The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - Monday, March 28, 1994 - 7 Michigan beats Terps in NCAA Sweet 16 By CHAD A. SAFRAN DAILY BASKETBALL WRITER DALLAS - As usual the Michi- gan men's basketball team provided its assortment of thrills and chills against Maryland in Friday's Regional semifinal at Reunion Arena. Seemingly comfortable with a 21- point lead in the second half, the Wolverines managed to allow the Terrapins back into the game before sealing the 78-71 win in the final minute. "The last five minutes, you saw it, we did not play well," Michigan coach Steve Fisher said. "We had about 23- 24 minutes where we played excep- tionally well." During that portion of the game Fisher spoke of, the Wolverines broke open a close game with a 9-0 run over a span of 3:47, with all the points coming from Juwan Howard and Jalen Rose. Howard, who had nine points at halftime, hit for 15 in the second stanza before fouling out with 2:49 remaining in the game. Before he left the game, the junior center limited Maryland's prize freshman, Joe Smith, to 12 points. "Every game I play, I take as a challenge," Howard said. "He's no lightweight." Smith credited his mediocre show- ing to the Michigan game plan. "Michigan's defense did a pretty Jalen drives to the hole... Michigan's versatile swingman Jalen Rose looks for an opening in the lane. Rose, who averaged over twenty points per game during the regular season, managed only 13 points in 39 minutes in yesterday's 76-68 loss to the top- seeded Arkansas Razorbacks. good job," said Smith, referring to the Wolverines constant double-teaming on the low-post. For the game, the Terps shot 36 percent, which is by far Michigan's best defensive showing of the tournament. Additionally, the Wolverines blocked seven Maryand attempts (tying a season-high set against Michigan State), including three by Makhtar Ndiyae. However, the defense and offense began to fall apart in the contest's final stages. The Wolverines com- mitted several turnovers while mak- ing some bad shot-attempt decisions, including a Ray Jackson jumper after Fisher called for his team to work the ball. As Maryland cut its deficit to six with 1:32 remaining on a short hook from Exree Hipp, the Terps had a chance after all had seemed lost. Then Jimmy King picked off a Maryland pass and skied his way to the basket with a highlight film layup, giving Michigan a 77-69 lead with 45 sec- onds left. "What we did coming back was typical of our play this season," Mary- land coach Gary Williams said. "No one put us away. As it came down the stretch I thought we had a chance." So did the rest of the Terp fans as Michigan missed 5-of-6 free throws in the final minute but they could not score in the last 40 seconds of the contest. MARYLAND (71) FO F M -MI i{A *A 0-T A F PMS Hipp 36 4-12 0-0 3.6 0 4 9 Booth 29 7-11 3-11 3.9 0 5 17 Smith 34 3.8 6410 4-14 0 3 12 Simpkins 36 3-13 5.5 2-4 5 3 11 Rhodes 32 4-14 1-3 2-7 6 4 10 Lucas 13 2.6 1-2 1-1 0 3 6 Bosnic 9 1-1 0-1 0-0 0 1 3 Bristol 8 0-1 3-4 0-10 2 3 Raydo 1 0.10.0 0.0 00 0 Judd 1 0-0 0-0 1-1 00 0 Shultz 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 00 0 Totals 200 2467 18.36 19.46 2128 71 FQ%:.358. FM% .528. Threelxft goals: 4-21. .190 (Bosnic 1-1, Lucas 1-3, Rhodes 1-5, Hipp 1- 6. Bristol 0-1, Raydo 0.1. Smpkins n04). Blocks: (Smith 3,8Booth). Turnovers: 14 (Simpkins 4, Hipp 3, Rhodes 3, Booth 2, Bristol.Lucas). Steals: 11 (Rhodes 4, Booth 2, Hipp 2, Simpkins 2, Lucas). Technical Fouls: none. MICHIGAN (78) MIN *A F&A 0T A F MY Jackson 18 4-7 2-4 1-6 0 4 11 King 31 5-9 2-5 1-2 1 4 13 Howard 36 9-15 6-9 1-11 2 5 24 Rose 40 5.12 5-9 1-5 4 1 16 Fife 40 3-7 4-4 1-7 4 2 12 Saint-Jean 13 1-3 0-0 2-6 1 3 2 Ndalye 13 0-2 0-0 0-2 1 4 0 Derricks 8 0-2 0-0 2-2 2 3 0 Crawford 10.0 0-00-0 00 0 Totals 200 27- 7 193.1 1045 1526 78 F6%: .474. FT- .613. Three-pomn goals: 5-11, .455 (Fife 2-5, King 1-1, Jackson 1-2, Rose 1-2, Ndaiye 0K1). Blocks: 7 (Ndaiye 3, Fife 2, Howard Saint-Jean). Tumovers:19 (King 4, Fife 3. Howard 3, Rose 3, Jackson 2. Saint-Jean 2, Derricks, Ndaiye). Steals: 8 (Fife 3, Jackson 2, Howard. King, Saint-Jean). Technical Fouls: one. Marylmnd.......32 39-- 71 Michigan - 3939-78 At Reunion Arena; A:~ 16,297 Michigan prospect shines in ASSOCIATED PRESS The Michigan Class B champion- ship game went down to the buzzer Saturday - Travis Conlan's jumper with two seconds left gave St. Clair hores Lake Shore a 38-37 win over East Grand Rapids. Conlan, a runner-up to Detroit Pershing's Willie Mitchell