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Wednesday, March 22,1989 The Battalion Page 11 Coaches prep teams for regional battles Thompson hopes to start overdue vacation with trip to Seattle WASHINGTON (AP) — Georgetown coach John Thomp son hopes there’s no rest for the weary, at least not anytime soon. Thompson spent last spring and summer organizing and coaching the U.S. Olympic bas ketball team. Then, upon his re turn from Seoul, he barely had time to recover from jet lag be fore focusing his attention toward guiding the Hoyas toward their 12th straight 20-win season. Thompson said he has been so busy he hasn’t had time to think about being tired. For that mat ter, he has no desire to take a va cation anytime soon — because he’s counting on clutching that familiar towel on the sideline un til the conclusion of the NCAA tournament. It’s been a whirlwind year for the veteran coach, what with the disappointing loss to the Soviet Union in the Olympics, his much- ballyhooed protest against Propo sition 42, the Hoyas’ rise to No. 2 in the national rankings and now, a berth in the tournament’s “sweet 16.” Undaunted by the hectic pace, Thompson credits his altruistic players for helping keep him fresh. “I’m tired in one sense, but I’m OK,” he said. “It would have been more of a problem if this team had to deal with a lot of on and off-the-court problems. But this has not been such a team.” Indeed, this year’s edition of the Hoyas have turned out to be an ideal blend of youth and expe rience. First-year players Alonzo Mourning, Dikembe Mutombo and John Turner have meshed with seniors Charles Smith, Jaren Jackson, and Bobby Winston to form a squad that is eager to learn, anxious to win and, most of all, willing to heed their coach’s every whim. “These people have been sensi ble,” Thompson said. “You get tired based upon your reaction to the team. If I was dealing with a hunch of pain in the necks, I’d have had problems. “You get tired real quick when you have to worry about things other than basketball,” Thomp son added. “It’s not just winning, either. I’ve had some teams that haven’t won and still weren’t a problem.” Thompson thought about tak ing a vacation early in the season, leaving control of the team to as sistant coaches Craig Esherick and Mike Riley, who ended up working in his place when he boy cotted two games over Proposi tion 42. Ultimately, however, Thompson figured he owed his upperclassmen a complete effort. Valvano claims Wolfpack needs hot shooting to conquer East RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The number 55 is lucky for North Carolina State in the NCAA tour nament, but Wolfpack coach Jim Valvano says a higher number will be even luckier in the East Regional. “I said for us to beat people, we have to shoot 55 percent,” Val vano said Tuesday. “We were for tunate against South Carolina and Iowa to do just that. Whether we caoi do that against a team like Georgetown, I don’t know. But we’re certainly going to have to do it.” Rodney Monroe’s long-range shooting, which resulted in a ca reer-high 40 points, helped the Wolfpack to a 102-96 victory over Iowa in a second-round game last Sunday at Providence, R.I. Mon roe hit seven of 13 shots from 3- point range against Iowa, and hit four of six from beyond the 3- point line in an 81-66 victory over South Carolina. N.C. State hit 63 percent of its shots against the Hawkeyes and 57 percent against the Game cocks. The last two games have lifted the Wolfpack to 50 percent field goal accuracy for the season. To match those performances of the first two rounds, Valvano has asked Monroe, Chris Cor- chiani and Brian Howard to sharpen their shooting eyes be cause they won’t get much chance for layups against the Hoyas. Keeping pace with the Hoyas is the next key, especially since they allow opponents only 39.6 per cent field-goal accuracy. “We have to be very concerned with the score,” Valvano said. “We must be in a position to win the game. We can’t run up and down with Georgetown.” Lurking in the middle for Georgetown are Alonzo Mourn ing and reserve Dikembe Mu tombo. Mourning has an NCAA- record 160 blocked shots and Di kembe 74, and that will limit peo ple like Corchiani, who like to drive the lane and pass off for the easy basket. “They’re the most formidable team on the boards we’ve faced,” Valvano said. “They can block shots with people from different countries. “Mourning is precocious. In the Princeton game, he got all the big buckets and hit all the key free throws,” Valvano said. Then there’s the constant pres sure defense, led by guard Charles Smith, which has led to 521 turnovers, an average of 16 per game. “They don’t let you get into a rhythm. They can turn up the de fensive pressure, and if they’ve got the lead, they can try and force you to take poor percentage shots,” Valvano said. “Then they swat it away.” Valvano said if Mutombo and Mourning are blocking a lot of shots, it means the Wolfpack has strayed away from the game plan, which is to stay away from the middle. Hillman, Edwards keyed strong late season finish for Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The leadership of Joe Hillman and the unselfish talent of Jay Ed wards have been the keys to a suc cessful Indiana basketball season, Coach Bob Knight says. Knight, named coach of the year Tuesday by the Big Ten Conference, is preparing his Hoosiers to play Seton Hall Thursday in the semifinals of the NCAA tournament’s West Re gional. He traces the makings of In diana’s conference championship back to last spring, just before Hillman left Bloomington to join the Medford A’s Class A baseball team for the summer. “I brought Joe in and said, ‘Tell me about Edwards,” Knight recalled. “He said, ‘Edwards is the best guy to play basketball with I’ve ever played with. You miss a shot, Edwards is the first guy to say, ‘Joe, keep shooting.’ “I may already have told Joe to quit shooting but Edwards tells him to keep shooting and Joe likes that. Joe said, ‘You’re open. he gets you the ball, he rebounds. If we could just get him to go full tilt all the time.’ But I’ve come to believe he goes full tilt a lot metre than you’d think because he’s an effortless player. “With Joe’s ability to lead and the feeling the kids have for the kind of player Edwards is and the things he can do, we just have a much stronger team psychologi cally or mentally than a year ago. I don’t think it has a single thing to do with what I’ve done.” In first- and second-round NCAA tournament games in Tucson, the second-seeded Hoo siers shot .555 from the field, lim ited George Mason and Texas-El Paso to .445 shooting, outscored them 47-27 at the foul line, outre- bounded them 78-57, and forced 30 turnovers. Seton Hall, 28-6, is next for In diana, 27-7. Top-seeded Arizona, 29-3, plays Nevada-Las Vegas, 27-7, in the other semifinal. The winners meet Saturday for a trip to the Final Four in Seattle. Houston beginning Dome teams get gag talks with Moon under new NFL rule HOUSTON (AP)— Oilers Gen eral Manager Mike Holovak met with Warren Moon’s agent in an at tempt to sign the Pro Bowl quar terback. Holovak and Moon’s agent, attor ney Leigh Steinberg, said an agreement could be reached this week. The two met for nearly two hours Monday during a break in the National Football League owners meetings in Palm Desert, Calif. “The time to get something done is now,” Steinberg told The Houston Post. “The deadline for veteran free- a^ency used to be April 15. Now with Plan B, it’s April 1.” A veteran free-agent such as Moon usually can look forward to limited movement because of the NFL’s hefty compensation rule. But, Steinberg said, “if ever there was a player deserving of two first- round picks it would be a Pro Bowl starting quarterback.” Moon’s five-year, $5.5 million contract expired Feb. 1. “The change in management al lowed us to reevaluate the free-agent route,” Steinberg said. Holovak was named general man ager after Ladd Herzeg resigned Feb. 1. “But given my past relationship with Mike Holovak — upbeat and positive — we’ve altered that plan. Warren wants to stay in Houston. He’s very excited about the pros pects of the Oilers for the future.” Holovak termed Monday’s meet ing with Steinberg as “very positive,” adding that any agreement reached this week “would be quite an accom plishment.” Steinberg would not disclose de tails of his proposal except to say, “It’s a long-term contract. Warren wants to finish his career with the Houston Oilers.” Moon’s contract now ranks ninth- best among NFL quarterbacks. Denver’s John Elway leads the pack with a deal worth $2.1 million per year. Buffalo’s Jim Kelly and Mi ami’s Dan Marino rank second and third at $1.6 million and $1.5 mil lion, respectively. Both Kelly and Marino have “es calator clauses” in their contracts and must always be kept among the third highest-paid QBs in the league. PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) — NFL owners voted by the narrowest of margins Tuesday to cut down on what has become known as the “Dome-field advantage” by penaliz ing teams whose crowds keep the of fense from running plays. Under the new rule, which got the bare minimum 21 votes needed for new rules, referees will be autho rized to take time outs from teams whose fans make enough noise to continually disrupt offenses. That happens primarily in domes, although at least three teams that play in domes, Minneapolis, New Orleans and Detroit, voted for the change and proponents noted that crowds can also disrupt outdoor games. The rule would not have been ap proved if Minnesota general man ager Mike Lynn had been present. Lynn, an adamant foe of the propo sal, had to leave the floor for a com mittee meeting and told Coach Jerry Burns to “vote his conscience.” Burns voted for the rule. Proponents said the rule was nec essary because crowds were becom ing bigger factors than players. “It had gotten to the point where it had ailecied compeuuve balance, said Miami coach Don Simla, co- chairman of the Competition Com mittee, which sponsored the rule. The owners also approved unani mously a resolution that would im pose penalties ranging from fines and suspension to loss of a draft choice against any team feigning in jury. Tex Schramm, the chairman of the Competition Committee, called the vote “an upset,” because past at tempts to curb crowd noise have failed. They have ranged from pe nalties to experiments with radios in helmets that would permit offensive teams to hear signals more clearly. Under the new rule, if a referee concurs with a quarterback’s deter mination that players other than wide receivers can’t hear signals, he will ask the defensive captain to at tempt to quiet the crowd. The ref eree will then make that announce ment to the crowd. If the noise continues, the referee will then announce to the crowd that any further noise will result in the home team losing a time out. If it is out of time outs, it will incur a 5-yard penalty. Pro football writers give award to fired Landry PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) — Tom Landry, deposed as coach of the Dallas Cowboys last month in what became known as “the Satur day night” massacre, was honored Tuesday by the Professional Football Writers of America for his unstint ing cooperation with the media in his 30 years as the Cowboys’ coach. In an unprecedented move, the PFWA unanimously voted to pre sent Landry with the Jack Horrigan Award, given annually to the player or league or club official who dem onstrates “a high quality of profes sionalism in style in helping the pro football writer do his or her job.” The 64-year-olcl Landry, the only coach the Cowboys had ever had, was summarily dismissed Feb. 25 af ter Arkansas oilman Jerry Jones purchased the team. 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