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SEE SPORTSWRAP FOR MORE HOOPS Toto we're not in Kansas We're in Indianapolis and Duke is looking to engulf the Jayhawks in a fast-breaking tor THE CHRONICLE nado in the NCAA championship tonight. MONDAY, APRIL 1,1991 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15,000 VOL. 86, NO. 124 Nevada Lost and Vanquished Blue Devils face Duke defies odds Kansas for title in win over Vegas By MARK JAFFE •By MARK JAFFE INDIANAPOLIS — Duke basketball INDIANAPOLIS — The world is .flat. meet Kansas — the North Carolina ofthe Lead can be made into gold. UNLV is Midwest. unbeatable. There should be no introductions nec Forget it. The Duke men's basketball essary. The Blue Devils have played the shocked the Runnin' Rebels with a fight Jayhawks' step-sister, North Carolina, ing attitude and a dazzling 79-77 victory three times this season. Saturday night in the semifinals of the Kansas head coach Roy Williams was an NCAA tournament at the Hoosier Dome. assistant to Dean Smith at UNC for 11 The Blue Devils (31-7) advanced to the years. Williams has taken much of what NCAA championship for the second Smith taught him at Chapel Hill and ap straight year. They also snapped UNLVs plied it in Lawrence. And now, in his third 45-game win streak and avenged last season, Williams has directed his team to season's 103-73 humiliation in the cham the brink of a national championship. pionship game. The Jayhawks (27-7) play Carolina-style "The one thing we thought we could man-to-man defense and motion offense bring to this game was a fighting sort of with lots of backdoor cuts. Like the Tar attitude," said point guard Bobby Hurley. Heels, Kansas is team-oriented. No indi "A lot of teams have probably backed down vidual player transcends the rigid confines from Vegas. We had a very difficult of the system. Williams makes substitu schedule all year and we're not going to tions more frequently than he refers to his back down from anyone. They knew that mentor in press conferences (too high to they were in a fight." count). Christian Laettner, who had team highs Bland, unexciting basketball. Williams of 28 points and seven rebounds, delivered and Smith would not have it any other the knockout blow when he stoicly drained way. two free throws with 12.7 seconds left in "Kansas is very different from North the game. Carolina," said Duke head coach Mike "There was not that much pressure," Krzyzewski "You can read in the press Laettner quipped. that the systems are the same, but when I The freebies sent Duke to a rematch of watch the tape I don't see [Eric] Montross the 1988 NCAA semifinal against Kansas. or Rick Fox. They're different. Their motion Laettner and Kansas' Alonzo Jamison will offense is different. They take care of in jump center tonight at 9:12 p.m. for the dividual matchups differently. They post national title. The Jayhawks defeated the more. Kansas has its own identity." placid North Carolina Tar Heels 79-73 in Whatever. Kansas and North Carolina the undercard of Saturday night's twinbill. are probably still as similar as two teams Duke displayed its "fighting attitude" can be. throughout the game, but it was never The Jayhawks advanced to the Final more evident than in the second half with Four by dispatching Indiana, Arkansas two hard fouls by Bill McCaffrey and Hurley and North Carolina—three ofthe nation's on fast breaks headed by Anderson Hunt. top six teams. They took care of New Or First, McCaffrey upended the 6-1 guard leans and Pittsburgh as well. at the 15:16 mark which drew an unsavory Duke last played the Jayhawks in Feb. response from Hunt. Less than four min 1989 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The utes later, Hurley tossed Hunt to the floor CLIFF BURNS/THE CHRONICLE Blue Devils blew out Williams' first Kan on another fast break which prompted sas team, 102-77. The matchup, however, Brian Davis celebrates the Blue Devils 79-77 victory over Nevada-Las Vegas, a some more "discussion" from the Runnin' See SPORTSWRAP, page 2 • team which was unbeatable? Yea right, think again, says BD. Rebels. Johnson was tabbed with a tech nical foul for his comments. "I was trying to go for the ball without letting him get the shot off," Hurley said. Campus turns to bedlam after huge win "You do that enough times, and they know they're in a war out there." By JAY EPPING delirious victory celebration. The party trespass warnings, he said. A visitor to As Sean Connery's character said in Devils danced with each other in the ing, which quickly spread