The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, January 28, 1998 -j1 ,Connecticut rides late surge to top Friars Kentucky tops Vandy on buzzer-beater PROVIDENCE (AP) - Richard Nazr Mohammad, who spent muc Hamilton couldn't shoot and Jim of the game on the bench in fou Calhoun couldn't coach after draw- trouble, flipped the ball in off th g three technical fouls but, some- backboard as time expired to giv ow, No. 9 Connecticut could win. No. 7 Kentucky a 63-61 victory ove The Huskies, leading by just three Vanderbilt on last night. points with three minutes left, avert- Drew Maddux hit a high-arching ed a Big East upset with a 63-56 vic- 3-pointer with 4.4 seconds left, tyin tory over Providence last night. the game for the 13th time at 61-61 Hamilton, who led Connecticut But Jeff Sheppard passed the ball ti with a 22.5 average, was held to just Mohammad in the forecourt. The 6 four points on 2-for-13 shooting. foot-10 junior center started to drive And Calhoun was charged with the looked at the clock and then flippe three technicals in the second half - the ball in off the glass for the game e last two leading to four free winning shot. rows by Jamel Thomas that tied the Referee Gerald Boudreaux calle score 47-47 with 8:47 to go. the shot good. Vanderbilt coach Jar But the Friars scored just one field van Breda Kolff walked over to th goal the rest of the way. officials on the sideline and starte Kevin Freeman scored 17 points complaining. for Connecticut (8-2 Big East, 18-3 Vandy players refused to leave th overall), while Jake Voskuhl added floor, and Maddux tossed the ball u 10. in the air as the Wildcats headed fo Only five players scored for the locker room. Providence (3-6, 8-10). Thomas had Sheppard led Kentucky with 2 96 and Erron Maxey added 16 as points, while Scott Padgett added is ney accounted for 42 of their team's and Jamaal Magloire 11 56 points. Mohammad, who played only on KENTUCKY 63, VANDERBILT 61: minute, finished with eight points. Sfoutern a yer die BATON ROUGE (AP) - A Southern football Coroner Hypolite player who collapsed and died during condition- cause of death was an ing drills had the same condition that killed bas- as cardiomyopathy. etball players Reggie Lewis and Hank Gathers, a All players undergo coroner said yesterday. of preseason drills in Dale Taylor, a 6-foot, 225-pound linebacker, Pete Richardson said had rio pulse and was not breathing when medics existing medical prob arrived at a university gym after he collapsed at had. 4:25 p.m. Monday. "It's tragic any tim Taylor was taken to Earl K. Long Memorial pens," Richardson sa Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. family. It's a tragic Hobey candidate Drury breaks record ;h 11 ie r ig ig 1. o e, da n e d e p ar 0 2 1. e S Waily Free Press BOSTON (U-WIRE) - Boston University center Chris Drury is no stranger to ovations. For a man with three Beanpot crowns, a national cham- pionship and a Little League World Series title, the feeling of standing among teammates while being bom- barded with praise is a familiar one. But when the praise came again Friday night at Walter Brown Arena, this time it was all directed at him. After weeks of anticipation and ques- tions concerning the second-longest scoring drought of his career, Drury broke through for his 14th goal of the season Friday in a 4-3 win over the University of Maine. The goal was the 99th of his illustrious Boston University career and moved him out of a tie with John Cullen and Bob Marquis at the top of the Terrier all-time goal-scoring list. The record, finally, is all his. "I wasn't really that frustrated," Drury said of the four-game scoring slump. "It was more that we weren't playing our best hockey. I think the BU community was more enthused about it than I was." The record-breaker was a typical Drury goal, both in form and impor- tance. With BU clinging to a 2-1 lead about midway through the second peri- od, Drury won a faceoff in his own end. Freshman forward Nick Gillis con- trolled the puck and skated across cen- ter ice to the right circle. Drury was streaking beside him, and Gillis slid a pass to the inner part of the circle. Drury kicked the puck to his stick and blasted a slapshot past Maine goalie Alfie Michaud. After having his last 35 shots on goal turned away, the one that finally made it through was symbolic of the explosive player Drury is. It was hustle that allowed him to beat everyone down ice and sheer willpower that let him get the shot off in traffic. "If you follow him day to day, it does- n't matter to him if he gets goal." NIu coach Jack Parker said. "Fe's the senior and he's the All-American and the Hobey Baker candidate, and nobody works harder than he does" The puck hit the back of the netat. 