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April 09. 2003
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Orangemen Beat Kansas
(AP)
Syracuse is the NCAA
men’s champion after beating Kan
sas 81-78 Monday night.
First-year players Carm elo A n
thony and Gerry McNamara helped
the Orangemen take a big lead and
Hakim Warrick made a huge block
at the end to preserve the victory.
Leading by three, Warrick missed
two free throws that would have
sealed the game with 13.5 seconds
left. But the 6-foot-8 forward, nick
named “The Helicopter" for his 7-
foot armspan, made up for it by
com ing from now here to swat
Michael Lee's 3-point attempt from
the comer that would have tied it
with 1.5 seconds left.
Lee is a former high school bas
ketball standout at P o rtlan d 's
Jefferson High School and has had
an outstanding season at Kansas.
“ We played the best first hal f we
could play, and then we just hung
on," said Syracuse coach Jim
Boeheim, in his 27th year at his alma
mater.
"I definitely wanted to go out
thei e and make a play after missing
those free throws,” Warrick said. “I
saw a guy open in the com er and I
knew they needed to hit a 3, so I just
tried to fly at him.”
Jayhawks guard Kirk Hinrich,
coldall night, followed withanairball
at the buzzer and the Orangemen
(30-5) ran onto the floor to celebrate
the program ’s first title.
Boeheim threw his arms in the air
and ran to shake hands with Roy
Williams, the 15-year Kansas coach
who was deprived once again o f
the championship.
The coach was choked up, not
only by the loss, but the knowledge
he’ll never again coach Hinrich or
fel low senior Nick Collison, who fin
ished with I9pointsand2l rebounds.
“I’vene ver been one to like moral
victories, and I don’t like this one,"
Williams said. “But I love the com
petitiveness o f my kids."
Indeed, they had quite a hill to
climb, and quite a group o f players
to stop.
McNamara hit six 3-pointers, all
in the first half, to finish with 18
points. Anthony showed he is cer
tainly ready for the NBA if he
chooses, fighting o ff a bad back to
finish with 20 points, 10 rebounds
and seven assists.
“All my hard work just paid o ff
tonight,” Anthony said. “I paid a
physical toll the whole night, the
whole tournament. The whole sea
son, everybody’s been beating me
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up. Coach told me to tough it up.” S yra cu se s Carmelo A nthony sc o re d 2 0 p o in ts a n d h a d 1 0 re b o u n d s to lea d th e O rangem en to a
Sixteen years ago, Syracuse lost NCCA ch am p io n sh ip over K a n sa s M onday. A nthony w as n a m e d m o s t valuable player o f th e g a m e .
by one to Indiana on Keith Sm art’s (AP photo)
game-winner with four seconds left
on the same Superdom e floor.
Boeheim said he wanted to get the
last four seconds right this time,
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and he did -ju st barely.
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Coach and Player of Year Named
(AP)— Kentucky's Tubby Smith
and Xavier’s David West were
honored Friday as The Associated
Press coach and player o f the year.
Smith was a runaway winner,
receiving 58 votes from the 72-mem-
ber national panel that selects the
weekly A PT op25.Skip Prosser o f
Wake Forest was second with
seven.
Smith led the W ildcats to a 32-
4 record and the No. 1 ranking in
the final AP poll o f the season.
Kentucky lost to M arquette 83- David W est
69 in the M idwest Regional final,
ending the W ild cats’ 26-gam e
w inning streak.
“This team played as a great
group,” Smith said. “They func
tioned as one. T hat’s the ultimate in
coaching, getting everybody on
the same page. They did that as well
as any team I’ve ever been around.
West received 30 votes as player
o f the year, ahead o f Texas sopho
more guard T.J. Ford (19) and se
nior forward Josh Howard o f Wake
Forest (10).
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Blazers’ Patterson Has
Broken Eye Socket
(A P )— Portland Trail Blazers
forward Ruben Patterson has a bro
ken left eye socket, a result ofbeing
p un ch ed by te am m ate Z ach
Randolph last week.
Patterson did not accompany the
team to H ouston for T uesday
night 's game and is not expected to
join the Blazers during their three-
game trip, which also includes stops
in San Antonio and Memphis.
It was not immediately clear if
Patterson would be placed on the
injured list, or if he would be avail
able for S unday’s hom e game
against the Los Angeles Lakers.
Patterson was injured April 2
when he and rookie Qyntel Woods
began arg u in g and R andolph
stepped in.
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Randolph for two games and fined
the second-year player $100,000.
He has already served both games
o f the suspension.
Patterson has been ineffective
in the three games since the fight,
and Portland has lost two o f the
three games. The Blazers lead Min
nesota by .003 percentage points
for fourth place in the Western
Conference.
Scottie Pippen, who has been on
the injured list while recovering
from arthroscopic knee surgery, said
Monday at practice that he is close
to returning, which would ease the
absence o f Patterson.
“ I hoped I could come back (Sun
day), but that d id n ’t happen,”
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Pippen said. “I’m hoping every day
that it feels better.
“ I’m trying to pick up a little bit
in practice. Right now I’ve still got
some soreness. As soon as I can
get there, where 1 can tolerate it
enough to go out and get some
minutes on it, I’ll be ready.”
Woods is Masters Favorite, Naturally
(AP) — Some things about the
Masters never change.
• As usual. Tiger Woods was first
o ff the tee Tuesday morning when
the rain relented at Augusta Na
tional, the first time he has played
the course since he walked away
last April wearing his green jacket.
And just like always, the ques
tion is not so much whether he can
win another Masters, but whether
anyone can stop him.
“I guess I’m still the favorite,"
W oods said with a wide smile.
The odds are even better, con
sidering the circumstances.
Heavy rains have pounded Au
gusta National since Sunday, con
ditions similar to last year when
Woods walked through muddy fair
ways and walked over his com peti
tion to win by three shots.
Woods also is faced with the
kind o f challenge on which he
thrives: making history.
No one has ever won the Mas
ters three years in a row, and only
two other players - Jack Nicklaus
(!965-66)andNick Faldo( 1989-90)
- even had a chance.
“ I think it would be huge to win
three Masters,” W oods said. "No
one has ever done it before. And
I’ve been able to do certain things
in g olf that no one has ever done
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pin flag a s h e p u tts
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in A ugusta, Ga.,
T uesday during a
practice round for
th e 2 0 0 3 M a sters.
(AP photo)
before. If you're ever in that posi
tion, you want to take advantage o f
it, because it doesn't happen all the
time."
It seems to happen to Woods
quite often.
The last time he was in this posi
tion was two years ago at the Mas
ters, when Woods was trying to
become the first player in history to
hold the four professional majors at
the same time. He turned back his
top two rivals and won two.
He had a chance to become the
youngest player to complete the
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career Grand Slam at age 24 in the
2000 British Open. He won by eight.
Trying to become the only man
to win three straight U.S. Amateur
titles, Woods rallied from five down
after the morning round to win on
the 38th hole.
“H e’s attempting to do some
thing that’s never been done, but
that's never stopped him before,”
Phil Mickelson said. “In fact, it’s
been a motivating factor, to do
things that have never been done.
So, I would be surprised ifhe played
less than his best."
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