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Nuggets, 127-119,
for 5th straight win
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Houston’s Lewis
Lloyd scored 25 points and con
verted a pair of key plays in the final
four minutes to lead the Rockets to a
Other Tuesday NBA Scores:
(home team in capitals)
DETROIT 124
Washington 122 (ot)
NEW YORK 103
Phoenix 93
Milwaukee 132
CHICAGO 103
Utah at
LA. LAKERS (late)
LA. Clippers at
GOLDEN STATE (late)
-Sacramento at
PORTLAND (late)
SEATTLE 109
Dallas 90
127-119 National Basketball Asso
ciation victory over the Denver Nug
gets Tuesday night.
It was Houston’s fifth consecutive
victory and put the 7-2 Rockets one
game ahead of the 6-2 Nuggets in
die NBA’s Midwest Division.
The Rockets moved to a 10-point,
120-110 lead with 2:22 to play after
Robert Reid sank two free tnrows.
But a pair of Alex English free
throws and two consecutive three-
point baskets by Mike Evans cut the
lead to 120-118 with 1:21 left.
Lloyd brought the Rockets back
with a basket and free throw, and
Akeem Olajuwon hit a basket to put
the Rockets back in control. With
4:11 to play, Olajuwon hit a basket
and Lloyd stole the ensuing in
bounds pass and scored.
Ralph Sampson, who fouled out
of the game with 20 seconds to play,
scored 24 points and Olajuwon had
20. Their performance nullified a
36-point show by Denver’s English
and 31 points by Lafayette Lever.
Olajuwon fueled the Rockets in
the third (juarter’s opening five min
utes, hitting seven points as the
Rockets maintained tne pace from
their 67-56 halftime lead.
Sampson took up the slack, how
ever, and the Rockets led 100-89 at
the end of the third quarter. But
then he drew his third and fourth
personal fouls in less than one min
ute and had to leave the game.
The Nuggets, playing without
starting guard Calvin Natt, jumped
to a 16-lo lead midway through the
first quarter and held a 32-29 advan
tage at the end of the period on a 10-
point performance by English.
Despite another 10 English points
in the second quarter, the Rockets
pulled ahead at 40-38 with 8:38 to
go in the half.
APTop 20 Poll
The Top 20 teams in the Asso
ciated Press college basketball
poll, with first-place votes in par
entheses and 1984-85 season re
cord:
1. Georgia Tech (28) — 27-9
2. North Carolina (13) — 27-9
3. Michigan (13) — 26-4
4. Syracuse — 22-9
5. Kansas (4) — 26-8
6. Duke (2) —23-8
7. Illinois (1) — 26-9
8. Georgetown (1) — 35-3
9. Louisville— 19-18
10. Auburn — 22-11
11. Kentucky — 18-13
12. Notre Dame (1) — 21-9
13. Oklahoma — 31-6
14. LSU—19-10
15. Memphis State — 31-4
16. UA-Birmingham — 25-9
17. North Carolina State — 23-10
18. UNLV —28-4
19. (tie) Maryland —25-12
19. Navy — 26-6
Others receiving votes: Indiana,
DePaul, Washington, Iowa,
UCLA, Arkansas, Houston, Vir-
f inia Tech, St.John’s, Pittsburgh,
ennessee, Georgia, Alabama,
Villanova, Pepperdine, St. Jo
seph's, UTEP, Arizona, Dayton,
Fresno State, Boston College,
Texas A&M, Virginia, West Vir
ginia, Ohio State, Oregon State.
Jackets don early No. 1
5 ACC teams make preseason cage poll
Associated Press
ATLANTA — Georgia Tech’s
No. 1 ranking in The Associated
Press preseason college basketball
poll is a double-edged sword because
J ‘a tremendous amount of pressure”
comes with the recognition, Yellow
Jackets Coach Bobby Cremins said
Tuesday.
Georgia Tech got 28 first-place
votes and 1,192 points from the na
tionwide panel of 63 sports writers
and broadcasters to edge North Car
olina for the top spot. Georgia Tech
beat the Tar Heels 57-54 in the At
lantic Coast Conference tournament
championship game last season.
“To be honest, right now I don’t
know if we can live up to it. It puts a
tremendous amount of pressure on
us. My expectations are usually very
high, but they can’t go higher than
the ones that have been put upon
us,” Cremins said.
