: ' PBtN STATE (t-Q . • I ZT : *■*■-. Wctoiame: Wttoy Uoiis ; * JH • ? twit»»«*»»jwfajV'; mWmK : *« ' , u»t Game: Best Mute, (Sf i Z ' tortws Returning: $ ‘ *■ sports Cagers host Sooners By STEVE SAMPSELL Collegian Sports Writer • “It's a very important game." I That quote from Penn State junior forward Tom Hovasse concerning the | Lions’ game against 18th-ranked Oklahoma tonight at Rec Hall may be a i slight understatement. ! The 9 p.m. contest is the biggest game for the Penn State men's basketball i program in quite some time. Oklahoma has emerged as national power under | seventh-year Head Coach Billy Tubbs, averaging just over 27 wins in each of the past four seasons. With that total, the Sooners trail only Georgetown, UNLV, North Carolina and Memphis State in the same time period The game is being tele vised nationally on the USA Network, so it also marks a chance for the Lions to put themselves on the map as a legiti mate Division I team i “It certainly is a game ; that could help us with i exposure,” Head Coach I Bruce Parkhill said. “I’m ; very hopeful that we play ! well.” ' The Lions, however, are not going out just to ‘ play well. “Some people think ’ we’re just going out just ’to be competitive with - them and I think the whole key is knowing that r we can win,” sophomore . forward Ed Fogell said. “We’re going to play to win.” I “We all know this is one of the biggest games we’ll play here and we ll be pumped up for it,” Hovasse said. “We just have to play our game. We can’t let ~ them take us out of our game.” - Both teams opened their seasons with victories the Lions romped over Juniata, 83-32, and the Sooners ran past Texas A&M, 104-80. . Oklahoma’s offensive production will be the key to the game for Penn State. , The Lions will have to find a way to stop or at least slow down —the Sooners run-and-gun offense. Tubbs compares his team’s offense to that of Barry Switzer's football .* Sooners. * “We like to run and nobody likes to pass,” Tubbs said. : The Sooners lost All-Big Eight guard Tim McCalister to graduation but 'return two starters from last year’s 24-10 team that reached the NCAA's Sweet 16. Tubbs’ team had ten new faces present when pre-season practices * began in Norman. Okla., this fall, but that didn’t keep them from making * several early-season Top 20 polls. Why? Because the Sooners are loaded with talent. Five of their new faces are junior college transfers including guard Mookie Blaylock, who is expected to make immediate contributions as a starter. But Tubbs isn’t ready to give his team too much praise. “It’s pretty hard to tell how good of a team we ll be,” he said. The rest of Oklahoma’s starting line-up features senior point guard Ricky Grace (6-1, 172 pounds), senior forwards Harvey Grant (6-8, 200) and Dave Sieger (6-5, 207) and junior center Stacey King (6-10, 229). Off the bench, any number of players can give Tubbs quality playing time. Even with the talent his team has and the squad’s No. 18 ranking. Tubbs still is unsure about the ranking. However, he says that the Sooners do like being ranked. Lady Cagers 2nd at Rainbow Classic By JIM DEEGAN Collegian Sports Writer For 30 minutes, the Lady Lion basketball team battled the No. 2-ranked Lady Longhorns of Texas to a stalemate in the championship game of the United Airlines Rainbow Wahine Classic in Hawaii. But a second half cold spell sank Penn State’s chances of pulling off an upset, and Texas walked away with a 91-70 victory early Monday morning. Penn State matched the Lady Longhorns in the first half behind the 17-point effort of senior center Bethany Collins, and went into the locker room facing a 46-40 deficit. With 13 minutes left in the game the Lady Lions had pulled ahead of Texas 57-56, but the Penn State surge would be stymied by the long-range bombing of Lady Longhorn Paulette Moegle. Moegle connected on four field goals just inside three-point range during a seven Tonight's matchup The Game: Penn State (1-0) vs. No. 18 Oklahoma < 1-0) The Time: Tipotf 9:10 p.m. at Rec Hall Television: USA Network begins coverage at 9 p.m. Last Meeting: The teams have met only once. Oklahoma won that game 85-63 during the 1985-86 season. The game was played in Norman. Okla at the Lloyd Noble Center. Keys: Penn State must slow Oklahoma’s running game and play solid detense against the Sooners to be success ful tonight. The Lions' frontcourt will be the key to the game they must score points inside. The Lion back court needs to break the Sooner press. Oklahoma needs to play an up-tempo game and push the ball up the floor. They cannot allow the Lions to dictate the game's pace and get stuck in a half-court battle. If Penn State plays a zone