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Sports
Michigan Wins NCAA
by Michael A. Cifelli
Collegian Staff Writer
Monday night in the Kingdome in Seattle, the Michigan
Wolverines defeated the Pirates of Seton Hall 80-79 to capture their
first NCAA basketball title. For last-minute replacement coach
Steve Fisher, it was last-minute victory for his Michigan
Wolverines.
Point guard Rumeal Robinson canned two free throws with
three seconds remaining in overtime to insure the victory. Glen
Rice also contributed to the Michigan heroics with 31 points.
Fisher became the first rookie coach to win a national
championship. He took over just two days before the tournament
began when Bill Frieder packed his bags and headed for sunny
Arizona State. ,The championship was the fifth to go into
overtime, and the first since 1963 when Loyola, Illinois defeated
Cincinnati 60-58.
Rice's merciless scoring gave him 184 poirits for the
tournament, breaking a 24 year-old record held by Priceton's Bill
Bradley_ Rice was also named the tournament's most outstanding
player.
With 1:17 remaining and the Wolverines down 79-76, the Hall's
Gerald Greene missed the front end of a one-on-one in ovortime
giving Michigan the ball. Terry Mills made a turn-around jumper
with 56 seconds left to bring Michigan within one.
The Pirates ran down the clock for one last shot but John
Morton (Seton Hall's hot hand until then with 35 points) threw up
an air ball with eleven seconds left. Michigan brought the ball back
up court and Robinson - who finished with 21 points, 11 assists
and game MVP honors - drove the lane and was fouled. Robinson
canned the two free throws setting up a desperation shot by the
Pirates' Darrel Walker. The shot missed, the clock ran out and
Michigan had their first national title ever.
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Michigan up 59-49, Seton Hall - notorious for their strong finishes
- ran off eight straight points with Morton scoring the last six.
Later, ) with Michigan leading 66-61, Morton ran off another six
points as Seton Hall's tenacious defense came up with two big
steals to give them their first lead of the second half, 67-66. The
lead grew to two points after a pair of free throws but Rice
answered from down-town to give the lead back to the Wolverines
with 1:03 left. Sean Higgins then hit a pair from the charity stripe
and Miehigans lead swelled to three. With 25 seconds to play,
Morton nailed a clutch three-pointer tying the score at 71 and
sending the game into overtime.
Higgins finished with 10 points and nine rebounds for Michigan
while Walker and Greene each chipped in 13 for the Hall. It was
Seton Hall's first final four appearance in only its second invitation
to the tournament.
After the game, the big question was the future of Michigan's
undefeated, interim coach. Wolverine Athletic Director Bo
Schembechler was quoted as saying, "I think we ought to interview
Steve Fisher."
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Lions Lose Two Matches
by John Musser
Collegian Staff Writer
Behrend's mens' tennis team
suffered losses to Grove City
College and • John Carroll
University by identical 8-1 scores,
dropping their record to 1-2.
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Coach Michael Grignol explained
that the score was not indicative of
how close the matches were. .
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tight the matches were", said the
netters leader. "We were in the
matches, we just didn't get the
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1-6 were real strong."
The one bright point so far for
the Lions is Bill Schmitt. He is
undefeated in singles play after
disposing of Grove City's Dave
Burdick (6-0,6-2) and John
Carroll's Brian Sanford (6-4,6-3).
Schmitt has yet to lose even a set
to an opponent and has won 36
games while losing only nine.
The rest of the team has
struggled. Grignol expects that
after his players get some more
seasoning, the team should do
better.
According to Grignol, "There
are a few players who will get
better with the more playing time
they get. Sanchak, Hiller, Crago,
and Keenan should all improve
with more playing time."
Grignol is far from being
worried about his players
becoming discouraged. "We're
looking forward to our next
matches. I think we're playing
good, they just had a better day
than we did."
The April 3 home match that
was rained out against Hiram
College has been reschuduled for
April 17.
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