Page 26 *+* THE STARS AND STRIPES Saturday, March 14,1987Ld Salle knocks off Villanova 86-84By the Associated PressVillanova, the 1983 NCAA champion,was bounced out of the National Inviia-llon Tournament Thursday^nighl, whileCleveland State tried to make a name foritself in Ih is tourney, too.The Wildcats were beaten 36-84 byBig Five opponent U Salle as the tour-nament continued opening-round play.In other action Thursday night, it wasRorida Stair 107. Rhode Island 92;Cleveland Slate 92, Tennessee-Chatta-nooga 73: Arkansas-Little Rock 42, Bay-tor 41; Illinois Stale 79, Akron 72; Van-derbill 74, Jacksonville 72; end StephenF. Austin 70. James Madison 63.First-round play was to conclude Fri-day night with Arkansas State, 21-12, atArkansas. 18-13; Scion Hall, 15-13, atNiagara, 20-9; Mississippi, IS-13, alSouthern Mississippi, 18-11; St. Peter's,21-7, at St. Louis, 24-9; Oregon Slate,18-10, at New Mexico, 25-9; and Ful-fcrton State. 17-12, at California, 18-14.The 32-team tournament beganWednesday with Nebraska edging Mar-qucttc 78-76; Boise State nipping Utah62-61, and Washington defeating Monta-na State 98-90 in overtime.La Silk 86, Vitiation 84Lionet Simmons scored 21 points, in-cluding a running jumper at the buzzer,to boost La Salle over Vitlanova,Larry Korelz scored 23 points, 18 orthem in the first half, and Rich Tan-added 14: second-hair points as the Ex-plorers held off a withering Vlltanovacomeback.La Salle, which held a 41-37 halftimclead, improved its record to 17-12, whileVillanova finished its season al [5-16.Clcreland SI. 92, T*nn.-Chathww»ga 73Ken McFadden scored 21 points topace Cleveland State over Tennessee-Chattanooga. The Vikings, 25-7. of theAssociation of Mid-Continent Univer-sities, grabbed the lead in the first 14seconds and never trailed again.Last season Cleveland State beat Indi-ana in the opening round of the NCAATournament, before losing in the final 16loNavy.Florida Stale, 107, Rhode Island 92Randy Alien and Pee Wee Barbercombined to score 45 points and sendFlorida Stale over Rhode Ijland.Allen scored 23 points and grabbed 11rebounds while Barber notched 22 point)for the Seminolcs, 19-10. It wai thefourth time in the lust five games thaiFlorida Slate went pas) the century markin scoring. 'ArlunsM-LIKIe Rock 42, Biylor 41James Dawn made two free throwsafter time had expired to boost Arkan-sas-Little Rock over Baylor.Darryl Middlcton had put Baylor ontop 41-40 when he made one of two freethrows with 24 seconds remaining. ButDawn was fouled with time running out,and calmly hit the free throws that won itfor the Trojans.Illinois Slate 79, Akron 72Tony Holifield scored 23 point* tolead Illinois Stale over Akron. HolifieldNCAAFrom Page 21"This year I tried to slow it down, getsome rebounds and gel the ball inside."The Alabama joss "helped me withexperience," Larkin said. 1 relayed (hatto our players and settled them down."Alabama was at it again Thursday,giving North Carolina A&T an 88-71shellacking in the Southeast Regional,where New Orleans stopped BnghamYoung 83-79 and Providence rippedhome-standing Alabama-Birmingham90-68.In the East Regional, Texas Christianeliminated Marshall 76-60, Notre Damestormed away in the late going for an 84-71 victory over M iddlc Tennessee, andNo. 2 North Carolina shook off scrappyPcnn in the second half to romp, 113-82.No. 17 Duke, in jeopardy of joiningMissouri as a Midwest Regional upsetvictim, rode Kevin Strickland's 20points to a 58-51 defeat of Texas A&M.In other Midwest games, Auburn shadedSan Diego 62-61, and No. 3 Indianaclobbered Fairfield 92-58.In the West Regional, Kansas Staleneeded an overtime to get by Georgia 82-79 as Milch Richmond scored 34 points,UCLA railed over Central Michigan 92-73, and Wyoming goi by Virginia 64-60.EAST REGIONALTCU 76, Marshall 60Notre Dame 84, Middle Tennessee 71Michigan 97, N«vy 82N, Carolina 1U, Penn 82Although he was overshadowed byRobinsons magnificent effort, Michi-gan's Garde Thompson scored a career-high 33 points — including 27 on nine 3-pomt jumpers. The Wolverines led S4-68after Gary Grant's baseline jumper with5:43 remaining before Navy chargedback. Robinson's dunk made it 86-80with 2:44 left, but Michigan. 