European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday. March 19, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 23 Mcaa tourney Back to the future style shows hoyas the abyss by Ken Denlinger the Washington Post Providence . For the longest time Here Friday night Saddle shoes were the fashion rage soda Cost a dime and hop along Cassidy was shooting Down the stealth bomber. In Back to the future basketball a collection of i950s-Typc players took the favorite to win the 1989 Mcaa tournament to the final shot. Princeton Princeton sure enough. The champions of the Little East nearly pulled off an upset for the Ages. They led might Georgetown for most of the game had two desperate shots to win near the end and it says Here would have gotten yet two More chances had the officials not Swal Lowed their whistles. The game Long scene was about As breathtaking As sport gets one of the four worst teams in the Mcaa Field scaring the Becj Abbors out of one of the four Best the Choice of most Odds makers to win a second nation Al championship this decade. Dominant to the Point of Awe picking on teams their own size the hoyas barely escaped this first Mcaa test against Guys who honest had terrible trouble bring ing the Ball up court about a week ago against Harvard. Nobody had seen anything quite like it. Here was Princeton running a style All but extinct with the and vent of the 45-Sccond clock four years ago and run Ning up a double figure Lead Early in the second half. Here was Georgetown winning 50-49, with Charles Smith missing 10 of 12 shots from the Field with Alon 70 mourning acting High school confused at times and Aba mature when it mattered most. I Hope i never Sec your Bottom again in life smiting John Thompson told Princeton coach Pete Carril in the hallway about an hour after the game. The losing coach was the one puffing on a Cigar. This was Thompson s worst Mcaa Nightmare come to life the one team that could control Tempo the one team that could exploit the hoyas inexperience the one team that kept disc Mac Mutombo on the Bench. Thompson would have preferred anyone but Prince ton. Except the soviets of course. And when the for Mer paper tigers ran through the Back door for an eight Point halftime Lead he May have been Jess stunned than everyone else in the Providence civic cell or. This is the biggest upset i be seen in 40 years of watching College basketball said de Steitz chairman of the Mcaa rules committee. And if the hoyas rally in the second half and win commentary it s the biggest first half upset the idea for Princeton was to spread the George town defense and work As much of the clock As Possi ble before shooting. Make Georgetown pay a Back door Layup Price for its overplaying and overage res Riveness. It s a game your Grandfather watched routinely but no longer seems to work anywhere beyond the Ivy league. Carril is the last collegiate hoops Din sour. Typical was this play kit Mueller gets a pass near half court against a serious hoyas press flips the Ball to Matt lamp who whips it to Jerry Doyle for a Layup. That got Princeton a 17-12 Lead. A couple of times the 6-7 Mueller scored on drives against the nation s Best undergraduate shot Blocker. Mourning. Once he grabbed a rebound and floated a soft jumper up and Over the leaping mourning. When the Mcaa legislated against Carril it did give him one weapon the three Point shot. That works splendidly with his stretch the defense philosophy and caught Georgetown five times. To their immense credit the hoyas kept after the Pesky tigers. They finally figured the Best Way to beat the likes of Mueller and his smaller buddies was to pass Over them to mourning. Gradually lobs to mourning got the margin Back to manageable. In All the freshman was eight for 11 fro the Field grabbed 13 rebounds and scored the winning three Points from the foul line. Mourning also swatted away Princeton s final two shots in the last eight seconds. The first was a clean lock the second on Mueller s off balance shot with one second left seemed to draw As much skin As Ball. The officials ruled otherwise. Only the Buzzer sounded. Did Mueller think he was fouled hard to say he said during a Post game news con Ference. That s not what he told me Carril said. Later Mueller was asked if there would have been a foul called had the play happened earlier in the game. Yeah he said. Mueller also was hit in the Mouth by mourning Elbow on a play in which the hoyas Center had been fouled. Should a foul have been called on mourning "1 Don t know if that was intentional Mueller said. He was swinging the Ball and i was trying to keep it free. Coach does t want us to talk about things like Princeton coach Pete Carril suffers As upset evaporates. Carril did t mind talking about each Touchy Situa Tion sort of saying Well have to take it up with go when we get there. God la take care of it at the naturally Carril was elated that Princton s showing will keep the Mcaa wary of eliminating automatic bids from too Many conferences. You be got to have that diverse Clement he South Alabama with the coach going out of control after his team upset Alabama. The Scinas. Small schools with no budget. You be got to put pm in the tournament so everybody has his Day in the Sun. Otherwise if Only the teams that play the same Are allowed in whal do you have Carril thought of his players after this special game and said they feel pretty Good now caught up in the euphoria. But about tuesday they la feel pretty bad. They la say Jesus Christ we could have won the game and it la Hurt for a Mcaa from Page 21 28-7. Southern champions of the South Western athletic conference finished at 20-11. Urcla 84, Iowa state 74 Pooh Richardson who finished with 19 Points and 14 assists took command in the second half for Urcla. Iowa state. 