“I just hope we can deal with it.”
Georgia Tech and North Carolina
were among five ACC teams placed
in the Top Twenty. In third place
was Michigan, one of two Big Ten
teams in the Top Ten.
The Tar Heels got 13 first-place
votes and 1,148 points. Michigan
“To be honest, right now I
don’t know if we can live
up to it. It puts a tremen
dous amount of pressure
on us.” — Georgia Tech
Coach Bobby Cremins
had 13 first-place votes and 1,141
points.
The No. 4 team was Syracuse, one
of two Big East teams in the Top
Ten, with 936 points. No. 5 was Kan
sas, with four first-place votes and
921 points.
Tne ACC’s Duke got two first-
place votes and 911 points for the
sixth-place ranking, and Illinois of
the Big Ten got one first-place vote
and 84 / points for seventh place.
Georgetown of the Big East, last
year’s national runner-up, got one
first-place vote and 824 points for
eightn; No. 9 Louisville of the Metro
Conference had 687; and Auburn of
the Southeastern Conference
rounded out the Top Ten with 670.
Last year’s national champion,
Villanova, was not ranked, nor was
St. John’s, a fellow Big East school
and Final Four participant. Both
teams lost several key players to
graduation.
Georgetown has been in ihe
NCAA championship game three of
the last four years, hut now faces life
without star center Patrick Ewing.
The Hoyas were the top team in Iasi
year’s pfeseason poll and held that
spot for all but five weeks of the sea
son.
The SEC is the only other confer
ence to have more than two teams in
the Top Twenty, with Kentucky
ranked 11th and Louisiana Stale
14th. Kentucky will begin the season
with a new coach, Eddie Sutton.
Notre Dame, the only indepen
dent in the Top Twenty, was one of
seven teams to receive first-place
votes. The Irish finished 12t!i and
received one vote for the top spot.
Rounding out the Top Twenty
behind Notre Dame were Okla
homa; LSU; Memphis State, a Final
Four team last year; Alabama-Bir-
mingham; North Carolina Stale ol
the ACC; Nevada-Las Vegas; and,
tied for 19th, Maryland oi the ACC
and Navy, schools 25 miles apart.
ACC — SEC
Georgia Tech, LSU favored in Southeast region
Lady Longhorn hoopsters
find themselves No. 1 again
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Texas Coach Jody Conradt, whose Longhorns are the top-
rated team in college women s basketball, said Tuesday being No. 1 will
make life more difficult for her team.
Conradt said, however, the Lady Longhorns have so much talent that
she has not settled on a starting lineup after a month of practice.
Texas, with all five starters returning, including All-Americans Kamie
Ethridge and Andrea Lloyd, finished first in the preseason women’s basket
ball poll conducted by Mel Greenberg of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
‘ I think this will ne a good year,’ 5 Conradt said. “I think it is going to be
difficult again for us to deal with being No. 1. The last thing we need is to
give any of our opponents another cause when they play Texas, and that’s
Basically what happened last year.”
Texas was ranked No. 1 at the close of the regular season last year but
fell to Western Kentucky in the Midwest regional finals, 92-90.
“I will never get over the Western Kentucky loss because it was a very
difficult one,” Conradt said.
Asked if she liked being ranked No. 1, she said, “You like to be recog
nized. You like for your players to have that kind of vote of confidence be
cause it gives them that feeling, hut on,the other hand our fans are already
starting to say, ‘How many times have we gotten there and we haven’t been
able to do it?’
“Think about that. How many times have we had a realistic chance at
winning the national championship? In my mind once last year, and yes we
failed.”
Conradt said she had not chosen a starting lineup because the competi
tion is so intense.
She added, “I don’t think anybody is any better than we are full-court.
No team that plays run with us is going to beat us. I think we need to be bet
ter half-court. ’
Associated Press
After being shut out by the Big
East on the last step before the
NCAA basketball championships,
the Atlantic Coast Conference could
lead a resurgence of the South to at
least one spot in the Final Four next
March.
Last season, ACC champion
Georgia Tech lost to Georgetown,
ACC runner-up North Carolina fell
to eventual champion Villanova and
North Carolina State was downed by
St. John’s. Also, Boston College
ousted fourth-place Duke in the sec
ond round of the NCAA title chase.