20-11, hitnine of its next 11 chances from the freethrow line, Navy, which had a IB-gamewinning streak snapped, finished the lastseason of the Robinson era with a 26-6record.Oirvcn Holcombe scored 30 points forNo. 19 TCU. which led by II points athalftime and coasted thereafter, TCU,24-6, took conirol with a 12-0 run thatturned a 16-11 deficit into a 24-16 ad-vantage. TCU led 38-27 at intermissionafter hilling 73 percent from the fieldand forcing ! 1 Marshall turnovers. TheThundering Herd, 25-6 for the year and0-S in NCAA play, got 17 points faunDwayne Lewis.TCU advanced to a Saturday gameagainsl Notre Dame, which got 27 paintsfrom David Rivers and 24 Irani DonaldFlllplwtoMichigan's Garde Thompson... 33 against NavyRoyal. The Fighting Irish, 23-7 aftertheir 10th straight victory, led only 61-59with six minutes left. But Rivers scoredsix points and Royal three over the nextfour minutes for a 70-61 margin.Dwayne Raincy scored 22 points forMiddle Tennessee, the Ohio Valley Con-ference regular-season champion whichfinished 21-7.Joe Wolf scored 10 points in the firstseven minutes of the second half as lop-seeded North Carolina, held 10 a 55-53halftime lead, ran away from I6(h-$ccd-cd Penn. North Carolina, 30-3, had sixdouble-figure scorers, led by Wolf with25. Penn hit only three or its first 17shots in the second half, and North Caro-lina went on a 24-6 spurt thai produced a78-59 cushion wilh 13:03 to play. BruceLefkowitz had 20 points for Pcnn, 13-14.SOUTHEAST REGIONALNew Orleans 83. BYU 79Alabama 88, N. Carolina A&T 71Austin Peay 68, Illinois 67Providence 90, Alu.-Bfrmlnghum 68Tony Raye hit a pair of free throwswith two seconds left in the game aslightly regarded Austin Pcay, 20-11 andseeded 14th, stunned the 11 in-ranked II-lini. Illinois. 23-8, led 67-66 after TonyWysinger's basket wiih 13 seconds toplay. But Ken Norman, who led Illinoiswilh 17 points, fouled Have only two sec-onds from the finish, and Raye hit bothto make up for a 4-of-7 performance onprevious free-throw opportunities. Dar-ryl Bedford, a 6-foot-S, 260-pound centerwilh a knack for outside shooting, ledAustin Pcay with 24 points, including ISon five 3-poin)C«.Ledell Eackks scored 25 points forNew Orleans, an eighth-year Division 1-A school making its first-ever NCAA ap-pearance. BYLf, which finished 21-11,erased an II-point halftime deficit andbuilt a 75-72 lead with four minutes toplay. But Ronnie Grandison, confined 10the bench after picking up his fourthfoul, pulled the Privateers, 26-3, withinone point and Elden Irving's three-pointplay gave New Orleans the lead for goodat 77-7$. Grandison added IS points forNew Orleans while JefTChalman had 25IbrBYU.Awaiting New Orleans on Saturdaywill be Alabama, which got 29 pointsfrom Jim Farmer and 25 from DerrickMcKcy in making quick work of NorthCarolina A&T, The Crimson Tide, 27-4,led 37-27 at halftime and 68-51 a littleover U minutes into the second half."This could be the best shooting learn inAlabama history," Tide Coach WimpSanderson said. "This learn is fairly wellbalanced. You can't say you'll stop Der-rick or Farmer." George Cale scored 16points for A&T, 24-6.Billy Donovan hit 12 of 17 field-goalattempts, including six of nine from 3-point range, as Providence, 22-8, handedAlabama-Birmingham ils worst-ever de-feat al home. Providence broke from a32-31 lead wilh an 8-0 run and then,after a basket by the Blazers, the Friarswent on a 9-4 spurt for a 49-37 halftimelead. Donovan had eight points duringthat 17-4 run and 19 in the first half.Eddie Collins led UAB, 21-11, with 17points. MIDWEST REGIONALXacler, Ohio 70, Missouri 69Duke 58, Texas A&M SIAuburn 62, San Diego 61Indiana 92, Falrfield 58Mike Jones scored 24 points as Au-burn look advantage of critical SanDiego mistakes in the last seconds ofplay to eliminate the Toreros, 24-6. Thelead changed hands six times in the sec-ond half before Frank Ford's layup off asteal put Auburn ahead lo stay at 58-57with 5:10 to play. Jones ended an eight-point