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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bob
Knight and Jim Boeheim have both
thrown chairs in anger at basketball
games. The difference is in how they
threw them.
The coaches — Knight of Indiana
and Boeheim of Syracuse — take
their teams into the championship
game of the NCAA basketball tour
nament Monday night.
They are a study in contrasting
styles, although they have one thing
in common: Both have been very
successful.
In 22 years of coaching, the last 16
at Indiana, Knight has a record of
467-169, and has won two national
titles. While never winning the na
tional championship, Boeheim has a
career mark of 261-83 in 11 seasons
at Syracuse.
Knight is the tough guy, the bas
ketball genius who spends his off
hours fly fishing and reading World
War II history. His hero is said to be
Gen. George Patton.
Boeheim, on the other hand, is
the whiner, the guy who couldn’t
win the big one, a former golf coach
and 8-handicapper.
Knight is in the news nearly as of
ten for his own antics as he is for the
accomplishments of his team. He got
into trouble with the law in Puerto
Rico during the 1979 Pan American
Games, then stuffed a Louisiana
State fan into a garbage can in a
Cherry Hill, N.J., hotel during the
1981 Final Four. He threw a chair
across the court during a game in
1985, and he began this season in an
angry mood because of a book writ
ten about his 1985-86 season that he
felt contained too much of his pro
fanity.
Like Knight, Boeheim is emo
tional on the sidelines during games,
but he recognizes that his reputation
is not unmarked. “People don’t say
I’m a good coach,” he said earlier in
the NCAA tournament. “They don’t
say I’m a bad coach. They say I’m
not bad."
Boeheim has taken the Orange
men into the NCAA tournament
nine times, but had never gotten
past the second round untH this
year.
When he threw his chair, it was in
the privacy of the press room during
the 1983 Big East Conference tour
nament.
“1 tend to think in terms of our
program,” Boeheim said Sunday at a
news conference. “If people respect
our program, then 1 think they’ll
have some respect for me. I’m not
really concerned from the ‘me’ as-
Aggies blast Red Raiders for series sweep
From Staff and Wire Reports
LUBBOCK — The Texas A&M
Aggies got 21 hits against Texas
Tech on the way to a 23-6 Southwest
Conference baseball victory Satur
day.
A&M, 27-12-1 for the year and 3-
3 in league play, claimed a three-
game sweep over the Raiders for the
weekend.
The Aggies were led by third
baseman John Byington’s 5-for-6
day, tying a school record for hits in
a game, and also by center fielder
Chuck Knoblauch’s 4-for-5 outing,
including three doubles.
Second baseman Terry Taylor
drove in five runs, including an RBI
double and a two-run homer. Desig
nated hitter Scott Livingstone went
3-for-4 with a solo homer in the first
inning to start off the hitting bar
rage.
The winning pitcher for A&M
was Gary Geiger, who improves his
record of 5-2 for the year, and is
now 1-0 in the SWC. Geiger allowed
four runs in six innings before re
lievers Russ Greene and Ed Perez
entered the game.
Tech, which drops to 14-15 and 3-
6, scored three runs in the first in
ning on a three-run homer by center
fielder Mike Humphreys. The loser
for Tech was starter Byron Farrel,
who drops to 1-3 for the year and 0-
1 in league play.
The Aggies won the series over
the Raiders by a combined 50-15
count in runs to get their SWC slate
back to even.
Tech was playing the series with
out five starters, who had been sus
pended earlier in the week by head
coach Larry Hays for breaking team
rules.
The Aggies will take on North
Texas State Tuesday in a double-
header at Olsen Field beginning at
5:30 p.m.
Lyle sinks 8-foot putt to grab IRC crown
PONTE VEDRA, Fla. (AP) —
Sandy Lyle of Scotland made an 8-
foot par putt through a misty drizzle
on the third extra hole and defeated
Jeff Sluman for the $1 million Tour
nament Players Championship Sun-
Uy.
Slim >n. who never before had
finished higher than fifth in a regu
lar PGA Tour event, missed a 10-
foot par putt on the 18th hole mo
ments befV Lyle, a former British
Open champion, dropped he v-r
tier.
It was the most valuable par of his
life.
It was worth $180,000 from the
total purse in the annual
championship of golPs touring pros.
It also provided Lyle, generally
regarded as Britain’s finest player,
with a 10-year exemption to all
American Tour events.
Sluman, 29, who quietly won
$254,000 over the last two years
without really threatening for a title,
took some consolation in a $108,000
second prize.
“I guess I can’t be too disap
pointed,” said Sluman, at 5-foot-7
and 135 pounds one of the smallest
men on the Tour.
