East Duke survives scare The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday - March 19, 1990 - Page 7 MidwestN Georgetown shocked by Xavier in 74-71 upset from St. Jo Duke 76, St. John's 72 ATLANTA (AP) - Robert Brickey put in a rebound with 32 seconds left to break a tie and added two free throws with nine seconds remaining Sunday, giving No. 15 Duke a 76-72 victory over St. 0 John's in the NCAA East Regional. Brickey, who led the Blue Devils with 22 points, helped Duke rally from a nine-point second half deficit. He rebounded a miss from Alaa Ab- delnaby and layed the ball in to break a 72-72 tie. After Boo Harvey of St. John's missed a shot with 15 seconds left, Brickey was fouled and added the clinching points. Duke, the No. 3 seed, fell behind 51-42 early in the second half on a 19-6 run by St. John's (24-10) as Harvey scored seven points in the spurt. Duke, however, came back from a 68-61 deficit with 6:35 left as the sixth-seeded Redmen's Malik Sealy scored his team's last basket from the field and the Blue Devils outscored the losers 15-4 the rest of the way.. Duke gained its first tie at 70 with 3:39 left on a short jumper by Phil Henderson and went ahead 49 seconds later on another Henderson jumper. Harvey then tied it at 72 with two free throws with 1:06 left.. Connecticut 74, California 54 HARTFORD (AP) - The Uni- versity of Connecticut, spurned by a home-state crowd, used an early 17-0 run and 16 steals to beat California 74-54 Saturday at the Hartford Civic Center. Chris Smith led UConn with 24 points, while Roy Fisher had 17 for California. Connecticut (30-5), ranked third in the nation, will play No. 17 Clemson (26-8) on Thursday in East Rutherford, N.J. After scoring the opening basket, California (22-10) panicked against UConn's potent press and fell behind 17-2. The Golden Bears didn't make a serious challenge after that, never coming closer than 12 points in the second half. The Golden Bears, who averaged 13 turnovers per game this season, had nine during that early UConn spurt and finished the game with 28. The Huskies also had four of their thefts during the opening run. UConn's campus is only 28 76- 72 Abdelnaby added 17 points for Duke and Henderson had 13. Sealy led St. John's with 19 and Harvey had 17. Duke, which has made it to the Final Four three of the last four years, took a 36-32 halftime lead as Brickey led the Blue Devils with 11 points. Duke, an at-large choice from the Atlantic Coast Conference and 81-46 winner over Richmond in the first round, got four points from Brickey in a 10-2 run to take 16-8 lead with 14:23 left before halftime. St. John's, which beat Temple 81-65 in the first round, came back with Sealy scoring 11 points to pull within 36-32 at the half. Harvey, the Redmen's second leading scorer, went scoreless until hitting a three- point basket 3:08 before inter- mission, his only points of the first 20 minutes. Duke became the fourth Atlantic Coast Conference school team to reach this year's final 16. The Big Ten and ACC both had four teams in last year's final 16. The Blue Devils (26-8) advance to the East Regional semifinals at East Rutherford, N.J., for a game Thursday against UCLA, who beat . Kansas later in the day. miles from Hartford, and the Huskies played 10 games a the Civic Center this season. "Being at home is a tremendous advantage," California coach Lou Campanelli said. "Whether the press would be as effective on a neutral floor in a neutral setting is another thing." UCLA 71, Kansas 70 ATLANTA (AP)-UCLA, which used to win the tournament all the time under John Wooden, made the "Sweet Sixteen" for the first time in a decade by beating Kansas, 71-70. The loss knocked the powerful Big Eight, which had three No.1 teams this season, out of the tournament. Freshman Tracy Murray sunk two shots from the charity stripe with nine seconds left enabling the Bruins to enter the Final 16 for the first time since losing the title game in 1980. The 1980 squad was led by a young forward named Kiki Vandeweghe and a peripatetic coach named Larry Brown. Duke's Alaa Abdelnaby corrals St. John's Malik Seikaly during yesterday's game. Duke will play UCLA in the East region's next r