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Sports Monday
Which Michigan will show up tonight?
A tale of two
college towns
set to explode
In Chapel
Hill, it’s
Franklin Street.
In Ann Arbor,
Mich., it’s
South Univer
sity.
And after a
Wolverine bas
ketball win, it’s
crazy.
Saturday
night, 180 po
lice officers pa-
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trolled Ann Arbor’s main drag, waiting.
And after Michigan defeated Kentucky,
81-78 in overtime, more than 12,000
people hit the streets.
Police arrested four people, and wit
nesses saw one shoot a handgun out of
his pickup truck’s window.
Two women, knocked down as the
crowd grew too large, were rushed to
the local hospital.
Vandals smashed a store-front win
dow, tore several decorative trees to the
ground and knocked over and stole ev
ery street sign in their way.
“It was a nice celebration,” Mayor
Liz Brater said.
That’s nice?
“It was really very orderly,” Brater
asserted.
Considering past Ann Arbor celebra
tions, it was as tame as a lst-grade
birthday party.
When Michigan lost to Duke in the
NCAA final last year, a mild riot erupted,
forcing police to used tear gas to dis
perse the crowd. When the Wolverines
won the national championship in 1989,
partiers caused $90,000 worth of dam
age.
“We’ve worked very hard since then
to improve,” the mayor said. That in
cludes having every police officer in
Ann Arbor population 110,000
on hand for the celebration.
“The approach we’re taking now is
to let the celebrants have fun as long as
no one gets hurt,” Ann Arbor Staff Sgt.
Daniel Waites said. “We may end up
taking more severe action if it ends it up
bad (tonight).”
Chapel Hill officials say 25,000
people could flood Franklin Street if
UNC wins it all. In 1982, celebrators
painted cars blue. Several celebrants
were hurt.
Something big is going to happen
tonight. Whether it’s here in Chapel
Hill or about 900 miles northwest in
Ann Arbor, it’ll be wild.
It isn’t just winning a national cham
pionship. UNC’s women’s soccer team
has done it seven straight times without
a single roll of toilet paper hitting the
trees.
It isn’t just basketball tradition.
Michigan is a football school, but that
doesn’t stop Ann Arbor from taking it to
the streets.
And it’s not just college basketball.
Chicago hoops fans caused a riot in the
Windy City when the Bulls won the
NBA championship last year for the
second straight time.
There’s something about the atmo
sphere in Chapel Hill right now. Some
thing different from the usually lunacy
that takes place in, as Jesse Helms
dubbed it, North Carolina’s zoo.
Maybe it’s the media attention. Ev
ery time Tar Heel fans decided to turn
Franklin Street into a friendly get-to
gether, the local news stations have led
their report with live footage of the
celebration. The Final Four is the news
in North Carolina right now, as it is in
Michigan.
Maybe it’s the build up. From the
moment UNC defeated Old Dominion
37 games ago until now, each game has
gained a little more attention, each fan
has become a little more interested.
The eyes of the nation will focus on
two usually insignificant college towns
tonight. And Chapel Hill and Ann Ar
bor are just waiting to explode.
Top-ranked UNC handles Johns Hopkins
By Justin Scheef
Staff Writer
The Johns Hopkins zone defense
forced the top-ranked and undefeated
UNC lacrosse team to slow down its
usual run-and-gun style of play. But the
Tar Heels were patient enough to defeat
the No. 3 Blue Jays 14-9 in front of more
than 4,2oofans Saturday at Fetzer Field.
“We didn’t get flustered when they
changed defenses on us,” said UNC
senior attackman John Webster, who
had four assists and two goals. “Wje
wereprepared. Weknewthat we’dhave
to change when they went into a zone
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By Bryan Strickland
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NEW ORLEANS Less than five
minutes remain in North Carolina’s
national semifinal game against Kansas
at the Superdome, and Scott Cherry is
there.
No, not over on the Tar Heel bench,
tugging on the side of his yet-to-be
removed warmups while cheering on
his teammates. Cherry was on the court,
checking in at the 4:36 mark, with UNC
clinging to a 67-63 lead.
“I was ready,” said Cherry, who en
tered the game in place of hobbled point
guard Derrick Phelps. “I was a little bit
nervous you have to be going in in
that situation.”
