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SECTION Asbury Park Press Monday, Marcfcv22, 1993 TRftfUJitU Kentucky 83 Utah 62 mm 3Uwq WWW, i umn fdw Tomorrow: Best boys The Press' All-Shore boys basketball team and final Top 10 polls. 3 TOURNAMENT RESUMES FOR SWEET 16 TEAMS THURSDAY TOWS tJf'JUJM fJfJil MicMgauni eeeds OT to sudvamce 7 "'i High drama not without imperfections Four days and four nights of non-stop, win-or-get-lost college basketball, and it comes down to three officials huddled forever against the deadline of 60 Minutes over something so obvious even Digger Phelps could figure it out all by himself. Ya gotta love it. Before Michigan beats UCLA 86-84 in overtime to conclude the NCAA weekend festivities, the striped shirts have to decide BILL HANDLEMAN whether Jalen Rose hit the rim before the shot clock expired, which he did. So what's the big deal? Yet there they are, conducting their ver- Lady pK'- A a Associated Press Michigan's Chris Webber celebrates after making a shot against UCLA yesterday.

Webber was named the game's MVP. sion of The Great Debate. With Michigan coach Steve Fisher screaming on one side and UCLA's Jim Harrick fuming on the other. Shot bangs off the rim, beats the 45-second Please see Drama, page C5 Laumceirs do it Wake Forest 84 Iowa 78 i-Vlrginia 71 UMass 56 'Cincinnati 92 N.M. State 55 I Michigan 86 UCLA 84 (OT) I G.

Washington 90 Southern 80 Indiana 73 Xavier 70 Louisville 78 Okla. State 63 Roundups, C4 NCAA pairings chart, C4 Hooslors hold on jlndiana survives a scare from jxavier (Ohio) to advance in the! Midwest Regional. C4 A- Knight-maro Rutgers loses to Ohio State, bows out of women's NCAA (Tournament. C5 Devil delight jThe Devils get a much-jneeded victory over Patrick 'Division-rival Flyers. C3 Great girls The All- Shore girls basketball team is featured C6 4 4', '1 JfM" 7 1 CI ST- 1 By FRANK BURLISON THE DETROIT FREE PRESS THE UNIVERSITY of Michigan's basketball team grabbed 21 offensive rebounds yesterday afternoon in the University of Arizona's McKale Center.

The first 20 will eventually blend into a haze of Chris Webber follow-up dunks for those who watched 45 minutes of NCAA Tournament basketball at its best in the West Regional second-round matchup between the Wolverines and UCLA. No. 21, however, will be one that will talked about and replayed over and over for a long time to come to the delight of Michigan fans and the utter disconsolation of their UCLA counterparts. Jimmy King rebounded teammate Jalen odds get the team up when you play a team like Dallas," said center Sam Bowie, one of three Nets remaining from the 1989-90 season in which New Jersey finished 17-65. "I don't want to ridicule Dallas because I've been in that situation.

But if you go out and play anywhere near your potential, you're going to win." "I don't feel sorry for them," said Derrick Coleman, who joined the Nets the next vear Rose's off-balance, driving shot and followed it in with just over two seconds left in overtime, giving the Wolverines an 86-84 victory in front of a crowd of 13,534 that wasn't sure if King's basket was going to be allowed by the officials until about five minutes after the fact. King's points were put on the scoreboard only after officials Don Rutledge, John Moreau and Andre Pattitto had huddled and determined that Rose's attempt had beaten the 45-second clock buzzer and that the ball had grazed the rim before King grabbed the rebound (if it hadn't, UCLA would have been awarded the ball on a 45-second violation). The officials also ruled that the Bruins had Please see Michigan, page C5 a St.John Vianney's Allison MacFariand (top photo) gives a hug to Maureen Neville (44) during the final seconds yesterday at the Meadowlands. The Lancers' Rose Jackson (left photo) drives around West Side's Denise Anthony for a second-half basket. PETER ACKERMAN Astxxy Park Press and still endured a rookie season that saw the Nets finish 32 games under .500.

"There was nobody feeling sympathy for us. You just have keep your head up and keep playing." It's tough to assess whether the Nets actually played up to their potential because it didn't take much effort last night. The Nets shot 55 percent from the floor with Jijl 12 Please see Net. oaeeC2 umM gam St John Vianney bucks its first TOC title in 1991, this St. John Vianney team wasn't expected to win it all.

Not with four sophomores and a freshman in the starting lineup. And certainly not with no starter taller than 5-9. All of which made this year's accomplishment that much more fun. "After we lost to Egg Harbor ST. JOHN VIANNEY 57 NEWARK WEST SIDE 43 By TOM SLATER PRESS STAFF WRITER EAST RUTHERFORD St.

John Vianney proved that winning a Tournament of Champions title is much more fun the second time around. Using their ferocious man-toman defense, the Lady Lancers wore down Newark West Side 57-43 to win their second state title in three years in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association TOC championship yesterday. And unlike the team that won Please see Lancer, page C6 Unsympathetic Nets bombard hapless Mavs NETS 106 times this year MAVERICKS 84 -demolish them. The Nets built a By STEVE POPPER PRESS STAFF WRITER EAST RUTHERFORD If any team could sympathize with the Dallas Mavericks' predicament, it would be the New Jersey Nets, who endured a nightmarish 17-win season just three years ago. But the Nets did not allow any of the sympathy to show until they had done to the Mavericks what has been done 57 other double-figure lead midway through the first quarter and coasted to a 106-84 victory at Meadowlands Arena before 11,487 fans, who obviously had to see the Mavs in person to appreciate just how bad they are.

"It's a touph iob for the coachine staff to I.