European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 a a a the stars and stripes saturday March 3, 1990nba from Page 21 seven minutes. Antoine Carr finished with 21 Points for the Kings and Danny Ainge had 20 to help Sacramento break a four game losing Streak. Orlando has lost eight of its last nine games. In Ervis Ellison the first draft Choice in the Aba last year started and finished with two Points and four rebounds in 15 minutes of action. It was Only his eighth game this season and his second Start after missing most of the year following surgery to remove Bone spurs from his right ankle. Terry Catledge led the magic with 27 Points and Reggie thus chipped in 24. Hornets 118, clippers 109, of Charlotte. . A Rex Chapman scored six of his 21 Points in overtime As Charlotte broke a five game slide. Chapman scored on two jumpers and a tip in of his own miss for the hornets who had lost i 7 of their previous 18 games. The c Lippers scored two Quick buckets in the overtime but did not get a Point after 3 28 had elapsed. They missed their last five shots and committed two turnovers in the last 2 45. Rockets 112, suns 104 Houston a Akcam Olajuwon scored 41 Points and Otis Thorpe contributed 24 Points and 15 rebounds As Houston snapped the suns nine game winning Streak. The rockets outscored the suns i 1-0 during a 3 40 Span of the final Quarter. Jazz 119, Trail blazers 102 Salt Lake City a John Stockton a 26 Points and 21 assists and Thurl Bailey a 18-Point third Quarter led the jazz. Bailey finished with 24 Points and Karl Malone added 17, his second lowest total of the season As the jazz got their 40th win of the season and 18th straight at Home. Jerome Kersey and Kevin Duckworth scored 21 Points each for Portland and Clyde Drexler had 16 for the blazers. It was the 17th game with 20 or More assists for Stockton. Nuggets 131, Cavaliers 125 Denver a Joe Barry Carroll scored 23 Points and Danny Schayes added 21 for Denver which went inside to its big players with Point guard Michael Adams sidelined with a Groin pull. The Cavaliers were led by Mark prices 31 Points and Craig Ehlow a 23. Alex English led Denver with 26 Points and fat lever had 22. Spartans upset Michigan Louisville clinches metro by the associated press East Lansing Mich. A Steve Smiths 36 Points matched his career High and led Michigan state to a 78-70 Victory Over no. 8 Michigan on thursday night giving the spartans undisputed Possession of first place in the big ten. The win gave no. 14 Michigan state 23-5, 12-3 a half game Lead Over Idle Purdue. The spartans have won seven straight and ended a five game losing Streak against Michigan 20-6, 10-5. Smith scored 25 Points in the second half including 13 in a 19-6 surge that put Michigan state ahead 67-53 with 7 01 remaining. Terry Mills who led Michigan with 31 Points scored 10 in a 13-2 run that brought the wolverines to within 69-66 Zith 2 47 left. In other games thursday night no. 21 Louisville 86, Cincinnati 71 Cincinnati a seven footer Spencer Felton anchored Louisville a inside attack with 16 Points As the cardinals overwhelmed Cincinnati to Clinch the metro conference title. Louisville 22-7, 11-2 wrapped up its fourth metro title in five years by atoning for an earlier embarrassment. Cincinnati 1812, 9-5 had won the last two games Between the schools including a 71-66 upset in january at Louisville a Freedom Hall. Cincinnati  keep up this time surrendering eight dunks and 51 second half Points. Louisville ran its fast break and its full court press smoothly and controlled the inside behind Spencer. Five cardinals were in double figures a Spencer Albradford Smith with 16 Points Escrick Sullivan and Jerome Harmon with 14, and Cornelius Holden with 13. No.17 Minnesota 75, Indiana 70 Bloomington ind. A Willie Burton scored 20 Points including nine of Minnesota a last 10 As the gophers held off Indiana. College basketball file Michigan state s Steve Smith. 36 Points tics career High Minnesota 20-6, 11-5 big ten led 62-56 with 7 22 to play. But Eric Anderson and Pat Graham scored five Points each As Indiana 16-9, 6-9 went on a 101 spurt in the next three minutes. Grahams three Point play with 3 35 to go gave the hoosiers their first Lead of the game at 66-63. Minnesota a Walter Bond hit a 15-footer to Cut the Lead to one Point but Calbert Cheaney gave the hoosiers a 68-65 Lead on a Short jumper with 3 06 to go. That was the last Basket for Indiana in almost three minutes As Burton scored nine straight Minnesota Points including a three Pointer with 1 50 left that put the gophers ahead for Good 70-68. No. 2 univ 84, Utah state 82 Logan. Utah a Larry Johnson scored 18 of his 31 Points in the second half As Nevada Las vegas held off Utah state in a big West game. The running rebels 25-5, 15-2 led most of the Way but the aggie 14-14, 89 closed to two on Darrel Whites three Point goal with 25 seconds remaining. Utah state had four shots in the final eight seconds including two three Point attempts but missed All of them. Johnson scored five Points As univ broke to a 14-4 Lead. Utah state which shot 7 of 11 from three Point Range got two three pointers from Rich Jardine. No. 23 Arizona 84, Oregon 58 Tucson Ariz. A Sean Rooks ignited a 23-7 second half