European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Syracuse Appeal rejected Syracuse . A the Mcaa has rejected Syracuse University s Appeal to restore the eligibility of suspended Center Conrad Mcrae. The ruling on thursday Means that the juniors career at Syracuse has seemingly ended. However the Mcaa eligibility committee said it would recommend that if Mcrae decides to Transfer to another school he will be immediately eligible to play. The committee unanimously believed that Syracuse gained a substantial advantage during the recruitment of Mcrae said Robert Sweazy a faculty athletics representative from Texas tech University and chairman of the committee. The committee found that Syracuse a basketball staff and a a representative of the University a athletic interests had several contacts with Mcrae and his family during his Junior year at Brooklyn tech in new York City a period when such contacts Are outlawed under Mcaa rules said Sweazy. A for us to allow Syracuse to Benefit from those improper contacts would be unfair to the hundreds of other Mcaa member institutions that recruit within the framework of the rules a Sweazy said in a statement released by the Mcaa. Syracuse spokesman Robert Hill said the University would Appeal the committees decision to the Mcaa subcommittee on eligibility appeals a five person committee of administrators from Mcaa division i institutions. A frankly it does no to look Good. But we Hope that because of All the circumstances surrounding the activities that they will go along with the Appeal a Hill said. Univ aide sues school Las vegas Nev. Up a University of Nevada Las vegas assistant basketball coach Tim Grgurich filed a lawsuit against the school thursday claiming efforts were made to destroy his coaching career by secretly videotaping his conditioning class where illegal practice alled Gedly was being held. Italy by Rob stag6enborg staff writer shape Belgium . Shape coach Glenn Lockwood is concerned about his teams 117-94 loss to Italy in the shape International basketball tournament thursday night. He a concerned about his amateurs going up against european pros in this tournament. The italians dominated the americans scoring at will while the americans were forced to play catch up. Italy was to play Greece and the . Was to take on Belgium in Friday nights semifinals. While the . Put up Good numbers connecting on 33 of 65 Field goal attempts 51 percent Italy did even better. The italians Sank 41 of 54 Field goal attempts a a red hot 76 percent a and made 22 of 27 from the line. A talking with the other coaches from the other teams saturday december 7,1991 the stars and stripes Page 25 Dukes Grant Hill and St. John s Lamont Middleton Battle for a rebound during their big East acc Challenge game thursday. Challenge closes with bang As Blue devils rout St. John s by the associated press Greensboro . A the last game Ever played in the acc big East Challenge was Over in the first few minutes. Top ranked Duke started the game with a 14-2 run built a 31-Point Lead and was never challenged thursday night in a 91-81 Victory Over no. 7 St. Johns. The Atlantic coast conference had already clinched this years series when Virginia beat no. 18 Georgetown 76-66 in overtime in the first game of the doubleheader at Greensboro coliseum for a 5-2 Lead. The three year series Between two of the nations Best basketball conferences finished in an Overall tie As the big East won 6-2 last year and the inaugural Challenge was split. Things weren to even Between Duke 30the defending National champions and St. Johns 3-1the conferences respective top seeds for very Long. The opening run saw the Blue devils convert every St. Johns miss or turnover into Points. Malik Sealy finished with 37 Points for College basketball the losers Christian laettner had 26 Duke which also Sot 15 from Grant Hill. Thomas Hill and Bobby Hurley had 14 each. The loss was St. Johns third in a Row to Duke with the last two coming in the Mcaa tournament 76-72 in the second round in 1990 and 78-61 in the Midwest regional final last season. Duke had never won in the Challenge losing to Syracuse and Georgetown. St. John s split its first two games losing to North Carolina state and beating Georgia tech. The series a made for to four night extravaganza ended because the leagues  agree on dates because of the new starting Date for the season dec. 1, the new limit of 27 games one less than this season and the addition of a new school to each conference thereby adding two regular season conference games. In other top 25 games thursday Virginia 76, no. 18 Georgetown 66, of Greensboro . Bryant Stith made up for a late miss in regulation by scoring four Points in overtime. Stith finished with 24 Points. Junior Bur rough one of two freshmen starting for the Cavaliers had 21 Points. The other freshman Cory Alexander had 17. No. 13 Utah 65, Bradley 41 Salt Lake City Byron Wilson scored 10 of his 12 Points in the first half As Utah held Bradley without a Basket for nearly 14 minutes. No. 24 univ 80, James Madison 73 Harrisonburg a. The run nine rebels of univ almost guaranteed themselves a Brief stay in the top 2s. A a we re not real sound right now but i Hope games like this will help us a coach Jerry Tarkanian said after his 24th-ranked Runnin rebels needed to rally in the closing minutes. Dexter Boney had 22 Points for univ 3-0which was playing its first game after being installed in the top 25 this season. The Runnin rebels were ranked no. 1 All last year except for the final poll of the season. Play on hired level shape basketball tournament Here i done to think anyone could have beaten Italy tonight a Lockwood said. A they were just  Italy has won the two of the last three shape tournaments. Why can to the . Team loaded with raw Talent beat the italians pro players called up for Reserve duty by Italy Greece and Belgium just for this tournament has a lot to do with it Lockwood said. A there Are Only five teams Here that Are truly military teams a he said. A a these other teams Are All pros who play division i or ii basketball. We re not loaded with paid ballplayers. The three teams in the semifinals with us All play with professional players. Some of them will never see a military uniform. That says a lot about the politics of this tournament. A when Greece flies in three Guys the Day before its game it shows you just How political this is a he said. A there we got the other countries bringing in their top professionals Ana we re Only bringing in some of the Best in Europe not even All the Best in Europe because some Guys  get released. Its like taking a Community team and putting them up against a professional or top College  a we can Only bring in Guys from Europe and then we have to play against professionals these Are Guys who make $1 million a year playing basketball. Is it a better tournament because of it in a not sure. These teams we re going against Are the same teams our cism team played a the Best in the world. Not that he a complaining. A we just play a he said. A a there a nothing we can do about it. They told me before we got Here that we weren to going to get the Calls that the officials done to Tike the . Assistant coach Luther Jefferson a former . Shape player in the 1980s who piloted Wiesbaden to the army european championship series last year just shrugged it off. A Thor had professional players Back then too a he said. A a it Sall political. There a nothing you can do about in you just have to show up and  Lockwood insists he a not the Thorn in natos Rose of a basketball tournament but while he son a Roll How about the annual problem of not getting the players he wanted into Camp a Robby Mart in the u.k.,�?� Lockwood said. A a Here a a Guy who played at the air Force Academy. I would be loved to have had him. Charles Caldwell Thev Tell him you can go but you re going to lose your Job Adrian Lewis from Bamberg sure there Are a lot of players wed have like to have had. But what can you do a we got eight applications from the air Force. You know How Many showed up  Baltimore who played for the . Cism team and on Pitburg two time defending Safe tons almost did no to make it to shape. Baltimore a coach George Price was reluctant to Send Lockwood his franchise because the Continental sports conference season was in full swing. Baltimore was released after some cajoling and made it to Camp. To quell prices dismay he made the Long Jaunt from the Darmstadt trial Camp to Pitburg for the Baron s Csc games. A George just did no to want to lose Ralph for his regular season games which i can understand a Lockwood said. Quot Ralph is Here and George supported