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Wednesday, February 5, 1997
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Texas downs Texas Tech
The Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas and No. 23 Texas Tech figured to have an offensive showdown as two of the top scoring teams in the Big 12 took the court with the league's top two scorers.
But with 7:54 left in the first half, Texas was 8-of-22 from the field (36 percent) with five turnovers and Tech was 7-of-25 (28 percent) with seven turnovers.
Kris Clack scored 13 points in a decisive 19-0 run midway through the second half as the Longhorns used defense to overcame their slow start and snap a two-game losing streak with an 83-67 victory against the Red Raiders Monday night.
so much for offense.
"We may not be the running-and-gunning 'Horns like I would want us to be yet.' Texas coach Tom Penders said. "But our defense is picking us up right now."
Texas (12-7, 6-3 Big 12), which shot only 34 percent from the field in its previous two games, snapped out of the slump by hitting 50 percent of its shots against Tech. But it was the Longhorns' defensive pressure that really ignited
the team in the second half.
"We just got down on defense and then got after the rebounds," Clack said. "That opened up some shots and we just didn't back down."
Clack and Reggie Freeman each scored 23 points for Texas, which earlier in the day dropped out of the Top 25 for the first time this season.
Cory Carr led Tech with 20 points.
Cory can now play Tech on Tech (13-6, 5-4), which has lost three consecutive games for the first time since 1993, trailed only 51-50 with 10:31 left before Texas went on its game-breaking run.
Clack converted a three-point play, a three-pointer, a layup, a monstrous jam and another three-pointer as Texas went up 70-50 with 4:33 to play.
Tech went 12 consecutive possessions without a basket and Texas was never threatened again.
"Clack was no surprise at all," said Tech center Tony Battie, who went 3-for-15 from the field, was hampered by foul trouble and finished with only eight points and eight rebounds. "I was surprised that we didn't rise to the occasion. They did a great job on defense and forced us out of our offense."
first half before the Longhorns took a 37-32 lead at intermission.
There were five lead changes in the
"Freeman had a great first half and Clack had a great second half," Tech coach James Dickey said. "We were ineffective because of their defense, and our shot selection today was as poor as it's been all year."
Freeman, the top scorer in the Big 12, met his average of 23 points, and Carr, the league's second-leading scorer, was 5-of-19 from the field and fell two points short of his average (22.6).
Tech had been averaging 83.2 points a game and Texas 79.7 points, trailing only Kansas which is averaging 86.2 points.
"Texas plays in spurts and if you don't stop them, it can get out of hand," he said.
Battie had been averaging 20.8 points and nearly 12 rebounds before being shut down by Texas.
During Texas' second-half run, the game was stopped when fans threw debris on the court and Penders used a courtside microphone to urge the crowd to stop. But in the final minute of the game, more things were thrown on the court and the Longhorns were hit with a technical foul.
Oklahoma overcomes 12-point deficit defeats Texas A&M in overtime,62-59
The Associated Press
NORMAN, Okla. — Corey Brewer scored Oklahoma's final five points and the Sooners overcame a 12-point second-half deficit to beat Texas A&M 62-59 in overtime yesterday.
Oklahoma (13-6, 5-4 Big 12) won consecutive games for the first time since December. The Sooners got back into the game by holding Texas A&M (8-11, 2-7) scoreless for 61/2 minutes late in the second half, and won despite getting just six points from Nate Erdmann, whose 23.5 league in Big 12 games led the average.
the Aggies had a chance to win at the end of regulation, but Shanne Jones missed a shot from point-blank range with about two seconds
remaining.
Tracey Anderson, who scored 21 for A&M, drove inside for a basket to start overtime. Then the Sooners scored five in a row — three by Brewer — to take the lead for good.
Brewer made two free throws with 8.5 seconds left to make the score 62-59, then the Aggies missed their final two shots.
Brewer finished with 19 points and was 9-of-12 from the line. Erdmann didn't score after halftime, when he was 0-of-5 from the floor.
Eduardo Najera, who had 15 points and 11 rebounds, scored back-to-back baskets to cap a 13.0 run in which the Sooners turned a 51-42 deficit into a 55-51 lead with 2:27 to play. A&M committed six turnovers and missed
both its shots during that time.
