European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday february 14,1987 Purdue upsets no. 4 Iowa 80-73 Krom press dispatches Iowa City Iowa guard Etc Rufic Stephen had a career High 23 Points including five three Point Field goals in As Many tries As no. Purdue mat fourth ranked Iowa �0-73 in a big ten game thursday. Purdue 19-3 Overall and 10-2 in the conference held onto second place in the big ten Iowa which beat Purdue incest Lafayette ind., 70-67 on Jan. 19, fell to 21 -3 and 8-3. The boilermakers who never trailed took i hair biggest Lead at 74-63 with 1 34 College basketball to play As Iowa Center Gerry Wright was called for goal lending. Guard Troy Lewis had 18 Points for Purdue 15 in he first half As the boiler makers look a 39-35 Lead at half Lime. Center Mclvin Mocanu had 16 Point Sand Forward Doug Lee added 10 for the boilermakers Forward Brad Lohaus and guard Jeff Moc making his first Start of he year Ted Iowa with 14 Points each. Forward Roy Marble Iowa s leading scorer aver aging 14,1 Points per game had 11 be Tore fouling out with 4 20 to play Iowa used a Strong inside game with Lohaus getting a Dunk and a Layup and Center de Honor and Wright getting tip ins to Battle Back from a 57-47 deficit with 10 43 to play to Cut Purdue s Lead to 66-61 with 2 50 left. Purdue hit sin straight free throws iwo by Leo two by Forward Todd Mitch Ell and two by Stephens and Lewis go credit for the Basket on the goal ending Call against Wright while Iowa could get Only iwo free throws from Lohaus. Iowa fouled Down the stretch to try to Stop Purdue but could get no closer than74-68 with 1 18 to play. N other games thursday 1 Iliakis 79, Minnesota 67 Minneapolis Ken Norman Purdue Everett Stephens. Gets career High 23 Points scored 26 Points and Steve Bardo added career High 16 and the two sparked an 11-1 run to Start the second half thurs Day night to Lead 1 Ith ranked Illinois to a 79-67 big ten conference Victory Over Minnesota Illinois 19-5 Overall and 9-3 in the conference after its fifth straight Victory led Only 38-35 after a Well played an fast paced first half. But the Zillini pulled away in the Sec Ond half behind Norman s 15 Points sending the gophers 9-12 and 2-9, to their ninth straight loss. The second half started with Minnesota s Willie Burton bouncing a pass off learn mate Ray Gaffney and into the hands of Illinois Tony Wysinger who drove the length of the court for a  the gophers next Possession Bardo stole the Ball from Terence Woods an drove for a Layup. After a free throw by Minnesota s Kel  Smith Bardo fed Norman for a Layup Doug a Llenberger hit a three Point Field goal and Norman scored on an inbound pass from Altenburger for a49-36 Illinois Lead. N was 6 45 into the half when Gaffne finally scored the gophers first Field goal but that did t slow Down Illinois As Bardo and Norman carved through the Minnesota defense for layups giving the Zillini a 53-38 Lead. Then following five straight Minnesota Points Norman scored five himself putting Illinois up58-43 Al the Midway Point of the half and the gophers never pulled closer than12 Points the rest of the game Jim Shikenjanski led Minnesota witha career High 14 Points. Altenberger added 13 for Illinois. Thu 69, Southern methodist 50fort Worth Texas Carven Holcombe scored 17 Points and Larry Richard added 16 thursday night to carry 1 bin ranked Texas Christian to a69-50 Southwest conference Victory Over Southern  is now 20-4 Overall and 11-1 in Sec play. It was the horned frogs 23rdconsecutive Victory at Daniel Meyer coliseum sum which lost its fifth straight game to thu is 12-11 and 3-8 in Sec  Mustangs led Early behind the three Point shooting of Scott Johnson but the horned frogs gained control to Ward the end of the first half to Lead 32-24 at intermission. The frogs hit eight of their first 11shots in the second half to put away the Mustangs who Tost 57-53 to thu Las month in Dallas. Jamie Dixon contributed 10 Points Fortu and Tony papa added nine thu held sum s leading scorer Carl ton Mckinney id Only two Points with a tight zone  guard Kato Armstrong had eight Points in the first half but was shut out inthe second half. Johnson was High for sum with 16points on five three Point Field goals and a free throw. Unlv74,fullertonst.64las vegas Nev senior Forward Armon Gilliam scored 22 Points landmark Wade added a season High 14 As no. I Nevada Las vegas struggled to Victory Over Fullerton state in a Pacific coast athletic association  overcame a second half deficit to win its i oth consecutive game and Chinh Thep Caa regular season title for he fifth straight year. The Runnin rebels  to 25-1 Overall and 13-0 in the  and Wade led a surge Midway through the second half thai brought univ Back from a five Point deficit and tied the game 52-52.gilliam then went on a personal tear scoring three of the next four univ Fieldg Oab As the Runnin rebels ran off eight straight Points and were never headed Ful Lerton managed to close the Gap to 62-57 on a Field goal by Henry Turner with 5 46 left but Wade followed a Field goal by Gerald Paddio with a 3-Pointcr to give univ a insurmountable Lead. The 74 Point tied the lowest total of the season