26 - The Michigan Daily - SPORTSMonday - February 16, 1998
NBA Standings
Eastern Conference'
How the AP Top 25 Fared
last wee 's Associated Press top 25 men's college basketball poll with results through
Feb. 8. The new poll comes out today
USA Today/ESPN Poll
The new USA Today/ESPN coaches' top 25 college
basketball poll with results through Feb. 15.
Western Conference
Atlantic Division
Team W
Miami 33
New Jersey 30
New York 28
Washington 27
Orlando 24
Boston 23
Philadelphia 15
Central Division
Team W
Indiana 36
~Chicago 38
Charlotte 30
Atlanta 30
Cleveland 28
Milwaukee 25
Detroit 23
Toronto 11
L
18
21
21
25
27
28
33
L
14
15
20
22
23
25
27
40
PCT
.647
.588
.563
.519
.471
.451
.313
PCT
.720
.717
.600
.577
.549
.500
.460
.216
GB
3
4
6.5
9
10
16.5
GB
.5
6.5
7.5
8.5
11
13.5
26
Midwest Division
Team W L
Utah 34 15
San Antonio 34 16
Minnesota 28 21
Houston 25 25
Vancouver 14 37
Dallas 10 41
Denver 5 44
Pacific Division
Team W L
Seattle 39 12
L.A. Lakers 35 14
Phoenix 33 16
Portland 29 20
Sacramento 22 29
LA. Clippers 11 40
Golden State 9 40
PCT GB
.694 -
.680 .5
.571 6
.500 9.5
.275 21
.196 25
.102 29
PCT GB
.765 -
.714 3
.673 5
.592 9
.431 17
.216 28
.187 29
Team
1. North Carolina
2. Duke
3. Arizona
4 Kansas
5. Utah
6. Connecticut _
7. Kentucky
& Purdue
9. UCLA
10. Prnceton
11. New Mexico
12, Arkansas
13. Michigan State
14. Stanford
15. South Caroiwna
16. West Virgira
17. George Washington
15.Mississippi
19. Cincinnati
20. Massachusetts
21. MIchigan
22, TCU
23. Syracuse
24, Maryland
25. Rhode Island
How they fared
Beat Maryland, 85-67
Beat Wake Forest, 78-47
Beat Arizona State, 8382
Beat Kansas State. 7358
Beat Colorado State. 60-48
Beat Pittsburgh. 92-67
Lost to Mississippi, 7364
Beat llinois, 7572
Beat Caifornia, 87-84
Beat Yale, 78-48
Beat Air Force.9672
Lost to Tennessee, 74.71
Beat Minnesota, 71-59
Beat USC, 83-59
Beat Mississpp State, 76-65
Lost to Syracuse, 73-58
Lost.to Dayton, 7864
Beat Kentuckv, 73-64
Beat South Florida, 72-55
Bea LaSaile. 81-71
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Beat San Diego Sate, 91&9
Beat West Virgnia. 73.58
Lost to North Carolina, 85-67
Lost to Temple, 6867
Next game
vs. NC. State (Sat.J
at Clemson (Wed.)
at Oregon State (Thurs.)
at Colorado (Today)
vs. Air Force (Sat.)
at Notre Dame (Tomorrow)
at Florida (Wed.)
at Iowa (Wed)
at USC (Wed.s
vs. Penn (Tomorrow)
at UNLVU(Today)
vs. South Carolina (Wed)
vs. Michigan (Tomorrow)
vs. Washington (Thurs.)
at Arkansas (Wed)
vs. Marshall (Today)
at Xavier (Today)
at LSUi(Wed.)
at UAB (Thurs.1
vs. Rhode island (Wed.)-
at Michigan St. (Tnxwow)
vs. SMU (Thurs.)
at Villanova (Today.)
vs, Wake Forest (Thurs.)
at MassaChxsetts(Wed.)
Team
1. North Carolina (30)
2, Duke.
3. Arizona
4. Kansas
5. Utah
6. Purdue
7. Connecticut
8. Princeton
9. New Mexico
10, Kentucky
11, Stanford
12. UCLA
13. South Carolina
14. Mississippi
15. Michigan State
16. Arkansas
17. Syracuse
18, Cincinnati
19. West Virginia
20. Massachusetts
21. Michigan
22, Texas Christian
23, George Washington
24. Xavier
25. Rhode island
Rec.
26 1
232
223
27-3
21-2
22-4
22-4
1c+ 3
22 4
21.3
195
19-4
17-5
18-5
20-5
19-5
19-5
20-5
19-6
22-4,
20-5
166
16
Pts.
