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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Saturday March 19 1988 7C Tubbs Has Style Foes Learn To Hate ATLANTA Billy Tubbs knew the rules First you stand at the lectern so the cameramen in the back can see you then you answer questions from reporters for 30 minutes and then you leave But Tubbs the basketball coach at Oklahoma chose to sit next to the lectern not stand behind it After a few minutes a cameraman complained So Tubbs was asked by a publicity man to get up and walk to the lectern a couple of feet away am I making speech or Tubbs asked standing now am I an easy Tubbs 53 got a few laughs and he smiled a mean little smile There is convention and there is Tubbs You wonder what would happen to a guy like this in the button-down ACC Tubbs and his players are cocky confi- Now Tubbs is an interesting guy and the Sooners are an interesting team Why the dislike? Two reasons Tubbs and the team Tubbs has said he want to beat opponents he wants to them That those players in the red and white Oklahoma uniforms And his game is war Troops press and attack Center Stacey King averages 217 points forward Harvey Grant twin brother of Horace who played for Clem-son and is now with the Chicago Bulls 212 The team averages a Big Eight record 1048 opponents 815 The Sooners press until they feel like stopping not when decorum tells them to And even with victory certain starters often stay in the game people want to see a second or third string they should go to a high school Tubbs said earlier this season In war there are casualties One was Centenary 152-84 and one was Georgia State 124-81 Clinging to 40-point-plus leads the Sooners continued to press and the losing coaches were irate Georgia Bob Reinhart sent a reserve to the Oklahoma bench to ask Tubbs to call off the assault and refused to shake hand after the game Tubbs said that if his team won 84-41 instead of 124-81 nobody would accuse him of running up the score He also said his reserves trying to earn their spurs and trying to be part of the team I tell them to back off and not play The Sooners would rather win games than friends are going to think what they want to think said King a master of the turnaround jump shot and the tidy phrase up by 20 as a coach you tell the second team not to go hard because they work just as hard as we do in And often beat them King said honestly believe if we put them in the tournament they could play with King said Heads turn when the Sooners walk into The Omni and the team seem to mind When you come from a town called Norman in a state where the leading exports are dust and oil you stand out anyway you can Running up the score is not new at Oklahoma the football team has been doing it for years The teams compete like to see us run up the score and we like to see them said senior forward Dave Sieger Lost among the points is defense a stifling defense that comes at you like a boxer always looking to trap you in a corner and put you away Tennes-see-Chattanooga stayed close into the second half Thursday before getting caught on the ropes and losing by 28 Tubbs and Auburn coach Sonny Smith are friends but if the Sooners lead by 20 with 10 seconds to play scratch and bump and shoot for 2 1 a nice said Smith plays tennis and he likes country music I invite him over for dinner dent nasty aggressive and given to winning by an average of 233 points They also are 30-3 and the No 1 seed in the Southeast Regional They play Auburn today at 5 pm in the second round of the NCAA tournament But if they are the favorites in the betting parlors they are not the favorites among fans at The Omni in Atlanta One group cheered with passion for Bradley on Thursday only because they thought Bradley had a better chance of beating Oklahoma than Auburn did But the Tigers the No 8 seed won 90-86 hate a fan said and nobody in his group disagreed