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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, April 1, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April the stars and stripes Page 21 sports a photo Georgetown ail american Patrick Ewing towers above Johns rebounds Between Willie Glass 30 and Bill Wennington bib final two Georgetown advances by smothering Johns a Georgetown rolled into the Mcaa championship game for the second straight year and the third time in four years with a 77 59 Victory Over 3 Johns an Al big East title game monday night was assured earlier saturday when a ranked Villanova upset 5 Memphis state 5245 in the other semifinal at Rupp an radio will air the final at 4 its a Little Early to be Georgetown coach John Thompson there is one More ballgame to be i get pleased after we Are out of i get some the defending Champion hoyas shut Down the scoring and passing of redmen ail american Chris Mullin with a Box Andone Johns All time leading scorer and the leading scorer in the was held to eight ending his string of 101 straight games of scoring in double Sophomore Reggie a 6foot7 paced four hoyas in double figures with 20 followed by Pat Ewing with 16 and David Wingate and Bill Martin with 12 the broke the game open in the second half after leading 3228 at halftime even though a three time played Only 12 minutes and was rested after he picked up two personal in route to its 17th straight Georgetown scored the first seven Points of the second half with Williams contributing two Field goals for a 3928 Georgetown then took and the red men never got closer than nine the last time at 4738 on a Mike Moses with about 12 minutes to operating against 7foot Bill Wennington in the red ens Mantovan moved inside for a goal to make it the swarming hoyas defense caused 18 redmen Georgetown made Only seven turnovers and dominated the boards Wingates biggest contribution was As the Chaser on Mullin in Georgetown Box and i just tried not to let him handle the just trying to deny him the therefore it made a problem for them to get the Ball to Walter Berry and Bill Wingate it was a one none defense and if he goes we All try to pick him up once you take your eyes off he will Burn Wennington and Mullin each had four turnovers equating their number of the big East tournament shot 51 percent from the the the regular season big East shot 55 a goal by Howard Broadnax gave Georgetown its biggest Lead at the the redmen Cut it Back to 6251 on two free throws by Walter Berry and Willie Glass three Point Georgetown then went into a spread of sense and Johns Only Hope to get Back into the game was to the hoyas cashed in on the free throw line to end Johns season with a 314 Mark the last three losses to George town following an Earl season 6665 Vic tory Over the a paced Johns with 13 Wennington and Berry each had we tried everything against them it just didst said Johns coach Lou Villanova ousts Memphis for a feast of the East Villanova Star Harold Pressley Battles Memphis states Andre Turner for Loose Ball a Villanova proved that on its Road to the Mcaa championship big Means big East rather than big the wildcats drove taller Memphis state to distraction and drove two of the tigers big men Keith Lee and William Bedford to the Bench with foul trouble then took control of the boards and Rode Dwayne Mcclains 19 Points to a 5245 Victory for a spot in monday nights title when Keith Lee fouled Mcclain we stopped and took a deep Lee fouled out with remaining and Villanova in and Bedford played most of the second half with four it will be an Al big East affair for the National championship the first All conference final since the 1976 meeting of two big ten when Indiana beat Michigan Mcclain scored eight of nine Villanova Points in one stretch and eight of the wild cats final the remaining four came on Las minute free throws by Gary Villanova 60 senior Mclain hit All five of his free throws and Mcclain hit All seven of in Villanova hit 20 of 26 free Memphis state went to the foul line just nine times for seven despite doing most of its shooting from the Villanova hit percent of its Fiel goal attempts and limited Memphis state to 38 it was Mclain and 69 Center de Pinckney who had made a pact four years ago that they would reach the final four before they now they have done that one better getting Villanova to its first final since Pinckney finished with 12 Points and grabbed nine he also blocked three shots for Memphis unable to play its physical game inside through most of the second was forced to resort to Long Range Andre a 510 Junior wound up As the tigers leading scorer with 11 Dana the Memphis state said he didst want to complain about the officiating but then he complained in not i know theres no big East in but it had an effect on the referees a Little Baskerville Memphis states 6 foot7 Junior mused we didst get the Calls we Felt we should All our big Fellows had to sit Down with three or four fouls and their big Guys didst get in foul they were calling a lot of touch they say the big East is a rough Confer if its such a rough Why did they Call All those Little fouls five of those fouls were called against the physical a bruising 610 Al America Forward who blew hot and cold throughout the tournament and had been in foul Trou see Villanova on Page 23  
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