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nad-Clty SECTION Sports in brief 2D Pro basketball 2D High schools 3-4D College basketball 5-7D Outdoors 10D Irish pull upset 6D Sunday, Jan. 12, 1992 Purdue 77, Iowa 69 mi IOWA mta fg foa ft fta rb pf a tp LooMngM 14 1 3 2 0 1 0 4 Street 35 24125515 Earl 36 7 15 7 10 7 0 21 Barnes 36 2 5 0 0 2 2 4 5 Skinner 19 05222212 Smith 26 2 5 1 2 0 4 3 5 Moses 271 15 5625122 Davis 13 00232012 Tubbs 901002000 Winters 902340203 Lusk 100000000 (team) 1 Totols 225 22 57 23 11 23 13 12 49 PURDUE mln fg fga tt Ha rb pf a tp Darner 20 2 6 0 0 2 5 2 5 Stanback 42 11 2 2 10 3 1 18 McNary 25 2 3 0 0 6 4 0 4 Austin 44 10 21 1 5 10 2 3 24 Waddell 42 5 9 9 10 5 2 19 Riley 20 1 5 0 0 0 2 1 2 Painter 2002221242 Trice 3 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 Martin 900343033 (teom) 5 Totols 225 21 51 17 21 43 22 22 77 Halftlme Iowa 32, Purdue 27. Regulation chances to win the game in regulation, finally tied it with a clutch shot at the end of the second half, and then fell far behind early in the overtime period. As a result, the Hawkeyes finished up the first week of Big Ten action without a victory, joining Northwestern in last place at 0-2. They will take an 8-4 overall record into a game with Illinois at Carver-Hawk-eye Arena next Wednesday.

"It's just unbelievable to start your season with two overtime losses," Iowa Coach Tom Davis said. "Obviously we did enough good things to win the game but couldn't quite get over the hump." The Hawkeyes, who shot 35 percent against Michigan, went through prolonged shooting slumps early in both halves Saturday and hit only 38.6 percent. They missed their first eight shots of the 5'2 minutes to register their first point. A bigger factor, though, was the fact that Purdue held a whopping 43-23 edge on the boards. It was the second time all season the Hawks were outrebounded.

Moses then leaped in the air to tip the Boilermakers' inbounds pass near mid-court. The ball landed in Waddell's hands but the freshman guard had one foot out of bounds, giving Iowa the ball with 10 seconds left. After a timeout, the Hawkeyes got the ball to center Acie Earl, who missed a 15-foot jumper from the left side as time expired. "We tried to isolate him there," Davis explained. "We thought he'd have a chance to either drive or hit the jumper.

It was a pretty good shot. He's a decent shooter out to that range." The overtime was all Purdue. Austin hit a 15-footer and scored on a drive but then missed four straight free throws to leave the door open for the Hawkeyes. They failed to capitalize and Waddell finished them off with six straight free throws. Moses broke out of his recent slump by scoring 22 points and Earl added 21, but no other Iowa player managed more than five.

Iowa stands 0-2 in Big Ten after tough defeat at Purdue By Don Doxsie QUAD-CITY TIMES WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. The last thing the Iowa basketball team wanted was an instant replay. But that's what the Hawkeyes got. For the second time in three days Saturday the Hawkeyes suffered through a sub-par shooting night, wasted a bundle of opportunities to win and ended up going down to a heart-breaking, overtime loss. This time it was Purdue that delivered the blow with a 77-69 victory over the Hawks at sold-out Mackey Arena.

Woody Austin and Matt Waddell combined to score 13 points in overtime and 43 for the game as Purdue pretty much duplicated Michigan's victory over Iowa just two nights earlier. As in that game, Iowa had numerous lllini lose a heart-breaker: 7D "I always consider Iowa the best rebounding team in the league so you've got to be pleased with that," Purdue Coach Gene Keady said. "I never thought I'd see the day we'd do that. That was a big plus we didn't expect at all." The Boilermakers (9-5) also got a big lift from sophomore forward Ian Stanback, who netted 18 points and scored eight straight after Iowa had grabbed a 34-27 lead in the opening minute of the second half. Stanback's binge gave the Boilers a slight lead and set the stage for a wild, back-and-forth second half in which the two teams were never more than three points apart.

Waddell, who finished with 19 points and a career-high eight assists, gave Purdue a 62-59 lead with 28 seconds remaining but Iowa's James Moses quickly drilled a 20-footer at the other end to tie it at 62. Iowa 62, Purdue 42. Three-point shooting Iowa 2-14 (Moses 1-3, Barnes 1-4, Skinner 0-3, Looking-bill 0-1, Street 0-1, winters 0-1, Tubbs 0-1), Purdue 4-13 (Austin 3-5, Darner 1-5, Riley 0-1, Pointer 0-2). Steals Iowa 9 (Barnes 2, Smith 2, Moses 2), Purdue 2 (Austin, Riley). Blocked shots Iowa 3 (Winters 2), Purdue 1 (Stanback).

