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Stanford only unbeaten left
STANFORD, Calif. — Mike Montgomery doesn't want his basketball team aspiring to something unrealistic like absolute perfection.
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At the same time, the Stanford coach doesn't want to lose, either.
For the second time in four years, Montgomery's Cardinal are unbeaten in mid-January. It's a
tricky situation for a coach, and Montgomery sums it up for his players with a dictum that sounds more like Yogi Berra than John Wooden.
"We're not going to lose to anybody, but we're going to lose to somebody," Montgomery said.
"That's just the way you have to look at it. We don't go out there to do anything less than our best, but we still know that going unbeaten isn't something you can realistically say you'll do."
In fact, a perfect season is not often discussed at Stanford, even though the Cardinal are the nation's only school that still has a shot at what is perhaps college basketball's most difficult achievement. Indiana's 1975-76 team was the most recent to win every game.
Saturday's 72-44 victory against New Mexico pushed Stanford to 17-0 on the same day Georgetown, the only other unbeaten team, lost its first game, to Pittsburgh.
"We're just playing really great team basketball right now, and we have been all season," said Casey Jacobsen, the Cardinal's leading scorer with 17.9 points a game. "There are always going to be games where bad things happen to
you, but until somebody plays a great game against us and we slip a lot. I don't see us losing."
Stanford visits Washington tomorrow and Washington State on Saturday with the chance to tie and then surpass the school's best start to a season and its longest winning streak. The Cardinal began the 1997-98 season 18-0 and ended up in the Final Four.
Those are the kind of smaller goals Montgomery feels comfortable asking his team to pursue. Another smaller goal is the Pac-10 championship, which Stanford is trying to win for the third straight year.
Stanford beat then-No. 1 Duke 84-
83 in December with a frantic last-
minute rally after being outplayed
for most of the night. Two weeks ago, the Cardinal faced Arizona in Tucson while coach Lute Olson was away from his team, and Stanford got an 85-76 victory.
Every game in our league is tough, and the minute you stop believing that is when you go down," Montgomery said. "That's our goal, to stay on top of our conference."
cleared the two biggest hurdles on their schedule.
Still, it's hard to ignore that on paper the Cardinal already have
Several very difficult matchups remain, such as Arizona's visit to Maples Pavilion on March 8 or the annual trip to Southern California and UCLA. But barring a serious downturn in play, the Cardinal likely will be the favorites in every one of their remaining Pac-10 games.
"Honestly, our focus doesn't go beyond the next game," said point guard Mike McDonald. "We were completely focused on New Mexico, and now we'll be completely focused on Washington. We don't have time in our lives to start thinking about miracle seasons."
Drake ruling unpopular
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DES MOINES, Iowa — A judge ruled against two Drake basketball players seeking to be reinstated after they were declared academically ineligible.
The ruling yesterday by District Judge Eliza Ovrom probably ended any chance Lamont Evans and Dontae Smith, the team's starting guards, had of playing again this season.
Ovrom denied their request for a temporary injunction to prevent Drake from enforcing its grade-point eligibility requirement in their cases. Drake requires athletes to have a cumulative 2.0 grade-point average after each semester, a standard stricter than the NCAA rule.
An attorney for the two, Stephen Nielsen, said the next move had not been determined but there might not be enough time to do anything. Drake's final regular-season game is Feb. 26 and the team would be guaranteed at least one game in the
Missouri Valley Conference tournament, which begins March 2.
"That's a mere six, seven weeks hence." Nielsen said. "It would be unlikely we could get anything done prior to the end of the season, which would render it moot."
"I'm relieved the courts are affirming the institution's priorities, that academic standards are more important than basketball," said university president David Maxwell.
The reaction from Drake was relief.
Evans, a senior, and Smith, a junior, were among four Drake basketball players declared ineligible for the second semester because their grade-point averages fell below a 2.0. The others, Alberto Jempierre and Mike O'Neil, did not take their cases to court.
Ovrom, who heard the case in Polk County District Court last Friday, said for her to allow the players back on the team. Evans and Smith had to prove a "likelihood of success" in their request for a permanent injunction against the university. She said that standard had not been met.
At 11, were eligible under NCAA rules, the university said. Nielsen said Evans and Smith planned to continue their education at Drake.
Attorneys for the players argued both had a good chance of playing professional basketball and their chances of doing so would be irreparably harmed if they weren't on the court.
