The Michigan Daily - Thursday, January 21, 1999 - 15A
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BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Gary Barnett,
wooed by many schools since leading
Northwestern to the 1996 Rose Bowl, is the
new coach at Colorado.
Barnett, who resigned as Northwestern's
coach after seven seasons, told his players of
his decision Tuesday night, and was expected
to arrive in Boulder last night.
The school called a Friday news conference
to introduce him. Barnett's hiring is subject to
the approval of Colorado's Board of Regents,
which has its.regularly scheduled monthly
meeting today.
"I'm pleased to bring forward to the Board
an individual who is deeply committed to
young people and the University of Colorado,'
Buffaloes Athletic Director Dick Tharp said
yesterday.
Barnett replaces Rick Neuheisel, who left
Colorado on Jan. 9 to coach Washington at $1
million a year. The 52-year-old Barnett
planned to spend today assembling a staff and
preparing to meet recruits.
In the past few years, Barnett has turned
down coaching opportunities at such top
schools as Notre Dame, UCLA and Texas. He
is returning to the school where he was once an
assistant under Bill McCartney.
Barnett met with Tharp on Tuesday in
Houston, where the agreement was set,
according to media reports in Chicago and
Denver.
Barnett's hiring came one day after Denver
Broncos offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak
turned down a chance at the Colorado job.
Barnett was Colorado's original choice, but
Tharp had trouble dealing with Barnett's
expensive buyout.
Barnett signed an 11-year contract with
Northwestern in 1996, but Denver's KCNC-
TV said Colorado won't have to pay Barnett's
$250,000 buyout fee. Barnett apparently will
settle with Northwestern on his own.
Northwestern was one of the worst pro-
grams in the country before Barnett arrived,
having failed to win more than four games in a
season since 1971.
The Wildcats won only eight games in
Barnett's first three seasons, but the following
year he led them to a 10-2 mark, including a
41-32 loss to Southern California in the Rose
Bowl.
The Wildcats went 9-3 the following season,
which ended with a 48-28 loss to Tennessee in
the Citrus Bowl.
Northwestern returned to its losing ways the
last two years, going 5-7 in 1997 and 3-8 in
1998.
Also, Northwestern has been rocked by a
sports betting scandal in which four former
Wildcat football players were indicted Dec. 3,
accused of lying about their gambling activi-
ties.
Barnett's record at Northwestern was 35-45-
1 in seven seasons.
His only other head coaching job was at Fort
Lewis, a Division II school in Durango, Colo.,
where he had an 8-11-1 record in 1982-83.
Miami's Mario
Bland lays in
anguish after
falling two
points shy of
upsetting No. I
Connecticut
last night.
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UConn edgs 'Canes in O
Auburn loses first contest
Gary Bamett,
who took
Northwestern
from the Big Ten
cellar to the Rose
Bowl, heads to
Colorado as the
Buffaloes new
head coach.
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so Northwestern turns to Walker
EVANSTON (AP) - Northwestern went
back to the Cradle of Coaches to find Gary
Barnett's successor.
Randy Walker, head coach the last nine
seasons at Miami of Ohio, was introduced as
the Wildcats new coach at a news conference
this afternoon. He replaces Gary Barnett,
who yesterday was hired as Colorado's new
coach.
"Randy is for real, and we've said that to
the people who have asked about him" said
Joel Maturi, Miami's athletic director.
"Coming from the Big Ten myself, I know
Northwestern is very fortunate to get a per-
son of his character and work ethic and pas-
sion for kids. Not to mention his ability to
win games."
Walker is the latest in a long line of coach-
es to come out of Miami. Sid Gillman,
Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler and Bill
Mallory all coached there, as did former
Northwestern coach Ara Parseghian.
Walker was 59-35-5 at Miami, including a
10-1 mark last season. His 59 victories are
tops in school history, and he also is No. I in
games coached.
"We wanted someone with Division I
experience who had demonstrated a record of
winning'" Northwestern Athletic Director
Rick Taylor said. "We got the person we were
after."
