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i Heels: defense won’t rest
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North
Carolina seemed to forget how to
play defense in December.
Coach Bill Guthridge’s plan to
return to more ball pressure was
scrapped after road losses against
Indiana and Louisville. Those
games on Dec. 21 and 23 proved
the Tar Heels were too slow to
play in a system that was so suc
cessful under Dean Smith for
close to three decades.
“It was almost like we had
failed coach and ourselves,” Kris
Lang said Monday.
The switch to a more sagging
man-to-man and a variety of zones
in the middle of the season didn’t
come without a learning curve —
four straight defeats in mid-Janu
ary in which North Carolina al
lowed an average of 75 points a
game.
With the losses, criticism
mounted of a team that looked
spiritless on defense. Guthridge
defended his club almost on a
weekly basis, saying the lack of
ball pressure made it appear the
Tar Heels weren’t intense.
Paradise lost, Final Four
found for Gators
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four
months ago, Florida was in
Hawaii, awash in sun, sand, ex
pectations and ego.
The experience was, as coach
Billy Donovan tells it, completely
out of control.
Donovan had to suspend a
starter, bench two of his top play
ers and move his forward to point
guard to finally reclaim the focus
of this talented young group.
That turned out to be one of the
key points in Florida’s season
long climb out of that vast world
of potential-filled teams and into
the elite group known as the Final
Four.
“There was so much hype and
so much publicity,” after last sea
son’s trip to the final 16, Donovan
said. “Their egos were blown out
of control. I knew that, as a coach,
it was going to be critical that I
handle distractions, attitudes and
guys’ inflated opinions about
themselves very early in the year. ”
So, against Purdue in the sec
ond game of the Maui Classic,
guards Teddy Dupay and Brett
Nelson got sent to the bench early
in the second half and forward
Mike Miller took over the point.
The Gators lost 79-68, and after
the game, Brent Wright was sus
pended for two games for “bad at
titude.”
“When we were in Hawaii,”
Dupay said, “that obviously was
n’t one of our better days.”
Indeed, the best was yet to
come.
The Associated Press
MSU not underdog this time
LANSING, Mich. — A year ago
they were underdogs, a tough
team that fought its way into the
Final Four. This year, the Michi
gan State Spartans are the fa
vorites.
But coach Tom Izzo isn’t ex
pecting an easy time in Indianapo
lis, where the Spartans will face
unpredictable Big Ten rival Wis
consin in the semifinals.
“We beat them one time at Wis
consin because they shot terrible.
We had a dogfight here that we
barely won and the same in the
Big Ten tournament,” Izzo said.
“So I could see this game going
down to the wire with either team
winning.”
Last year in St. Petersburg, Fla.,
the Spartans lost to Duke in the
semifinals.
Izzo said his team is prepared
for a physical game that will re
quire more from the Spartans (30
7) in rebounding than they’ve
shown in recent games. The Bad
gers (22-13) were the only team to
outrebound the Spartans all sea
son until Iowa State did it on Sat
urday in the Midwest Regional fi
nal.
“Their style is different offen
sively. That’s difficult. But what
makes it worse is their style is dif
ferent defensively. And it’s physi
cal, and you better take care of the
ball,” Izzo said. “You better get
ready for a battle.”
Bennett, Badgers stop
celebrating, aim at Spartans
MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin
played Michigan State three times
this season and lost all three
times. The Badgers get one more
crack, only now the winner gets to
play for the national champi
onship.
Coach Dick Bennett is blunt
about what it means to be playing
against coach Tom Izzo and the
Spartans yet again.
“Pain ... misery,” Bennett said.
“Once the game starts, I think we
have the toughest opponent in
America. We still have not been
able to solve all of the problems
they present.”
If the Badgers are excited or
overwhelmed at the prospect of
facing the top-seeded Spartans on
a national stage, they’re not show
ing it. While meeting with re
porters in Madison on Monday,
the Badgers acted as though they
expected to be in this extraordi
nary situation all along.
“It’s just another game,” said
forward Andy Kowske. “It’s like
Purdue. They know you, you
know them.... It’s a matter of who
puts the ball in the hoop more.”
The eighth-seeded Badgers,
along with No. 8 seed North Car
olina, became the lowest-seeded
team to make the Final Four since
LSU in 1986. Wisconsin (22-13)
beat Purdue on Saturday for the
third time this season, 64-60, to
win the NCAA West Regional.
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