beyond the campus slipped and fell into the bonfire "The Untouchables": "If he pulls a knife. bright firelight outside Cameron Satur bonfire, lasted late into the night. Dazed and had to be hospitalized, he added. You pull a gun. If he sends one of yours to day night, celebrating Duke's 79-77 upset fans were still dancing and drinking at Many problems arose with "People the hospital, you send one of his to the of University of Nevada at Las Vegas in various locations on campus long after the coming in from off-campus and wandering morgue." the national championship semifinal game bonfire was reduced to glowing embers. into people's rooms," Mister said. That's the Vegas way, and that's how Saturday night. Besides the official bonfire in the To avoid this Public Safety officer Haley you get the Rebels. But that's not the only As UNLVs final shot clanked off the Cameron parking lot, at least one smaller Stafford requested students "to please lock way. You also need a plan. backboard and into Bobby Hurley's hands, fire burned on West Campus. their dorm room doors and check their "I watched a tape of our game last year the campus erupted into screams, followed Local thieves also enjoyed the victory. exterior doors" before Monday night's for the first time after we got back from by a mad rush to the huge bonfire in the Cpl. Bryan Mister of Duke Public Safety championship game. Students should also Pontiac," said head coach Mike Krzyzewski. Cameron parking lot. Many in the said while many students watched and carry their IDs on Monday night so Public "I looked at my players' faces and they screaming mob were among the 8,000 fans celebrated the victory, there were seven Safety officers know they belong on cam looked tired. After watching it I was more who watched the game on a giant screen reports of larceny and breaking and en pus, she added. confident. I looked at our mistakes and I television inside the arena. They joined tering dormitory rooms and autos. A Four arrests were made, three for car thought we could correct some of those." other students and visitors from all over Domino's Pizza driver's 1985 blue and gray vandalism and one for assault; none were Krzyzewski also saw some things on the the state. Pontiac Sunbird, license number DRW- students, Mister said. He also reported videotape which he thought his Blue Devils The students and fans began running 9696, was also stolen, he said. several vandalism incidents and false fire could exploit. Duke stuck to a four-tiered and dancing around the blaze, screaming Three assaults, none serious, were re alarms in the dorms, especially on main defensive gameplan and a two-pronged _2*nd hugging friends an&;->taangers in a ported and Public Safety issued seven quad. •'"•_"-'•"-V-*« ******** W-**"*v»* ******* "*****'***i • *.. • * > * 11 '»"*' See SPORTSWRAP, pagel^ Ain't she purty? A full-size nude pin-up of Jeane Kirkpatrick can be found inside in place of the edit pages. THE CHOMICLE The horror, the horror. APRIL FOOLS, 1991 LUKE UNIVERSITY DERM, NERF CURLIRON CIRCULATION: STABLE VOLUME: 35 oz. Gates dogs Harvard, opts to joins Calgary Flames on ice By COWA BUNGA and scholarship to debunk myths Barbedwire. "Right now I happen who leaps from job to job faster In a shock to the academic and stereotypes. to know he's the only capitalist than a frog on a frying pan has world, the esteemed Afro- "But when I hit that slapshot hockey player in the English de often been berated for his hop- American studies star, Henry into the goal...when I forecheck partment. I'd say he's simply re and-jump approach to job hunt "Skiptown" Gates, has already some unsuspecting sap into the volting — kind of ironic, huh?" ing. announced plans to fly the coop at wall...when I crown some brain "Aw shut up, Barbedwire," said "It's parody, complete and ut Harvard, before he even arrives. less toad into oblivion with my Studley Fishermen, chief com ter hilarity," said Luther "Gates will join the Boston stick...that's power! I'm empow rade of the English department Campbell, leader ofthe rap group Bruins of the National Hockey ered. I mean really empowered!" and letter-writer extroadinaire. Much 2 Live and professor of League for an obscene amount of Gates salivated. "I've had it up to here with your English. "Gates is making fun of money. "Bummer, dude," said Derrick crap. Just 'cause CBS let's you bums/who take the money and Gates, who came to the Univer Bo, the new president of Harvard show your mug on TV once every run./How can you keep a straight sity fwo years ago, was expected University.