But the jitters didn’t show in Cherry’s
play. Jayhawk guard Adonis Jordan, a
quality one-on-one defender, must have
been licking his chops as UNC’s spar
ingly used senior took over the
quarterbacking duties. But Jordan for
got about one minor detail, one that the
Tar Heel players wouldn’ t aliow Cherry
to forget
“If he can do it against Derrick,”
UNC center Kevin Salvadori said, “he
can pretty much do it against anybody.”
Day after difficult day, Cherry is
faced with a challenge in Tar Heel prac
tices that is at least as demanding as the
one he faced in Saturday’s 78-68 vic
tory —Cherry must run the team against
the pressure defense of one Derrick
Phelps.
“He does a good job,” Phelps said.
“He’s doesn’t commit many turnovers
he just handles the pressure. He just
gets the ball to the right person at the
right time.
“If you saw Scott Cherry in practice,
you wouldn’t worry.”
Cherry didn’t do anything spectacu-
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offense.
“They controlled our fast breaks,”
Webster added. “A lot of times they
shut it off so it was tough to get enough
passes where we could get a goal.”
Johns Hopkins head coach Tony Sea
man said he thought his team did a good
job taking away the break. “But a couple
of times we got caught up in the
switches,” he said.
Those mistakes led to three North
Carolina players netting hat tricks, with
attackmen Ousmane Greene and Dan
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NEW ORLEANS Question: Just
how important was Donald Williams to
North Carolina’s outside-shooting at
tack Saturday against Kansas?
Answer: The Tar Heel sophomore
connected on 5 of his 7 3-point at
tempts. Asa team, the Tar Heels con
nected on 5 of 7 3-pointers.
Question: Just how important is
Donald Williams’ outside shooting to
the success of Tar Heel basketball?
Answer: In UNC’s 33 wins this sea
son, the Gamer sophomore has hit 43.9
percent from behind the arc. In UNC’s
four losses, Williams hit 21.4 from be
hind the arc.
Little question about it Williams
is the answer to UNC’s supposed out
side-shooting blues. Williams’ 25
points, coming on 7-of-ll shooting,
keyed North Carolina’s 78-68 victory
against Kansas in Saturday’s national
semifinal.
“When Donald gets open, he takes
the shot,” said UNC point guard Der
rick Phelps. “Some players don’t do
that. Like if I got wide open, I might not
take it. But with Donald, as great a
shooter as he is, he takes it.”
No hesitation that could well be
Williams’ theme, be it the game’s open
ing minute or its final seconds.
But in the early going Saturday, that
lack of hesitation led to a couple of
forced shots.
“He took two quick shots in the first
five minutes,” said UNC head coach
Dean Smith. “We talked during the
timeout. It just showed he had so much
confidence, but you have to be patient,
too.”
“A couple of times, I went one-on
one and tried to create a shot,” Williams
said. “When I came out, Coach just told
me to relax and move the ball around,
See WILLIAMS, page 7
Levy scoring three each, and junior
midfielder Ryan Wade putting the Ball
in the cage a career-high five times. His
six points was also a career high.
“It was one of those games where a
few individuals stood out,” UNC head
coach Dave Klarmann said. “And we
did need that because a few of our
players didn’t have quite the games
we’d like to have from our older guys.”
UNC started the attack quickly, with
Greene scoring off a deflected save by
Hopkins freshman goalkeeper Jonathan
Marcus. After the Blue Jays tied it, the
Tar Heels went on a five-goal rampage
to put the game out of reach at 6-1.
Ryan Wade punctuated the end of the
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By Warren Hynes
Senior Writer
NEW ORLEANS—Throughoutthe
1992-93 season, media and fans have
given lots of attention to Eric Montross.
Lots. At times, North Carolina head
coach Dean Smith has worried about
the reasons his center was in the spot
light.
Was it simply because Montross was
a big man on a great team, or was it
because the 7-footer was a very good
big man on a great team? Were
Montross’ talents actually being no
ticed?
Well, Dean, you don’t have to worry
anymore.
Saturday, in the glaring lights of the
greatest college basketball event in the
world, Eric Montross showed 64,151
Superdome fans and millions of TV
viewers that, indeed, he was big.
And yes, he was good. Very good.
Montross scored 23 points, includ
ing 10 in the first 4:10 of the second
half, to help his team defeat Kansas 78-
68 and advance to Monday’s national
championship game.
