European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Final 2 Duke Michigan Cool substitute r. Saves wolverines the stars and Stripe sorts april 6,1992 Page 28 inside sports Indiana a Alan Henderson bounces off Duke Forward Antonio Lang on saturday new faces stadium Greet opening Day a Page 21 taking a closer look at Mcaa semis a Page 22 76ers keep playoff Hopes alive a Page 25 Ziegler fears loss of playoffs a Page 25 Trevino takes charge of tradition a Page 27 defense fends off disaster As Duke cuts it thin again by Jim of Connell Minneapolis a once again Duke flirted with defeat. Once again however the Blue devils will play for the National championship. The Blue devils survived a subpar game by Christian laettner and four Indiana 3-pointers in the final minute saturday night to hang on for an 81-78 Victory in the Mcaa semifinals. They did it with a 25-Point turnaround keyed by stifling second half defense and 18 straight Points wrapped around a technical foul against Hoosier coach Bob Knight. Indiana had a Chance to tie it with 15 seconds left but Jamal Meeks missed a 3-Pointer from the Corner and Duke sealed it with three free throws. Duke thus moved 40 minutes away from what no team has done since Urcla 19 years ago a win consecutive National titles. The Blue devils will be an 8-Point favorite to do just that tonight against Michigan a 76-72 semifinal Winner Over Cincinnati. With laettner scoring a season Low eight Points Bobby Hurley supplied the offence with six 3-pointers and tied a career High with 2o Points a and Duke needed every one of them. We plays defer see Page 21 for tonight s title game preview a Bobby really led us today a Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. A Indiana thoroughly outplayed us in the first half. At halftime knew we had to raise our game up. Weed much better in the second half. Our defense was  the team that had been no. 1 in the country All season looked like a team whose Luck had run out when it trailed by 12 Points with two minutes left in the first half. Less than 10 minutes into second half the Atlantic coast champions were ahead by 13, having outscored the Hoo Siers 31-6. But Indiana Wasny to through either. Down 73-64 with 53 seconds left the hoosiers pulled to 80-78 with six seconds to go on three treys by Reserve Todd Leary and one by Matt Nover. The loss ended knights run of final four Success after three National championships in As Many trips. His Only previous final four loss was to Urcla in 1973, the Bruins last of seven straight titles. Knight would have been going for his fourth title a Mark reached Only by John wooden of Urcla 10 and Kentucky a Adolph Rupp 4. This time Duke did it without any Miracle shots or perfect nights. Compared with the win that got the Blue devils Back to the final four this one May have seemed easy. Laettner caught a 75-foot pass with 2.1 seconds left in overtime and hit a turnaround jumper at the Buzzer to beat Kentucky 104-103 in the East regional final. Laettner made All 10 of his shots from the Field and All 10 of his free throws that night. But the National player of the year was just 2 for 8 from the Field on saturday and missed 3 of 7 free throws. Amazingly he took Only one shot from the Fielce to the last 17vz minutes. He was fouled on the play and made both free throws. A Indiana really took laettner out of the ballgame a Krzyzewski said. A they do the Best Job of help and recover defense of any team we play. I done to think Christian expected  the second half for Indiana was what coaches Alt fear might happen to their team. The hoosiers missed their first seven shots of the half and did no to score for 6 14, by Steve Wilstein Minneapolis apr trash talking and Street savvy Michigan a fab five stamped themselves As the finest freshmen in Mcaa history thanks to a Quick Rescue Job by a Cool upper Classman. James Voskuil a Junior who lost his starting spot this season settled Down the Young talented but wild wolverines on saturday and put them into the Mcaa championship game a the first to feature five freshmen starters on one team. Michigan which won the title in 1989 with a Veteran squad overcame Cincinnati a full court defensive pressure and swept the boards to win 76-72 and go into the final tonight against defending Champion Duke which beat Indiana 81-78. Michigan a players in a show of youthfulness and Delight danced on the court after a fusillade of 3-Point shots by Cincinnati bounced away in the final seconds. But it Wasny to just missed shots that brought Down the bearcats. It was Chris webbers 16 Points and 11 rebounds for Michigan a pick up in play by All the wolverines after a Sloppy first half and the calming influence of Voskuil. A turnovers in the first half were killing us a 12 a and they had eight More shots than we did a said Michigan coach Steve Fisher. Voskuil a Forward who started last year rescued his rattled mates with nine Points All in the second half and on big plays. He hit a double pump drive and a free throw to but Michigan ahead 61-58 after it trailed at halftime 41-38. Voskuil later added a big offensive rebound and a 3-Pointer to keep the bearcats 29-5 at Bay. A those were plays that killed us Quot Cincinnati coach Bob Huggins lamented. Fisher said Voskuil changed the a Tenor and mindset of the game played before a crowd of 50,379 in the metronome. Voskuil said he was just waiting for an Opportunity As he has All season. Quot the biggest adjustment is your mental approach to the game. You have to be consistent whether you get the minutes or not a Voskuil said. The wolverines lacking emotion Early in the game did no to moan so much As talk trash to the bearcats. A everyone was talking a Cincinnati a Erik Martin said. A i done to like to talk trash but i had to Start doing it too. It was like a Street game and they won. They re extremely  Michigan out rebounded Cincinnati 4630, the first time Cincinnati was outre bounded in the postseason. Jim King led Michigan 25-8 with 17 Points including three 3-Potnters. Cincinnati guards Anthony Buford Nick Van Exel and Herb Jones making the most of their quickness combined for 29 of the bearcats first half Points. Van Exel finished with 21 Points Buford with 18 and Jones 14.wku, Stanford in women s final a p. 26