But two free throws by Brian Barone and a jump hook by Dario Quesada tied the score at 55 with 49 seconds left. The Sooners missed two shots after that, the final one a three-pointer by Tim Heskett with seven seconds left.
The Aggies set up their final shot and Anderson made a nice pass inside to Jones, but he missed the layup as Naiher defended.
The Aggies' biggest lead was 45-33 after a four-point play by Anderson with 13:21 left in regulation. Oklahoma then scored seven straight.
Anderson scored 15 of his points in the first half, when the Aggies outshot Oklahoma 62 percent to 38 percent and outbounded the Sooners 20-8.
No.19 South Carolina downs No.3 Kentucky
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. BJ McKie didn't see anything special in his play or in No. 19 South Carolina's victory, even if the Gamecocks came from five points down late in regulation Tuesday night and beat No.3 Kentucky 84-79 in overtime.
That's all just college basketball," said McKie, who scored eight of his 22 points in overtime. "Don't get rattled if you're up 15 or down 11. Just keep on playing like the game is even."
And that's what it was after 40 minutes, when Larry Davis hit a 3-pointer and Melvin Watson a driving layup to tie a game that the Wildcats led 74-69 with a minute left.
"This team is awfully resilient," South Carolina coach Eddie Fogler said. "They have the ability to keep pecking away and battling."
In batting.
The Gamecocks (16-5, 10-0 Southeastern Conference) did the same at Florida, trailing by 16 points in the second half before winning by one; at Alabama, up 12, then down one before a two-point victory; and at Vanderbilt, where the Gamecocks overcame a seven-point lead late to win.
"Maybe I ought to buy a lottery ticket," Fooler said.
The win was the 11th straight for South Carolina and gave the gamecocks a two-game lead over Kentucky (20-3, 8-2) in the Eastern Division.
Ron Mercer, who scored 18 points, missed a final shot in regulation for Kentucky, which was playing without injured starters Derek Anderson and Jared Prickett.
we could've won this game," Kentucky coach Rick Pitino said. "I don't look at just Ron's shot. I thought it was going in and was proud of the way this team came back."
South Carolina used a 20-5 run to go up 62-1 with six minutes left, but Kentucky made 10 of its next 11 shots. Mercer's short jumper put the Wildcats up 66-65, his 3-pointer with 2:03 to go in regulation made it 72-69 and Allen Edwards' basket lifted them to a five-point lead.
Nazz Mohammed's two free throws just after halftime put Kentucky up 39-32. But then South Carolina took off on its run
that lasted nearly eight minutes. McKie started it with a jumper and William Gallman followed with an inside basket. After South Carolina got within 44-43 on McKie's bucket and a foul shot by Watson, center Nate Wilbure had a three-point play with 13:08 left that gave the Gamecocks the lead. The Wildcats missed four of five shots and committed six fouls in the spurt.
South Carolina led 62-51 when Kentucky scored the next nine points keyed by 3-pointers from Scott Padgett and Edwards.
The buildup at Carolina Coliseum was like that of a Final Four game. Scalpers asking $100 for extra tickets said they could turn them around for two or three times as much. The university gave out Gamecock hand puppets, about the size of driver head cover, that fans squeaked at Pitino throughout the game.
All four members of Hootie and the Blowfish, who met at the University of South Carolina, were courtside screaming for the Gamecocks. And Heisman Trophy winner George Rogers, inducted into the National Foundation Football Hall of Fame last week, was leading cheers on the court during timeouts.
"You better move when this game's over because we're going over you." Hootie lead singer Darius Rucker told some members of the courtside media with a few seconds left in overtime.
iowa 75, Indiana 67
Iowa CITY, Iowa — Bob Knight kept his promise to shake things up and it wasn't enough to keep No. 24 Indiana from losing three straight games for the first time since the 1989-90 season.
Knight, frustrated over a lack of leadership in last Sunday's loss against Illinois, kept his pledge to change things against Iowa on Tuesday night. It didn't help as Andre Woolridge scored 18 points to pace the 25th-ranked Hawkeyes to a 75-67 victory.
Knight benched leading scorer Andrea Patterson and second-leading scorer Neil Reed, both juniors, for much of the game and started senior Haris Mujezinovic and freshman Michael Lewis.
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