REGIONAL SEMIFINALS East Connecticut vs. Clemson Duke vs. UCLA Midwest North Carolina vs. Arkansas Xavier vs. Texas Xavier 74, Georgetown 71 Indianapolis (AP) - Everybody practices shooting. Unheralded Xav- ier practices fouling, and getting away with it. They did it masterfully Sunday in a 74-71 victory over eighth-ranked Georgetown. "We didn't want to let them tie the game with a 3-pointer," said Xavier coach Pete Gillen, who twice told his players to foul the Hoyas in the closing seconds of their NCAA Midwest Regional game. It paid off. The Hoyas' David Edwards twice missed the front end of one-on-one free-throw opportun- ities in the final eight seconds. That preserved the victory. The Musketeers (28-4), ranked 25th and seeded sixth, will play 10th seeded Texas on Thursday in Dallas. e Texas (22-8), edged 10th-ranked Purdue 73-72 in Sunday's other second-round game at the Hoosier Dome. Xavier, which had won only one game in six previous NCAA tourn- A, Photo aments, beat Kansas State in the opening round. ound. "We practiced giving a foul all week," Gillen said. "We took a chance, but we didn't want to give them a shot to tie it." Both fouls against Edwards in the closing seconds were called on guard Jamal Walker, whose two free throws with 23 seconds to go gave the Musketeers their three-point lead. "It was just practice and con- centration," said Walker, who had 15 points and a game-high nine assists. "I was thinking, 'Just go out, make those two and get back on defense."' { The Xavier defensive effort - including the gamble that the two fouls against Walker would not be called intentional, thus giving possession of the ball back to s" Georgetown - shut off a furious second-half rally by the Hoyas. Derek Strong led the Musketeers with 19 points and 12 rebounds. The Ohio school, never trailing after the opening moments of the game, built an 18-point lead late in the first half, then fell victim to Georgetown's press in the second. The Hoyas used outside shooting by David Edwards and Mark Tillmon and slowly cut the Xavier lead, eventually tying the game at 68 on a 3-point goal by Edwards with 3:18 to go. There was one more tie before a rebound basket by freshman Aaron, Williams put Xavier ahead 72-70 with 1:35 to go. Edwards, who led Georgetown with 19 points, hit one of two free throws after that. "It was obvious we got in a hole. Give Xavier credit for that," Georgetown coach John Thompson said. "Their pressure bothered us and got us out of our game plan. "We're not the best passing team in America, and once we got behind, we had to make the game ragged and scramble to get back in. We did that and had a chance to win," Thompson said. "We were not a pressure team this year, but the best pressure defense we played all year was in the. comeback." North Carolina 79, Oklahoma 77 AUSTIN, Texas- Rick Fox hit a short bank shot with one second left to give North Carolina a 79-77 win over No. 1 Oklahoma and its 10th consecutive trip to the final 16."- Fox's winning shot came on a play that usually produces a 3-point. attempt. But he said Coach Dean Smith gave him a helpful hint during North Carolina's final timeout with eight seconds left. The Tar Heels (21-12) will play" Arkansas on Thursday in Dallas. Arkansas advanced with a narrow last-second victory over the upset-- minded Dayton Flyers. Oklahoma (27-5) took a 77-76 lead over North Carolina on William Davis' three-point play with 39 seconds left. King Rice's foul shot tied it with 10 seconds to go and he missed his second free throw, but the ball glanced off Oklahoma's Jackie Jones and went out of bounds with eight seconds remaining. After North Carolina called time, Fox took a pass from Hubert Davis on the right wing, drove past Smokey McCovery and Jones and laid the shot off the backboard. =4 764-0553 News763-0379arts - od764-0562 Ne ad Opinion 747-3334 News 763-0376 Sports 763-2459 News 747-3336 Sports Correction The picture of Steve Fisher in his college days which appeared in Friday's Daily was incorrectly identified as a Daily file photo. Credit should have been given to the Ann Arbor News. The Daily apologizes for the error. 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