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Date Posted: 03:47:51 02/06/04 Fri
Author: Terry D
Subject: +++Midconfans 2/6/04+++


Working overtime a tough job against IUPUI--Tulsa World


Working overtime a tough job against IUPUI

By JOHN KLEIN World Sports Writer
2/6/2004

The basketball slide in midtown has now afflicted south Tulsa, too.

In six days, Tulsa's two Division I basketball teams have lost four home games.

Toss in the Tulsa Oilers, who have lost 14 of their last 16, and it has become a dismal winter along the banks of the Arkansas River.

Oral Roberts, who got out to the hottest start in the Mid-Continent Conference with a 5-0 record, has lost four of its last five and is fading from the race.

Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis knocked out the Golden Eagles 104-96 in double overtime on Thursday night at the Mabee Center.

"We played well at times," said ORU's Eric Fowlkes, who had 14 points. "Then, we were sluggish at other times. We just aren't playing tough.

"It seems teams are playing harder than us right now. We have got to be tougher."

ORU has lost twice to IUPUI. However, it has taken five overtimes (ORU lost in three overtimes in Indianapolis). The teams have combined to score 413 points in their two games.

"We were rolling pretty good early in the year," Fowlkes said. "I don't think it was fatigue. I think it is mental, now. We've lost two at home and now we have to go on the road and get those back.

"Our guys know this is a crucial time of the year. We've got to believe in ourselves. We can't back off. We can't let up."

ORU went cold in the second overtime, hitting just two buckets and missing three of five free throws.

"That's a game we should have won,"ORU coach Scott Sutton said. "It was a very disappointing loss.

"When you are up nine points with less than five minutes to play, you should win the game. I don't care if you are playing five freshmen, you should win that game."

But the Golden Eagles did not. They disappeared in the overtimes. Only a miracle comeback in the first overtime got them to a second overtime.

"I really thought we had the momentum at that point," Sutton said. "We just couldn't hit our shots. We had some good looks. We just didn't hit them.

"Rebounding just killed us (IUPUI led 48-36 on the boards). Offensive rebounding really killed us in the second half. We worked really hard on that in practice and we were decent at it at times. We just need to be more consistent."

The Eagles, dipping to 13-8 overall and 6-4 in the league, had chances to win in regulation and the first overtime.

Akeem Clark hit a 3-pointer to tie the game at 78 with four seconds left in regulation to salvage an overtime.

Then, ORU's frantic rally in the first overtime was nearly enough when the Eagles' Ken Tutt hit the front iron on a mid-court heave to win. Officials said the basket would have counted had it gone.

But ORU just wasn't able to get over the hump. As a result, the midseason slide continues for a team that had been so consistently good early in the season.

"It has been a long season already," Sutton said. "In any season, you are going to go through some periods like this. When you jump out like we did, and win your first five games in conference, you start thinking that you can play with anybody in the country.

"All we can do is keep working at it. We've got to play better defense. We did that at times in this game. Then, we would go through stretches when we didn't play very good defense. That's the way it has been lately."

A good example was the first half.

IUPUI was fabulous at the start, taking a 17-point lead midway through the first half.

Then, ORU applied some defensive pressure and actually led 37-34 at halftime.

The Golden Eagles continued to force turnovers and stretched their lead to nine points in the second half.

"We had a nice stretch during this game when we were guarding guys pretty well," Sutton said. "We really picked up our defense. We were causing some turnovers and getting some easy baskets off our defense.

"Then, at other times, we lost our defensive intensity."

ORU desperately needs to stop the slide.

It won't be easy.

The Golden Eagles play three of their next five on the road, starting with a trip to Valparaiso, now in second place in the Mid-Con, next week.

Although the regular-season title is primarily a chase to be the conference tournament's No. 1 seed, it is important for the youthful Golden Eagles to recapture some of the magic that has disappeared in recent weeks.

ORU needs to remember what it was like to win a game.

"We have a week of practices to get better before we play again," Sutton said. "We have got to play better defense for longer stretches of time. We can't play in four- or five-minute spurts.

"We missed some shots that we should have made that would have won the game. We just have to keep working and get back to where we were."

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John Klein 581-8368
john.klein@tulsaworld.com




One that got away--Tulsa World

One that got away

By MIKE BROWN World Sports Writer
2/6/2004

ORU blows 9-point lead and chance for first place in Mid-Con.
One wild, multiple-overtime thriller between Oral Roberts and Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis wasn't enough.

The teams staged another Thursday night at the Mabee Center with eerily similar results.

Senior forward Odell Bradley scored 41 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, leading IUPUI to a 104-96 double-overtime win over the Golden Eagles. With Valparaiso's loss at Centenary, the Jaguars climbed into sole possession of first place in the Mid-Continent Conference.

Bradley's 41 points matched the career high he scored against the Eagles in IUPUI's 108-105 triple-overtime win in Indianapolis 13 days ago.

"Our kids have a lot of heart, but theirs do, too," IUPUI coach Ron Hunter said. "We've played five overtimes with them in the last two games, and that shows how even the teams are. The difference tonight was Odell Bradley. He was a beast."

