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The Michigan Daily
Monday, March 24, 1986
Page 10
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Mills wins title.. .
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By SCOTT G. MILLER
Forget that he scored 19 points. Forget: his ten rebounds, four assists
and three blocked shots.
Terry Mills and his Romulus teammates are the 1986 Michigan Class A
High School Basketball Champions.
The Wolverine fan who missed Saturday's championship game at
Crisler Arena probably scanned the box score in the Sunday paper to find
out how Bill Frieder's prize recruit performed. This same fan wondered
why the 6-10 Mills didn't singlehandedly destroy Detroit Southwestern.
After all, the fan heard Mills possesses the total physical package for
basketball such as excellent hands, coordination and great leaping
ability. Some say Mills' dribbling skills in the open court resemble those
of Kansas' Danny Manning. Why then the lack of domination?
With all his basketball tools and being the tallest man on the court
Saturday, Mills could have scored forty points. He also could have gone
nowhere. Instead, Mills and his teammates are champions.
Team is the key word in describing Romulus' victory. Four players
scored in double figures for the Eagles. Mills made the team plays that
sometimes go unnoticed. He helped direct traffic on offense as well as
helping to break Southwestern's vaunted press.
Mills also displayed excellent passing skills. On two occasions he drove
through the lane, pulled up for a short jumper and passed to an open
teammate for an easy layup. He could have just as easily shot the ball. It
is amazing what a team can accomplish when nobody wants to take the
credit.
For those Wolverines this season everybody wanted to take the credit.
How many times did Michigan players force shots instead of making
passes to open teammates? The "I want to be a star" attitude resulted in
Michigan going nowhere in the NCAA tournament for the second con-
secutive year.
Michigan lacked a leader to take charge when games were in the
balance. Down the stretch against Iowa State, the team had no emotional
spark plug to look to. Syracuse's Dwayne "the Pearl" Washington cried
after his team lost to Navy. Conversely, Antoine Joubert smiled after
fouling out against the Cyclones and reclined to watch the remainder of
the contest by putting his feet on the riser. Obviously help is needed.
Mills could provide that help. Unquestionably, he was the leader of his
team. Instead of raising coach Al Wilkerson to their shoulders, Romulus
players raised Mills towards the Crisler rafters. He made the players
around him perform better and thus fulfilled his role. Michigan's Mr.
Basketball will next look to execute his role on the Wolverines.
"I just want to go in and play wherever coach Frieder puts me," said
Mills. "Even if I have to come in off the bench in the second half.
Whatever I can contribute to the game, I would like to do.
"I wouldn't be mad if I didn't start because I know that there are
players that have been there. I will be a role player just like other players are."
Wolverine fans must remember Mills will not be an immediate
replacement for Roy Tarpley. His freshman season will probably be a
learning experience. While having unlimited potential, he shouldn't be
regarded as Michigan's savior. His 205 pound frame needs to fill out so he
can develop his inside game. The future for Mills is boundless if his first
appearance in Crisler is any indication.
"I think that (winning a title in Crisler) is going to carry over to my
college career," said Mills. "Because I would really like to win a title
before I leave."
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KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP)-Danny
Manning scored 22 points and keyed
the go-ahead rally with five unan-
swered field goals yesterday, sending
second-ranked Kansas to a 75-67 vic-
tory over North Carolina State in the
finals of the NCAA Midwest Regional.
The Jayhawks, the top seed in the
Midwest, will meet No. 1 Duke, 36-2 in
the NCAA semifinals next Saturday in
Dallas in their first Final Four ap-
pearance since 1974. Duke beat No. 17
Navy 71-50 yesterday.
THE WOLFPACK seemed to be
taking control with a 6-0 run midway
through the second half. Ernie Myers
climaxed the spree when he stole a
pass by Kansas' Greg Dreiling and
was fouled while driving for a layup.
He missed the free throw, however,
resulting in a 57-52 North Carolina
State lead.