Northwestern knows firsthand just how
good Walker's teams are. In Northwestern's
storybook 1995 Rose Bowl year, Miami gave
the Wildcats their only regular-season loss,
beating them 30-28 at Northwestern. The two
teams are scheduled to play again Sept. 4 at
Northwestern.
Walker, who grew up in Troy, Ohio, played
at Miami and was the team's MVP in 1975.
He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals,
but he chose to stay at Miami as a graduate
assistant under coach Dick Crum. He accom-
panied Crum to North Carolina and spent 10
years there as running backs and quarter-
backs coach and as offensive coordinator.
Walker then spent two years at
Northwestern, where he coached the first
back-to-back 1,000-yard rushers in school
history - Byron Sanders and Bob Christian.
He was named head coach at Miami on Dec.
1, 1989.
He inherited a program that had won a
total of two games over the two previous sea-
sons and went 5-5-1 in 1990. He had a win-
ning record every season thereafter except
1993, when Miami went 4-7.
MIAMI (AP) - Richard Hamilton scored 31
points, including a tiebreaking 3-pointer in over-
time, and top-ranked Connecticut remained
unbeaten by edging No. 25 Miami 70-68 last
night.
The outcome was in doubt until the final buzzer,
when a 3-point attempt by the Hurricanes' John
Salmons rimmed out.
Connecticut, ranked No. I for the past eight
weeks, improved to 16-0 overall and 8-0 in the Big
East Conference. Miami fell to 11-4 and 5-2.
The game, the first for the Hurricanes since they
cracked the rankings for the first time in 39 years,
drew a school-record sellout crowd of 15,147.
Miami had been averaging 3,021 at home this sea-
son.
Khalid El-Amin scored 13 points for
Connecticut.
Miami's Mario Bland had 21 points and Johnny
Hemsley added 18, all in the first half. Tim James
scored 16 for Miami, including a basket with 5.4
seconds remaining to force the overtime.
Hamilton's 3-pointer gave UConn the lead for
good, 69-66, with 2:06 left in the extra period. El-
Amin hit the second of two free throws for a 70-68
lead with 25 seconds to go. James missed an 18-
footer with 1.6 seconds left, and Salmons' open 3-
point try rimmed out at the buzzer.
Miami is only the third team to stay within 10
points of the Huskies, who came into the game
winning by an average of 26 points per game.
The Hurricanes scored eight consecutive points
to lead 61-58 with 2:22 left in regulation. El-Amin
then hit a twisting layup for the Huskies, Hamilton
made two free throws to put UConn ahead, and El-
Amin added two free throws for a 64-61 lead.
With 16 seconds left and the Huskies ahead 64-
62, Kevin Freeman squandered a chance to clinch
the win when he missed two free throws. James
then sank a fallaway 13-footer under heavy pres-
sure, forcing the overtime.
The Hurricanes led 33-32 at halftime - only
the second time the Huskies have trailed at half-
time this season.
No.7 KENTUCKY 72, No.6 AUBURN 62
Heshimu Evans broke out of a slump with 20
points and nine rebounds as No. 7 Kentucky hand-
ed No. 7 Auburn its first loss of the season, 72-62
Wednesday night.
Auburn's first defeat after a 17-0 start left No. I
Connecticut (16-0), a 70-68 overtime winner
Wednesday over Miami, as the only undefeated
team in Division I.
Kentucky (16-4, 5-1 Southeastern Conference)
avoided falling two games behind Auburn (17-1,
5-1) in the SEC title chase.
With center Jamaal Magloire on the bench in
street clothes, suspended for a curfew violation
and a technical foul in Kentucky's last game, it was
back to a smaller lineup for Kentucky coach Tubby
Smith - and back to the small forward spot for
Evans.
He responded with 6-of-10 shooting from the
floor, including 3-of-4 from 3-point range, and led
the team in rebounds, including four on offensive
boards.