So was IUPUI junior guard Akeem Clark, who scored 13 of his 20 points in the second half and forced overtime with a 3-pointer from left of the top of the key with five seconds left in regulation.

ORU blew a 69-60 lead with under five minutes left in regulation after starting the game in a 22-7 hole. The Golden Eagles escaped from an 88-83 deficit with 1:25 left in the first overtime and almost won when freshman guard Ken Tutt hit the rim with a 55-footer at the buzzer after Bradley dribbled the ball off his foot.

But the Eagles missed their final six shots in the second overtime and IUPUI scored the last eight points after the game was tied for the 11th time at 96 on a dunk by ORU guard Eric Fowlkes.

"We should have won the game," ORU coach Scott Sutton said. "When you're up nine at home with under five minutes left, that's a game you should win."

The loss dropped the Eagles (13-8, 6-4) to fourth place in the conference race, a full game behind IUPUI (14-7, 7-3), with Valparaiso (7-4) and Centenary (6-3) sandwiched in between.

ORU's next game is at Valparaiso next Thursday night. The Eagles have lost four of their last five games after winning eight straight.

"We've lost a little confidence," Sutton said. "I think that's what happens when you lose. When you've won eight games in a row, you think you can beat anybody in the country."

Tutt matched a career high with 28 points to pace five Eagles in double figures. Fowlkes came off the bench to post career highs in points (14) and assists (seven).

Senior Ralph Charles played for the first time since twisting his knee on Jan. 1 and logged 30 minutes with 13 points and six rebounds. He also did the best job of guarding Bradley, who scored 21 points in the first half, but didn't score again until until the final 8:01 of regulation.

IUPUI outrebounded the Eagles 48-36 and claimed 11 offensive boards in the second half, scoring with second chances seemingly every time ORU got a stop.

"That was one of the big keys for us in the game," Sutton said. "We did a pretty good job in the first half, but they killed us (with offensive rebounds) in the second half and overtime."

Bradley scored 11 points in the first 6:06 of the game and ORU went scoreless for nearly six minutes, helping the Jaguars build leads of 22-7 and 24-9.

But Fowlkes and Charles came off the bench to spark a comeback and Tutt ended the half in spectacular fashion, intercepting an inbounds pass near midcourt with 3.4 seconds left and hitting a floater from 25 feet that gave the Eagles a 37-34 halftime lead.

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IUPUI 104, Oral Roberts 96

IUPUI (14-7, 7-3)
Min FG 3pt FT Reb
O-T F Pt.
Cole, f 49 4-8 1-4 0-0 3-10 4 9
Bradley, f 49 13-20 3-5 12-14 2-13 2 41
Crenshaw, g 31 5-10 3-3 2-2 2-3 5 15
Miller, g 34 4-12 1-3 8-12 1-6 5 17
Clark, g 50 6-13 2-5 6-7 2-9 3 20
Harvey 14 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-3 2 0
Barlow 10 0-2 0-2 2-4 1-1 2 2
Crawford 13 0-1 0-1 0-0 0-0 3 0
TEAM 1-3
TOTAL 32-66 10-23 30-39 13-48 26 104

Assists -- Bradley 5, Crenshaw 4, Miller 2, Barlow 1, Clark 1, Cole 1
Blocks -- Bradley 1
Turnovers -- Bradley 5, Crenshaw 3, Crawford 3, Barlow 2, Miller 2, Cole 1, Clark 1, Harvey 1
Steals -- Miller 3, Cole 1, Crenshaw 1, Harvey 1
Technical fouls -- None

ORAL ROBERTS (13-8, 6-4)
Min FG 3pt FT Reb
O-T F Pt.
Green, f 20 4-9 0-0 0-3 1-4 4 8
Gastel, f 8 0-1 0-0 4-4 1-1 2 4
Tutt, g 50 9-21 5-11 5-6 0-0 3 28
Atkinson, g 47 5-14 3-10 2-2 1-5 1 15
Bluitt, g 40 2-10 1-4 7-10 1-8 4 12
Thomas 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-3 0 0
Fowlkes 30 5-7 1-1 3-6 1-7 5 14
Charles 30 5-9 1-2 2-2 4-6 5 13
Ogunoye 22 1-2 0-0 0-0 1-1 3 2
TEAM 1-1
TOTAL 31-73 11-28 23-33 11-36 27 96

Assists -- Atkinson 7, Fowlkes 7, Bluitt 4, Tutt 2, Green 1
Blocks -- Charles 2, Ogunoye 1
Turnovers -- Green 3, Bluitt 3, Atkinson 2, Gastel 1, Tutt 1, Fowlkes 1, Ogunoye 1
Steals -- Tutt 3, Atkinson 2, Ogunoye 2, Bluitt 1
Technical fouls -- None
IUPUI 34 44 12 14 -- 104
Oral Roberts 37 41 12 6 -- 96