Then Manning went to work from
the left corner, scoring his team's
next five baskets and personally out-
scoring the Wolfpack 10-1 to turn a 57-
52 North Carolina State lead into a
62-58 Kansas advantage.
Dreiling, rebounding a missed shot
by Cedric Hunter, put in a follow shot
that gave the Jayhawks their biggest
lead of the day, 64-58, with 4:40
remaining.
The 7-1 senior playing with four
fouls, sank key free throws down the
stretch to thwart North Carolina
State's bid for its second Final Four
appearnce in three years. The Wolf-
pack won the national championship
in 1983.
Dreiling, had 19 points for Kansas,
35-3. One of the Jayhawks' three
losses was a 92-86 setback to Duke in
the finals of the Big Apple NIT.
North Carolina State was led by
Charles Shackleford and Chris Wash-
burn with 20 points each.
Duke sinks Navy
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
(AP)-Duke's strong second-effort
rebounding in the first half and All-
American guard Johnny Dawkins'
sharp second-half shooting earned the
top-ranked Blue Devils a berth in the
NCAA Final Four yesterday.
The Blue Devils, 36-2, champions of
the Atlantic Coast Conference, take a
20-game winning streak-longest in
the nation-against Kansas to Dallas
for Saturday's semifinals. The other
Final Four pairings pits seventh-
ranked Louisville against Louisiana
State.
DAWKINS, one of four senior star-
ters who finished 11-17 as freshmen,
scored 20 of his game-high 28 points
after intermission as Duke routed No.
17 Navy 71-50 for the NCAA East
Regional title.
But is was strong offensive reboun-
ding that broke the game open last in
the first half when the 6-f oot-2
Dawkins hit only four of 15 shots from
the field.
"If we don't rebound, we're losing
(at halftime)," Duke Coach Mike Kr-
zyzewski, said. "The rebounding and
the defense were critical."
DAWKINS capped an 18-2 run with
a spectacular behind the back dunk to
put top-seeded Duke in front at half-
time 34-22.
"I had to do it for myself to get
motivated," said Dawkins, who was
voted the regional's outstanding
player. "I was ready for the second
half."
Hitting mostly on jump shots, he
scored 14 points to give Duke a 56-33
lead with 10:10 remaining. Dawkins
wound up making 13 of 25 shots from
the floor.
Duke won the battle of the boards
34-15 in the first half to overcome poor
16-46 field-goal shooting. Despite the
lack of a bonafide center and the
presence of Navy's 6-11 David Robin-
son, the nation's top rebounder and
shot blocker, the Blue Devils
outrebounded the Middies 49-29.
Jay Bilas, a 6-8 senior, topped Duke
with 10 rebounds and 6-8 senior Mike
Alarie, who had 18 points, had eight
rebounds, while Dawkins had seven.
Dawkins
... caps 18-2 run
54-FOOT BUZZER-BEATER DOWNS BEECHER:
Miracle shot lifts Buena Vista
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By ADAM OCHLIS
It took all of three seconds for a
poorly played and boring basketball
game to turn into one that will be
remembered for years Saturday when
Saginaw Buena Vista defeated Flint
Beecher, 33-32 in the Class B finals of
the Michigan Boys basketball tour-
nament.
Chris Coles' 54-foot prayer was an-
swered just when the final buzzer
sounded, setting off a number of cir-
cumstances that will not be witnessed in
Crisler Arena for a long time to come.
AS COLES' teammates mobbed the
son of Central Michigan's coach
Charlie Coles in one corner, Beecher's
players were crying in another.
Meanwhile, Saginaw's coach, Nor-
waine Reed, was fainting at center
court after jumping on top of referee
Hugh Jewell, a man Reed said he
knows personally.
Stealing the show, however, was
Beecher's classless coach, Moses
Lacy, who stormed around the court,
claiming that Coles' buzzer-beater
should not have been allowed.