run and was one of six players in double figures As Arizona Defeated Oregon to stay alive in the Pacific-10 conference race. With their nation leading 46th straight Victory at Home the wildcats 20-6, 14-3 gave themselves a Chance to tie league Leader Oregon state on saturday when they meet in Tucson. Oregon is 15-11, 10-7. No. 16 Oregon St. 73, Arizona St. 59 Tempe Ariz. A Gary Payton scored 22 Points and Earl Martin had six of his 17 in a 24-8 second half run As Oregon state clinched a tie for the Pacific-10 conference title. No. 24 new Mexico state 68, Pacific 55 Stockton Calif. A Michael new led four new Mexico state players in double figures with 16 Points As the no. 24 aggie Defeated Pacific in a big West game. The other double figure scorers for new Mexico state 24-3, 15-2 were Keith Hill with 11 and Randy Brown and James Anderson with 10 each. Pacific is 14-12, 7-10. Blues beat Hawks tie for 1 St in Norris by the associated press Chicago a Paul Cavallini scored two goals for Only the second time in his career and assisted on Steve tuttles third period score As the St. Louis blues beat Chicago 6-4 and moved into a first place tie with the Blackhawk in the Norris division. Michel Mongeau assisted on both of Cavallini a goals in the first period and assisted on Peter Zezell a second period goal. The blues Are 8-3 in their last 11 games. On the Road St. Louis is 7-3-1 in its last 11 games. Nil Roundup in other games thursday Bruins 5, canadians 3 Boston a Cam Neely had two goals and an assist As Boston extended its Lead in the no la a toughest division to five Points with a Victory Over Montreal. After Dave Christian gave Boston the Lead for Good 3-2 at 4 52 of the second period Neely got his second goal of the game. It was his 45th of the season fourth most in the league and the most in his career. The win gave Adams division Leader Boston which has the no la a Best record 83 Points. Second place Buffalo has 78 and Montreal has 77. Boston is 5-1 in its last six games while Montreal lost for the second straight night after going 4-01 in its previous five games. Flyers 4, flames 2 Calgary Alberta a Brian Propp and Tim Kerr each had a goal and an assist As Philadelphia broke a 10-game wingless Streak against Calgary. The flyers were 0-9-1 against the flames dating Back to 1986 before the win at the  from Page 21 agreement to $225 million under the new one. It also nearly ensures that the Basic Over the air format will remain the same a with lbs and Abc carrying sunday games. A this expanded agreement with Abc sports indicates our satisfaction with their award winning presentation to viewers for two decades a Tagliabue said. A a abcs a nil monday night football pioneered sports As a prime time series and it has enjoyed overwhelming Success which we believe can Only  under the new playoff format which is expected to be ratified without much dissent at their meetings in two weeks Only the two division champions with the Best record in each conference will draw a Bye in the first week of the playoffs. The third Champion would be Home to the wild card team with the worst record while the wild card team with the Best Mark would be Home to the team with the second Best. Two games would be played on saturday both televised by Abc two on sunday with Abc and lbs each doing one a assuming that they retain the rights to games. A a if the new playoff system were in effect last season the two additional playoff teams would have been Green Bay 10-6 in the pfc and Kansas City 8-7-1 in the acc. The packers would have played Minnesota a team in their own division in the first round while the chiefs would have met Buffalo. Normally teams in the same division done to meet until the conference championship although they can in the wild card round As Houston and Pittsburgh did last season. But Browne said that detail would be worked out later. The new format also would theoretically allow four teams from one division to qualify. Browne said that even with 12 teams in the playoffs the nil would still have fewer playoff qualifiers than any major sport but baseball where Only the winners of the four divisions qualify. In the Aba 16 of the 27 teams make it in the nil its 16 of 21. Browne also pointed out that in All but two seasons since the 16-game format was instituted in 1978. Would a team with less than a winning record have made the playoffs even with six qualifiers from each conference. One was the strike year of 1987, when Minnesota 87 was the second pfc wild card and Dallas 7-8 would have been the third. The other was in 1981, when Detroit 8-8 would have been the third pfc wild card. In 1982, a season shortened to nine games by a strike the playoffs were expanded to 16 teams and Cleveland and Detroit made it at 4-5. On the other hand the system might also Correct injustices. In 1985, for example Cleveland won the acc Central at 8-8, but Denver at 11-5, missed the playoffs losing a tiebreaker to the new York jets and new England. The patriots went on to the super bowl that season one of just two wild card teams to get that far in the 16-game format. And in 1981, the same season the Lions would have made the playoffs at 8-8, the Broncos missed out at 10.6, losing a tiebreaker to Buffalo