9:23 of the second. And then the BU faithful let out the roar they'd been hold- ing in for so long. "That was tremendous," Drury said. "I certainly didn't expect it. I didi't know that many people knew aboutit. The fans here have just been terrific, and it was real special. I'll never forget that." The puck wasn't dropped immediate- ly after the goal, as the 3,806 fans on hand stood and gave Drury one of the most impressive ovations at Waltet Brown in recent memory. And withhts stick raised skyward, Drury acknowl- edged the fans for their appreciation. Drury's teammates reacted too, whacking their sticks against the boards from the Terrier bench. Drury isn't one to dwell on personal achievement - he'd trade the record in for another national championship any day - but he couldn't help but feel something special on this night. "I don't think there's any feeling that will ever come close to the feeling of winning a Beanpot or a national chan- pionship, or even a big game," Drury said. "No amount of goals in my career can overshadow those wins. But I do take a little bit of pride in this. "I guess I made kind of a mark here;' he added. "I think everyone wants to be able to say they helped out, and I'm just glad that I gave my two cents to the pro- gram." AP PHOTO Connecticut's Souleymane Wane dunks over a Providence player en route to the Huskies 63-56 victory yesterday. The ninth-ranked Huskies upped their record to 18-3 with the victory. w hile cniinn Landry said yesterday the enlarged heart, also known physical exams at the start August, and head coach he was unaware of any pre- lem that Taylor might have e something like this hap- aid. "It affects the whole day for everybody. I'm shocked." Carl Williams, Southern's director of sports medicine, told the medics that Taylor had been running about four minutes when he collapsed. In the offseason conditioning program, players run four days per week and lift weights twice per week. Southern paid tribute to Taylor with a moment of silence Monday night before both its women's and men's basketball games against Prairie View. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. I lk"r- Jouisville struggles with Title IX The Louisville Cardinal LOUISVILLE (U-WIRE) - The future of the men's track and men's swimming programs hang in limbo ,as. Louisville attempts to achieve proportionality as required under Title IX of the Civil Rights act. A regulation of Title IX requires that the ratio of men participants and Soien participants in athletics must be proportionate to the student enrollment at a university. Of the 412 student athletes partic- Nations top back commits to Michigan DETROIT (AP) - Running back Justin Fargas, a Parade All-American and first-team USA Today All- American, said yesterday that he will attend the University of Michigan. Fargas, of Notre Dame High in Sherman Oaks, Calif, is rated the top running back by SuperPrep and The National Recruiting Adviser. 4 The 6-foot-1, 185-pound Fargas ,ushed 313 times for 2,818 yards and a school-record 35 touchdowns in his senior year. For his career, he car- ried 668 times for 6,352 yards and 77 touchdowns, With the national sign- ing period a week away, the national champion Wolverines now reported- ly have 18 commitments. ipating in 1996-97, 265 (64 percent) were men and 147 (36 percent) were women. Undergraduate enrollment at Louisville is 52 percent women, 48 percent men, making the ratio of women to men athletes dispropor- tionate in comparison to enrollment. In order to comply with propor- tionality, there must be an adjust- ment made so that the number of female to male athletes reflects the student population. Louisville brought a national con- sultant, Lamar Daniel, to campus last April to evaluate the situation. In September, Daniel released a plan outlining how the university could achieve proportionality. 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