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Thursday, March 21, 1986TThe Battalion/Page 11 v Duke coach too excited to feel pressure hn .Wait' he meda is. ndedala (ion to j hall plaia eaguesa nedid a alack fooa R DALLAS (AP) — Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, making his debut as a coach in NCAA basketball’s Final Four, said Wednesday he is not wor ried about being a rookie. ■ “I’m too excited to feel the pres sure and I hope the players catch onto it,” said Krzyzewski in a tele phone news conference with the other three coaches. ■ “I talked to (Indiana Coach) Bobby Knight and he's helped me get prepared,” he said. H The top-ranked Blue Devils meet two-point underdog and No. 2 Kan sas Saturday 30 minutes after Louis ville and eight-point underdog Loui- spna State play in Reunion Arena. I The First game begins at 2:42 p.m. ■he survivors play for the 1985-86 NCAA championship Monday at 8:12 p.m. ■ Krzyzewski admitted his Blue Devils have shot poorly in advancing out of the East Regional. ■ “I don’t know why because it is one of our strong points,” he said. “We’ve played good defense and we’ve rebounded well. Kansas is the best shooting team we’ve played and if we both have hot shooting it could be a high-scoring game.” Duke defeated Kansas 92-86 in December, but Jayhawks Coach Larry Brown said his team is vastly improved. “We’ll have to play the best basket ball game of the year and quit mak ing turnovers and giving the other College Basketball team second shots to win,” Brown said. “1 don’t believe their earlier vic tory over us will have any bearing on the game, although we have great respect for Duke.” Krzyzewski said, “Our earlier vic tory over Kansas doesn’t mean much because it happened too long ago. We have two evenly matched teams.” Louisville Coach Denny Crum, who will be in his sixth Final Four, said he was concerned over what he calls LSU’s “freak” defense. “LSU is a hard team to play be cause of the ‘freak’ defense,” Crum said. “I think we might be a hard team to defense, though, because ev eryone on our team is capable of scoring 25 points.” LSU Coach Dale Brown, who will be in his second Final Four, said his defense was a “combination of man- for-man and zone coverages.” “You have to be careful and not get so cute your kids can’t do it,” Brown said. Brown said Louisville was almost impossible to defense. “They are tough to figure and they have plenty of players who can score,” Brown said. He said he welcomed the Tigers’ underdog status. “I relish the role,” he said. “I would prefer to be the underdog.” Crum doesn’t consider Dale Brown’s Tigers, the only one of the four teams not ranked in the Top 10, a Cinderella team. “I learned a long time ago that nothing is surprising at this stage,” Crum said. “Teams that have gotten this far are obviously the best. You prove on the floor who the best team is. Where you are ranked at this point doesn’t mean anything.” would b| >ay for LSU 'magic' may make Louisville disappear ?er, who s agenl,)| gave M \A rules,i the new and hoitij s town. Ini 11 Iv will," i Btbd tress um AP) - it at theU ■ three)' sketball Jniversilf BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — ale Brown believes in magic. “I know some people will laugh at this,” Brown said, “but there’s a magical feeling, like our time is com ing'.” ■ The Louisiana State coach be lieves the same emotional high that lifted his unranked Tigers to the Fi nal Four will sustain them through Saturday’s game with No. 7 Louis ville and on to the national championship. R “We’ve got this feeling,” he'said. “Maybe the other teams have it too, but that’s what we’ve got.” ; His players also believe. H “The magic’s there,” said senior forward Don Redden. “If we can just keep up this attitude and intensity we have now, that will be enough to win the national championship.” i Let others speculate whether it was magic that allowed LSU to beat seemingly stronger tournament op- anents like Memphis State, Georgia ech and Kentucky, or whether such an unexpected accomplishment would not lift any team. LSU is asking no questions, hav ing no doubts. “I don’t think we’re a Cinderella team,” said junior forward Anthony Wilson. “We belong here the same as any other. We worked hard to get Lotisvile here. I think we deserve it.” But LSU is a surprise opponent to Louisville senior guard Jeff Hall. “If you looked at the pairings early in the tournament, you proba bly wouldn’t have picked them,” Hall said. “I’d say Louisville would have to be a favorite over LSU.” Wilson and Redden were reserves when the season opened, back be fore 7-foot center Zoran Jovanovich hurt his knee and team captain and scoring leader Nikita Wilson flunked out of school. They came off the bench along with guard-turned-center Ricky Blanton and put together the kind of team game that could neutralize superior talent. “This has been a total team ef fort,” Redden said. “We really came together after all the adversity we had.” The absence of any one star is a major reason for every player believ ing in himself, he said. Anthony Wilson, for example, scored only twice against Memphis State in the regional semifinals until his last-second jumper that won the game. When forward John Williams went cold against Georgia Tech in the finals, guard Derrick Taylor moved in to take up the slack, scor ing 23 points. Two days later, Taylor never hit a field goal against Kentucky, but Wil liams recovered his touch and scored 16 points. Iowa coach leans to USC, not UH ;i(leredoW , iters, re| :d Feb. I i alter ed into a®' oved a HOUSTON (AP) — Iowa’s George Raveling turned down the head coaching position at the University of Houston vacated by a retiring Guy V. Lewis, the Hous ton Chronicle reported Wednesday. Ravefmg met with UH officials on Tuesday for the second time. A source in the Iowa athletic department told the Chronicle that Raveling informed UFI officials aduatedl' of his decision late Tuesday. 1 f San A# But Jay Goldberg, UH sports Coll©g© it asisinhisf information director, said lies. Wednesday, “I have nothing offi-i Basketball belief tW detes witli' nt first," 8 ned 7-24 1 ied with 1 ; dal on that, (but) it wouldn’t surprise me.” R Asked if a replacement for Lewis would be named. ( this week, Goldberg said, “I sure hope so. But there’s nothing I can say.” ( Raveling is expected to take the basketball coaching post at the University of Southern California. His decision to take the Trojans’job over UH is be lieved to be based partially on his previous 11 years at Washington State, also a Pac-10 Conference member, the Ch ronicle repo rted. Raveling, 48, has a record of 221-174 in 11 years at Washington State and the last three years at Iowa. His Hawkeye teams were 13-15, 21-11 and 20-12, losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament this year and in 1985. Raveling first met with Houston officials a week ago, along with Stanford University Coach Tom Davis. “It’s an important decision they have to make there, and I understand what they’re going through,” Davis said. Asked if he would take the job if offered, Davis said, “I really don’t know. There are a lot of things to rec ommend it.” Navy Coach Paul Evans, who also was being consid ered for the UH post, was named head coach at Pitts burgh Wednesday. Also Wednesday, the Houston Post identified for mer UH and Houston Rockets star Elvin Hayes as a leading candidate to succeed Lewis. f !iK RONNIE MILSAP CONCERT CANCELLED Performance by Ronnie Milsap and the Judds scheduled for April 6 in G. Rollie White Coliseum has been cancelled. For refunds, return tickets to the place of purchase. 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