8B - The Michigan Daily -- SportsMonday -Monday, January 25, 1999
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Maryland
survives
OT scare
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) -
Maryland had always played tough
at Clemson - and lost. This time,
though, the Terps were prepared to
come out winners.
"We made it a big issue for us to
get the win here," Maryland's
Laron Profit said.
"It's something we talked about
all year" said Steve Francis, who
scored 18 points as the fourth-
ranked Terps defeated Clemson 81-
79 in overtime yesterday.
"But we still tried to look at it as
another game. The odds were
against them because they were
really trying to beat us."
Francis made four free throws
down the stretch in regulation to
keep Maryland in position and
Terence Morris had the Terps' final
two baskets - including the game-
winner with 14.4 seconds left.
Morris remembers how
Maryland tought back in last year's
game at Clemson to tie the score at
65, then get shut out in overtime.
"We knew we had to hit the
shots, no matter who was going to
do it," said Morris, who tied a
career high with 26 points.
"Fortunately, they called the plays
for me."
Morris's most important points
came in the final minutes. He con-
verted Terrell Stokes' 3-point miss
to tie it at 79, then hit the winning
jump shot for Maryland (6-1
Atlantic Coast Conference, 18-2
overall).
Terrell McIntyre led Clemson
with 25 points, but missed a 3-
pointer and was stuffed on a drive
after Morris' game-winner.
Clemson (1-6, 12-8) has lost
seven of eight.
Francis gave Maryland the lead
in the final minutes with a key
steal and four free throws, the last
two putting the Terps up 70-68
with 2:07 left.
But all they managed the rest of
regulation was Laron Profit's foul
shot, and Clemson forced overtime
on Andrius Jurkunas' fifth 3-point-
er with 14.2 seconds left.
Profit's long 3-pointer in the
closing seconds failed to hit the
rim.
Duke wins wild one over Johnnies.
NEW YORK (AP) - This was the
best game he ever played in, and
Elton Brand had to watch the last 10
seconds of regulation and all of over-
time from the bench.
No. 2 Duke beat No. 8 St. John's
92-88 yesterday in a game in which
seven players fouled out and Bootsy
Thornton of the Red Storm scored a
career-high 40 points.
"That was just unbelievable. You
can't describe a game like that,"
Brand said, who had 16 points, 12
rebounds and seven blocks before
fouling out. "That was the greatest
game I was ever in and we won.
When we went down in overtime I
thought we might lose, but we still
had guys who came through for us."
Thornton, a 6-foot-4 junior guard,
scored 23 of his team's final 36
points and finished with 12 rebounds
for St. John's (16-4).
"We didn't have anything to prove.
This was just the next game for us,"
Thornton said, who was 14 of 24
from the field, including 7 of i1
from 3-point range. "We have noth-
ing to prove to anybody."
When Thornton said that, St.
John's coach Mike Jarvis leaned over
and added: "That's why he got 40."
He got them in bunches. He scored
the final eight points of the first half
to cut Duke's 10-point lead to 39-37.
He scored 14 straight for the Red
Storm in one second-half stretch and
he scored in overtime, getting six of
the eight his team had in the extra
five minutes.
He is the first St. John's player to
score 40 points since Malik Sealy
had 43 against Central Connecticut
State on Nov. 24, 1990.
"He's tough coming off those
screens," Duke's Trajan Langdon
said. "He gets the shot off so quick
and then he knows you're guarding
for that and drives strong and gets to
the line."
The free throw line was where
Duke (19-1) struggled until over-
time.
Thornton gave the Red Storm an
84-81 lead two minutes into over-
time. But the Blue Devils made nine
of 11 the rest of the way. The last
three were by Chris Carrawell over
the final 18 seconds after Thornton
had pulled St. John's within 89-88
with his seventh 3-pointer.
"We wanted to make sure
Carrawell stayed in the game," Duke
coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "We
wanted him in at the end."
A lot of players weren't around at
the end because of fouls. Brand and
point guard William Avery were
AP PHOTO
Freshman forward Corey Maggette and Duke held off a late St. John's comeback
to claim a 92-88 overtime victory over the Red Storm in Madison Square Garden.
Maryland guard Steve Francis, who is rumored to be leaving for the NBA after this
season, scored 19 points in Maryland's 81-79 overtime victory over Clemson.
The Tigers looked like they
might pull off an upset, after
McIntyre canned a 30-footer to go
up 79-77 with 2:26 remaining in
overtime.
That's when Morris struck. "I
felt pretty good shooting in
warmups," he said. "I had the hot
hand early and it just carried over."
Maryland coach Gary Williams
had visions of another Littlejohn
stumble, where the Terps had lost
nine of 10 coming in.
But their defense and poise kept
them close enough for Morris'
winning plays.
"I think that's one of the hardest
things when you're playing on the
road and get tied up waiting for the
end of regulation there and have to
come to the bench and regroup,"
Williams said. "That's where
seniors really come in handy."
Clemson turned to its own star
senior, McIntyre, in closing
moments. McIntyre thought he felt
contact on the final play and was
upset the referees didn't call any-
thing.
Tigers coach Larry Shyatt told
McIntyre to attack the basket. "I
thought it was admirable but
(McIntyre) just didn't make the
play," Shyatt said. "We left the play
on the shoulders of the officials."
Morris kept Maryland in it early
with 15 points in the first half.
But he was mostly quiet after the
break.
Francis' 3-pointer tied the score
at 53, then Profit gave Maryland its
first lead since early in the game.
There were five ties and five
lead changes in the final 11 min-
utes of regulation.
