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Cards deck Devils to earn No. 1
Ellison's 25 points lifts Louisville over top-ranked Duke 72-69
DALLAS (AP) — Louisville’s Pel
vis Ellison lived up to his nickname,
"Never Nervous," Monday night,
leading the Cardinals to their second
NCAA basketball championship in
six years.
Ellison, a b-foot-9 center, took
over inside, scoring 25 points and
pulling in 1 1 rebounds as he lifted
No. 7 Louisville to a 72-b9 victory
over top-ranked Duke. He was
named the Most Valuable Player in
the Final Four, the first f reshman so
honored since Utah’s Arnie Ferrin
in 1944.
“That’s why we call him ‘Never
Nervous Pervis,”’ said sophomore
teammate Herbert Crook. “Down at
the end, when we need rebounds, he
gets them.”
Ellison did, scoring eight of the
Cardinals’ last 15 points and gather
ing two key rebounds that spoiled
Duke’s hopes of capping a record
season with its first national crown.
The victory was the 17th straight
for Louisville, which finished at 82-
7. And it broke the 21 -game winning
streak of the Blue Devils, who fin
ished 87-8, the most victories in a
season in NCAA history.
Louisville needed everything Elli
son could give to overcome a stellar
performance by Duke’s All-Ameri
can guard johnny Dawkins, who fin
ished with 24 points. But, strangely,
Dawkins could not seem to get the
hall in the final minutes.
Louisville was leading (>f>-()5 with
48 seconds to play and the clock run
ning down when guard Jell Hall
missed a short jumper. Ellison
grabbed the rebound and put it back
in and the Cardinals had a three-
point lead with only 41 seconds left.
"I saw the shot was falling short,”
Ellison said. “I got past everybody
and laid it in.”
Ellison assured the victory with 27
seconds left when he rebounded a
missed shot by Duke’s David Hen
derson, was fouled by Mark Ala tie
and sank two free throws to make it
70-65.
After Duke scored on rebounds
bv jay Bilas and Damn Fert v, Louis
ville guard Milt Wagner sealed it
with two free throws with two sec
onds remaining.
“I thought he made some great
athletic moves around the basket
and that did surprise me,” Alarie
said. “He is a great of fensive player.”
Duke’s guards outscored Louis
ville 85-18, Wagner not getting his
first field goal until there was 5:38
left in the game. 1 hat came on a
fastbreak set up by an Ellison
blocked shot.
Louisville’s front line outscored
Duke’s 4H-30, but mote importantly,
Louisville outtebounded Duke 39-
27, with Crook getting 12.
Louisville went ahead 42-41 on
Crook’s tap-in. which gave the Car
dinals the lead for the first time since
thev were up 4-0. Dawkins then hit
three straight jump shots, one lead
ing to a three-point play, for a 48-42
lead. Mark Alarie made two free
throws to match Duke’s biggest lead
of the second half, 54-48.
Wagner and Thompson each
picked up theit fourth personal
fouls dining that period, and the
Cardinals’ chances seemed dim.
But the 0-loot-9 Ellison paced the
Louisville comeback with the help of
Wagner, a 6-5 senior who had onlv
two points in the first half.
Wagner’s three-point play cut
Louisville’s deficit to 61-60 with 5:33
remaining. Henderson then hit two
free throws as Ellison picked up his
fourth personal, but Ellison came
back and hit from inside to cut the
“That’s why we call him
'Never Nervous Pervis. ’
Down at the end, when we
need rebounds, he gets
them. ”
— Louisville forward
Herbert Crook on
Final Four MVP
Pervis Ellison
deficit back to one.
Wagner put Louisville ahead
when he shook loose for a layup with
3:22 left. Duke regained the lead
when Dawkins made a pair of foul
shots but Thompson then pulled the
Cardinals away f or good.
Thompson, a 6-7 senior, added 13
points for Louisville, while Crook
had 10. Wagner, who entered the
game with a career total of 1,825
points, scored only nine, almost six
points under his average.
Dawkins, the leading scorer in
Duke’s history, finished with 24
points. Henderson added 14, Alarie
12 and Amaker 1 I.
Louisville, which has been in four
of the last seven Final Fours, pre
viously won the crown in 1980. T he
Metro Conference champion fin
ished strongly after playing the
toughest non-conference schedule
in the country, winning 21 of its last
22 games.
