THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Minnesota analyzes in 23-17 loss to Ohio Saturday By Jason Wolf ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MINNEAPOLIS As the Gophers return to practice Monday and try to determine what went wrong in Saturday's 23-17 loss to Ohio, they can at least take comfort in know ing that no one is blameless. Of course, that also means that the surprising loss was a result of a total breakdown. —The defense failed to contain Ohio's triple-option offense and got fooled by the Bobcats' speedy backs and a pivotal trick play. —Dan Nystrom missed field goals from 25 and 37 yards. The 47-yarder he made in the fourth quarter was impressive, but meaning less to the game's outcome. —Quarterback Asad Abdul-Khaliq was flustered by a heavy pass rush and as a result was inconsistent except on two bril liant long completions to Ron Johnson. —Tells Redmon gained 70 yards on 12 carries, but that included a 31-yard dash. However without the long run, Redmon's WSH full A & par $7/hr Min. Stoning Wage Half-Price Meals In Apply at the Hotel State College 2nd Floor above The Corner Room Corner of Colle . e & Allen Street average was just 3.1 yards per carry. —Thomas Tapeh made his highly-awaited debut after being academically ineligible last year and sitting out the season opener with an injured foot, but he rushed just 4 times for 30 yards. The list could go on. "It's not one guy's fault, it's not," Minneso ta coach Mason said. "There's enough guys to shoulder the burden of criticism in that loss. I promise you that." Ohio ran the triple-option offense to per fection, as the Bobcats compiled 453 yards of total offense, including 363 rushing. It was the most rushing yards given up by Min nesota since Michigan ran for 381 yards in 1992. Chad Brinker rushed for a touchdown, threw for one and also caught a scoring pass. He finished with 122 yards rushing, 50 receiving and 35 passing. "You can never really stop (the option)," defensive end Karon Riley said. "You just hopefully go out and make the right reads and make all the plays. It's hard to get big breakdown plays against the option," he added. The loss was a major setback for the Gophers (1-1), who just a week ago in a 47-10 win over Louisiana-Monroe seemed back on the track they started last year when they went 8-4, their best record since 1967. "It's like a reality check," Abdul-Khaliq said. "You've got to go out and play every team as if they're better than you." Mason said the Ohio loss, Minnesota's first home non-conference defeat in four sea sons, proves that his team isn't yet an elite group. "It's something that's hard to describe. But when you got it, when it's really good, it's there and you know it," he said. "You can almost smell it. We don't have that right now." If the Big Ten can be used as a yardstick, the Gophers may get "it" back soon, perhaps even by this weekend's game at Baylor. 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This program targets the following degrees: • Chemical Engineering • Mechanical Engineering • Chemistry I,P Max-kern* L op - EA D Ti-lc_ N R eeye L .-,. . ~„:. 1 SPORTS U.S. basketball teams escape rowdy protesters in Melbourne By Chris Sheridan ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MELBOURNE, Australia The U.S. basketball teams made a bizarre, pre-dawn exit yesterday (Monday night EDT) from their besieged hotel complex, but only after getting final clearance from a young pro tester with a mohawk. With massive protests taking place out side their hotel, which also was the site of the World Economic Forum, the men's and women's teams were virtual prisoners inside. A decision was made late Monday night to get out of Melbourne and head to Sydney, and the teams got onto buses by 6:45 a.m. About 100 protesters sat in the street and blocked the main exit near the front entrance of the Crown Casino and Hotel. The protesters decided by voice vote that they would not move aside to let the team leave. The buses then turned around and head ed toward a different exit, where another group of demonstrators had gathered. Not believing that the buses held t Aft er) . . - . •:«0: . : ~ (.k:';' , i-, .. , A „zit,"totit;it..., ~•:.,,,„..,:. :. • Sales Leadership • Marketing Management • Marketing Research • Various Other Commercial Roles INFORMATION SESSION Nittany Lion Inn Rooms A and B Monday, September 18 at 7:00 pm CAREER DAYS Bryce Jordan Center Tuesday and Wednesday September 19 & 20 INTERVIEW SCHEDULE Full-Time Monday, October 2 WEDNESDAY, Sept. 13, 2000 I 19 Olympic athletes, the protesters initially refused to move. After the police asked them to come inside the concrete barri cades and have a look for themselves, a 21- year-old with a punk rock haircut volun teered to do the job. "I looked in the first bus and it didn't look like a basketball team, but then I looked inside the second bus," said the mohawk man, Yanni Cotis of Adelaide. "We had a quick discussion about whether to let them go through and decided to let them leave." Players and team personnel were half amused and half-shocked that their safe passage was in the hands of someone look ing like a distant cousin of Billy Idol. "Something I learned long ago was to expect the unexpected," U.S. coach Rudy Tomjanovich said, "and this was one of those cases. It was good we got out and got our freedom." The players' family members had left a few hours earlier, before most of the pro testers arrived at the hotel. The teams had planned to stay in Melbourne until later this week, but the protests virtually shut down the hotel.
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