Turnovers Iowa 13 (Smith 4), Purdue IB (Painter 4). Technical fouls Purdue bench. Art. 14,123. CBA A Q-C's Panaggio is all-star coach ISU BASKETBALL Cyclones surprise Sooners Orr's team rallies, claims its 12th win Thunder 130, Bandits 122 QUAD-CITIES mm fafga ft fta rb pf a tp 39 10 22 2 4 S6222 0 7 6 2 6 9 3 5 20 31 26 16 Thunder's 3-0T win clinches the selection BIRMINGHAM, Ala.

Dan Panaggio earned the right Saturday to coach the American Conference in the Continental Basketball Association All-Star Game. Panaggio, in his first year as coach of the Quad-City Thunder, 3 4 1 1 4 15 6 1 17 0 1 6 1 10 23 4 0 10 2 1 4 4 1 12 2 1 20 Wltchel Harris Hoffner Chievous Mullenbura Wvnder Martin Anderson Robinson Schetfler (team) Totals 54 17 45 2 10 16 1 3 8 14 4 3 i J' I 'J By Craig Cooper QUAD-CITY TIMES 26 6 11 0 42 13 4 315 51 117 17 44 76 2f 25 130 BIRMINGHAM hi too' ft fto rf pf tp 43 1 7 2 2 4 3 14 4 1 25 32 10 17 40 1 15 5 5 2 1 14 0 0 Wade Cirtrkjht Mollis Collier Farmer Johnson 0 3 12 4 6 12 31 20 S7 47 captured the honor by the slimmest of margins when his team out-, lasted Birmingham 130-122 in three overtimes. The CBA 4 30 4 14 8 18 13 14 11 5 12 3 4 9 I "mm- 1 I i i 1 10 0 0 6 33 5 10 Henry McDowef Popson (team) Totols Quad-Cities Birmingham 14 315 46 100 27 34 68 34 31 122 2 23 21 20 1 1 14 130 AMES, Iowa It was in the bag. Even Johnny Orr was about to concede. No.

2 1 Oklahoma had a 14-point lead, had a hot hand in guard Brent Price and seemed to have much better athletes than Iowa State. A win was in the bag. Except that the bag was broken wide open by suddenly aggressive play at both ends and the Cyclones escaped with a 73-71 victory that has to go down as one of the all-time Hilton Coliseum classics. Czechoslovakian freshman Julius Michalik, accustomed to playing against great players in 36 21 22 21 81 4-122 Panaggio I 3 J' Am Quod-Cities wins CBA auarter points 5-2. Three-point pools Quad-Cltles 1-7 (Harris 0-1, Hoffner 1-3, Mullenbura 0-1, Wynder 0-1, Anderson 0-1); Birmingham 3-11 (Wade 0-3, Cutrlght 0- 1, Mollis 0-1, Farmer 1-1, Henry 1-4, McDowell 1- 1).

Turnovers Quad-Cities 21 (Wynder M.Birmingham 31 (Henry 10). Steals Quod-Cities 14 (Mitchell 4); Birmingham 11 (Cutrlght 4). Blocked shots Quad-Cltles 3 (Mullenbura, Martin and Anderson 1); Birmingham 6 (Popson 2). Art. 952.

4S international competitions, rebounded his own miss and turned it into a three-point play with 16.7 seconds left to nut the Cv- i i rlnnes nn hv decides its all-star coaches on the basis of whichever team has the best average of CBA points per games played. Saturday's games were the last ones counted. The Thunder took five CBA points by beating the Bandits, while Coach Rip Saunders' La Crosse team also took five CBA points in a 1 10-99 win over Fort Wayne. Panaggio nipped Flip Saunders for the coaching honor with an average of 4.637 to 4.6 1 5. The Thunder has collected 1 34 12 points in 29 games, while the Catbirds have 120 points in 26 games.

Saunders would have earned the coaching berth had the Catbirds been able to score one more point than the Thunder on Saturday night. However, the Thunder did its coach a favor by outscoringthe. Bandits 14-6 in the third overtime to clinch the victory. The game was tied 100-100 after regulation, 108-108 after one overtime and 116-116 after two overtimes. Seven players scored in double figures for the Thunder, led by A.J.