The Terps shot more than 60 per-
cent (14-of-23), committed only
seven turnovers, had Francis pull
off two highlight film plays and
still trailed 38-36 at halftime.
Earlier Sunday, ESPN reported
that Francis will forego his senior
season and enter the NBA draft at
the conclusion of this season.
gone for Duke, while Ron Artest was
among the four St. John's players
who fouled out, leaving the game in
the hands of the supporting cast,
"We won without having our
inside presence and our ballhandler
in the overtime," Langdon said. "I
thought we played good defense but
at time we got sloppy. This was a big
game for us and we'll get better as
we go on."
The win was Duke's 14th straight
and it was the closest of the streak,
with only two of those games less
than 20-point victories.
St. John's was playing without its
leading rebounder, Tyrone Grant,
who is sidelined indefinitely with a
broken right wrist, and nearly the
entire team was in foul trouble in the
second half.
Still, the Red Storm stayed close.
They took a 76-75 lead with 1:37 left
in regulation on a three-point play by
Artest, who sat out eight minutes
after getting his fourth foul.
Two free throws by Nate James
with 9.3 seconds left gave Duke an
81-78 lead. But Artest, who had
missed most of the second half with
four fouls, hit a 3-pointer with 1.1
seconds left to force overtime.
"Great players do that," Jarvis saiq
of Artest's heroics late in regulation.
"On the bench he was cheering and
coaching but he wanted to go back
in. I told him we'd stay close and
give him a chance to win it when he
got in."
Carrawell had 17 points to lead six
Blue Devils in double figures.
Langdon finished with 15 points and
was 7-for-8 from the line as the Blue
Devils finished 24-for-37.
Artest finished with 22 points, and
Erick Barkley had 12 points and 11
assists for the Red Storm.
The loss snapped St. John's four-
game winning streak and was the
fifth straight time it has lost to Duke.
The crowd of 19,528 was the first
sellout for a college regular-season
game at Madison Square Garden
since Connecticut-St. John's in 1996.
"Coach had told us this would b
like a regional final with the atmos-
phere and the competition," Langdon
said. "He was right."
1.
Mizzou snaps Kansas
home winning streak
AP PHOTO
Kansas guard Kenny Gregory has his shot blocked by Missouri's Jeff Hafer. The
Tigers upset the 19th-ranked Jayhawks, 7143, and former Wolverine Albert White
added 15 points for Missouri.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -
Missouri seems to be the only team that
knows how to win at Kansas.
Brian Grawer scored 16 points and
Albert White had 15 as Missouri beat
the 19th-ranked Jayhawks 71-63 yester-
day, the first win by a league opponent
on the Jayhawks' homecourt since the
Tigers did it in 1994.
"The last couple of years we're the
only ones to beat them," Missouri
coach Norm Stewart said. "This morn-
ing coming over on the bus, I thought,
'If we can't beat them, who's going
to?"'
But Stewart, the dean of league
coaches in his 32nd year, refused to put
any special significance in winning at
Kansas.
'Twenty years ago, 10 years ago, I
might have reacted," Stewart said. "But
we're talking about 18-year-old, 19-
year-old kids. I'm just really pleased for
them. Other than that, my feelings ... It
really doesn't matter. As a coach, we
look at the schedule as 16 pods. This is
one of the pods. You play that one. You
try not to let that one affect the next
one."
Kansas (5-1 Big 12, 13-5 overall)
had won 35 straight conference games
since an 81-74 loss to Missouri on Feb.
20, 1994. The Tigers (4-2, 13-4) are the
only conference team to beat Kansas
since the Big 12 was formed, winning
once each in 1997 and 1998 at
Columbia.
Iowa had broken Kansas' overall
home winning streak at 62 games, then
the longest in the nation, on Dec. 8,
winning 85-81.
Grawer found White open under the
basket for a dunk with 54 seconds left
to give the Tigers a 66-61 lead. Kansas
apparently was trying to trap at half-
court but got its defense mixed up.
"We lost Brian a couple of times,"
Kansas guard Ryan Robertson said, a
St. Charles, Mo., native who earned the
ire of Missouri fans for choosing the
Jayhawks over the Tigers. "He was
making some threes and I wasn't mak-
ing mine. It is personally disappointing
to me. I feel badly like I let my team
down. It was my shots at the end that I
didn't make that might have made a dif-
ference. I've got to think on a different
night, I make those shots"
Nick Bradford had pulled Kansas to
62-61 with 1:59 to play, but Jeff Hafer
scored on a pass from White with 1:29
left, and White made an open shot after
Jeff Boschee missed a 3-pointer for
Kansas.
"It's a huge win for us. We had great
defense,' Hafer said. "We worked on it
all week. It was one of those things
where hard work paid off We had
blocks, steals - those things are going
to happen when you work hard at it."
Kansas scored the first basket, but
Missouri led the rest of the way in
averting a sweep of the season series.
Kansas won in 73-61 at Columbia on
Jan. 11, when the Tigers shot 16 percent
in the first half.
Missouri then lost at Colorado on
Saturday before coming back to beat
the Jayhawks.
T.J. Pugh matched his career-high
with 13 points, but had only two in the
second half. Eric Chenowith also had
13 points and 13 rebounds.
Consecutive 3-pointers by Boschee
and Kenny Gregory pulled Kansas to
57-55 with 5:20 remaining. The Tigers
led 61-57 with 3:43 left when Keyon
Dooling made an arching jumper over
the 7-foot Chenowith, but Robertson
put back a missed shot at the other en
and Kansas closed to 61-59 with 3:08w
remaining.
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