European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 13, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                From wire reports Norman okla. The Oklahoma sooner had the game in their hands but they gave it away. No. 4 Kansas scored 14 Points off Oklahoma turnovers during the first eight minutes of the second half monday night on the Way to a 96-85 come from behind Victory Over the loth ranked sooner s. Rex Walters scored 23 Points and Richard Scott added 19 Points and 10 rebounds to Lead the Jay Hawks who handed Oklahoma its first loss in a big eight conference Home opener during Billy Tubbs tenure As coach. Adonis Jordan added 17 Points and three steals and Patrick Richey had 14 Points for the Jay Hawks who improved to 12-1 Overall and 2-0 in the big eight. Oklahoma led 41-32 with 2 10 left in the first half and went to the break up 48-39. However the Jay Hawks ran off 15 straight Points during a five minute Span Early in the second half capped by Walters fast break Layin to take a 65-55 Lead with 12 minutes to go. Kansas has won three straight Overall and five straight against Oklahoma. Terry Evans led Oklahoma 11-2 Overall and 0-1 in the conference with 24 Points and Bryatt Vann added 18 Points. Oklahoma a last Victory against Kansas was an 88-82 Victory at Norman on Jan. 8, 1991. Last season at Norman Kansas won 96-95 to snap a five game losing Streak at Lloyd Noble Arena. Kansas has won 12 of the last 20 games Between the two schools. Kansas leads the All time series 117-57. In other games monday Seton Hall 80, syracuse73 East Rutherford . Terry Deere scored 24 Points including nine in the last 2 09, Ana arturas Karnis Hovas added 18 Points for the no. 7 pirates who won their 11th straight. Seton Hall 14-1 and 4-0 in the big East is off to its Best conference Start Ever. The no. 24 orangemen 9-4 and 1-4, had won 23 of the previous 24 meetings with Seton Hall and lost for Only the third time in 29 meetings with the pirates. The stars and stripes poits january 1993 r Pago 38 Lawrence Moten led Syracuse with 21 Points and John Wallace added 15. Motena a 3-Pointer brought Syracuse to 74-70 Down with 52 seconds left and the orangemen attempted to Call time. However Syracuse was out of timeouts and was charged with a technical. Deere hit both free throws and Danny Hurley added another two to Clinch the win for Seton Hall. Deere has 1,022 career Points in the big East becoming the 10th player to top the 1,000-Point Mark. Univ 101 Missouri 84 Las vegas . Rider scored 32 Points As hot shooting no. 18 univ Roke the game open by scoring the first 10 Points of the second half in route to a 101-84 win Over Missouri. The Runnin rebels who had a 29-Gamc winning Streak snapped last week by Long Beach state increased their nation leading Home court winning Streak to 53 games with their first win m three tries against Missouri. Dexter Boney scored the first eight Points of the second half As univ 7-1 went on a 17-4 run that turned a 5549 halftime margin into a 67-49 Lead. Seton Halls Tchaka Shipp slams Home a Dunk at the first half Buzzer against Syracuse. Kentucky climbs to no. 1 a p. 35 with 34 Points. Boney ended up with is Points one of five rebels in double figures. Game called after fight Greensboro . The game Between Morgan state and North Carolina a amp to was suspended monday night after a player fight broke out during the first half. M i visiting Morgan state was leading 35 Missouri 9-3 could get no closer than 31 in the first a Zajf when be Fig broke in Mac inf Rio it or Iofi univ Fly the Iofik i. M. A a a a _ 14 Points the rest of the Way As the tigers had a five game winning Streak stopped. Out. The crowd never got involved in the incident but the referees decided that Missouri a Mark Atkins led All scorers continuing the game would be dangerous. The first hint of a Brawl occurred with 2 43 left in the half when North Carolina a amp to Center Kevin Chamberlain was ejected for a flagrant foul. The benches emptied with 1 55 left following a collision under the Basket Between North Carolina a amp to a Thomas Garner and Morgan states Michael Brewer. The referees reviewed video replays and determined that Garner Brewer and North Carolina a amp to a Thad Young and Morgan states Vincent Langston should be ejected As Well As players from both benches. The ejections left each team with Only three eligible players and officials decided to suspend the  replaces Rodgers As wolves coach by Mike Nadel Minneapolis a Jack Mccloskey saw enough. Enough. Mediocrity enough half hearted efforts enough squabbling enough Lack of direction enough losing. So after the Minnesota Timber wolves 16th loss in 18 games the first year general manager fired coach Jimmy Rodgers. A a it a something i did not want to do Quot Mccloskey said monday. Quot but it was certainly a decision i had to  Sidney Lowe was promoted to interim coach. Lowe Quot who turns 33 next week is the a bad a youngest coach. A this Guy Lowe is on the right track. He a Young. He s aggressive Quot said Mccloskey who added that he Hasni to started looking for a permanent replacement and that Lowe May end up being the Long term solution. Rodgers was dismissed less than a seasons after replacing the fired Bill Musselman who had coached the team through its first two Aba seasons. At-6-23, the Timber wolves have the leagues second worst record. In Rodgers first season they a were an Aba worst 15-67, Mccloskey watched last wednesdays 98-78 Home loss to the los Angeles lakers a a one of eight defeats by at least 20 Points Lowe season a and was disgusted. With Rodgers coaching strategy. A we re out there pressing and double teaming in the backcourt against a Veteran Veteran team. And they re getting layups and easy shots a he said. A that Hurt him. That Laker thing Hurt  but Mccloskey did no to decide to fire Rodgers until after a conversation they had after the game. Instead of telling Mccloskey that he too was fed up and that he had a plan to Correct things Rodgers a according to Mccloskey a seemed almost resigned with the teams play a i was a Little shocked a Mccloskey said. A it was obvious that he Felt that he Wasny to getting the things that he wanted across to the  Rodgers did not respond to messages left on his Telephone answering machine. Musselman was dismissed with a year remaining on his contract after he had coached Minnesota to a 51113 record in its first two seasons. But the team not Only did no to improve under Rodgers it regressed. In Ivi seasons Rodgers compiled a 21-90 .189 record the worst of any coach during that Span. Fired after his second season As Boston s coach 198990, Rodgers has a 115-160 career Mark. 0 246850 0 51