would have told me that we would have stayed in the game with Greg and Danny 3-of-16 and in foul trouble, I would have said you were crazy." With Turgeon in, Kansas was forced to play a zone defense, something the Jayhawks prefer not to do. Turgeon, who only played in the final seconds of the Midwest Regional Final against North Carolina State, played the remainder of the first half In the second half, Hunter got into more foul trouble, and Brown was once again forced to take him out. Turgeon, who was hounded by Duke guard Tommy Amaker's full-court pressure throughout the game, got winded in the second half, and Brown had to go to his third point guard, Altonio Campbell, who had only been used in a mop-up roll this season. "I just got tired out there," Turgeon said. "I tried to fake an injury, but the referee wouldn't buy it." What if Kellogg had made the short jump shot with 11 seconds left and the foul had been called on Duke forward Danny Ferry? Or what if Kellogg had made the 16-foot jump shot with four seconds left? After Ferry picked up a loose ball and scored with 22 seconds left, Kellogg had two chances to give the Jayhawks new life. The first came with 11 seconds left and Kansas trailing 69-67. Kellogg drove the baseline and put up a six-foot jumper before crashing into Ferry. Referee Paul Galvan called Kellogg for charging. "It was a charge after the shot," Galvan said. Kellogg said he just wanted to penetrate and make something happen when Ferry stepped in front of him. The call could have gone either way. Ferry agreed. After Ferry missed the front end of a one-and-one, Kellogg had another "Kellogg came down the baseline, and it's my job to go over and give weak-side help," Ferry said. "Taking a charge is the only thing I could do because I'm not much of a shotblocker. The ref called 'charge' to us real softly, so I knew it was a charge right away." encance to tie the score. This time, his 16-foot jumper was short, and Amaker had the rebound and Duke had the win. "It was a bad shot," Kellogg said. "I should have drove a little more. It was a bad shot." Kellogg's miss closed the door on the Jayhawk's most winning season. Kansas finished 35-4 and made its first trip to the Final Four since 1974. But now, the only thing Kansas fans can do is to look back and ask "What if?" Duke 71, Kansas 67 Kansas (77) Boyle 14, 4-Kelby 10, 1-0-22, Drilling 1-4-6- Harmer 2-4, Thompson 3-5, 13-Manshail 8-1-1-5, Turgon 10, 2-Piper 10, 2-Campbell 0-0-0, Hull 0- 0, Totals 29-9 12-17 Henderson 3-7 8-13, Alamei 4-4 12-1, Bale 1-5 7-7 Jaarel 3-2 4-7, Dawkins 31-14, Dawkins 2-1, Gishland 0-0 10- Fouled 4-1 8, King 0-0 10- Fouled 4-1, King 0-0 10- Duke 14, Kesner 26, Fouled out—Manning, Dreiling, Hunter, Rounds—Duke 26 (Abire 8), Kesner 26, Rounds—Duke 26 (Abire 8), Kesner 26 (Tupagenon 8), Technology—None. Marshall's knee will be operated on Bv a Kansan sports writer DALLAS — Kansas forward Archie Marhsall, who was injured in the second half of Kansas' 71-67 loss to Duke Saturday at Reunion Arena, will undergo arthroscopic surgery tomorrow to determine the extent of his injury, Dave Lucey, Kansas trainer, said last night. "We'll get an accurate diagnosis on Wednesday." Lucey said. "That will tell us what, if any, surgical procedure will be necessary and what the recovery period will be." Lucey said Marshall suffered possible torn ligaments in his right knee. Marshall injured his knee after he scored on a fast-break layup to put Kansas ahead 59-55 with 8 minutes, 10 seconds left in the game. "I applied pressure on my right leg to go up and I felt it twist," Marshall said. "When I landed on it I knew something was wrong." Turgeon provided some relief to the foul-plagued Jayhawks By Frank Hansel DALLAS — A teary-eyed Mark Turgeon walked slowly off the Reunion Arena court, while Altonic Campbell tried to console him. Associate sports editor That seemed to sum up Kansas' 71-67 loss to Duke on Saturday in a national semifinal. The Jayhawks had just lost a heart-breaking game, but it was not because of Turgeon's effort. Foul trouble was not uncommon to Kansas, especially for Greg Dreiling and Danny Manning, but for point guard Cedric Hunter, it had not been a problem, until Saturday. Hunter, who guarded Duke All-American Johnny Dawkins, picked up three quick fouls, and Kansas head coach Larry Brown had to play Turreon more than usual. Turgeon had started during his freshman year when Hunter was academically ineligible, but in the past two years he has been relegated to giving Hunter rest periods during games and providing the Jayhawks with late-game ball handling. Saturday, however, he was called upon to lead the Jayhawk offense while Hunter and his three fouls sat on the bench. "I was just talking to my Dad yesterday and told him that I might not play at all," Turgeon said. "In the North Carolina State game, I played just 36 seconds, but I'm always ready. I work hard going against Cedric and Shotgun (Campbell) everyday, and they keep me ready." One thing Turgeon wasn't ready to do was guard Dawkins. Brown said earlier in the week that Hunter was the only Jayhawk who could match-up with Dawkins. So when Turgeon was in the game, Kansas went to its seldom-use zone defense. The only time the Jayhawks reverted back to the man-to-man was when Dawkins was out of the line-up. The Jayhawks stayed in the game with Turgeon running the offense. The Jayhawks trailed 15-12 when Turgeon entered the game, and Duke was unable to increase its lead by the end of the half. Turgeon had two assists and two fouls but only one turnover against the constant defensive pressure from Blue Devil guard Tommy Amaker. Hunter picked up his four foul with 17:30 left in the game, and Turgeon was called on once again to lead the Kansas offense. The pressure by Amaker began to take its toll on Turgeon, and Brown inserted Campbell, the third-string point guard. In the minute he played, Campbell committed one turnover, he was stripped of the ball by Amaker. But he also had one assist and one blocked shot. Turgeon returned after the quick rest until Hunter was able to come back into the game with 10:46 left. "I don't have as much talent as other guys out there and I haven't played that much this year," Turgeon said. "I was just trying to show them if a guy like me can go on there and do the things I was doing, then they can believe in themselves as well." Hunter fouled out with one second left. DALLAS — KU guard Mark Turgeon was consolled by teammate Altona Campbell after the Jayhawks' 71-67 loss to Duke Saturday. 1