Oklahoma State eremains undefeated' The Associated Press Eddie Sutton is beginning to sound like a broken record. Every week or so, the Oklahoma State coach says he's just witnessed the best game played this season by his team. He offered that assessment again yesterday, when the Cowboys blasted No. 8 Missouri 84-61 to im- prove the Big Eight Conference's best-ever start to 20-0. "Our defense was as good this afternoon as we've played all year," said Sutton, whose team is 4-0 in the conference, tied with Kansas for the lead He suggested this was the lat- *est example of best game of the sea- son. Corey Williams scored 22 points and Byron Houston had 19 for the Cowboys, who shot 63 percent to 38 percent for Missouri (14-3, 2-2). Missouri had been holding oppo- nents to 39 percent, best in the league. Anthony Peeler had 18 points for Missouri. Here's a look at Saturday's ac- tion from around the country. No. 1 Duke 100, Notre Dame 1 Guard Bobby Hurely broke the 1 000-point mark with a 3-pointer at the start of the second half as host Duke (17-0) won its 500th game in Cameron Indoor Statdium. Notre Dame is 7-9.. * 'No. 5 Kansas 96, No. 18 Okla- homa 95 Alonzo Jamison madee three foul shots in the final 21 seconds for Kansas (16-1, 4-0). It was the first time Oklahoma (14-4, 2-3) lost its first two Big Eight Conference home games since 1964. .No. 12 Syracuse 70, Seton Hall 67 Syracuse (15-3, 7-3) beat Big East 4 rival Seton Hall (11-6, 3-5) for the 23rd straight time as Glenn Sekunda's off-balance bank shot with 40.6 seconds left capped a comeback from a 12-point deficit in the last 7 1/2 minutes. No. 17 N.C. Charlotte 77, Southern Miss. 69 Henry Williams scored seven straight points in the closing min- utes for N.C. Charlotte (15-3, 4-0) in the Metro Athletic Conference Game at Sotuhern Mississppi (8-10, 2-3). BYU 80, No. 19 UTEP 63 BYU (15-3, 6-2) built a 60-38 lead, then withstood a rally for the victory that put the Cougars into a first-place tie with visting Texas-El Paso (16-3, 6-2) in the Western Athletic Conference. The Michigan Daily - Sports Monday - February 3, 1992- Page 7 O'Meara ekes by .e Sluman in playoff Wolverine Brian Harper tangles with an Indiana wrestler. Harper won his 20th match of the year. Wrestlers dominate Indiana, 34-6 by Shawn DuFresne Daily Sports Writer The Michigan wrestlers had no problem getting ac- customed to their temporary lair Saturday as they chased the Hoosiers out of Crisler Arena with a 34-6 victory. However, the ninth-ranked Wolverines (8-0-1, 4-0-1 Big Ten) sputtered during the first half of the match, as the Hoosiers (2-9, 0-4) jumped out to an early lead. Frank Ingalls (118 pounds) had the riding time advan- tage at the end of the first match which was the differ- ence in a 7-6 victory over Michigan's Matt Stout. Wolverine Jason Cluff (126) tied up the team score with a decision over Chris Russo, 7-0. All-American Joey Gilbert (134) gave Michigan the lead with his 80th career victory, a major decision over Jeff Jorge, 15- 5. Indiana climbed back to narrow the Wolverines lead when Jeff Lyons (142) won by decision over James Rawls. Michigan coach Dale Bahr said that Rawls wasn't as strong as usual, and that he might not have warmed up properly. The rest of the match was dominated by the Wolverines. Brian Harper (150) recorded his 20th vic- tory of the season with a 13-4 (major decision) disposal of Mike Palazzo. Sean Bormet (158) also won his 20th match of the season by pinning Indiana's Scott Petche 1:53 into the first period. "I talked to (Bormet) this week about opening up more," Bahr said. "I expected him to win, but not so impressively." Jesse Rawls, Jr. (167) easily handled Indiana's Dave Creel, 16-5, and added to Michigan's lead, 21-6. As all- American Lanny Green (177) jogged to the center of the mat for the start of his bout, Indiana coach Joe Mc- Farland decided to forfeit the 177 weight class and move Gabe Bailey up to 190 to face Jehad Hamdan, who did not plan to wrestle because Indiana's Ty Baker (190) had a separated shoulder. But Hamdan's unpreparedness didn't reflect in his perfonnance, as he trounced Bailey, 19-7. "I didn't warm up at all," Hamdan said. "In the first period, I was winded, but by the third period I felt real good. He was quick, but I was a lot stronger." The heavyweight match pitted Michigan's Phil Tomek against Vito Maurici, and it turned out to be one of the most competitive matches of the night. The scoreboard still displayed goose eggs as the match rolled into the third period. Although Tomek had rid- ing time, the momentum changed frequently. Tomek finally broke the scoreless tie with an escape early in the third period. Less than a minute later, he recorded a takedown, and along with the riding time he held on for a 4-0 victory. Bahr was pleased with the performance of his squad. "The match went as I had anticipated," he said. PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (AP) - The thoughts went tumbling through his mind, Mark O'Meara said, when he watched Jeff Slumnan's 20-foot putt fall into the cup on the 72nd hole yesterday. "What's it going to take'?" was O'Meara's first thought. "What do you have to do? I was in a playoff two weeks ago. I don't want another playoff. What's it go- ing to take'?" He answered his own question one hole later, on the first playoff hole for the title in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. It took a 15-foot, par-saving putt and O'Meara made it. Sluman, with a chance to extend the playoff, missed from about 12 feet. "He made and I missed. That was it," Sluman said. The one-putt par on the first ex- tra hole provided O'Meara with a record fourth title in this event and his third in four years. "A tremendous victory for me," O'Meara said after he'd broken a tie with Jack Nicklaus and Sam Snead for the most wins in the tournament that formerly was known as the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am. O'Meara, who lost in a playoff in the Bob H-ope Classic two weeks ago, and Sluman each birdied the fi- nal hole at Pebble Beach to coin- plete the regulation 72 holes in 275, 13 under par. The tie represented a tremendous comeback for O'Meara, who was five shots behind after Sluman birdied five holes in a row over the front and O'Meara made double bo- gey from a bunker on the eighth. He finally pulled even with a two-stroke swing on the 6th hole, his birdie against Sluman's bogey. They stayed that way through the 17th and went to the 18th with the tournament on the line. O'Meara's third shot to the ocean-bordered par-5spun back off the putting surface and was frozen against the collar, some 35 feet from the cup. Sluman put his third about 20 feet from the cup. O'Meara rammed his long putt - "the longest I'd made this week," he said - into the back of the cup and lifted both arms in a vic- tory gesture. "I thought that was it," he said. But the other thoughts, those tinged with panic and frustration, cane moments later when the dead- game little Sluman put the 20- footer in on top of him. It finished off final rounds of 68 for Sluman and a 70 for O'Meara, who now has been as high as par only once in his last 17 rounds. And it sent them back to No. 16 to start the playoff. Sluman drove into the rough, then hit his approach far left, clip- ping a tree and dropped into the rough. O'Meara missed the green to the right, also in deep grass. After Sluman pitched 12 feet short of the cup, O'Meara stubbed his little downhill chip and just got it on the green. But he made the 15-footer for par and was a winner again when Sluman missed. "When you win, you have to get a lot of good bounces, a lot of good breaks. You have to have some luck. 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