Foul Shooting Lifts Tech Over Iowa State Georgia Tech 90 Iowa State 78 IOWA STATE MP FG FT A Pt Robinson 32 29 3-4 3 3 4 8 Grayer 36 13-23 3-4 8 4 4 29 Rhodes 38 14-32 4-4 9 1 5 34 Thompkms 22 0-2 0-0 2 6 5 0 Breltbach 26 0-1 1-2 1 4 4 1 Doerrfeld 7 0-1 0-0 4 0 3 0 Born 25 3-8 00 5 2 5 6 Woods 6 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 0 Baugh 6 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 Alexander 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 Urquhart 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 Totall 32-77 11-14 40 22 31 78 GEORGIA TECH MP FG FT A Pt Scott 39 7-12 4-4 4 6 4 23 Ferrell 30 3-9 2-3 7 0 2 8 Hammonds 31 7-10 19-21 9 1 3 33 Neal 37 2-4 5-8 2 3 1 9 Oliver 38 1-5 4-4 1 5 4 7 Muntyn 15 2-4 0-0 5 0 1 4 Sherrod 10 2-4 2-2 2 0 1 6 Totals 24-48 36-42 37 15 16 90 Iowa State 41 37 78 Georgia Tech 38 52 90 From Associated Press and Staff Reports HARTFORD Conn A game played at a breakneck pace was decided with Tom Hammonds and his Georgia Tech teammates standing still taking foul shots They sank 1 6 free throws in the final 4i minutes to beat Iowa State 90-78 Friday in the first round of the NCAA tournament East Regional career-high 33 points included 19 of 21 free throws Hammonds a junior center and Georgia best foul shooter made 13 of 15 in the second half when he scored 23 points was a little Hammonds said missed stepped up there and made those free Iowa State coach Johnny Orr said Hammonds made seven of 10 shots from the field and led Georgia Tech with nine rebounds The victory broke a three-game losing streak for Georgia Tech (22-9) The Yellow Jackets who trailed 41-38 at halftime play Sunday against Richmond (25-6) an upset winner over Indiana Dennis Scott had 23 points for Georgia Tech while Iowa State (20-12) was led by Lafester Rhodes with 34 and Jeff Grayer with 29 game plan was to get the ball inside to Hammonds and try to get some Georgia Tech coach Bobby Cremins said The Cyclones battled from a 69-58 deficit to tie the score 72-72 with four minutes 49 seconds left but they never went ahead put the pressure on at the DIEDRA LAIRDStaff Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski (left) and players the focus of attention Friday at an NCAA Quin Snyder (center) and Danny Ferry were tournament press conference in Chapel Hill Three-point goals Iowa State 3-15 Robinson 1-5 Grayer 0-1 Rhodes 2-4 Born 0-4 Baugh 0-1 Georgia Tech 6-10 Scott 5-6 Neal 0-2 Oliver 1-2 Turnovers Iowa State 19 Georgia Tech 21 Technical fouls None Officials Dtbler Donato Thornley Att 15 608 (at Hartford Conn) end and got back but then we had to foul and it got Orr said The Yellow Jackets made 36 of 42 foul shots both season highs With the score tied at 72 Scott hit two free throws to start a string of nine straight Georgia Tech points to open what had been a tight game for 36 minutes Craig Neal followed with two free throws Hammonds made a three-point play and Brian Oliver hit two foul shots After Mike jumper cut the lead to 81-74 with one minute 55 seconds left Iowa State got two baskets from Rhodes while Georgia Tech kept hitting foul shots Disciples Square Off Wolfpack Shocked By Racers Continued From Page 1C Valvano said Valvano had predicted the difficulty of first-round play if not defeat in the days before the third-seeded Wolfpack went out for the game Little-known Murray State was small but quick the type of team that has given NC State trouble this season Offensively it was a game of contrasts in first- and second-half play for the Wolfpack The opening 20 minutes produced sharpness outside and very little inside the final 20 were reversed Defensively NC State struggled the entire game for an answer to the quickness The biggest problem came from Don Mann Murray 5-8 point guard He had 1 6 points and eight assists hit four of nine three-pointers and somehow grabbed six rebounds two of them in the final critical seconds