in the Mr. Basketball voting, struggled for most of the weekend, but scored five points in the final 44 seconds. The game- winning points came on a shortjumper as he was falling over the baseline. "I got the ball about seven feet from the basket, took one dribble and shot," 4ie said. "As soon as it started spinning, I ran over to our fans, because I knew it was in." While Conlan's high-school career ended with a state title, Mitchell's fin- ished with his first loss in three title games as Pershing fell 80-73 to Detroit Murray-Wright in the Class A final. Mitchell dominated the first quar- ter and Pershing ran out to a 15-2 lead, but couldn't overcome the deeper Pi- lots. "One player can not win a game, so we just worried about stopping the rest of them, and just let him go," said Murray-Wright center Robert Traylor. "We knew there was no way he could keep playing like that for four quarters. No one could." FINAL FOUR OF ANOTHER SORT: The nation's oldest postseason tournament reaches its own Final Four with a Mon- day night doubleheader at Madison SquareGarden when Kansas State plays VanderbiltandVillanovatakeson Siena in the NIT semifinals. All four teams know there's plenty to be gained from this experience. Kansas State comes in riding the hottest hand in college basketball. Askia Jones scored 62 points against Fresno State in the NIT quarterfinals, nailing 14 of 18 3-point shots. And he did it in just 28 minutes. "It was an unbelievable shooting performance. It didn't matter if he was state tourney guarded or he wasn't guarded. No mat- ter where he shot it from, it went in." Vanderbilt star Billy McCaffrey, who transferred from Duke after the Blue Devils won the 1991 NCAA tour- nament, wentoverthe2,000-pointmark this season. McCaffrey has a chance at a rare perfecta - playing on both NCAA and NIT championship teams. Siena coach Mike Deane and Villanova's Steve Lappas chatted through lunch, and Deane went public with the subject. "I asked him what kind of defense he was going to use, man-to-man or zone," the coach said. "He said he had something different. He must know something about the game that I don't know." When Lappas was asked about the defense, he retreated to his mysterious mode, saying ominously, "We'll do something different." - Daily sports writers Darren Everson and Josh Kaplan contributed to this report The University of Florida will participate in the Final Four for the first time. Frida reaches Final Four MIAMI (AP) -Florida's no longer just a football state. Craig Brown hit 3-pointers on three consecutive possessions to break open a close game, and the FloridaGators earned their first trip to the Final Four by beating Boston College 74-66 Sunday. The third-seeded Gators (29-7), champions of the East Regional, will play Southeast Regional champion Duke (27-5) in Saturday's national semifinals at Charlotte, N.C. Boston College, which at No.9 was the lowest seed remaining in the tour- nament, finished 23-11. Basketball has always taken a backseat to football in Florida, partly because the Gators had made only three previous NCAA tournament appear- ances. Just four years ago they were 7- 21, but the Gators had apartisan sellout crowd roaring Sunday at Miami Arena. Brown's big baskets turned a56-53 deficit into a 62-56 lead with 3:50 remaining. The turnaround marked the 15th and final lead change. Boston College squanderedchances to close the deficit. The Eagles missed four free throws in the final 3:24 and committed three turnovers in the last minute. Brown led Florida with 21 points. Andrew DeClercq added 16 points and 13 rebounds. Bill Curley scored 20 and Howard Eisley 19 for the Eagles, who shot just 38 percent. Gerrod Abram's steal and breakaway dunk gave Boston College its biggest lead, 51-45, with 11:27 re- maining. The Eagles scored only three field goals the rest of the way. Florida scored the next eight points, taking a 53-51 lead on Jason Anderson's fast-break layup. Boston College tied the game at 53 on two free throws by Danya Abrams, ending a 5 1/2-minute scoring drought. £ I Department of Recreational Sports INTRAMURAL SPORTS PROGRAM Winter Term Champions Kaplan students will be. No one does a better job than Kaplan of teaching you the reasoning skills and the test-taking techniques you need to sCore high on the GRE. Live classes, practice testing, audio lessons, home study books, one-on- one unlimited tutoring, and extra help sessions add up to Total Training. 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