Friday, March 13, 1987AThe Battalion/Page 7
CU slams Marshall
NCAA first round
^:HARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Car
rel Holcombe waited until after No.
IQITexas Christian played Marshall
■ellTCU Coach Jim Killingsworth
that he felt “very weak" from the flu.
Ply that time the damage had been
be — to Marshall.
folcombe, the Southwest Confer-
ien<( player of the year, scored 30
|nts to lead TCU to an easy 76-60
^ory over Marshall in the opening
round of the NCAA basketball tour
nament’s East Regional. Despite his
illness, Holcombe made 14 of 17
sh< is from the field and played all
,40 minutes. It did, however, keep
i away from a post-game press
iference.
‘He told me in the dressing room
after the game that he was very weak
from the flu,” Killingsworth said. “I
Bi no idea he was sick, but I’m not
surprised he didn’t tell me because
he probably thought I’d limit his
playing time.
He’d have to be on his deathbed
before he would tell me he felt bad,”
Killingsworth said. "Carven is the
Southwest Conference MVP and I
itljjnk he showed why. He’s played
1 like this all year."
‘They patiently, methodically
whipped us,” Marshall Coach Rick
iHl ckabay said. “And Holcombe was
j tre nendous. We put three guys on
him and none of them could slow
Bn down."
B’After we clinched the (SWC) title
Vli
we thought it was open season on the
basket,” Killingsworth said. “Today
we finally played good defense and
showed patience on offense.”
TCU, 24-6, making its first ap
pearance in the tournament since
1971, took control of the game mid
way through the first half. TCU
scored 12 consecutive points to turn
a 16-12 deficit into a 24-16 advan
tage. Holcombe and Larry Richard
each scored five points in the run.
TCU, the SWC regular-season
champion and the No. 4 seed in the
regional, expanded the lead to 13
points late in the half before settling
for a 38-27 halftime advantage. The
Horned Frogs shot 73 percent from
the field in the half and forced Mar
shall into 11 turnovers.
Marshall, the Southern Confer
ence champion, closed within 48-41
with 14 minutes left, but TCU re
sponded with an 8-1 run to push the
lead back to 14 points. Marshall, 25-
6, couldn’t get closer than nine
points the rest of the way.
The Thundering Herd, who en
tered the game having won 20 of
their last 21 games, is now 0-5 in
NCAA play.
Carl Lott added 14 points for
TCU, which bounced back from a
loss to Texas A&M a week ago in the
opening round of the SWC tourna
ment.
Dwayne Lewis led Marshall with
17 points and Skip Henderson
added 14.
Upsets sparse in early NCAA action
From the Associated Press
While top-ranked Nevada-Las
Vegas opened its bid for an
NCAA basketball title with an un
surprising 95-70 thrashing of
Idaho State in a first-round game
of the West Regional, lightly re
garded Xavier stunned 14 th-
ranked Missouri 70-69 in the
Southeast Regional.
Freddie Banks got all seven of
his baskets from 3-point range
and finished with 23 points as
UNLV, 34-1, strolled past the
bottom seed in the West Re
gional. Gary Graham added 18
points for UNLV, which led by
26points in the second half.
“Our kids had a hard time ad
justing to the altitude (at Salt
Lake City) because our game is so
based on quickness,” UNLV
Coach Jerry Tarkanian said.
Alabama was at it again Thurs
day, giving North Carolina A&T
an 88-71 shellacking in the South
east Regional, and New Orelans
stopped Brigham Young 83-79.
In the East Regional, Texas
Christian eliminated Marshall 76-
60 and Notre Dame stormed
away in the late going for an 84-
71 victory over Middle Tennes
see.
No. 17 Duke, in jeopardy of
joining Missouri as a Midwest Re
gional upset victim, rode Kevin
Strickland’s 20 points to a 58-51
defeat of Texas A&M. And, in
the other West Regional game,
Kansas State needed an overtime
to get by Georgia 82-79 as Mitch
Richmond scored 34 points.
In night games, Navy, 26-5,
faced Michigan, 19-11, and No. 2
North Carolina, 29-3, met Penn
sylvania, 13-13, in East Regional
play at Charlotte, N.C. Illinois,
23-7, went against Austin Peay,
19-11, and Providence, 21-8,
squared off with Alabama-Bir-
mingham, 21-10, in the Southeast
Regional at Birmingham, Ala.
In the Midwest Regional
Thursday night, it was Auburn,
17-12, against San Diego, 24-5,
and No. 3 Indiana, 24-4, against
Fairfield, 15-15. UCLA, 24-6,
met Central Michigan, 22-7, and
Virginia, 21-9, took on Wyoming,
22-9, in the West Regional at Salt
Lake City.
Controversial call dooms Baylor in NIT action
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) —
James Dawn made two free throws
after time had expired to give the
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
a 42-41 victory over Baylor on
Thursday in the first round of the
National Invititation Tournament,
and Baylor Coach Gene Iba was fu
rious.
Iba accused the timekeeper of de
liberately delaying the buzzer.
“If you have to come down here
and deal with classless people who
will look you in the eye and tell you
something like that, there’s no use
going to the NIT,” Iba said.
He said that timekeeper Ray
Rainey said, “I did it and I enjoyed
it.”
Rainey denied making such a
statement.
“I think it’s sour grapes,” UALR
Coach Mike Newell said. “I think I’m
above that, to make comments like
that, or about that.”
Iba said that if any coach called
him and asked him about competing
in the NIT, he would tell him it’s not
worth it. He then referred to Nolan
Richardson, coach of the University
of Arkansas at Fayetteville, another
NIT team. “I’m going to call Nolan
tomorrow and if they put him down
here, I’d tell him not to come."
Iba said there was no way that
Dawn could catch the ball and pull
up for a jumper in a fraction of a
second.
“It doesn’t take a fraction of a sec
ond to inbound the ball, and he
fouled him as soon as James shot,”
Newell said. “Both teams made some
silly mistakes. I thought that was a
silly mistake for their young man to
jump out there and foul in front of
the official. He shouldn’t have ex
pected not to get the call in front of
the official.”
Darryl Middleton put Baylor on
top 41-40 when he made one of two
free throws with 24 seconds remain-
ing.
UALR, champion of the Trans
America Athletic Conference, called
time with 14 seconds left. Daron
Hoges missed from the baseline and
Curtis Kidd missed on the follow.
Frank Williams rebounded Kidd’s
miss but went to the floor and was
whistled for traveling. The clock
showed all zeroes, but the horn had
not sounded.
The Trojans threw the ball in to
Dawn on the baseline, and he was
fouled by McLemore as he missed a
jump shot.
UALR, 24-9, led 21 -20 at the half.
The Trojans led by three points
on three occasions in the second half
and the Bears, 18-13 and runner-up
in the Southwest Conference, held a
two-point lead on five occasions.
Middleton, Baylor’s main man
down the stretch, got inside for a
basket that made it 40-38 with 3:04
left. The Trojans shot an airball and
then failed to convert on a fast break
before Paul Springer hit a jump shot
with 1:07 that tied it at 40.
Middleton led all scorers with 15.
Curtis Kidd paced the Trojans with
11. Both teams shot less than 35 per
cent from the field.
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