when the Wolfpack was trying desperately to pull this one out Del Negro paced NC State with 16 Forward Chucky Brown and center Charles Shackleford came on in the second half to finish with 1 5 each The most obvious missed opportunities came in the final minute when the team twice cut Murray lead to two The Racers pushed it back to three 78-75 on Paul free throw with seven seconds left King missed a second shot and Shackleford rebounded and quickly got the ball to Del Negro who was breaking up the left sideline Del Negro raced to the wing just outside the three-point line and launched a shot for the tie with three seconds to play The ball bounced off the rim and into the hands of NC Brian Howard but time expired before he could get it outside for a final three-point attempt had a good shot by the kid want to take Valvano said work Said Del Negro: was a good shot but unfortunately it was a little off to the But Del missed shot was far from the decisive play NC State started hot and twice built an eight-point lead midway through the first half But the Wolfpack extend the lead missing eight of its next nine shots and twice turning the ball over in the ensuing six minutes The Racers rode five-of-mne three-point shooting to come back and take the lead for good Murray State led 41-36 at halftime The Wolfpack cut the deficit to two 46-44 early in the second half but the Racers responded with an 11-2 run and a 57-46 advantage with 13 minutes 22 seconds to play Valvano said he was disappointed but not surprised different if the underdog is not he said Murray State has had some success The Racers seemed to believe the same thing despite the difference in the teams' seeds and national attention came into this game pretty said center Carl Sias intimidated by them we're basketball players just like they For NC State there was no argument Maryland Holds Off Cal -Santa Barbara Maryland 92 UC-Santa Bar 82 UC-SANTA BARBARA MP FG FT A Pt By RICK BONNELL Ralelph Bureau CHAPEL HILL Mike Krzyzewski revels in recalling National Invitation Tournament appearance his senior year and the emphatic instructions given to him by then-West Point coach Robert Knight were playing South Carolina and he said you take a shot break your Krzyzewski said with a grin got open I mean really open and I went up for a shot from about 1 5 feet Suddenly my life passed in front of me and I passed the Knight system Two decidedly different outgrowths of that system Duke Blue Devils and Dave Southern Methodist Mustangs meet in a second-round game of the NCAA tournament in Chapel Hill today (about 2:45 pm WBTV channel 3) after 12:20 game against Rhode Island Bliss was an assistant coach at Army during senior year Knight went on to Indiana and three national titles while Krzyzewski and Bliss worked their ways toward Duke and SMU They call themselves and enjoy the group identity The word is thrown around a lot too to define the group that includes Don Devoe at Tennessee Tom Miller at Colorado and Chuck Swenson at William Mary Each played for or worked for Knight and generally they try to avoid regular-season games against each other And although Krzyzewski and Bliss face each other today the winner have to worry about a match with their mentor down the road Hoosiers were upset 72-69 Friday by Richmond thing we all learned is based in how hard he pushed said Bliss amazing how much he can push out of In that regard both coaches have kept up the winning tradition Fifth-ranked Duke (25-6) has clinched its fifth 20-victory season while SMU (28-6) is making its third NCAA tournament appearance in five years similarities to the Knight way of doing things is more easily seen team is defensively oriented playing just the aggressive man-to-man style Knight prefers may be the best all-around defensive team in the said Bliss thing that is very evident is that Mike has played the (Knight) defense He teaches it well and