1995_04 Insight April 1995

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Sports
APRIL 5,1995
Photo by Christina Mlrlglan/lnslght
A highlight of Saturday's meet was the 17'3/4" jump by decathlete
Dave Johnson. It was his best mark In the pole vault since 1992.
Relays, from page 10
Bowen and Barnes also teamed up
with Scottie Stokes and 1994 NCAA
champ in the 110-meter high hurdles,
Robert Foster, to win the 400 relay
in 40.05.
Foster was one of the marquee
names at the 67th annual event, but
had a disappointing performance in
an ugly high hurdles race.
Among a cast of competitors that
included four former NCAA champs,
Glenn Terry and Eugene Swift, last
year's high-hurdle champ at the Bob
Mathias Relays, Derek Knight came
out on top.
Swift, whose 13.23 at last year's meet
was the fastest time in thc United Stales
at lhat point in the year, bailed over the
fifth hurdle. When the race was over,
almost as many hurdles were on thc
ground as were still standing.
"That was a S6.000 spill." Fresno
Slate coach Red Estes said. "The hurdlers almost always win the prize
money."
Another former Bulldogs star. Tanya
Dooley. also struggled in front of the
home crowd. Dooley, running in her
first meet since reluming from ihe Indoor World Championships in
Barcelona, finished second in the 200
and 400 meters.
"I've been traveling so much lately
I haven't had much time to train. I'm
out of shape right now," Dooley said.
Dooley suffered a rare defeat in the
400. losing by 2.37 seconds to Fatima
Yusuf of Azusa Pacific. Yusuf *s 52.00
bettered Gail Devers' meet record by
almost a second (52.56, 1987).
Another athlete running at the
Fresno Relays for the first lime as part
of a track club, not for Fresno State,
was Monica Missick. The school-
record holder in the 100-meier
hurdles, edged Doris Goldwin at the
finish line for a wind-aided victory
time of 13.19.
"I've run here since I was a freshman," Missick said. "Now to win the
invitational, it feels great."
Like usual, the feature ev-m oi' the
afternoon was the pole vault. The fans
weren't disappointed.
Three vaulters cleared 18 feet and
Tim Bright and Dean Starkey soared
18-8 1/4, half an inch shy of Doug
Fraley's meet record.
"It's always nice coming to Fresno
for this meet," said Bright, a three-time
Olympian. "The competition is great."
Mathias, who competed in the
Fresno Relays (then the West Coast
Relays) for Stanford from 1949-1953
and took over the annual event last
year, was pleasantly surprised with
the marks in the pole vault.
"For this time of the season, we've
had some great jumps," he said. "It
was really great to see Dave Johnson
clear 17 feet. That's incredible for a
decathlete."
The Dave of the 'Dan and Dave'
Reebok advertising series which ran
before the 1992 Olympic trials, competed with five other athletes in a
unique triathlon. Johnson won thc 110
hurdles in 14.56, took second in the javelin at 218-11 and placed first in the
pole vault at 17-3/4.
The 32-year-old decathlete set the
crowd aroar when he shot his fist in
the air at mid-flight over the bar.
Fresno State's 1.500 meters record
holder Jamey Harris won the invitational mile in 4:06.27. Harris's eligibility ran out after last year's indoor
season.
Dynasty, from page 10
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Muslim faith and changed his name
lo Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. His name
may have been different, but his game
was still thc same.
Abdul-Jabbar finished his collegiate
career in style by pouring in 34 points
in a 78-55 thrashing of North Carolina. He also grabbed 16boardsinthat
1969 tournament championship
game. The entire Tar Heels team had
only 25 rebounds.
In 12 NCAA Tournament games.
Alcindor averaged 25.3 points and 16.8
rebounds per game. His 201 rebounds
is ihe second highest career total in
NCAA Tournament history. Ironically,
the man thai lops the list is Elvin Hayes,
whom Abdul-Jabbar faced in the Final
Four of the 1967 and 1968 touma-
In ihe two games, UCLA won by an
average of 23.5 points, and Hayes was
shut down cold. Jabbar had 19 points
and 18 boards in thc 1968 101-69 blowout over Houston. Hayes, meanwhile,
managed only 10 points and five rebounds.
The Milwaukee Bucks made Abdul-
Jabbar their first pick in the 1969
draft. When he retired at thc age of
42, he was the NBA career leader in
scoring, minutes played and blocked
shots. He made 19 All-Star games and
won six championship rings.
Abdul-Jabbar scored, rebounded
and blocked shots better than anyone
in the game when he played. The one
thing lhat separated him most from
the rest of the pack, though, was his
ability to win.
If opposing teams collapsed Acindor
(Abdul-Jabbar) in the middle, he
would distribute the ball to his teammates and make them better with his
presence. If teams decided to single-
team Alcindor, he'd make them pay
with his versatile offensive game.
Whatever the situation, he found ways
to win.
That was also the greatest attribute
of Alcindor's predecessor at center.
Bill Walton.
After a two-year withdrawal period
in 1970, the Bruins struck gold again
when a curly-haired, red-head agreed
to come to UCLA.
Between the 1972 and 1974 seasons,
UCLA won 88 consecutive games
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with Walton at center. He wasn't the
scorer lhat Alcindor was, but when the
stakes were high, Walton was at his
best.
In ihe 1973 NCAA Tournament finals, Walton hit 21 of 22 shots from
the field and scored a tournament
single-game high 44 points. Although
the Bruins won the game by 21 points,
Walton did most of his damage when
Memphis State was slill in the game.
Walton earned NCAA Player of thc
Year and NCAA Tournament MOP
honors in both his sophomore and
junior seasons. Unlike Alcindor,
though, the fairy tale didn't end in
story-book fashion.
UCLA's stretch of seven straight
NCAA titles and 30 straight tournament wins came to an end in the semifinals of the 1974 tournament. North
Carolina took the Bruins to double-
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kings of college basketball 80-77.
Walton scored 29 points, pulled down
18 rebounds and didn't miss a minute
of the 50-minutc marathon.
Denny Crum told UCLA's Hall of
Fame coach John Wooden that
Walton was the best high school pros-
peel he'd ever seen. Crum hadn't forgotten that he recruited Alcindor six
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After four years on the hardwood at
Pauley Pavilion, Walton may have
proved Crum right.
Walton suffered through injuries for
most of his NBA career, but his ability
to propel the performances of those
around him never diminished. Abdul-
Jabbar was obviously the better pro, but
in college thc distinction is too hard lo
make. Both dominated the college
game during their respective eras and
boih were proven winners.
Ed O'Bannon might go down as one
of the greats of college basketball,
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pro. For taking thc Bruins to the top
of the NCAA for the first time in 20
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Tournament history.
When it comes to the distinction of
best NCAA Tournament players of
all-lime, however, Alcindor and
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