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Monday, March 17,1997
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"Those were two huge plays," forward Paul Pierce said. "We felt we had the momentum going into the half."
Despite controlling the momentum going into the intermission, Purdue quickly cut into the Jayhawks' 10-point lead. Forward Brian Cardinal and center Brad Miller led the Boilermakers charge as Purdue muscled it's way to the 63-52 lead with 9:54 left in the game. Vaughn's three pointer, along with guard Billy Thomas' two strikes from beyond the arc, sealed the victory for the Jayhawks.
Thomas finished the game with nine points, 3 for 4 from the three-point line.
"Everybody on this team has a role." Thomas said. "And I was just fortunate enough to step up and hit a few shots."
Vaughn, who has yet to miss the third round of the NCAA Tournament, expects the Jayhawks to improve from their first two games.
"Hopefully we can build on this game," Vaughn said. "Hopefully we can just continue to build momentum as we go further in the tournament."
Purdue guard Chad Austin, who led the Boilermakers in scoring, said that the Jayhawks' experience gave Kansas an edge.
"It was a tough game because they are such a veteran team," Austin said. "It was a combination of things: Kansas playing such good defense and the way they played with pressure."
Despite fighting a cold and having a 100-degree temperature on Friday night, Vaughn scored 12 points and dished out nine assists. Vaughn said that regardless of the illness he wasn't sitting out an NCAA Tournament game.
"Unless Coach would have hand-cuffed me and left me in the locker room, I was going to fight him until I got out there," Vaughn said.
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tion, Thomas got involved in the Lighthouse Education and Enrichment Center, and she guided him to one of the premier high schools in Shreveport. Thomas flourished at Loyola Prep, averaging 28 points a game, and then Kansas recruited him. The rest is history.
"She's been a friend of mine since I was in the fourth or fifth grade," Thomas said. "I really can't express what she's meant to me."
Flournoy said that she tries to make at least one of Thomas' games a year. By selecting Saturday's Kansas-Purdue game, he got to witness perhaps Thomas' finest clutch performance.
Thomas scored all nine of his points by shooting 3 of 4 from beyond the three-point arc. With
first-team All American forward Raef LaFrentz sitting on the bench with four fouls, Thomas drained two three pointers in the final seven minutes to hold off the Boilermakers upset bid.
And no one cheered louder than the Flournows.
"We've shot baskets ab.ny house," Alex Flournoy said, "Kansas is my favorite team."
"Yeah, mine too," chimed in his younger sister, Tallie Flournoy.
"There'll be quite a few to watch Billy in Birmingham," Melissa Flournay said. "Billy has quite a fan club."
Melissa Flournoy said that Thomas' supporters would increase by the next game, which will be played on Friday in Birmingham, Ala., against Arizona.
And beyond Birmingham?
"We're going to go to watch Billy ii Indianapolis in two weeks," Melissa Flournoy said.
Kansas' Billy Thomas fends off Purdue's Michael Robinson in an attempt to complete a pass.
Colts head to Kentucky Derby
HALLANDALE, Fla. — Pulpit and Captain Bodigit are headed for Kentucky but not in the roles expected of them before the Florida Derbv.
By Ed Schuyler, Jr.
The Associated Press
Instead of the all-conquering hero, Pulpit now is a once-beaten colt with questions to answer.
Captain Bodigit is the winner of the Florida Derby, a major stepping stone to the Kentucky Derby, and an experienced colt to be reckoned with.
Pulpit, who finished second in the Florida Derby Saturday at Gulfstream Park, will be shipped Tuesday to Churchill Downs, where trainer
Frank Brothers' stable will be based. The Claiborne Farm colt is expected to start in the Blue Grass April 12 at Keeneland.
Captain Bodigit will be sent to Keeneland April 1 for the Blue Grass, which would be his third straight race against Pulpit.
When Pulpit won the 1 1-16-mile Fountain of Youth Feb. 22 at Gulfstream, Captain Bodgit finished a fast-closing third, two lengths back after having been 21 lengths off the lead after a half mile.
The farthest off the lead Captain Bodigit was in the Florida Derby was 10 1/2 lengths. At end of the 11/8 miles, he was 2 1/2 lengths ahead of
Pulpit. It was the first win in three starts this year for the Team Valor colt but his sixth victory in nine career starts. He finished third in each of his losses.
"The last time (at the Fountain of Youth) he got a little too far back," trainer Gary Capuano said. "He probably ran a better race last time with what he had to overcome."
The Kentucky Derby picture will take shape in the next four weeks, with the running of the Jim Beam on March 29 at Turfway Park, the Santa Anita Derby on April 5 and the Blue Grass, Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park and Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 12.
Cardinals' pitcher gets six-game suspension
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Honesty probably was not the best policy for St. Louis Cardinals pitcher T.J. Mathews, who received a six-game suspension for throwing at a Cincinnati Reds player.
The Associated Press
"I definitely think it's real excessive," manager Tony La Russa said.
don't think President Coleman has had enough time to look at everything that was involved and not involved."
La Russa said
Bass says that Mathews, 27, hasn't decided whether to appeal the suspension, which was handed down Friday and includes a $2,000 fine, but said that he hoped his pitcher would. General manager Walt Jocketty said that the team likely would pay Mathews during the suspension, which begins April 1, the date of the regular-season opener at Montreal.
"The punishment already is severe enough. Jockettie said.
Mathews refused an interview request before yesterday's exhibition game against the Toronto Blue Jays. La Russa did enough talking for his pitcher, who led Cardinals relievers with 83 2-3 innings in 60 games last year, mostly as a setup man. He was 2-6 with six saves and a 3.01 ERA.
"Hopefully when some of the things are explained, there will be some kind of a modification," La Russa said. "If not, that definitely sets a precedent. When you hit somebody in the butt, you're out six days."
Mathews plunked Cincinnati Reds Bret Boone with a pitch on Wednesday, after throwing one behind Boone.
"I felt like hitting somebody, so I hit somebody," Mathews said, admitting his intent. "They're a pretty arrogant team. I don't like that at all."
Cincinnati's Deion Sanders, who came out of the dugout to yell at Mathews, was not penalized. La Russa was mad about that, too.
The Cardinals' Brian Jordan was grazed by Scott Sullivan's pitch in the sixth inning, and St. Louis' Tom Pagnozzi was hit on the right wrist by Mike Remlinger in the seventh.
La Russa said that Pagnozzi nearly got beamed when he ended up getting hit on the wrist.
La Russa also said that Mathews became incensed.
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