obviously recruits to it very smart and what it takes because this is a quick-thought In contrast SMU has an offensive accent The fast-shooting offensive style is symbolized by top scorer Kato Armstrong a 5-1 1 guard averaging 161 points Texans joke the only time Armstrong shoot is when the ball is out of his hands But both Bliss and Krzyzewski say style is more Knight-like than it appears at first glance The point Krzyzewski says is that Bliss has held to cardinal rule be flexible enough to use the talent you have to its best advantage use become more and more popular offensive said Bliss the Loyola Marymount style outscore you to death think a lot of the other are more defensively oriented but we play good defense We make it hard on the other team And what he would DeHart 27 6-10 2-2 1 2 4 18 Gray 14 0-2 0-0 2 0 1 0 McArthur 26 3-5 3-4 8 0 4 9 Johnson 32 5-10 0-0 0 4 3 14 Shaw 40 5-13 1-1 6 5 3 14 Westbeld 6 0-0 1-2 0 0 2 1 Doyle 30 8-14 4-6 7 1 4 20 Davenport 22 1-4 2-3 3 6 0 4 Elliott 1 0-0 2-2 0 0 1 2 Total! 28-56 15-20 27 18 22 82 MARYLAND MP FG FT A Pt Massenberg 36 4-4 3-4 7 0 4 11 Lewis 37 11-15 2-6 8 2 4 25 Williams 23 3-6 5-6 2 1 4 11 Gatlin 40 8-13 2-2 7 6 2 23 Archer 33 3-6 11-12 1 4 1 18 Hood 16 0-3 2-2 0 2 0 2 McCoy 11 1-3 0-0 113 2 Dickerson 4 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 Totals 30-50 25-32 27 17 18 92 UC Santa Barbara 44 38 82 Maryland 39 S3 92 From Ailociated Pril and Staff Report! CINCINNATI Derrick Lewis scored 1 8 of his 25 points in the second half Friday night as Maryland used its inside strength to beat Califomia-Santa Barbara 92-82 in a first-round NCAA tournament Southeast Regional basketball game Maryland (18-12) used its size advantage to wipe out a 44-39 halftime deficit and earn its first NCAA tournament victory for coach Bob Wade Wade now in his second season replaced Lefty Drieseil in the turmoil after the death ofLen Bias means a lot to us to this particular Wade said Maryland will play Kentucky (26-5) a 99-84 winner over Southern Friday in a second-round game Sunday at Riverfront Coliseum Califomia-Santa Barbara (22-7) got off to a torrid start in its first NCAA tournament appearance shooting 69 in the first half But the Gauchos keep up with Lewis when Maryland took its offense inside in the second half Lewis scored 14 of 21 points in a 10-minute stretch to help the Terrapins take command with a nine-point lead The Gauchos got no closer than three in the last 10 minutes the first half I played the majority of time on the said Lewis just made up my mind I had to post up in order for us to stay in the Lewis finished with 25 points most of them after 6-10 center Brian Williams sat down with four Run For Cover! Here Comes Loyola Three-point goals UC Santa-Barbara 1 1-20 (DeHart 4-8 Johnson 4-6 Shaw 3-5 Doyle 0-1) Maryland 7-16 (Gatlin 5-8 Lew 1-1 Archer 1-2 Hood 0-3 McCoy 0-2) Turnovers Santa Barbara 15 Maryland 12 Technical fouls None Officials Shea McDonald Showalter Att 16562 (al Riverfront Coliseum) fouls with 1 3 minutes 27 seconds to play and Califomia-Santa Barbara in the bonus move inside dramatically changed the game The first half had turned into a long-range shoot-out won by Califomia-Santa Barbara Brian Shaw the Pacific Coast Athletic player of the year rallied the Gauchos to a seven-point lead with a minute left in the half scoring 14 points But Shaw did not score in the second half and Califomia-Santa offense crumbled Murray State 78 NC State 75 MURRAY STATE MP FG FT A Continued From Page 1C former NBA coach with the Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls who seems as amused by his team as is the public me there is no such thing as a bad In 31 games North Carolina not a bashful team itself has shot 350 three-point attempts Loyola Marymount has tried 559 Westhead who teaches a writing course at Loyola Marymount and spouts quotations from Shakespeare Ben Franklin Mark Twain and