But Georgia Tech, Duke and
North Carolina return most of the
players that led them to their respec
tive regional finals and added to
those teams are blue-chip freshmen
which made the ACC’s recruiting
year one of the nation’s most suc
cessful.
Georgia Tech has been ranked as
the No. 1 team in preseason by seve
ral national publications, but Coach
Bobby Cremins isn’t buying the
hype.
“I know this sounds like a typical
coach, but I’ve kept away from it,”
Cremins said. “I really can’t get
wrapped up in it because I know a
lot of it is unrealistic.”
The talent makes it hard to dis
pute the predictions, however.
Guard Mark Price and forward John
Salley lead the band of experienced
players returning. Seven-footer An
toine Ford, a backup last year, re
places Yvon Joseph in the pivot and
guard forward Craig Neal is back af
ter a wrist injury. But Cremins says
Georgia Teen’s success could hinge
on the progress of prep All-America
Tom Hammonds, a 6-foot-8 Florid
ian sought by more than 100 schools.
“For us to be a great team, which
everybody says we are, Hammonds
has got to help us. He’s very, very
valuable,” Cremins said.
There are four seniors on Duke’s
starting five and sixth man David
Henderson also is a senior. But the
big catch for Coach Mike Krzyzewski
was DeMatha High School’s Danny
Ferry, a 6-10 star who might provide
Duke with frontline deptn.
North Carolina has center Brad
Daugherty, forwards Kenny Smith
and Steve Hale and reserve forward
Warren Martin from the 27-9 team
of last season. Coach Dean Smith
also landed some prized prep stars,
including guard Jeff Lebo and for
ward Steve Bucknall.
In the Southeastern Conference,
Louisiana State may boast the na
tion’s largest starting lineup even
though 6-10 freshman Tito Horford
left Baton Rouge. Nonetheless,
Co^ch Dale Brown has experience
returning in Nikita Wilson and John
Williams, both 6-8. Don Redden is
the 6-6 shooting guard and Derrick
Taylor is the point guard at 6-0, al
though he has no solid backup.
In the front court, Zoran Jovano-
vich gained 50 pounds to go with his
7-1 frame to relieve Wilson from
playing center. Alongside Jovano-
vich is 6-10 Jose Vargas.
Auburn returns all five starters
from last year’s Southeast Regional
semifinalist and the list starts with
Chuck Person, who averaged 22
points and nine rebounds per out
ing. Frank Ford and Gerald White
should settle the backcourt for
Coach Sonny Smith.
Kentucky s new head coach, Ed
die Sutton, has the task of trying to
improve last year’s 18-13 team un
der Joe B. Hail. In trying to do that,
the Wildcats boast All-American
College
Basketball
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Kenny Walker, the SEC’s defending
scoring and rebounding champion
and the first SEC player to win both
titles since Tennessee’s Bernard
King did it in 1977.
Speaking of Tennessee, the Vol
unteers were a surprise semifinalisl
in the National Invitation Tourna
ment last season and retain Tony
White and 6-11 Doug Roth.
Louisville was hurt by an injury to.
guard Milt Wagner, but thr Cardi
nals survived and advanced to the
NIT championships. Memphis
State, another of Villanova’s victims,
lost All-American Keith Lee, but lias
7-foot center William Bedford,
S uard Andre Turner and forward
askerville Holmes from the Final
Four team.
Alabama-Birmingham and Old
Dominion each return four starters
from teams that reached the 64-
team NCAA championship field and
both are early favorites to lead the
Sun Belt Conference title chase.
Mike Pollio is the new head coach
for perennial title challenger Vir
ginia Commonwealth, but the team
has lost six lettermen from last year’s
26-6 club.
Marshall is the defending cham
pion in the Southern Conference,
and with guard Skip Henderson and
forward Jeff Guthrie corning ba< k.
the Thundering Herd is the favorite
to take its third straight league
crown. Davidson has six seniors and
offers the biggest threat to Marshall.
Middle Tennessee State is the
choice of the Ohio Valley Confer
ence. Despite finishing fifth in the
1984-85 regular season, they went
on the win the OVC tournament.
The top returner is Kim Cooksey,
the conference’s leading scorer last
year.
With Jimmy Brown and Eric Bovd
gone from North Carolina A&i
Coach Don Corbett’s streak of loin
appearances in the NCAA might
end this season. A good bet to suc
ceed the Aggies will be Howard Uni
versity, which has all its players back
from a 16-12 team last year.
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