defense, senior forward Dave Sieger needs to sink the outside jump shot for the Sooners to pull the Lions out of the zone. Starters: Lions Tony Ward (G). Brian Allen (G) Tom Hovasse (F), Mike Peapos (F) and Ed Fogetl tC> Sooners Ricky Grace (G). Mookie Blaylock (G). Dave Sieger (F), Harvey Grant (F). Stacey King iC) Please see CAGERS, Page 12. ge forMo.l spot; a lB minute Lady Lion sabbatical when the defense was ineffective and the offense nonexistent. Down 60-57 with 11:41 remaining in the game, Collins who canned a team-high 25 points scored with a hook shot to bring Penn State within a point of Texas. The Penn State attack, however, would fall faster than-a coconut from a palm tree. The Lady Lions could manage just four free throws until Suzie McConnell drove the lane with 4:52 left to play to score Penn State's first field goal in six minutes and 49 seconds. By that time, Texas had pulled ahead for good with a 76-65 lead behind Moegle’s sharpshooting and junior Clarissa Davis' domination of the boards. “It was a heckuva game for 30 minutes,” said Penn State Head Coach Rene Portland. “What hurt us was Davis coming in on the high post and Moegle’s outside shooting.” Ricky Grace J&- % \\ -m ' ■ V ■ Billy Tubbs Harvey Grant Pleas* see LADY CA6ERS, Pag* 12. Wes Jones drives to the hoop in the Cagers’ 73-70 loss to Temple last February. Jones and the rest of the Lions hope for better things in tonight’s game against Oklahoma in Rec Hall. Arizona, thoma and De- DePaul were from the Top lost to Flor , apple NIT, while DePaul. which is 2 Rod Striefe academicaliy ineli- and Memphis to the UNLVbasnot ' State beat i second to lltb State in the NIT seventh to 'wits saw their Bethany Cell ins Oklahoma (1-0) NtetaMKn^Sooners Head Coa&t: Billy Tubbs (166-68) Last Tsar: 24-10 Conference: Big Eight Last Game: Beat Texas A&M, 104-80 Starters Returning: 2 Sooners still No. 1; Lions move to 20th By HERSCHEL NISSENSON AP Football Writer The Oklahoma Sooners and Miami Hurricanes are within one game of a national championship showdown. Oklahoma has done its part, com pleting an 11-0 regular season with the No. 1 ranking in the Associated Press college football poll. The Sooners have been No. 1 in all but one poll this season. They slipped to sec ond two weeks ago but reclaimed the top spot by defeating Nebraska on Nov. 21. Miami remained No. 2 for the sec ond week in a row yesterday after a solid 24-0 victory over Notre Dame, but the Hurricanes, 10-0, who meet Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl on New- Year's night, have a regular-season game left against eighth-ranked South Carolina on Saturday night. In the next-to-last regular-season poll. Oklahoma received 48 of 55 first place votes and 1,090 of a possible 1.- 100 points. Six first-place votes and 1,- 049 points went to Miami. Ater a two-week absence. Penn State (8-3) moved back into Top 20 at No. 20. Florida State. Syracuse and Ne braska held onto the 3-4-5 spots. Flor ida State, 10-1. received 985 points following a 28-14 triumph over Flor ida: Syracuse. 11-0. completed its regular season a week earlier and received the remaining first-place vote and 914 points, while Nebraska, 10-1. a 24-7 winner over Colorado, received 904 points. Florida State plays Nebraska in the Fiesta Bowl and Syracuse meets No 6 Auburn in the Sugar Bowl. Auburn and LSU swapped posi tions. Auburn climbed from seventh place to sixth with 803 points by The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1987 Collegian Photo / Jay Gorodetzer Tne Top r-Ac-My teams (o me Associated Press college ‘ootbali poll witn mst-piace votes m parentheses r f-cord through games of Nov 28. *otai points based on 20 19 18 17 16-16-14-13-12-11 -10-9-6-7-6 5-4-0-2 i and las’ s ran. 1 Oiat-orrai-sfc. 2 Miami 3 c lcnda S’ate 4 Syracuse 1: 11-0 0 0 Nebraska V) ’-0 6 Aubu". 3 1 i 7 uSU O '- 1 6 Sol. C-.iroi'Hd 9 U<c> ic uCl.a 1 o'a''C~:, S' 12 Notre Da^e ; 6 Te«o c , Af,K 16 Ton-f/j-e 26 st,i>. defeating Alabama 10-0 while LSU, which ended its regular season a week ago, slipped from sixth to sev enth with 765 points. South Carolina remained eighth with 708 points and Michigan State held onto ninth place with 635 points. However. Notre Dame fell from 10th to 12th while UCLA moved up from 11th to 10th with 573 points. The Second Ten consists of Oklaho ma State, Notre Dame, Ciemson, Georgia. Texas A&M, Tennessee, Southern Cal. lowa. Pitt and Penn State. Last week, it was UCLA. Oklahoma State, Ciemson. Georgia, Texas A&M. Tennessee. Southern Cal, Ala bama. lowa and Pitt. Alabama's loss to Auburn cost the Crimson Tide a spot in this week’s Top Twenty. 1 049 2 966 'i AW 1C
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