Tiger run with a rebound basketwith 2:57 lo go. San Diego, trailing 62-59, missed two of four free throws in thelast 12 seconds, then saw a potential win-ning shot wiped out when Paul Leonardwas culled for a double-dribble with onesecond to play.Larkin's 3-painl shot gave Xavier, 19-12, the lead for good at 48-45 and histwo free throws wiih 31 seconds to playprovided the winning margin as theMusketeers eliminated the Big EightConference champion Tigers, 24-10.Lynn Hardy, who led Missouri wiih 21points, hit a 3-poinl shot with 13 secondsleft, but Xavier dribbled away the finalseconds as Missouri was unable lo corn-scored 15 of his points in the second halflo help Illinois stem an Akron comeback.Marcel Boyce, Akron's leading scorerthis season with 19.9 points per game, •finished hit collegiate basketball careern the game's high scorer wiih 24 points.Vanderbilt 74. Jacksonville 72Barry Booker keyed an 18-4 Vander-bilt run at the start of the second halfwith three 3-point baskets and the Com-modores held on to beat Jacksonville.The victory assured Vandcrbill, whichfinished ninth in the Southeastern Con-ference, a winning seasun with a 17-15record. Jacksonville, the No, 2 learn inthe Sun Bell Conference, ended its sea-son at 19-11.Stephen F. Austin 70, Madison 63Clarence King scored 19 points to leadStephen F. Austin over James Madison.The Lumberjacks, who squeezed into thetournament on the last of 32 bids whenLouisville decided lo stay at home, ex-(ended its winning streak to 12 and im-proved its season record to 22-7.'James Madison ended its season al 20-10,mil a foul to stop the clock.Strickland picked up the slack whenleading scorer Danny Ferry was sidelinedwith a nip injury, hitting lour free throwsin the final minute as Duke, 23-8, turnedback the Aggies, who finished 17-14.Duke led by 10 points three limes in thesecond half before A&M rallied within42-41 behind the scoring of WinstonCrite, who finished wilh 13 points. Abasket by Strickland and two free throwsby John Smith halted ihc rally, andStrickland's late free throws put the gameout ofreach.Center Dean Oorrcil scored 20 pointsand forward Rick Caltoway added 17 fortop-seeded Indiana, which put the gameout of reach by rolling to a 46-21 half-lime lead. Indiana improved lo 25-4while Fairficld, seeded last in the 16-Icam regional, finished 15-16.WEST REGIONALKansas St. 81, Georgia 79 (OT)Nevada-Las Vegas 95, Idaho St. 70UCLA 92, C, Michigan 73Wyoming 64. Virgin!. 60Idaho State, 15-16, led only once inthe game — 10-8 after a tipin by TorosYetenekian wiih 17:20 left in the half.Banks hit a pair of 3-pointers and Gra-ham scored four points during a 16-2 runthai gave UNLV a 24-12 lead. The leadwas 19 at halfiimc and Idaho State gotno closer than 20 in the late going. DormHolslon led Idaho State with 20 points.Richmond lost a private scoring battlewhen Georgia's Willie Anderson finishedwilh 35, but Richmond got a little morehelp as Ihc Wildcats improved to 20-10,Anderson, a 6-fool-7 junior who scored29 points in the second half, gaveGeorgia a 72-70 lead wilh a basket at1:08, but Norris Colcman's basket forcedthe overtime. Colcman's basket made it78-76 in the extra period and two Rich-mond free throws with nine seconds togo finished Georgia, 18-12.Reggie Miller scored 24 of his 32points in the first half as Ulh-rankedUCLA, 2S-6. rolled to a 53-21 halftimclead. The Chippcwas, 22-8, cut the mar-gin to 16 with 3:31 lo play, but neverthreatened after the one-sided first half.Miller hit eight of nine field goal tries inthe first half, including three of fourfrom 3-point range. UCLA, a 10-linicNCAA champion, won its first tourna-ment game since 1980. Tommie Johnsonhad Id for Central Michigan.Eric Luckner scored 22 points andFiftlnis Dembo 16 for Wyoming, 23-9,which Jbcd clutch free-throw shooting inthe last minute to hold off the Cavaliers,21-10. Dcmbo hit a free throw wilh 25seconds left to make it 62-60. His missedshot was rebounded by Lccknvr, and ledlo Willie Jones' decisive pair of freethrows with 10 seconds to go. AndrewKennedy scored 14 to lead the Wolfpack.