European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Age 34 b. The stars Ano stripes sports tuesday february 23,1933 Arizona Indiana pad win streaks pop Purdue s Cuonzo Martin rear jars a rebound Loose from Indiana a Matt Novar. By United press International the longest current Overall and Home winning streaks in the nation were extended sunday with impressive victories. No. 4 Arizona scored the final 12 Inis to defeat no. 8 Cincinnati 70-60 at Phoenix running the country a longest winning Streak to 17. No. 1 Indiana trounced no. 15 Purdue 93-78 at Bloomington ind., extending the longest Home Streak to 29 games. Arizonans Streak was in jeopardy after two free throws by Erik Martin put Cincinnati ahead 60-58 with 3 19 left. But Chris Mills scored 5 of his 23 Points and Khalid Reaves scored Ori a Layup and two free throws in arizonans closing 12-0 run. Arizona improved to 19-2 and Cincinnati fell to 20-3. Nick Van Exel hit 5 of 10 3-Point shots and tied a career High with 31 Points for the bearcats. Van Exel also Haa six assists and three steals. At Bloomington senior guard Greg Graham scored a career High 32 Points without hitting a two Point Field goal for the hoosiers. Graham hit 26 of 28 foul shots and two 3-Point shots lifting Indiana to 24-2 Overall and 13-0 in the big ten. Purdue fell to 15-6 and 6-6. A they fouled me and i hit them a there a no secret a said Graham who hit All 10 of his first half free throws and was 0 for 4 from two Point Range in the game. Led by Graham the hoosiers Sank 30 of 40 from the foul line while Purdue scored Only 14 Points from the line in 17 attempts. College basketball Cuonzo Martin led the boilermakers with a career High 32 Points on 12 of 15 Field goals. Glenn Robinson who fouled out at 1 27, scored his average of 24. Indiana a Brian Evans who saw extended playing time off the Bench be cause of a knee injury suffered by starting Forward Alan Henderson at practice Friday scored a career High 20 Points. In other late top 25 games sunday North Carolina 78, Virginia 58 Charlottesville a. Eric Montross and George Lynch each scored 17 Points to Lead North Carolina past Virginia. Montross who fouled out with seven minutes remaining had 13 Points in the first half helping build a 35-13 Lead. North Carolina Lea 42-22 at halftime. The tar heels 22-3 and 11-2 in the acc had lost their last three to Virginia. The Cavaliers Are 16-6 and 8-5. Duke 91, North Carolina St. 82 Raleigh . Cherokee Parks scored 16 of his 19 Points in the second half to help the Blue devils break open a close acc game. Thomas Hill scored 20 Points and Bobby Hurley had 13 Points and is assists for the Blue devils who snapped a two game losing Streak and improved to 20-5 Overall and 7-5. Kevin Thompson scored 30 Points for the Wolf pack 7-15 and 1-11. Cheaney takes his shot at Hoosier hex by Bruce Schoenfeld the sporting news. Bloomington ind. A a you re scaring me Quot Calbert Cheaney says lie is hearing How Indiana players have fared lately in the Aba the Litany of names by in All its macabre glory. Steve Wing. Steve Green. Ray Tolbert. All somethings at Indiana highly publicized National stars Early draft picks a and for one reason or another Aba flops. Steve Alford. Keith smart. Who could have known Cheaney is an Indiana native and a longtime Hoosier fan but he never thought to look at what happens beyond Bloomington. �?o1 had no idea Quot he says. The Aba does no to either. Every year some team drafts an Indiana player simply because he has mastered basketball a fundamentals having endured and eventually flourished under coach Bob Knight. A minimum level of competency is As certain As a College degree and there wont be drug problems or bad attitudes. What could be better just about anything it turns out. Of the 21 hoosiers who have been drafted in the first or second round during knights tenure which began in the 197172 season Only one has played in an Aba a Star game. That was Isiah Thomas who stopped in at College for two seasons on his Way to professional stardom and High profile sneaker endorsements. Other than that you have three or four sizable but unremarkable pro careers maybe eight drifters who assembled a formidable collection of team logo Luggage and then disappeared and a surprising number who barely passed through the league at All. Kent Benson. Wayne Radford. Urc blab. # hey you a be scared too. Now there is Cheaney College basketball s finest senior and a possible player of the