the like said with a straight face that he wants his team to shoot more hurriedly against North Carolina than it did against Wyoming He thinks i the Tar Heels might try to con- trol the tempo and that's his answer how Loyola Marymount does it: The Lions play a pressure defense that forces a lot of turnovers but also gives up a great many easy baskets Sometimes lots of times they look absolutely silly all part of the plan They want you to play a running game and if they are occasionally victims of what Westhead calls fast breaks they figure answer with a bucket of their own maybe a three-pointer and wear you down because they practice the running game constantly and feel they are better conditioned On offense they push the ball up the floor for 40 minutes much faster than say Georgia Tech which was the fastest at that All players go to an assigned spot on every possession all the plays they have took one day to put in the says Westhead) From that spot they are free to do whatever they want The first man open shoots wherever he is As soon as the others see that the man with the ball is open they rush to the board for the rebound If a man is open and shoot the others get on Shot Misses As Hooisers Sent Home Ogden 31 6-7 0-1 11 1 3 12 Martin 34 7-11 9-10 5 2 3 23 Sias 33 4-13 1-2 7 2 2 9 Mann 40 5-14 2-4 6 8 2 16 King 38 3-7 1-2 2 2 2 9 Brooks 8 0-1 0-0 1 0 0 0 McClatchey 7 3-3 0-0 1 0 1 6 Foster 9 1-2 1-3 3 0 2 3 Totals 29-58 14-22 37 15 78 NC STATE MP FG FT A Pt Brown 36 7-14 1-3 8 0 3 15 Howard 21 3-7 2-3 3 5 3 8 Shackleford 35 7-17 1-3 12 2 3 15 Corchianl 29 2-7 1-2 4 5 1 7 Del Negro 39 6-12 2-2 9 5 3 16 Weems 11 1-1 0-0 13 0 2 Monroe 24 5-15 0-0 4 1 1 12 Lester 5 0-0 0-0 1 0 1 0 Touts 31-73 7-13 43 21 15 75 Murray State 41 37 78 NC State 38 39 75 him It happen much like a said senior Mike Yoest your coach tell you to shoot anytime you feel like So if you're North Carolina what do you do? Westhead said safe to say Dean Smith is contemplating five different ways to send us back to Smith said he have time to install anything his team already have in its repertoire such as pressuring the ball on inbounds plays after made shots or trying to keep the ball out of the point guard's hands in the backcourt to slow the break Smith probably will run with Loyola focus on keeping the Lions off the offensive boards look for JR Reid to score about 50 and hope his guards can handle the defensive pressure feel very fortunate to win this Smith said And I promise you he meant it regular-season and tournament champions of the Colonial Athletic Association to its victory RICHMOND 72 Stapleton 0-4 1-2 1 Wooltolk 6-12 4-5 16 Kratzer 6-12 0-1 12 Atkinson 5-6 4-6 14 Rica 9-17 0-0 21 Wmiecki 2-2 0-0 4 English 1-2 2-2 4 Taylor 0-0 0-0 0 Dudek 0-0 0-0 0 Totals 29-55 1 1-16 72 INDIANA 89 Edwards 6-10 0-0 16 Eyf 1-1 0-0 2 Garrett 4-16 1-3 9 Jones 3-7 2-2 8 Smart 10-18 3-3 23 Jadlow 4-5 3-4 11 Hillman 0-4 3-0 0 Totals 20-61 9-12 60 Richmond 44-38 Three-pomt Richmond 3-7 (Rice 3-7) Indiana 4-7 (Edwards 4-6 Hillman 0-1) Fouled None Richmond 36 (Kratzer 12) Indiana 20 (Garrett 10) Richmond 15 (Atkinson Wlnieckl Taylor 3) Indiana 17 (Jones 8) Total Richmond 15 Indiana 15 Att 15608 (al Hartford Conn Continued From Page 1C Spiders into a second-round game Sunday against Georgia Tech which defeated Iowa State 90-78 in the first of four games at the Hartford Civic Center Richmond has beaten Georgia Tech the two times they played in the past two regular seasons The loss stopped a six-game NCAA tournament winning streak for Indiana which finishes its season at 19-10 Rice connecting mostly on perimeter shots including three three-pointers led Richmond the Thre-point goals Murray State 6-14 Martin 0-1 Mann 4-9 King 2-4 NC State 6-14 Corchianl 2-3 Del Negro 2-5 Monroe 2-6 Turnovers Murray State 9 State 7 Technical fouls None Officials Howell Tackett Stock rter Att 14478 (at Lincoln Neb i I TT WJWsa.