European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday january 18, 1994 sports the stars and stripes Page 29 Indiana topples Michigan 82-72 by the associated press Bloomington ind. Indiana had a different cast and familiar result for Michigan coach Steve fish or. Last year Fisher saw the hoosiers overcome a 12 Point halftime deficit  his wolverines after trailing 70-6.1 with 11 minutes to play. Calbert Cheaney and Greg Graham graduated from that team. But the result was the same with new heroes sunday As no. 8 Indiana wiped away a 15-Point deficit to defeat no. 14 Michigan 82-72. We got beat in a similar fashion to the way.,we got beat a year ago when we forged a solid Early Lead with defense and Sharpness Fisher said. We tried to talk about history learning from it. We paid for it in the second  the hoosiers had no shortage of heroes in extending the nation s longest current Home winning Streak to 37 games. The list included Todd Leary who had All 16 of his Points in the second half while playing for the first time since spraining his right knee on dec. 28. College basketball Alan Henderson who led Indiana with 19 Points and16 rebounds in recording his 10th double double of the season gave a share of the credit to Steve Hart even though the freshman had Only five Points. He gave us a tremendous lift. Emotionally he Casein and immediately blocked Ray Jackson s Dunk Hen Derson said. Hart was called for a foul on the play and when Jack son made both free throws the wolverines held a 34-19 Lead with 5 55 remaining in the half. But Michigan failed to score another Point before halftime and the hoosiers put together a 12-Point surge to Trail by threat the break Damon Bailey scored 18 Points for Indiana despite battling cramps and taking oxygen on the Bench a few times moving into the no. 11 spot on his school s All time scoring list with 1,442, passing Walt Bellamy. The Victory gave Indiana 10-2, 3-0 the Early Lead Indefenso of its big ten championship and left it As the Only undefeated team in the conference. Michigan 11 3, 3-1 lost to the hoosiers for the sixth consecutive time at Assembly Hall and for the ninth time in 12meetings. Jalen Rose scored 16 Points to Lead Michigan while Jackson and Jimmy King had 15 each. No. 22 lab 85, Memphis St. 57 Robert Shannon scored All 26 of his Points in the Sec Ond half As the blazers 13-1, 2-0 great Midwest won their Lith in a Row. Shannon had seven 3-pointers and lab finished 10-for-20 from that Range for the game. Gedric Henderson s 17 Points led the visiting tigers 5 8,0-4who lost their seventh straight their longest los ing Streak since dropping nine in a Row in 1969-70. No. 23 West Virginia 70, George Washington 60 Pervines Greene had 22 Points As the mountaineers 10-2, 4-1 Atlantic 10 led the whole Way although the colonials 8-5, 2-3 Cut a 17-Point Lead to six in the final minute. George Washington which lost its fourth straight Road game shot just 27 percent and had 21turnovers. Larmer Sparks Ranger Victory by the associated press those in a sellout crowd of 18,472who went to the game hoping former Blackhawk favorite Steve Larmer would give them one More memory i perhaps his final appearance at Chi Cago stadium certainly weren t disappointed. And with former Blackhawk coach Mike Keenan watching from the Bench As the new York rangers played their final regular season Fame at the old barn on West Madison treet Larmer provided the thrill of the night by beating de Belfour on penalty shot in the third period for the final goal. On the penalty shot i made i was nervous excited Larmer said after the rangers beat the Blackhawk 5-1sunday night. I got Lucky and made a Good shot As a lot of different things went through my  among them was the thought that he would fail. I had two real Good chances in that first period and Eddie came up big Larmer said. But then he s been doing that a lot for three  Adam Graves scored twice landmark Messier and Kevin Lowe also had goals for the rangers who won their second straight after ending a three game losing Streak. Dirk Graham had the Only goal for Chicago against Mike Richter. Chicago out shot new York 33-32. Larmer who had 406 goals in 13 sea sons with Chicago was awarded the penalty shot after Blackhawk de Senseman Steve Smith threw his stick at the puck with 4 59 remaining. In other games sunday flyers 5, Kings 2 