They also claimed the gradepoint rule had a disproportionate impact on black athletes, which violated federal civil rights law. They pointed out three of the four players declared ineligible were black, including Evans and Smith, and six of the seven scholarship players still on the team were white.
But Ovrom said that was not a large enough sampling to prove discrimination and noted no other evidence was offered on that point.
Georgia works for respect
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ATHENS, Ga. — Jim Harrick relaxed in his courtship chair, a satisfied look on his face, a tiny G pinned to his jacket. Suddenly, he seemed to right in at Georgia.
"The pieces are falling into place," said Harrick, the 62-year-old coach, nodding confidently while glancing down at a stat sheet documenting the Bulldogs' latest victory.
Harrick wore a pained look most of last season. He went back and forth on his decision to move south, then endured Georgia's worst year in more than two decades as it finished 3-13 in the Southeastern Conference, 10-20 overall.
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More important, Harrick's team is tied for first in the Southeastern Conference with sixth-ranked
But Harrick always has been a winner, whether it was Pepperdine, UCLA or Rhode Island. It appears his streak will remain intact at Georgia, which already has more victories than all of last season.
It's still early, of course, but there's no denying this is one of the most improved college basketball teams in the country. For the first time in school history, the Bulldogs (11-7, 4-1 SEC) posted back-to-back victories on the road against ranked teams, upsetting No. 19 Mississippi and No. 14 Florida.
Georgia moved into a tie for first by defeating undermanned Louisiana State 68-63 on Sunday. It wasn't pretty — the Bulldogs committed 10 turnovers before halftime and got a cumulative 6-of-21 shooting from their two best outside shooters, D.A. Layne and Ezra Williams.
But they persevered in the second half, committing just two turnovers and hitting 11 of 13 shots from inside the foul line.
worry about Lavne on the outside.
Louisiana State focused its defensive attention on Williams and Layne, freeing the Bulldogs to work inside to Evans, the 6-foot-7 center who equaled his season high with 21 points. Georgia is clearly a more versatile team than a year ago, when opponents only had to
worry about Layie on the outside. Still, Georgia is having trouble gaining recognition on a national level. The Bulldogs haven't been ranked in the Top 25 in more than three years and actually dropped a spot among the also-rans when the new poll came out Monday.
"We get no respect at all."
Williams said, undoubtedly aware that both Florida and Ole Miss were still in the Top 25.
While Georgia's overall record is not on par with the other ranked teams, it must be noted Harrick put his team through a brutal nonconference schedule.
The Bulldogs played No. 1 Stanford, No. 9 Wake Forest and No. 22 Fresno State, not to mention North Carolina State (ACC), California (Pac 10), Villanova (Big East), Utah (Mountain West) and Pepperdine (West Coast Conference). And only two of those games were played on Georgia's home court, Steglean Coliseum.
"You take a team on the road to learn how to play," Harris said. "It may be painful, but it helps you when adversity develops later on."
Commission challenges commercial sponsorship
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WASHINGTON — After meeting on and off for more than a decade, frustrated members of a commission trying to reform college sports promised a last effort at trying to rid it of some commercialism.
A session of the Knight Commission focused yesterday on shoe company deals, multimillion-dollar TV contracts and gambling on college sports.
Sonny Vacarro, Adidas' executive director of sports, said everyone deserved some blame.
"The biggest sin you ever made was taking our money because you sold your souls," he told the college presidents on the panel.
Thomas K. Hearn, Jr., president of Wake Forest, said his fellow members — college presidents and business and sports leaders — understood "we have met the enemy, and it is us."
"But confessing sin is not going to do us much good unless we take steps to redeem ourselves, and it's the steps we are trying to figure out," he said.
Executives from CBS, ABC and ESPN painted a mostly rosy picture of television's influence.
"There's enormous pressure to recoup our investment, no doubt about it, but I think there are certain safeguards in place," said Mike Aresco, CBS Sports' senior vice president of programming.
Frank Fahrenkopf Jr., head of the American Gaming Association, told the commission that just 1 percent of the nation's estimated $380 billion annual gambling on sports is legal and it occurs in Nevada.
Up to a third of all the illegal and legal gambling is on college sports, said Fahrenkopf, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee during the Reagan administration. He said the Justice Department would have to work with the NCAA to resolve the problem.
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