"A lot of the thing about losing there was pretty much my fault" It was not, however, in the truest sense of a coach losing a ballgame Marden did not pull his starter too soon Or too late He did not pinchhit at the wrong time Or foolishly run his team out of an inning. During the pregame shootaround, both teams had to compete with the heavy-metal bands warming up for tonight's "Monsters of Rock" concert. UConn, which is 8- 0 for the 11th time since the 1994- 95 season, is hoping to challenge for a national championship. The Tigers have lost five in a row with one game remaining next week at Iowa State, which will be looking to wrap up the North Division title that Missouri was favored to win.
The tournament is a 72-hole event with 32 five-man teams plus 23 at-large players. The Titans finished with a 52-20 record, the most losses of any Fullerton team since 1980, when Fullerton went 35-25 in the program's first year. The Black Bears( 2- 6) shot just 16 percent( 4- of- 25) from the floor in the opening 20 minutes as Ole Miss raced to a 42- 20 halftime lead. She also kept her teammates going when their 19- point lead shrunk to 68- 62 with 7: 56 left, telling them to avoid the mistakes that let them blow a nine- point lead in the final three minutes of the Pac- 10 tournament final against UCLA. "The Derby and the Preakness didn't take much out of this colt" Veitch said. The baseball powers continue to be Japan, Cuba, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States, which have qualified to play in the 8-team tournament at the 1988 Olympic Games.
Davidson widened the margin in the second half, with Ian Johnson hitting a jumper to make it 52- 32 with 11: 14 to go. Moreover, Stephens felt that his colt was a proven, tough battler in head-and-head confrontations, while the filly was not, and that Forty Niner would win such a duel. The Scarlet Knights opened the second half with a 16- 4 to take a 46- 45 lead. Rutgers opened up a 23- 14 lead with 7: 08 left in the first half behind a 15- 1 run led by Ajavon. He had not walked a batter and had a three-ball count to hitters only five times He threw a surprisingly low 93 pitches.
His previous career high for rebounds was seven, and he missed his career high for points by one " I just try to keep rebounding the ball as much as I can " Rondo said " I just go out there and do what needs to be done and don' t worry about my stats " If not for Rondo' s career effort, the Wildcats might have been outrebounded by a much smaller South Dakota State squad instead of holding a 45- 40 edge in that category " Give them a lot of credit, but we should have outrebounded this team by a lot more " Rondo said. She had eight of the Huskies' first 14 points in the second half, turning UConn' s six- point halftime lead into a rout. "Some of the best basketball I've ever seen or been a part of" Jones said of the final 12 minutes You needed a set of wings to play in this thing. Wednesday, he was 9- for- 13 shooting, including 4- for- 6 from 3- point range, and had eight rebounds.
The Vols( 29- 3, the top seed in the Dayton Regional, wasn' t supposed to have any trouble with the 16th- seeded Bulldogs( 14- 19) but got exactly that for most of the first half- leading only 13- 9 nearly 12 minutes into the game and 21- 14 with 2: 21 remaining before halftime. Travis Niesen had 15 points and five rebounds for the Broncos( 5- 4, who had lost three of their previous four games and were coming off an 18- point defeat at North Carolina on Saturday Santa Clara shot a season- low 33. Eric Coleman led the Panthers with 19 points and Ben Jacobson scored a hard- earned 17 against an Iowa State zone defense that tried to surround him whenever he got the ball on the perimeter. Howard answered early in the second quarter with 13- yard scoring run by Colbert It was the first meeting between the two schools. Saint Mary' s, expected to challenge favored Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference, had 11 turnovers- just four in the first half- after committing 18 in its last win. John' s was just good enough from the free- throw line in the closing minutes to put it away " I' m sure they feel they can compete with everyone " Barnes Arico said of her team, which a week ago wasn' t even sure it would be playing after Monday " We' ve been playing better and doing what we need to do to be successful " The Red Storm were 11- of- 22 from the field in the second half and made more foul shots( 17- of- 28) than Notre Dame attempted( 13- of- 16) in maintaining a double- figure lead almost the entire final 20 minutes " St. Will Gant had 12 points for Howard( 8- 16, 4- 8) as the Bison ended a seven- game homestand The Bison, who shot 26.
Carrie directed a 94- yard march in 10 plays, scoring on a play- action pass to Johnny Washington. Montana, of the Big Sky Conference, went on a 9- 1 run to pull to 60- 56 on two free throws by Andrew Strait with 10: 40 remaining The game was close the rest of the way. N' diaye' s definition now " It' s just like take every rebound I can get on offense and defense and play hard " After struggling on defense Friday, Cal did a better job both in the perimeter and in the paint to fluster Vanderbilt( 7- 2. Robinson' s intensity never wavered in 25 minutes on the court and he came off for good to a nice ovation with 4: 46 remaining, finishing one steal short of the school record set by Aaron Miles against Iowa State in 2003- a mark Self told him about shortly before removing him from the game " He told me I had one minute left and I really wanted to get one before I came out " said Robinson, who had five assists " It would have been nice, something to be proud of, but eight' s good " With Robinson and Chalmers disrupting nearly everything Yale tried, Kansas built a 23- point lead in the first half and coasted from there, improving to 13- 0 for the eighth time in school history- it best start since opening the 2004- 05 season with 14 straight wins.