Mark Recchi scored two goals Anderic Lindros had three assists As Phila Kings Jari Kerri takes a shot against flyers Dominic Roussell but fails to score. Delphia cooled off visiting los Angeles for its third Victory in four games. Philadelphia took control quickly getting 18 shots in the first period. Brent fedyk who had both goals i Friday night s 5-2 loss to the new York rangers put the flyers up 1-0 with his 12th goal at 8 45. The flyers who also got goals from Viacheslav but Sayer and Yves Racine built a 4-0 Lead Over the first 1 i periods. Sabres 4, stars 2 Alexander Mogiln had two goal Sand an assist and Yuri Kim lev a goal and an assist As visiting Buffalo extended the Dallas losing Streak to three games. Lightning 3, jets 2 Mikael Andersson s second goal of the game nine seconds into overtime gave visiting Tampa Bay the Victory Over Winnipeg. Canucks 4, mighty ducks 3 Geoff Courtnell scored two Power play goals during a four goal first period and Vancouver won in its first visit to Anaheim Arena. Celtics break Home losing Streak by the associated press Boston the Boston celtics Long est Home losing Streak Ever finally came to an end sunday. Rookie Forward Dino Radja scored career High 29 Points and Robert Parish had a season Best 26 to Lead Boston to a 105-100 Victory Over the Denver nuggets. The Victory broke Boston s franchise record seven game Home losing Streak As Well As a five game Overall losing Streak. Aba Dee Brown added 21 Points and 11 assists and Xavier Mcdame had 12 Points. Mahmoud Abdul Rauf led the nug gets with 20 Points. In other games sunday Trail blazers 106, hornets 101 Portland Ore. Tracy Murray scored 11 fourth Quarter Points and keyed a late rally As Portland Defeated Charlotte. Hersey Hawkins led the hornets with 24 , and Alonzo mourning had 20. Clifford Robinson led Portland with 20,13 of those coming in the first period. Nets 99, jazz 94 East Rutherford . Kenny Anderson and Kevin Edwards combined for 20 of new Jersey s 26 fourth Quarter Points and the undermanned nets held Utah without a Field goal Over the final 6 41. Anderson finished with 24 Points 14 assists five rebounds and two steals while Edwards had 25 Points. Move Back to top spot by the associated press Kansas was Back As the no. 1 team inthe associated press College basketball poll monday 364 Days after last moving into the top spot. The wait just to rejoin the rankings was years longer for Maryland and decades longer for St. Louis. The Jay Hawks 16-1 received 29 first place votes and 1,552 Points from the National Media panel to Edge Urcla 11-0 which was first on 26 ballots and had 1,514 Points. Kansas is the fourth team posit atop the rankings this season joining North Carolina Kentucky and Arkansas. Kansas was third last week and the Opportunity to move up came when North Carolina and Duke last week s nos. 1and 2, lost on consecutive Days. The Jay Hawks moved into the no. 1 last season on Jan. 18 and held the spot for two weeks. Their first game As the top ranked team lust season was against Kansas state their opponent monday night. Urcla which moved up from fifth was last ranked no. 2 in 1991-92. Arkansas 12-1 had three first place votes and moved up one spot to third and was followed by North Carolina 13-2which had one no. 1 vote and Duke 11-1which was first on two ballots. The Blue devils had a Chance to take Over As no. 1, but they lost to Wake Forest the Day after North Carolina had been beaten by Georgia tech. Massachusetts 13-1 had four first place votes and moved from seventh to sixth and was followed in the top 10 by Kentucky Indiana Arizona and Connecticut. Temple led the second 10, followed by Purdue Louisville Wisconsin Michigan Syracuse Georgia tech Alabama Bir Mingham Cincinnati and Minnesota. The last five teams were California Xavier St. Louis West Virginia and Maryland. St. Louis 14-0the Only other major unbeaten besides Urcla is in the rank Ings for the first time since the 1964-65season when the Billiken got As High As fourth. Under first year coach Charli Spoonhour no. 23 St. Louis finally started receiving National attention wit hits last three victories at Arizona state decisively Over Memphis state at Home and at Depaul. Boston College ll-4which was no.20, was the highest ranked to fall out of the poll after splitting two games this week a loss at Seton Hall and a win Over Miami