The final shot was set up when
Flint's Ernest Stewart went to the foul
line for a one-and-one with three
seconds left in regulation, and the score
tied at 31. After the number of timeouts,
Stewart clanged in the first one. After
bricking the second, Michael Jackson
quickly outletted the rebound to Coles
who took a couple of steps and laun-
ched his rainbow that hit nothing but
net.
FOR THE SELLOUT crowd that
witnessed it, the shot looked good
right when it left his hands, but it was
indeed a heave shot.
The controversy arose because
Lacy did not think the time keeper
started the clock when the rebound
came out to Jackson.
"There's no way," said a hostile
Lacy after the game. "There were
three seconds on the clock, there was
a rebound to fourteen (Jackson). The
clock starts when the balls hits his
hands. There was an outlet pass to
Coles and Coles took at least two drib-
bles and then let the shot go. No way.
Does time stand still? The man on the
clock must be on drugs."
FOR A WHILE it did not look as if
Flint would even have chance to lose
in controversy. Buena Vista lead 5-4
at the end of the first quarter and 13-6
at halftime. Shoun Randolph led the
Knights' attack with 11 points during
that time, as the 6-4 junior did his best
to replace Mark Macon, Saginaw's
star player and next year's favorite to
win Michigan's Mr. Basketball.
Macon was averaging 31 points a
game, but fractured his ankle in prac-
tice last Thursday.
Without Macon, Saginaw slowed the
tempo down as the low score would
indicate.
"There's an old Chinese proverb
that says there's a 1001 ways to do one
thing and so we thought playing
deliberate basketball was one of those
things that we had to do if we wanted to
be competitive," said Reed, who ad-
ded that his team would not have
played that if his Star center was
available.
"I don't think Macon would have
allowed it," he said.
Romulus takes
Class A
Crisler Arena's foray into basket-
ball fantasyland ended when Romulus
and Detroit Southwestern tipped off
the Class A championship. After an
incredible, unexpected ending to
Saturday morning's Class B game,
the Class A game merely confirmed
the expected.
Terry Mills, the state's best player,
led his Romulus Eagles to the state
championship with a 72-65 victory
over the Detroit Southwestern
Prospectors. It was similar to recent
years, when Michigan prep stars like
Earvin Johnson, Eric Turner and
Glenn Rise led their schools to the
Class A championship.
AND ALSO keeping with tradition,
the Prospectors lost the state finals
the fifth straight time.
The Eagles looked to Mills and
Steve Glenn for point production. The
pair produced as they have all season,
each contributing 19 points. Bill John-
son and Juan Street added 13 and 12
points. The Eagles shot 64 percent
from the field.
The hot shooting forced South-
western to commit nine more fouls
than Romulus, which Prospector's
coach Perry Watson partially blamed
for the loss.
"NOT TO BE negative, but today
was the firsttime all season long that
a team shot more free throws than we
shot," said Watson.
Romulus converted 22 of 32 attem-
pts from the line while Southwestern
sank only 7 of 15. Mills and Glenn each
sank as many free throws individually
as did the entire Southwestern team.
The most surprising aspect of the
game was the way in which Romulus
weathered the Prospectors' press.
"A LOT WAS made up about Detroit
Southwestern's press and I told the
kids 'Well, we're gonna show them our
press. We're gonna apply pressure the
whole game. We're gonna make'4
(Southwestern's) Anderson Hunt and
Tarence Wheeler think about what
they've gotta do coming up the floor,"
said Eagles' coach Al Wilkerson.
The Eagles apparently were suc-
cessful in doing so. Both teams com-
mitted 17 turnovers, but Romulus
picked theProspectors' pocketsten
times. Southwestern came up with
only six steals.
Romulus' greatest scare occurred -
in the fourth quarter. Leading 64-54, aW
couple Eagles' turnovers helped
Southwestern to a 6-2 run and
possession of the ball. But Romulus'
Glenn then took over, scoring the
Eagles' next four points and to sew up
the victory.
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