for univ the nation s leading offensive team at 95.7 Points per  and Richard Morton led Ful Lerton with 20 Points each while Alexande Hamilton added 12 for the titans. Ful Lerlon which had a five game winning Streak snapped fell to 13-9 and 6-7 in con Ference  led 35-30 at halftime after open Ingup i a Point leads twice in the half French open May be lost to americans dec be of cloy courts puts . Of disadvantage by Bob Greene a Fen no writer a victim of the limes the steady decline of Clay court tournaments in the United Stales could mean no american Man Ever again will win the French open one of Tennis major tournaments. Tony Trabyn was the last american Man to win the world s Niosi prestigious Clay court tournament in 1955. Since then a cry arises every May about the Lac of Success of american men to win the grand slam event on the slow red Clay of Roland Garros stadium. The american kid does t get the training on Clay Trabert said. He docs t have the ground strokes to support a Clay court game. He does t have the knowl Edge of strategy a Complete understanding of what you have to do on Clay How you have to be out there hitting a zillion shots to win one  and if he wants the training he is finding it harder to get. After this year the Indianapolis sports Center Home of the . Clay court championships will switch to a hard court surface. Washington switched from Clay this year leaving Boston and the famed West Side Tennis club in Forest kills Home of the tournament of champions As the Only Nabisco grand prix events in the United slates still played on Lay. Hard court is the wave of the future said Ala Morell who until this year had been director of the Boston tournament. The reason he said is the .open, which is played on dec turf ii a hard court surface. After Wimbledon which is played on grass Ever major league player want a week off Morell said. If he makes in to the quarterfinals he might even take couple weeks off. Then he wants to begin getting ready for Flushing Meadow site of the . Open. If Flushing s going to stay dec turf you had belter be dec turf or you re not going to get  until recently there was a four tournament siring of Lay court grand prix events in the United Stales bos ton Washington North Conway n.h., and Indiana Polis. Then the North Conway tournament moved to stratum Mountain vi., and a hard court surface. Last year John Mcenroe selected Straiten Moun Tain to return from his self imposed seven month Hia Tus. He bad never played in the tournament when twas held on Clay. Also in the Field were Jimmy con nors Ivan lend and two time Wimbledon Champion Boris Becker the change of surface actually makes More Sens out of the Lour separating the year into various court surfaces. The men s Tennis circuit worldwide has been organized Over the last few years so thai the tournament play on the various circuits Lake place at special times of the year said Tom Sams tournament director of the . Day court championships the time the Lay tournaments Are heed is in the Early pan of the year in the Spring. Then after Clay the players move to grass. After Wimbledon All the players begin preparing for the . Open which is on a hard surface out  Morell agreed with Sams noting a Survey he did forthe Boston tournament. By slaying on Clay and not going to hard court you expenses Are going to go up anyway what with prize Money increasing every year Morell said. An there s a ceiling on ticket sales How much you can raise prices the study showed the difference Between staying on Clay and going to hard court was 1200,000 a year in Gross. The answer is drawing More fans. We have struggled for a number of years Sam said. We have had Good players but not players that people knew about. Last year our no. I seed was Thierry Tulane who was ranked 16th in the world. Pal Cash Tost in the qualifying. Miracl pc mfrs and Guillermo Vita reached the quarterfinals missing were Lendl Becker Conner and Mcenroe. The women s singles title at the 19s6 . Gay court which was plagued by Cool april temperatures was won by Steffi Graf. Attendance dipped to 45,683from a record 74,784 in 1985, when newly crowned Wimbledon Champion Becker and eventual Winner Lendl were the top attractions. We did t have the name stars the Mcenroe Connors those people Sam said. We Are Oul of synch with the world Calendar. I Don t blame the play ers Trabert said All of the top players want to pick their spots where they have a Chance to win the most help their rankings. Common sense would dictate  the Clay court player does just the opposite Ecuador s Andres Gomez was ranked fifth in the world and he mostly played Clay  nine of the top 20 player in the world have played the French open More than Wimbledon during the Careen. All were either raised in Europe or sout America where Clay courts Are the Norm. But Trabert said we Are losing the Clay court  the Mcaa and High schools have brought inc iraids up on hard surface Sams said. The players emerging today have been trained on a hard surface since Trabert s Victory three americans have reached the final at the French Harold Solomon in 1976, Vitas Gerulaitis in 1980 and Mcenroe in 1984.All lost to europeans