Duke has never won an NCAA ti
tle. This was the Blue Devils’ fifth
trip to the Final Four and third loss
in the championship game. Thev fell
to UCLA in 1964 and Kentuckv in
1978.
Duke jumped to a 15-8 lead with
Dawkins hitting 11 points on long
and short jumpers. The quickness of
Dawkins and the 6-foot Amaker
forced 14 Louisville turnovers in the
first half .
Ellison was named the tourna
ment’s Most Valuable Player, the
first f reshman to earn the prize since
Arnie Ferrin won it for Utah’s 1944
champions.
Amaker’s four free throws gave
Duke its biggest lead of the first half,
31-23. Louisville’s backcourt of Hall
and Wagner was not a factor, but the
Cardinals’ rebounding kept them in
the game. Ellison scored three field
goals, the last after his steal, to tie it
at 33.
Dawkins’ jumper with three sec
onds lef t gave the Blue Devils their
halftime cushion.
Louisville, the No. 2 seed in the
West, knocked off Drexel, Bradley,
North Carolina, Auburn and Loui
siana State to reach the final.
Duke, with a nucleus of four se
niors who had been 11-17 in their
freshman year, took over the No. 1
ranking after North Carolina’s 13-
week hold on the top spot was
ended. The Blue Devils only losses
were at North Carolina on Jan. 18
and at Cieorgia Tech in their next
game three days later.
They were top seeded in the East
and beat Mississippi Valley State,
Old Dominion, DePaul, Navy and
No. 2 Kansas.
Duke, which didn’t shoot partic
ularly well from the field through
out the tournament, made up for it
imprevious games with rebounding
and defense. The Devils shot only 40
percent from the field, while Louis
ville hit 58 percent.
But Duke’s rebounding domi
nance was missing. Louisville had a
39-27 advantage on the boards.
Lady Longhorns ‘sub’ way to 1st national title
AUSTIN (AP) — What is amazing about
Texas’ 97-81 defeat of Southern Cal for the
NCAA women’s basketball championship is that
Texas’ starters combined for only 39 points.
The Lady Longhorn “subs,” however, out-
scored the Women of Troy 58-4, with Clarissa
Davis leading Texas with 24 points, in Sunday’s
game.
Davis, a 6-foot-1 freshman described by UT
Coach Jody Conradt as the “player of the fu
ture,” was voted as the Most Valuable Player in
the tournament even though she didn’t start.
She had 56 points and 32 rebounds in two
games, playing 51 of 80 minutes.
The title is Texas’ first in women’s basketball,
and 3,300 cheering, singing fans gathered at the
Frank Erwin Center Sunday night to welcome
the team home.
“You are the best there is,” former congress-
woman Barbara Jordan, a regular spectator, told
the team. “You’ve taught the United States of
America a lesson. You have taught us what a
team is."
The players, driven to courtside in open lim
ousines, signed autographs for an hour.
Eleven Lady Longhorns played and all but one
injured reserve scored in the championship
game. LIT set records for total points scored in
the tourney and for best overall shooting per
centage (58.8).
Texas finished the season at 34-0, with its clos
est games a 78-76 road victory over Ohio State in
UT’s season opener and a 66-63 home triumph.,
over Mississippi in the Midwest Regional final.
“1 told them in the locker room that I thought
this was the best team ever in women’s basket
ball, " Conradt said. “We may not have any great
players like (USC’s) Cheryl Miller, but we have
some who are sitting here that would be starting
elsewhere.”
“This is the deepest team in women’s basket
ball,” said Conradt. “Who starts means absolutely
nothing.”
All-Americans Kamie Ethridge only had three
points, Andrea Lloyd five, Annette Smith four
and Gay Hemphill eight in the title game. Smith
was a 1984 All-American but sat out last year
with a severe knee injury. Hemphill was a 1983
NAIA All-American and transferred from Way-
land Baptist.
Texas’ reserves — Davis, Hemphill, Cara
Priddy, Yulonda Wimbish and C.J. Jones — out-
scored and outrebouned the starters.
“I would be hard-pressed to put together a se
nior class like this,” Conradt said. “I would be
hard-pressed to put together a basketball team
like this.”
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