Attendance -- 4,836


MID-CON STANDINGS
Conference All Games
W L Pct. W L Pct.
IUPUI 7 3 .700 14 7 .667
Centenary 6 3 .667 12 8 .600
Valparaiso 7 4 .636 10 10 .500
Oral Roberts 6 4 .600 13 8 .619
Chicago St. 5 4 .556 7 16 .304
Missouri-KC 5 4 .556 10 10 .500
So. Utah 4 5 .444 8 12 .400
Oakland 3 8 .272 9 14 .391
W. Illinois 1 9 .100 3 19 .136

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At: Valparaiso

When: 7:05 p.m.Thursday

Radio: KCFOam970

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Crusaders fall out of first--NW IN Times
Second-half rally comes up short against Centenary

Gents take Mid-Con thriller from Valpo--Shreveport Times

Late run dooms VU at Centenary--NW IN Post Tribune

Gents Get Huge Victory Over Valparaiso, 78-73--Centenary Website

CHICAGO STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL RETURNS TO WINNING WAYS WITH WIN OVER WESTERN ILLINOIS THURSDAY NIGHT--CSU Website



CHICAGO STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL RETURNS TO WINNING WAYS WITH WIN OVER WESTERN ILLINOIS THURSDAY NIGHT

CHICAGO, Illinois – The Chicago State Men’s Basketball team returned home
to the Jacoby Dickens Center Thursday night and came away with its fourth straight win at home thanks to its 63-59 victory over Western Illinois in Mid-Continent Conference action. CSU, who took a 31-24 lead at halftime after shooting 54 percent from the field and holding Western to 32 percent field goal shooting, used 8-for-8 free throw shooting over the final four minutes to survive Western’s comeback after trailing by as much 12 points in the second half.
“We were able to survive tonight against a very tough team,” CSU head coach Kevin Jones said. “Our ability to hit free throws was the difference down the stretch tonight.”
CSU began the second half by outscoring Western, 13-8, over the first 5:22 of the half to take a 44-32 lead. Western would respond by using a 13-2 run to pull within a point at 46-45 with eight minutes remaining in the game. The Cougars would work its lead back up to eight points at 53-45 with 4:44 left in the game, before Western made its final push, pulling within two points on several occasions. The final occasion was with 19 seconds remaining in the game, before CSU junior guard Tony Weeden hit two free throws with 17 seconds left to seal the win for
the Cougars.
“Our play tonight was ragged, especially in the second half, when we let Western get back into the game,” Jones said. “We had enough to gut out a win, and that’s all that matter this time of the year.”
The Cougars scored four of the game’s first six points, before Western would go on a 7-4 run to take a 9-8 lead just a little under six minutes into the game. CSU would retake the lead thanks to a three-point basket by freshman guard Royce Parran at the 12:04 mark and then use a 17-5 run over the next seven minutes to take a 28-14 lead with 5:17 remaining in the half. Western would outscore the Cougars 10-3 over the final five minutes of the half to send CSU into the halftime with a 31-24 lead.
For the game, CSU shot 48 percent from the field and 81 percent from the free throw line, while holding Western to 42 percent shooting from the field and 70 percent from the free throw line. Western held a 30-24 advantage in rebounding, but was outscored 34-6 by CSU’s bench and CSU scored 24 points off of 19 Leatherneck turnovers. Junior guard Craig Franklin led a balanced Cougars offense with 13 points. Freshman 7-foot-1 center Jeleel Akindele and Parran added 12 points off the bench, as
nine of the 11 players who dressed scored in the game. Meanwhile, Western got 22 points from Doyle Cole and 14 points from T.J. Gray, including scoring 11 of the Leathernecks final 15 points. With the win, CSU improves to 7-16 overall and 5-4 in the Mid-Con, while Western Illinois falls to 3-19 overall and 1-9 in the league. The Cougars return to action to face Valparaiso at home on Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. at the Dickens Center. Valparaiso enters the game with a 10-10 overall record and a 7-4 mark in the Mid-Con after losing 78-73 at Centenary Thursday night.
-- CSU ATHLETICS --


Southern Utah Comes Back In Final Minutes To Down Oakland--OU Website

IUPUI Outlasts ORU in Overtime For Second Time in 12 Days--ORU Website

Gainey's Career-High Helps T-Birds Past Oakland--SUU Website

Cougars Hang On for 63-59 Win Over Leathernecks--WIU Website


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[> +++Midconfans 2/6/04+++ -- Terry D, 18:17:12 02/06/04 Fri


T-Birds pull away late--Daily Spectrum

Chicago State sends Western to the bench--Peoria Journal Star

SAME TEAMS, SAME RESULT: JAGUARS TAKE DOUBLE-OVERTIME DECISION AT ORAL ROBERTS, 104-96--IUPUI Website

T-Birds Host IUPUI--SUU Website

Valpo Falls To Centenary Despite Oppland’s 22 Points; Crusaders’ Win Streak Stopped At Six--Valpo Website

Leathernecks to Play on Fox Sports Net-Midwest & Chicago--WIU Website



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