NCAA TOURNEY
INSIDE
Roy Williams arrived at Kansas just in time to serve someone else's jail term. He had to rebuild a wound in Kansas program
The results of his efforts come to fruition this weekend as Williams guides the Jayhawks into the Final Four for the first time since Kansas won the national title in 1988.
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Growing up in Clyde. New York, Terry Brown could be found playing on a basketball goal in the high school parking lot.
"In the summer he used to play kids three on one for soda money," Brown's high school coach said.
"If the kids guarded him too close, he would charge the goal, and if they laid off him, he would hit the jumper."
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The number of Mark Randa'l's awards and accomplishments is nearly equal to the number blazed across his insignia. This
week, he is on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
How does he respond to all of this praise and attention?
"I really don't have time to think about it right now."
When Kirk Wagner was recruited by Kansas in 1988, he was well aware of the success incess in year's. NCAA
tournament. But that wasn't the only attraction.
"I just liked the campus and the environment and the people." Warger said.
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Basketball and family.
the two w in d through Mike Maddox's life together
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turned down
offers from top
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Midwestern relatives and accepted a scholarship offer from Larry Brown of Kansas.
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Bon Klein/KANSAN
The 1988 NCAA basketball championship trophy is displayed in Allen Field House.
Final Four fight for opportunity to capture title
Philp Mering/KANSAN
By S. J. Bailey
Korean author
Kansas forward Alonzo Jamison looks for a passing opportunity.
And then there were four
College basketball fever will consume the nation this weekend as all eyes shift their focus to Indianapolis for the 1991 Final Four.
Sixty-four teams began the tournament three weeks ago. Most of them have been sent home dreaming of what could have been.
But tomorrow, Kansas, North Carolina, Duke and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas will have the opportunity to fight for the national championship.
The match-ups have been well publicized.
Kansas, led by third-year coach Roy Williams, will face North Carolina, where Williams honed his coaching skills for 10 years under the tutelage of "the dean" of college coaches. Dean Smith.
In the other bracket, it will be a duel between the participants of last year's NCAA championship game. The Duke Blue Devils may be hearing the theme from Jaws swimming through their heads as they prepare to face the Runnin' Rebels from UNLV, who trounced Duke last year 103-73 in the most lopsided title game in NCAA history.
For each of the four teams, the road to Indianapolis has been a difficult one.
The Runnin' Rebels buildozo through the regular season, ending the year at No. 1 with a perfect 30-0 record and the top seed in the West region.
But the tournament has not been all roses for the Rebels, who have struggled in each of their games against 16th-seeded Montana, eighth-seeded Georgetown, fourth-seeded Utah and third-seeded Seton Hall.
The Duke Blue Devils, on the other hand, have powered through the tournament after a 26-7 regular season record left them the Midwest region's second seed. The Blue Devils are no strangers to the Final Four. This will be their fourth consecutive trip and fifth in the past six years.
Tournament victories against 15th-seeded Northeast Louisiana, seventh-seeded Iowa. 11th-seeded Connecticut
and fourth-seeded St. John's have put the Blue Devils in position to avenge last year's embarrassing loss to the Rebels.
The Kansas Jayhawks, 27-7 during the regular season, would have to be considered this year's Cinderella team as they entered the Southeast region as the third seed behind the Razorbacks of Arkansas and the Hoosiers of Indiana.
But after struggling against 14h-seeded New Orleans and sixth-seeded Pittsburgh in the opening rounds of the tournament, the Jayhawks manhandled the second-seeded Hoosiers and the first-seeded Razorbacks, possibly making the Jayhawks the hottest team in the field of four.
This will be Kansas' third trip to the Final Four in the past six years, and the first since they claimed the NCAA title in 1988
But the Jayhawks will have to face another perennial tournament participant: the Tar Heels of North Carolina. Under the leadership of Dean Smith, the Tar Heels have reached the NCAA tournament 17 consecutive years and have advanced to the Final Four eight times in four decades. Smith is the only coach in NCAA history that can make that claim.
North Carolina entered the tournament as the East region's No. 1 seed after posting a 25-5 regular season record. Victories against 16th-seeded Northeastern, ninth-seeded Villanova, 12th-seeded Eastern Michigan and 10th-seeded Temple put the Tar Heels in position to go after their second NCAA championship under Smith.
Oddly enough, North Carolina also won a national title in 1957 by defeating the Javahaws in triple overtime.
The Kansas-North Carolina game will be televised tomorrow on CBS at 4:40 p.m. The UNLV-Duke contest will begin about 30 minutes after the conclusion of the first game. The title game will be played Monday evening at 8:10 p.m.
As they say in the other sport that made Indianapolis famous:" Gentlemen, start your engines."
Final Four 1991 NCAA Men's Basketball Championships Saturday: Kansas vs. North Carolina 4:39 p.m.
Monday: Championship game 8:10 p.m.
Coach: Roy Williams
Starters: PPG RPG
F Alonzo Jamison 10.7 6.4
F Mike Maddox 7.4 2.9
C Mark Randall 14.9 5.9
G Terry Brown 6.4 3.4
G Adonis Jordan 12.3 3.1
notes: Kansas (26-7) will make its third trip to the Final Four in six years. Williams, in his third year at Kansas, has compiled a 75-24 record. The Hawks finished 12th nationally this season.
Coach: Dean Smith
Starters: PPG RPG
F George Lynch 12.4 7.4
F Rick Fox 17.0 6.6
C Pete Chilcutt 12.2 6.5
G King Rice 8.3 1.8
G Hubert Davis 13.0 2.4
notes: North Carolina (29-5) will make its seventh trip to the Final Four under the legendary Smith. In 30 years with the Tar Heels, Smith has compiled an overall record of 717-208.
Coach: Jerry Tarkanian
Starters: PPG RPG
F Larry Johnson 23.0 10.8
F Stacey Augmon 16.9 7.3
C George Ackles 8.3 5.8
G Anderson Hunt 16.9 1.5
G Greg Anthony 11.4 2.5
notes: UNLV (34-0) will try to defend the national title. Tarkanian is in his 18th year at UNL title. Tarkanian is in his 826; he is 811-145 (848) overall in his 30th year of coaching.
Coach: Mike Krzyzewski
Starters: PPG RPG
F Greg Koubek 6.1 2.9
F Grant Hill 11.2 5.0
C Christian Laettner 19.6 8.7
G Bobby Hurley 11.3 2.4
G Thomas Hill 11.9 3.7
notes: Duke (30-7) makes its fourth straight trip to the Final Four. Krzyzewski has a 261-108 record after 11 seasons at Duke and a 25-7 NCAA tournament record.