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April 4, 2001
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Dunleavy Leads Duke to NCAA Crown
Former Jesuit Star Buries Five 3-Pointers
night.
Dunleavy was Oregon Prep
Player o f the Y ear in his senior
year at Jesuit.
D unleavy’s father, Mike Sr.,
is the coach o f the Portland
Trailblazers and played college
Add another crow n to the
Duke dynasty.
The Blue Devils won their
third NCAA basketball title un­
dercoach Mike Krzyzewski with
an 82-72 victory over Arizona
at the H ubert H. H um phrey
Mike Dunleavy Jr. leads his team to a national championship.
basketball at South Carolina.
Dunleavy buried five 3-point-
ers, four o f them in the second
half, to push Duke (35-4) past
Arizona (28-8). He had never
made m ore than three 3-point-
M etrodom e in M in n eap o lis,
Minn.
A m em ber o f college basket­
ball royalty, sophom ore M ike
Dunleavy, led Duke to the vic­
tory with 21 points M onday
ers in a game until the national
final.
The Blue Devils also got 16
points from their other superb
sophomore, Jason Williams, and
18 points and 11 rebounds from
senior leader Shane Battier.
Arizona was led by 7-1 cen­
ter Loren W oods with 22 points,
11 rebounds and four blocked
shots. Richard Jefferson scored
19 for the W ildcats with four 3-
pointers.
Dunleavy, who was l-for-6
in the first half, shot Duke to a
10-point lead with three con­
secutive 3-pointers in the sec­
ond half.
D unleavy’s third 3-pointer,
with 16:17 left, came after Bat­
tier blocked Jason G ardner’s
shot in the lane to start a Duke
fast break.
A steal by W illiam s led to his
free throw, which gave Duke
an 11-point lead, 50-39, with 16
m inutes left.
Arizona used its quickness to
reel o ff nine straight points and
pull within two, 50-48. The Wild­
cats had a chance to tie, but
Jefferson m issed from point-
Drunken Driving Conviction
Sends Strickland to Jail
torney both asked that the player not
be required to serve the jail time until
the current NBA season end. Poretz
referred the matter to the federal proba­
tion office.
Strickland was arrested four times
during his five years as a W izard. He
was w aived by the team in M arch and
he signed with the Trail Blazers soon
after. Strickland's last brush with the
law was in October, w hen he was ar­
rested forre fusing to leave a restaurant
that was being shut by fire marshals.
Before that, he was arrested in April
1999, and charged with driving under
the influence and reckless driving. Five
m onths later, he w as found not guilty
by a jury on the DUI charge and by a
judge on the reckless driving charge.
(AP) - Portland Trail Blazers guard
R od Strickland pleaded guilty M on­
day to driving under the influence o f
alcohol and w as sentenced to 10 days
in jail. U.S. M agistrate Judge Barry
Poretz in suburban A lexandria, Va.,
also put Strickland on supervised pro­
bation for two years and ordered him to
attend substance abuse counseling
and pay about $ 1,000 in fines.
W hen Strickland w as arrested for
driving under the influence on Jan. 7,
he was playing for the W ashington
W izards. A n officer pulled him over
after w atching his Cadillac swerve
across the G eorge W ashington M e­
morial Parkw ay, according to a police
report.
A prosecutor and Strickland’s at­
blank range on a baseline drive.
Dunleavy then scored two
more baskets, the second an
open-court dunk o ff an Arizona
turnover, and Duke was up by
six, 54-48, with 12 m inutes to
play. Dunleavy hit another huge
3-pointer with 10:08 left to push
D uke’s lead back to double­
digits, 61-51.
Arizona cut D uke’s lead to
three points on four separate oc­
casions in the last 5:28, but each
time Duke had an answer. Battier
willed in a tip-in, then dunked on a
baseline cut to keep Arizona from
having a chance to tie the score.
Then Williams sent home a 3-
pointer with 1:44 left to put Duke
ahead, 80-72.
Duke was playing in its ninth
championship game, and its sev­
enth in the last 16 years under
Krzyzewski. The Blue Devi Is had
won two previous titles, in 1991
and 1992, with the last also com­
ing at M in n eap o lis in the
Metrodome.
Duke has advanced to the Fi­
nal Four 13 times in school his­
to ry , and nine tim es under
Krzyzewski, to tie Kentucky for
third place in all-time Final Four
appearances. North Carolina has
the most with 15, and UCLA is
second with 14.
Arizona and Duke were Nos.
1 and 2, respectively, in the pre­
season Associated Press Top 25
poll. They played just as close in
the first half, with Arizona hold­
ing a slim advantage until Duke
took an 18-17 lead. Williams broke
a tie just before intermission with
a drive to the basket to give the
Blue Devils a 35-33 lead.
Duke played with fire in the
first half when Williams picked
up his second foul with 15:21 left
in the period. Wi 11 iams subbed in
and out the rest of the half and
avoided a third foul despite guard­
ing Luke Walton, who has a six-
inch height advantage.
With the victory, Duke is 133-
15 since the 1998, an NCAA
record for the most victories over
a four-year stretch. Kentucky’s
1995-98 and 1996-99 teams won
132 games in four years.
Arizona had dedicated its sea­
son to the memory of Bobbi Olson,
the wife of coach Lute Olson,
who died o f cancer Jan. 1. Lute
Olson missed three weeks o f the
season, six games in all, to care
for, and then grieve for, his wife,
who had becom e a surrogate
mother to the players.
The court at Arizona’s McKale
Center is named Lute and Bobbi
Olson court, and Arizona fans
wore buttons inscribed with the
“Four Bobbi” motto.
The Wildcats were attempting
to defeat three No. 1 seeds for
only the second tim e in NCAA
history. The only other tim e was
when Arizona won the title in
1997.
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