17-12, went ahead 60-59 on a pair of free throws by Victor Alex Ander with 8 14 left before Richardson had two baskets and a key assist in a 10 0 run Over the next two minutes that put the Bruins in command. Alexander scored 22 Points for Iowa state 17-12. Charles Rochelin had 16 Points for the Bruins 21-9. Midwest no. 6 Missouri 85, Creighton 69 Missouri ended a Streak of three open ing round losses. Byron Irvin scored 25 Points As the tigers advanced to a meet ing with Texas. Creighton led by two Points at half time but Missouri wore the Blue jays Down in the second half and look the Lead at 51-50 on Gary Leonard s Basket with 16 25 left. Doug Smith scored 18 Points for the tigers 28-7. Chad Gallagher led Creigh Ion 20-11, with 22 Points. No. 7 Syracuse 104, Bucknell 81 the orangemen outscored Bucknell 26-8 in the final minutes of the first half and never were threatened in the second As freshman Billy Owens had a career High 27 Points. There were 12 Lead changes in the first half before Syracuse put on a full court press and sprinted to a 52-36 halftime Lead. Bucknell closed within 10 Points in the second half but Syracuse pulled away behind the Long Range shooting of mat Roe who had four 3-pointers in the second half. Stephen Thompson scored 21 Points for the orangemen 28-7, while Sherman Douglas and Roc had 19 each. Mike Butts had 22 Points for Bucknell 23-8. Texas 76, Georgia tech 70 Travis Mays scored 23 Points including five 3-Pomt baskets As Texas ousted Georgia tech. Joey Wright and Alvin Heggs added 17 Points each for Texas 24-8, which was making its first Mcaa tournament appearance in 10 years. I be been preaching the Southwest conference is Good a lot better than peo ple think Texas coach Tom Penders said. Georgia tech 20-12. Was led by Brian Oliver s 24 Points. Tom Hammonds scored 18 Points for the yellow jackets. Colorado St. 68, Florida 46 Colorado state making its first appearance in the Mcaa tournament in 20 years got 20 Points from Joel Tribelhorn scored 20 Points and held Florida to its lowest Point total of the season. The rams 23-9, led throughout an widened their 31-22 halftime advantage to 13 Points Early in the second half. Csc faces Syracuse on sunday. Dwayne Schintzius scored 14 Points for Florida which finished 21-12.west no. 8 Indiana 99, George Mason 85 Indiana made sure there would be no first round surprises this year by blowing out George Mason. The hoosiers eliminated in the first round in two of the past three years out scored the patriots 35-6 Over the final 11 minutes of the first half to take control of the game. Eric Anderson led seven players in double figures with 15 Points As Indiana 26-7, spoiled George Mason s first Mcaa tournament appearance. George Mason 20-11, was led by Mike Harnott s 24 Points. No. 11 Seton Hall 60, so Missouri is. 51 scion Hall went scoreless during five minute stretch in the second half but still advanced behind John Morton s 26 Points. The pirates 27-6, put the game away by outscoring the bears 10-3 in the final two minutes to Advance to a meeting with Evansville Southwest Missouri Champion of the association of mid continent universities ended its season with a 21-10 re Cord. Scion Hall led 30-23 at halftime behind the 17-Point Effort of Morton but Southwest Missouri rallied to tic the game at 39 on Doug Lewis jumper. Evansville 94, Ockon St. 90, of Reed Crafton s 3-Poimcr with 10 seconds left in overtime put Evansville into the second round and ended Ralph Miller s coaching career. Gary Payton put Oregon state ahead 90-89 on a Short jumper with 49 seconds left but missed a free throw after Evansville retook the Lead on Crafton s second 3-Pointer of the Over time a 25-Footcr, Paylon missed a 3 Pointer with four seconds left. The purple aces improved to 25-5, while Oregon state finished at 22-8. Miller who is retiring ended his 38-year College coaching career with 674 Victo Ries and 370 losses. I m sorry its Over Miller said. Iwas pleased with inc results of this team this year and i had hoped it could win one More. But so be paso 85, Louisiana St. 74 Tim Hardaway scored 31 Points and Texas Elpaso used a 15-0 first half burst 10 beat Louisiana stale and Complete an o-for-5 showing by the Southeastern , 20-12, tied the game at 13 on two free throws by Lyle Mouton. But step 26-6, scored 15 straight Points and the tigers never came closer than seven the rest of the Way. The miners will face Indiana on sunday. Chris Jackson leu s All America freshman was held to eight Points in the first half on 4-of-13 shooting but finished. With 33 Points. _