After finishing the regulation 72
holes in a tie for the lead at 274, 14
under par, they matched pars over
the first two playof f holes, the par-5
16th and the island-green par-3
17th.
Sluman perhaps was distracted by
a spectator who leaped into the pond
moments before he stepped up to an
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“Quality First”
pect, though. So much is made by
the media of success in the NCAA
tournament — and wrongly so, I
think. I could have been beaten in
the first round, and I guess then I’d
still have been a lousy coach.”
Knight, too, professes little per
sonal interest in winning another na
tional title, even though he would
join Adolph Rupp and John
Wooden as the only tn
ooden as the only three-time win
ners.
“The only significance at this
point for me is what it would mean
to our players,” Knight said.
“I remember the thrill of playing
nth Ohio
AUSTIN (AP) — The Tennessee
Lady Volunteers ended a long jinx
Sunday and gave Coach Pat Head
Summitt her first NCAA women’s
basketball title after 11 years of try-
ing.
Seven previous Summitt-coached
Tennessee teams had reached the
Final Four, only to lose, including
three defeats by Lech.
It was the second worst defeat
ever handed Louisiana Tech and
tied the lowest point total in the
Lady Techsters’ history.
on an NCAA champion (will
State in 1960). Either our kids or
Syracuse’s kids are going to be able
to look back with fondness at this Fi
nal Four and say they were national
champions.”
8-foot birdie putt that could have
won it.
The dripping spectator w'as fished
from the water, and Sluman re
grouped on the green. But his birdie
attempt bent to the right.
“I can’t say it (the distraction of
the man in the water) hurt, but it
sure didn’t help,” Sluman said. “I
was a little quick on the trigger (with
the putt). If I had hit it firm, there
might have been a different end
ing.”
They went to the par-4 18th, the
third playoff hole and both Ly4e and
Sluman got their approaches in the
back right fringe.
Lyle chipped about 8 feet beyond
the cup. Sluman’s chip was short.
Sluman missed and Lyle holed, and
it was over.
Drexler leads
Trail Blazers
over Spurs
SAN ANTONIO (AP) —
Clyde Drexler scored 31 points
and Jerome Kersey scored 1 1 of
his 28 points in the fourth quarter
to help the Portland Trail Blazers
to a 135-113 NBA victory over
the San Antonio Spurs Sunday.
Kiki Vandeweghe added 28
points as Portland improved its
record to 43-28 and ended a two-
game losing streak.
Walter Berry and Jon Sund-
vold scored 24 points apiece for
San Antonio, which fell to 26-45,
including a 13-23 home record.
Drexler scored 13 of his points
in the first quarter, and Portland
took the lead for good, 23-21,
with 2:50 left in the first period
on a short jump shot by rookie
Kevin Duckworth.
The Trail Blazers led 33-29 at
the end of the period, and the
lead increased to 68-56 at half
time, with Kersey scoring 1 1
points in the second quarter.
The Spurs shot 68 percent
from the field and outscored
Portland 41-37 in the third quar
ter, behind Sundvold’s 1 7 points,
to pull to within 105-97. But, be
hind Kersey’s shooting in the
fourth quarter, Portland pulled
away for the victory.
“We had a tough, ball-denying de
fense that frustated them,” Summitt
said. “We stayed up until 3 o’clock in
the morning trying to devise a de
fense that would stop their inside
game.”
Summitt said the victory was par
ticularly sweet coming over long
time nemesis Tech.
win the national champion? {
than Pat Head Summitt."
Sheila Frost came off thels
score 13 points, igniting
Volunteers.
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pec ted over tne Lady Techi:,.
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72-60 triumph in February
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Vols, who are 2-11 againstTk
Tonya Edwards and
Gordon also had U points a: j
the Lady Vols.
“There’s no team in America I
have any more respect for than
Louisiana Tech,” she said.
Tech Coach Leon Barmore said
he had never seen a defense like the
Vols.
“Tennessee played die greatest
defensive game I’ve ever seen,” Bar-
more said. “I don’t know of any
coach in America who deserves to
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24 half time lead.
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Tennis woes continui
for Lady Ag netters
By Loyd Brumfield
Assistant Sports Editor
The spring woes continued for
the Texas A&M women’s tennis
team Saturday as it suffered an 8-1
loss at the hands of 17th-rankcd
United States International Univer
sity at the Omar Smith Tennis Cen
ter.
A&M ’s Jennifer Jones lost
tina Wieneke 2-6, 0-6 and
Dowling lost to Jodv Zinn
6.A&M’s Missv Kibler was:
feated, losing to Jody Zinn l-l
The loss w'as the eighth in a row
for the Lady Aggies.
Kim Labuschagne was the only
wanner for A&M, defeating USIU’s
Elizma Nortje 6-2, 6-4.
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