Supreme Court to decide on Title IX suit
,Highest court in the land to rule if NCAA is subject to federal discrimination laws
Burch quits due to health
WASHINGTON (AP) - A lawsuit
drafted by a rookie law student angry,
that she was denied a spot on her col-
lege volleyball team will help the
U.S. Supreme Court answer whether
the NCAA is subject to federal dis-
crimination laws.
The NCAA told the court yester-
day that a key anti-bias law guaran-
teeing federal protection against sex
discrimination in most schools does
t apply to it.
"The NCAA is an association of
its members and its members ...
receive federal money. The NCAA
does not," argued the tax-exempt
organization's lawyer, John Roberts
Jr.
Roberts said a federal appeals
court was wrong when it ruled that
the NCAA is an indirect recipient of
eral aid because of the dues it col-
cs from its 1,200 member schools.
The federal law known as Title IX
of the Education Amendments of
1972 applies only to educational pro-
grams receiving federal money.
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The Supreme Court is expected to
rule in Renee Smith's case by sum-
mer.
If the court allows her to continue
her lawsuit, the NCAA could be on
the hook in a host of other discrimi-
nation lawsuits based on race or dis-
ability, both sides have said.
The NCAA argues that individual
universities are fair game for dis-
crimination complaints, but said it is
a step removed.
"You don't just follow the money,"
Roberts argued.
Smith, 26, sued in federal court
after the NCAA said she was ineligi-
ble for the volleyball teams at two
schools where she did postgraduate
work.
"I want to establish a precedent, so
other intercollegiate athletes don't
have to start at zero," Smith said out-
side the court building yesterday.
The NCAA first judged her ineli-
gible in 1993, based on the sports
organization's rules.
Although Smith had two years of
eligibility remaining after her early
graduation from St. Bonaventure in
upstate New York, she lost them
when she moved to Hofstra in
Hempstead, N.Y., for graduate
school, the NCAA said.
The NCAA refused to grant Smith
a waiver.
Smith tried-again when she moved
on to law school at the University of
Pittsburgh in 1995. Again, the
NCAA denied her a waiver.
Smith sued in 1996, after complet-
ing her first year of law school,
alleging that the NCAA was more
inclined to grant waivers to male stu-
dent athletes.
Her lawyer, Carter Phillips, argued
that the NCAA ought to be subject to
the same anti-discrimination rules as
its member universities.
"You can't stop at the federal
funds recipient" such as a university,
Phillips told the court. "You have to
go beyond that."
The NCAA claims it actually
grants waivers to women more often
than men. Raw numbers of waivers
are much higher for men because far
more men ask for them, the NCAA
said.
But the Supreme Court is not
deciding whether the NCAA does or
does not favor male athletes - only
whether Smith may continue her
lawsuit.
"We dispute the case on the merits,
but the merits are not before the
court," NCAA lawyer Roberts said.
Smith wants the case sent back to
a trial court, where she can seek
more evidence about the NCAA's
practices. She could lose all legal
avenues if the justices rule the
NCAA is exempt from Title IX.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
seemed sympathetic to Smith's diffi-
culties framing her original legal
argument without help from a full-
fledged lawyer.
"Usually before you cut off a
plaintiff's head you allow him a
chance to flesh out an allegation,"
she said.
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Clayton
Burch, a junior Toledo guard who
never missed a start in his career,
decided yesterday to give up basket-
ball after being diagnosed with a mild
heart disease.
Burch, from Lansing, passed out
during practice Monday and was later
found to have an irregular heartbeat.
Further tests showed mild damage to
his heart muscle.
He made the decision to stop play-
ing after talking with doctors, his par-
ents and Toledo coach Stan Joplin.
"Unfortunately, Claytoi} will no
longer be able to participate in college
basketball," Joplin said. "But we
expect him to do very well in life"
He will remain on scholarship.
Burch was averaging just under five'
points a game and scored a season.
high 19 in the Rockets' victory over
Ohio State in December.
As a freshman, Burch scored 11.3
points a game and earned a spot on the
Mid-American Conferences all-fresh-
man team. He had started in 69
straight games.
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