750
710
680
671
589
588
581
523
494
470
438
437
393
329
329
293
224
223
208
189
128
122
100
53
41
Prey.
1
2
4
3
5
7
6
9
11
8
13
10
14
16
15
12
20
21
17.
22
19
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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Who: Bill Muckalt Sport: Hockey
Hometown: Williams Lake, British Columbia Year: Senior
High School: Merritt Secondary School Eligibility: Senior
Why: Muckalt tallied his 100th Career goal in Friday's victory over
Miami (Ohio). The goal came with 17.4 seconds remaining in the game
when Muckalt took a misguided shot by Matt Herr and deposited the
puck into an empty net, putting the game out of reach for the
RedHawks.
Background: Leads the Wolverines in goals with 27.... Assistant cap-
tain of this year's team.... Drafted by the Vancouver Canucks in the
ninth round of the 1994 NHL draft.... Enrolled in the Division of
Kinesiology, majoring in Sports management and communication....
Born July 15, 1974
Nagano 1998 medal count
Yesterday's Results
Miami 116, TORONTO 95
Houston 90, LA LAKERS 88
MINNESOTA 105, Dallas 99
CHICAGO 99. Detroit 90
GOLDEN STATE 101, Boston 87
NEW YORK 102. Cleveland 91
Washington at Sacramento, inc.
Denver at Portland, inc.
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_ _ __ _ _.
HOME TEAM IN CAPS
NHL Standings
NCAA Men's Basketball Results
Eastern Conference
Western Conference
Atlantic Division
Team W
New Jersey 34
Philadelphia 29
Washington 26
N.Y. Rangers 17
N.Y. Islanders 20
Florida 18
Tampa Bay 10
L
16
17
19
24
29
27
37
T
6
9
11
16
8
12
9
T
13
7
11
10
12
7
Pt s.
74
67
63
50
48
48
29
Pacific Division
Team W
Colorado 29
Los Angeles 26
San Jose 21
Edmonton 19
Anaheim 19
Calgary 16
Vancouver 16
Central Division
L
13
20
28
28
28
30
33
L
13
15
21
22
25
29
T
16
9
7
10
9
11
8
T
8
12
8
11
9
7
Pts.
74
61
49
48
47
43
40
Pts.
80
74
68
59
53
45
Northeast Division
Team W L
Pittsburgh 29 16
Montreal 28 21
Boston 23 22
Ottawa 23 25
Buffalo 22 21
Carolina 21 29
Pts.
71
63
57
56
56
49
Team
Dallas
Detroit
St. Louis
Phoenix
Chicago
Toronto
W
36
31
30
24
22
19
The NHL is on hiatus during the Olympic Games.
USA TodaylAmerican Hockey Magazine
Coaches Poll
Results through Feb 9. First-place votes in parentheses.
Team Rec. Pts.
1. North Dakota (6) 21-4-1 96
2.. 8oston University (3) 19-4-2 _9
3. MichiganState (1) 204-5 81
4. New Hampshire 19-51 73
5. Yale 17-40 53
c Michigan . 234-1 50
7. Miami (Ohio) 18-6-4 40
8. Wisconsin 19-31 32
9. Boston College 16.8-4 17
10. St Cloud State 16-8-2 13
Schedule
Today
No event s scheduled.
Tomorrow
Men's Basketbal at Michigan State. 7:30 p.m.
Wesdneday
No events scheduled.