“We get the ball to him and he pro
duces,” said UNC point guard Derrick
Phelps. “He’s either going to kick the
ball back or score.”
The junior from Indianapolis actu
ally fell below his NCAA Tournament
average by hitting 9-of-14 field goals
Saturday. In 13 career games, Montross
has the fourth-highest field-goal per
centage in tourney history at 66.7. The
only players with better percentages
were UCLA’s Bill Walton, Syracuse’s
Stephen Thompson and North
Carolina’s Brad Daugherty.
Saturday, he did it by catching long
lobs from his teammates, high passes
that seemed more fitting to land in the
hands of a New Orleans Saints wide
receiver than a basketball center.
See MONTROSS, page 7
first period with his second goal, as
sisted by brother Jason Wade, triggered
by a behind-the-back flip pass from
Webster.
During the 5-0 run, the crowd held its
collective breath when UNC goalkeeper
Billy Daye was checked hard late in the
first period and lay on the ground for
several minutes afterwards.
“I went out to make a hit and dropped
my head,” Daye said. He said it was a
“stinger,” with some numbness and pain
in his upper back and neck.
Daye was replaced by junior Gary
Lehrman, who made three saves and
See LACROSSE, page 8
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Fab Five advance to compete
in 2nd-straight NCAA final
By Warren Hynes
Senior Writer
NEW ORLEANS —They are loose,
they are smiling, they are upset with
Bill Walton.
And they are playing their best bas
ketball of die season.
The Fab Five are as ready for glory as
they’ve ever been. After an 81-78 over
time win against streaking Kentucky
Saturday night, Michigan’s sophomore
starters have earned a second-straight
appearance in the NC AA Toumament’ s
tide game.
Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan
Howard, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson
are playing in sync, they are hugging in
sync and they are joking in sync. They
are charged up, and a lot of it has to do
with their critics.
As the Wolverines struggled to tour
nament wins against UCLA, George
Washington and Temple, they were the
beneficiaries of several labels: “undis
ciplined,” “uncaring” and “underachiev
ers,” to name a few.
latter label, that “underachiever”
label, was voiced by legendary center
Bill Walton. The sophomore stars could
not push this aside. This one hurt more
than the others.
“When you say Michigan is an un
derachiever, that’s not a fact at all; that’s
an asinine statement,” said Webber, who
scored 27 points and pulled in 13 re
bounds Saturday.
So the Fab Five and friends were
considered underdogs against Kentucky.
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blasts Blue Jays with 5 goals
Byjacson Lowe
Staff Writer
Johns Hopkins’ lacrosse squad re
membered to bring the Blue Jay band
Saturday afternoon to Fetzer Field. It
even thought to bring along a few fans
from the Baltimore area to see their
matchup against the top-ranked Tar
Heels.
Hopkins only forgot one thing it
forgot to stop UNC midfielder Ryan
Wade.
In North Carolina’s 14-9 victory
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They were expected to lose easily to the
Wildcats, who had won their four tour
nament games by an average of 31
points per contest.
This would be an easy win for Rick
Pitino, Jamal Mashbum and Cos., many
said. These guys in blue and maize just
wouldn’t be able to get their act together
in time for that bluegrass blur of defen
sive pressure and 3-pointers.
Well, they held Kentucky to 41-per
cent shooting from the floor, including
a combined 4 of 16 from All-Southeast
Regional players Travis Ford and Jared
Prickett. They could not stop Mashbum
from scoring (he had 26 points), but
they got the Kentucky forward to foul
out in the overtime period.
And without the Monster Mash, the
Wildcats could not hold their overtime
lead. Webber’s driving layup with 41
seconds left put the Wolverines ahead
79-78. And when Kentucky tried to
inbound the pass for one final attempt,
Webber intercepted the pass, sealing
the win.
“I like guarding a guy when he takes
the ball out, because I can see his eyes,”
Webber said.
Yes, they are looking into the
opponent’s eyes right now. The Fab
Five are doing what needs to be done.
And they are enjoying it.
See FAB FIVE, page 7
against Johns Hopkins Saturday after
noon, the Davidsonville, Md., native
connected on five goals, a career best.
Wade earned an assist on attackman
John Webster’s second goal of the
day, pushing his point total for the
game to six, also a career record.
Blue Jay head coach Tony Seaman
knew coming into the game that his
defense would have trouble against
Wade.
“Ryan Wade is a big factor for
See WADE, page 8