Wynder with 23. Barry Mitchell had 22, Steve Schefiler 20, Derrick Chievous 17, Scott ASSOCIATED PRESS Haffner 15, Keith Robinson 12 and Bobby Martin 10. The Bandits were paced by Skeeter Henry's 30 points and Michael Cutright added 25. The Thunder won the rebound battle 76-68 with Martin grabbing 14 and Scheffler nine. Henry grabbed 1 1 for the Bandits.

The Bandits hurt their own cause with 3 1 turnovers, while the Thunder was charged for only 1 8 miscues. Panaggio's all-star selection is ironic as his father, Mauro, was a CBA all-star coach two years ago while he was coaching the Thunder. Mauro is now the coach of the Rockford Lightning. Quad-Cities improved its record to 22-7 with Saturday's win, while Birmingham dropped to 12-16. It was the second straight night the Thunder and Bandits played in Birmingham, with the Bandits winning Friday night's game 113-105.

Hurl Beechum (53) of Iowa State comes down Saturday's Big Eight battle In Ames, Iowa. The on the back of Oklahoma's Jeff Webster during Cyclones won 73-7 1 Orr the final score. Michalik, who led the 12-2 Cyclones with 1 8 points and nine rebounds, watched his 12-footer in the lane miss badly but he was quickly underneath for an easy rebound basket. He was fouled on the play by Jeff Webster. "A lucky rebound and a lucky basket," said the 6-foot-1 1 freshman from Prievidza.

"It was probably my biggest basket since my second competition when I was 8 years old." The Cyclones still had to make a defensive stop to win. Oklahoma was able to get the ball to Price in a one-on-one situation players piled on top of each other. The ear-ringing crowd of 14,024 lingered like it didn't want to leave and miss anything. "A great comeback one of the greatest I've ever coached," Orr said, his voice breaking. "We showed great courage.

"We came out in the second but Ron Bayless forced him off balance with tight pressure. Price's game-tying attempt missed and after a scramble under the basket, the Cyclones' Justus Thigpen finally cleared the ball out with 2 seconds left. The victory set off a wild celebration at halfcourt as Cyclone half and played the way we are capable of playing both on offense and defense. "Julius made a great play, an absolutely big-time play. Fantastic." There were several other CYCLONES Please turn to Page 7D COMMENTARY v.

Bills may finally end AFC's shame Z't 'l! ks 1 Super Bowl teams the last two decades, the Steelers had Terry Bradshaw, the Raiders had Ken Stabler, the Cowboys had Roger Staubach and the 49ers had Joe Montana, about whom even some Hall of Fame quarterbacks in so many words admitted: "You da man!" Yes, Denver Coach Dan Reeves was saying the other day, an offense won't go very far without a top-notch quarterback. Note the key word offense and that Reeves quickly added: "If you don't play defense, you're not going anywhere." This year, the Bills have the offense to win the Super Bowl. And the team's defense isn't too bad, either. Maybe, just maybe, the AFC is ready to emerge from its slump. Today's games: 12D ulous in the AFC title game here today.

His Broncos then will be 47-touchdown underdogs for the Super Bowl and fail to cover. Like the economy, pro football is supposed to go in cycles. And for fairly close to three decades it has done exactly that. Consider a trend even Federal Reserve chairman Greenspan would appreciate: In the 1960s, the NFC won the first two Super Bowls and the AFC won the next two. In the 1970s, the NFC won just two Super Bowls.

In the 1980s, the AFC won just two Super Bowls. So how come the AFC has yet to bump itself back up? Okay, if Scott Norwood's 47-yarder in the first Super Bowl of the '90s had been a few feet to the left, the Rills would have beaten the Gi-ifrtts and we might not be doing this tap dance. Except that NFC NFC has dominated in recent Super Bowls By Ken Denlinger THE WASHINGTON POST ORCHARD PARK; N.Y. If Alan Greenspan and some other great tinkerers could spare a moment from the real recession, the American Football Conference is in a very long and very deep slump. In the latest power rankings, it was Behind the conference that can't count, the Big Ten.

Sorry about the cheap shot. In the Buffalo Bills, the AFC just might have a team ready to cover your eyes, Redskins fans win the upcoming Super Bowl and one or two more. If recent history holds, IDwever, John Elway will be routinely mirac NFL playoffs Today's games Denver at Buffalo, 11:30 a.m. Detroit at Washington, 3 p.m. Greg BollQUAO-CITY TIMtS Down, not out teams during this regular season won the interconference battle by a staggering 33-19.

How come the NFC is supe- Cior? The kneejerk answer to that ort of question almost always is quarterback. Of the memorable North Scott's Hiram Heyslnger, bottom, works to get away from West's Brian Prldemore during the Lancer Invitational. HeysJng rallsd to win by pin. Story: 4D.