East
Army 74, Lehigh 62
Boston College 74, Rutgers 72
Boston U. 79, New Hampshire 66
Bucknell 88, Navy 60
Columbia 78, Harvard 66
Connecticut 92, Pittsburgh 67
Cornell 75, Dartmouth 56
George Mason 65, American U. 63
Long Island U. 89, Robert Morris 78
Maine 73, Northeastern 66
Massachusetts 81, La Salle 71
Penn 79, Brown 68
Penn St. 75, Wisconsin 69
Princeton 78, Yale 48
Providence 58, Villanova 52
Syracuse 73, West Virginia 58
Temple 68, Rhode Island 67
South
Ala.-Birmingham 77, Tulane 69
Alabama 80, Florida 66
Alabama St. 78, Southern U. 68
Appalachian St. 94, VMI 74
Auburn 66, LSU 44
Austin Peay 84, Tennessee Tech 58
Centenary 77, Mercer 64
Cent. Florida 88, Stetson 84
Chattanooga 69, Furman 64
Citadel 73, W. Carolina 65, OT
Coppin St. 79, S. Carolina St. 63
Duke 78, Wake Forest 47
E. Kentucky 87, Morehead St. 72
Elon 62, Winthrop 51
Fla. International 74, Coll of Charleston 67
Georgia 81, Vanderbilt 62
Georgia St. 95, Troy St. 79
Georgia Tech 105, Virginia 86
Grambling St. 76, Texas Southern 74
Hampton U. 65, Florida A&M 60
Jacksonville 78, Lamar 68
Jacksonville St. 59, Samford 56
Liberty 66, Coastal Carolina 56
Md.-E. Shore 82, Bethune-Cook man 58
Miami 66, Notre Dame 57
Miss. Valley St. 79, Prairie View 72
Mississippi 73, Kentucky 64
Morgan St. 71, Howard U. 65
N. Carolina A&T 74, Delaware St. 64
N. Carolina St. 81, Norfolk St. 73
NE Louisiana 90, McNeese St. 84, OT
Nicholls St. 88, SE Louisiana 71
North Carolina 85, Maryland 67
SW Louisiana 90, Louisiana Tech 80
South Alabama 68, New Orleans 50
South Carolina 76, Mississippi St. 65
Southern Miss. 75, Memphis 62
Tennessee 74, Arkansas 71
Valparaiso 95, Belmont 61
William & Mary 64, N.C.-Wilmington 51
Wofford 60, Georgia Southern 57
Xavier 74, Virginia Tech 63
Midwest
Akron 74, Miami (Ohio) 63
Ball St. 66, Toledo 64
Bradley 86, S. Illinois 76
Creighton 79, Wichita St. 69
Detroit 68, Wright St. 60
E. Michigan 66, N. Illinois 61
Georgetown 65, DePaul 59
III.-Chicago 92,Wis.-Milwaukee 68
Indiana 73, Northwestern 55
Iowa 82, Ohio State 67
Iowa St. 80 Colorado 63
Kansas 73, Kansas State 58
Kent 71, Bowling Green 64
Loyola, I. 57, Wis.-Green Bay 52
Marquette 70, Houston 52
Michigan St. 71, Minnesota 59
Murray St. 82, SE Missouri 71
N. Iowa 68, Drake 55
Nebraska 66, Baylor 55
Purdue 75, Illinois 72
W. Michigan 87, Cent. Michigan 68
Southwest
Arkansas St. 76, Ark.-Little Rock 65
Hawaii 94, Southern Meth. 82
North Texas 71, Boise St. 66
Oklahoma St. 70, Oklahoma 66
Oral Roberts 89, Mo-Kansas City 75
SW Texas St. 70, Stephen F. Austin 66
Texas 82, Texas Tech 80
Texas Christian 91, San Diego St. 69
Texas-San Antonio 83, Texas-Arlington 70
Far West
Arizona 83, Arizona St. 82
Pepperdine 82, Santa Clara 68
St. Mary's, Cal. 88,tSan Diego 73
UCLA 87, California 84
Washington 62, Oregon 61
Washington St. 80, Oregon St. 68
Nation
Germany
Norway
Russia
Austria
Canada
Japan
Finland
Netherlands
United States
Italy
6
5
7
2
4
3
2
2
2
1
Gold
Silver
5
6
3
3
4
3
3
1
3
Bronze Total
4
6
4
1
6
3
2
1
3
1
17
15
11
11
9
7
7
6
6
5
Canadians, Swiss top.
the curling world
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Thursday
Women's Swimming ard Diving at BigT
Club Sports
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call 647-3336 before 3 p.m. on Sundays.
Ice Skating
SENIOR FREE SKATE
Tami Tarnow -first place
Juliet Newcomer - second place
SENIOR COMPULSORY
Juliet Newcomer -second place
Tami Tarnow - fourth place
SENIOR TEAM COMPULsORY
Michigan -fourth place (Tami Tarnow, Juliet
Newcomer. Melissa Cinillo)
JUNIOR COMPULSORY
Jennifer Jazefiak - first place
JUNIOR TEAM COMPULSORY
Michian- second (Jill Weinbaum, Jennifer
Jazefiak, Jocelyn Rainey)
NOVICE FREE SKATE
Marya Bak - sixth place.
