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Blue victorious, 63-62
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on the shooting of Antoine Joubert. The
freshman from Detroit scored a career
high 18 points.
XAVIER was able to narrow the lead
by halftime but then in the second half
Michigan went into a zone defense
enabling them to spread the gap.
"They were quicker than us except for
maybe Eric Turner so it gave us
problems in who McCormick oraWade
could cover," explained Frieder.
The zone defense and some Roy Tar-
pley shots inside spruced Michigan's
lead up to 54-43 with just over eight
minutes left in the game and you could
hear the crowd humming a few verses
of New York, New York.
BUT XAVIER rudely stopped
Michigan's early celebration,
especially its star player, Jeff Jenkins.
The Musketeer center, who finished
with a game high 21 points, pulled his
team back within two, 58-56 with just
two minutes left.
After McCormick nailed a free throw
and then Xavier's Victor Fleming
threw up a prayer, it looked as
if the Wolverines had its third straight
NIT win in the bag. But, then shades of
Northwestern flashed through
everyone's mind when Tarpley missed
an easy layup that could have finally
stabbed the Musketeers.
Dexter Bailey scored an inside
bucket for Xavier at 1:04 to make the
score 59-58.. After both teams traded
baskets, Joubert sank two free throws
putting Michigan ahead 63-60 with just
:21 seconds left. Jenkins hit a jumper to
make the score 63-62 but only after
Xavier had run the clock down to :02
seconds.
Now, the game was finally over and
as Xavier coach Bob Staak called his
team, "the Rats" were put in the gutter
while Michigan goes to the glitter.
The Wolverines will now play the
winner of the Virginia Tech and Ten-
nessee game on Monday in Madison
Square Garden, one step away from the
finals.
Certainly, that is a quantum leap for
a team that lost 20 games just two
seasons ago.
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MICHIGAN
MinFG/AFT/A
Rellford ........... 14 2/6 0/0
McCormick ....... 34 2/4 9/11
Tarpley........... 35 6/13 4/4
Joubert............37 6/13 6/6
Turner ............29 2/7 0/2
Wade.............. 27 2/6 4/4
Pelekoudas........17 0/1 0/0
Henderson....... 1 0/0 0/0
Rockymore........6 0/1 0/0
Team rebounds....
R
3
5
17
4
3
7
0
0
0
A
1
1
0
4
4
0
1
0
0
PF
4
2
1
4
2
2
1
0
0
TP
4
13
16
18
4
8
0
0
0
XAVIER
MinFG/AFT/A R A PF TD
Bailey...........
Shimko..........
Jenkins...........
Fleming.........
Lee ............
McBride........
Harris..........
Greenidge .........
Team Rebounds ...
27
30
35
38
29
16
15
10
5/8
1/6
7/20
4/8
1/4
2/5
2/6
3/5
0/0
4/4
7/8
1/3
0/0
0/0
0/0
0/0
3
2+
8
4
3
3
4
1
3
1
2
2
2
6
0
0
0
3
5
5
2
3
-3
1
1
10
6
21
9
2
4
4
6
2
Totals............200 20/51 23/27 41 11 16 63
Totals............200 25/62
Attendance : 12. 178
12/15 31 13 21 62
SCORING
1 2
MICHIGAN ............... 36
Xavier................... 30
27
32
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Daily Photo by TOD WC
Michigan's Antoine Joubert is muzzled by the Musketeers' Victor Fleming
after attempting a shot. Fleming received a foul on the play.
Daily Photo by DAN HAB
the Wolverines' Rich
Despite the presence of -Xavier's Dexter Bailey,
Rellford managed to coax this shot through.
NCAA TOURNAMENT:
-iliois, Cars advance t quarters,
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - George tgomery, who scored eight points in a semifinals of the NCAA East Regional
Montgomery scored 15 points to trigger second-half stretch. The Illini, who had basketball tournament last night. RE
a second-half ex lin tht lifte di th been down by as much as nine points in Virginia's third straight victory in the
ranked Illinois to a 72-70 victory over
11th-ranked Maryland in an NCAA
Mideast Regional basketball semifinal
game last night.
The-loss snapped an eight-game win-
ning streak for Maryland and the Atlan-
tic Coast Conference tournament
champions finished the year at 24-8.
Illinois rode the shooting of Mon-
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the first half, came back from a 32-30
halftime deficit to go ahead by 11 points
with 4:33 remaining in the.game. -
Illinois, while enjoying good shooting,
had to overcome second-half problems
when Doug Altenberger and Scott
Meents fouled out and Efrem Winters
was forced to leave the game with an
injury with about 6:30 remaining.
Adrian Branch, who led all scorers
with 19 points, brought the Terrapins
back within four points with 1:12
remaining, but Maryland could get no
closer than two the rest of the way.
Virginia 63, Syracuse 55
ATLANTA (AP) - Freshman Olden
Polynice scored six points during an
early 12-0 run and Ricky Stokes tallied
six 'straight to stop a Syracuse
comeback in the second half as the
Virginia Cavaliers upset the 18th-
ranked Orangemen 63-55 in the
tournament moves the Cavaliers into
tomorrow's regional championship
game against the winner of last night's
second game between top-ranked North
Carolina and Indiana.
VIRGINIA, 20-11, missed its first
eight shots from the field. But the
Orangemen were able to hit only one of
their first six in the sloppily played first
half and led only 2-0 before Rick
Carlisle tied the game with the Cav's
first basket, an 18-footer, 5:10 into the
contest.
Polynice started the 12-0 run on a
layup with 13:12 remaining and fresh-
man Tom Sheehy ended it with a 15-
footer from the left side with 9:06 to go,
giving Virginia a 16-6 lead.
Syracuse, 23-9, trailed 26-16 at half-
time after shooting only 28 percent
from the field. Virginia had a comman-
ding 28-15 rebounding edge at inter-
mission.
Indiana 72, North Carolina 68
Kentucky 72, Louisville 67
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