year. In 12 games against ranked opponents he is averaging close to 26 Points a game. If he takes the hoosiers to another National championship nobody would be too surprised. Intelligent articulate and disciplined Cheaney is the prototypical Indiana Star. And yet he seems a different Type of Indiana player than has come before More athletic creative with the Ball a lanky 6-foot-7 Forward with a deft shooting touch and rebounding savvy talents that dare scouts to Tell him they wont get fooled again a of All the Best players in be seen in the big ten and we be had some terrific players he has a style All his own Quot says Iowa coach Tom Davis who watched Cheaney hit 12 of 15 shots feb. 6 in leading Indiana to a 73-66 Victory. A the can Hurt you in a zone but he can Hurt you Man to Man too and he a Tough off the dribble. He a obviously going to do Well in the Iowa a Kenyon Murray who actually had to guard Cheaney for much of that night rested a head on his shoulder and shrugged his pos game frustration turning slowly to resignation. A the goes inside outside posts up shoots the Trey Quot Murray says. A the just does so Many different things that its almost impossible to defense perhaps Many of the Indiana is did no to succeed in the i a because they simply weren to that Good. Knight recruits exactly the Type of prospects he needs to perpetuate Indiana s winning tradition and they do exactly that. They re Fine shooters these Rural midwestern kids having spent All those hours alone with a Ball and a hoop. Give them room and hit 20-footers until the dinner Bell rings but that does no to make them Aba players. The necessary attributes to play for Indiana and to play in the Aba do not naturally align. Playing in knights system demands a level of discipline that probably will not be matched in a players life unless he opts for a military career. And playing for Knight demands a commitment to academics which is something Aba players done to have to worry about. Nobody has Ever flunked his Way off the san Antonio spurs. Such requirements usually done to leave room for the Best athletes those sure fire pro players you can spot Back in High school. And though it is True that character and All those intangibles can mean the difference Between Success and failure in the Aba athletic ability has to be a Given. With Indiana players it often Isnit. A the Guys you see at Indiana you re probably seeing As Good As they re going to get a says Quinn Buckner a starting guard on Indiana a 1976 championship team and after that a consistent Aba player Over a decade. A it hey Max out there in terms of Effort and commitment a they re never going to play harder a and the system makes them look their Best. With other schools you can extrapolate How Good a player is going to be. With Indiana you re seeing it. A however it does seem like they re getting better players there the last Tew years. Calbert is definitely one of those better knights offensive system also might be part of the problem because Indiana players rarely learn to create their own shots. This system has As its poster boy Steve Alford College basketball a consummate off the pick shooter. He scored 2,438 Points in his Indiana career a a school record Cheaney 2,339 Points through sunday will break by seasons end a and we would be willing to bet that at least 2,000 of those Points came off screens in the hoosiers passing offence or at the foul line where he shot 89.8 percent. There were those who called him the Best pure shooter in major College history and he May Well have been. Provided nobody was guarding him. The problem is nobody gets those shots in the Aba other than in the All Star game and selected Nike ads. A once you get to the Aba you have to know How to be creative a says James worthy of the los Angeles lakers. A you just done get picks or very rarely. You have to know How to do it on your own or you la find you wont be scoring at there a also the idea that Indiana players can to handle the Indiana a Calbert Cheaney a impossible to defense Quot Blase Aba. A i remember my first Aba season the toughest adjustment was trying to take 82 games to heart a Buckner says. A the real Challenge in this league is trying to make it through the season with the travel sleep deprivation All of that. Bobby Knight puts you through some mental gymnastics that teach you to keep your intensity up no matter what but no College coach can duplicate the debilitating grind of the Aba. Not even