NCAA Women's Basketball Results
East
American 81, Richmond 78
George Washington 77, Duquense 52
Hofstra 72, Hartford 67
Iona 77, Niagara 69
Lafayette 75, Holy Cross 69
Notre Dame 75, Pittsburgh 60
Rider 73, Marist 61
St. John's 81, Syracuse 64
Vermont 71, Drexel 64
South
Clemson 64, Wake Forest 41
Duke 79, Wake Forest 47
North Carolina 85, Virginia 84
DePaul 82, UNC-Charlotte 77
East Carolina 73, James Madison 63
George Mason 76, William & Mary 62
Kentucky 71, Mississippi State 62
Memphis 94, UAB 82
VCU 70, UNC-Wilmington 63
Midwest
Michigan 70, Northwestern 64
Illinois 98, Michigan State 51
Wisconsin 80, Purdue 69
Iowa 73, Penn State 49
Indiana 75, Minnesota 42
Evansville 79, Bradley 63
KansasState 66. Missouri 57
Marquette 90, St. Louis 37
Northern Iowa 67, Southern Illinois 47
Valparaiso 76, Indiana-Purdue 53
West
North Texas 46, New Mexico State 45
Portland 68, Cal-Poly SLO 61
Texas-El Paso 89, UNLV 69
KARUIZAWA, Japan (AP) -
Canada had planned to win two gold
medals in the first Olympic curling
tournament, but came away yesterday
with only one. The United States, true
to form, left empty-handed.
Between them, the Canadian men
and women have eight of the last 10
world curling champions. While the
Canadian women beat surprise finalist
Denmark 7-5, the men were stunned in
the gold medal game 9-3 by
Switzerland, a team the Canadians had
beaten earlier 8-3.
"I don't know what happened," said
Canadian skip, or captain, Mike Harris,
who is a professional golfer.
"I wouldn't have minded losing if we
had played well, but we just didn't show
up.
The Winter Games must bring out
the best in the Swiss, who haven't won
the world championship since 1992,
when they also won an Olympic
demonstration tournament.
"I have lost four Swiss finals before,
sometimes by one inch," Swiss skip
Patrick Huerlimann said. "That we can
win such an important final as this is
just an unbelievable feeling. Our strate-
gy was to put pressure on them from the
first end because you can beat them
only if you are aggressive."
The Americans, who haven't fin-
ished higher than third in a world cham-
pionship since 1993, fell well behind
early for the second match in a row and
lost 9-4 to Norway in the men's bronze-
medal match.
The bronze would have been good
enough for the United States, but only
one gold didn't seem to satisfy the
Canadians.
"Sometimes people say, 'Well,
you've won Canada so it should be easy
when you play international teams,"'
said Joan McCusker, one of Canada's
players. "But that is not true. Those
teams that play in internal competitions
play regularly, have experience, travel
widely and are very good teams."
The Swiss, who sent a much more
experienced team to Nagano than the
Canadians, opened up a 9-1 lead by
scoring seven points in the fourth, fifth
and sixth ends. The Canadians conced.
ed after the eighth end, partly because
Switzerland owned the all-important
hammer - the final shot - in the 10th
and often decisive end.
The Canadian women, aided by a
point in the eighth end that was so close
a measurement was required, denied
Denmark its first gold medal in any
Winter Olympics.
Still, the Danes came away with their
first medal of any kind outside of th4
Summer Olympics.
Denmark has never been a factor
before in the Winter Olympics because
it lacks the sports facilities of
Scandinavian rivals Norway and
Sweden. Even its curling team often
must take a ferry to Sweden to train.
Canada, winner of the past two world
championships, got off to a 3-0 start in
the first end and led 6-2 after the sixth.
"The team is totally ecstatic," Canad
skip Sandra Schmirler said. "We playe
a strong game throughout and got off to
a great start ... (but) they really put the
pressure on us and made us make good
shots."
Sweden beat Britain 10-6 for the
women's bronze medal.
Just as they did in falling behind
Canada 4-0 in a 7-1 semifinal loss, the
Americans trailed from the start against
Norway, which led 6-0 after five.
Most matches last 10 ends, or
innings, but the Americans conceded
after nine.
"In the last two games we did not
play well at all," U.S. skip Tim
Somerville said. "We had too many vps
and downs, and that's why we ended up
in fourth place."
Norway captain Eigil Ramsfjell said
the bronze medal helped ease the frus-
tration of the close loss to Switzerland.
"I am happy about the medal but alsd9
a little bit sentimental about finishing,"
said Ramsfjell, a three-time individual
world champion.
The United States did well just to get
into medal competition. They had, to
win three consecutive matches, two in
tiebreakers,just to reach the semifinals.
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