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The Cloverdale Clovers enter the Green-castle-IHSAA Sectional playing their best basketball of the season and confident they can win. The Clovers play defending champion North Putnam at 8 p.m. Wed-

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He’s al way been a rebounder,” Cherry said. With Branneman and Ford usually in double figures, Cloverdale has two double-figure scorers. The third, and sometimes a fourth, is usually either guard Brian McCammon or Truax at center. McCammon is averaging 8.3 points per game of the year and Truax 7.7, but both have had big double-figure scoring night. TRUAX HAD 21 points at South Putnam and 15 in the second meeting with North Putnam. McCammon scored 17 against Linton, 12 against South Putnam and 11 against Owen Valley in a suing of strong performances. “It’s helped tremendously that

Pacers headed up ‘Hill’now

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) For the second time in his career Bob Hill has taken over an NBA team after his boss was fired. He’s anticipating his slay will be longer this time than when he was dumped after 66 games by the New York Knicks. Hill’s dismissal when New York’s management decided to replace him with Rick Pitano was unpopular with his players, and he’s gained the same loyalty from the Indiana Pacers after taking over from Dick Versace. MORE IMPORTANT, Indiana -is winning and the players credit Hill. “Bo treats us like men, and it’s much easier to perform when you’re not being hollered at,” said veteran Mike Sanders. “Everyone was discouraged before the change. The team was frustrated, and it felt like we were going nowhere.” Now they own a six-game winning streak and can match the franchise’s NBA marks for consecutive victories and consecutive (four) road triumphs by defeating the New Jersey Nets tonight. “WE STILL GET out of synch at times, but coach Hill is able to remind us what we should be doing and get us going,” Sanders said. “We’re really feeling good now, confident and believe we can improve our playoff situation before the season ends.” Hill is 16-12 since replacing Versace, and he’s compiled his success without the housecleaning some said was necessary when he took over as coach. Perhaps one of the biggest victories came when they overcame a 17-point fourth-quarter deficit to defeat Boston 115-109 Sunday on national television. “A GAME LIKE that carries over. It gives your confidence a boost. You don’t like to get down, but it helps that you know you can rally back. In the past that’s what other clubs have done to us,” said Sanders, who made only his second start of the season against Boston and scored 11 points as all five starters reached double figures.

nesday. The Clovers are (front row, from left): Brad Gerlach, Michael Nees, Brian McCammon, Brent Branneman, Jerry Minton, Larry Hall, Billy Byrd and (back row,

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we’ve got better balance the last half of the season,” Cherry said. Gary Cooper, a 6-4 senior, and Pilly Byrd, a 5-7 junior, usually round out Cloverdale’s starting lineup. Byrd has been a scoring threat three-point range against zone defenses. Cooper makes his biggest contributions on rebounding and steals, where he is second on the team. The Clovers have still got to prove they can put three good games togchtcr, but the mental mountain has been climbed. The physical challenge is still ahead. North Putnam has beaten Cloverdale twice this year, 67-56 in the Putnam County Classic and 9361 in the conference game.

“We don’t have a true superstar, and coach has convinced us that we can win with the players we have,” said Sanders, averaging 5.8 points. “I’m pleased with the way things are going. I’m getting longer minutes. That was a problem before. There were a lot of us getting short minutes, and you can’t play your best when that’s happening.” Hill insists the credit for the team’s success belongs to the players. “EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE to coach in New York, the pressure from the fans, the media, it makes you thick skinned,” he said. “And one thing I learned there is how important the bench can be. That’s carried over to what I’m trying to do here. I want everyone to feel they are a vital part of this team, as long as they work hard.” Indiana was 9-16 when he took over Dec. 20. “I told the players we needed to make several changes. One was to change the environment; two to get in shape; and three, get them to play unselfishly on both ends of the court and to change the chemistry,” said Hill, who was in his second season as an assistant to Versace when club president Donnie Walsh decided to make a change. “WE HAD PEOPLE who were unhappy with the way they were being used. I’ve tried to get our bench involved, telling our starters they’ve got to produce to keep playing and telling the reserves that they’ll earn playing time by how they perform,” Hill said. “Thus far it seems to have worked, but “In the past we ran a lot of isolated plays for one or two people,” Sanders said. “You’d feel so much out of the offense that you didn’t want to play hard on defense. Now our defense has stepped up and the selfish team we had is gone.” It’s gone despite management’s decision to stand pat before the NBA trading deadline passed last week.

Cloverdale Cloverdale H_S. Record 6-14 CHS Opponent Opp. 52 Cascade* 74 56 at Turitey Run 59 Putnam County Classic First round 56 North Putnam 67 Consolation 58 Greencastle 73 60 at Eminence 61 60 Dugger-Union 47 69 Monrovia* 83 74 at Clay City (OT) 72 48 at Southmont 65 61 North Putnam* 93 53 at Tri-West* 65 59 Northview 58 50 at Greencastle* 43 65 Owen Valley* 68 61 at South Putnam* 78 69 at Edgewood* 99 64 Linton 49 52 Shakamak 56 68 Rockville 56 68 at Danville* 91 * West Central Conference Games

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from left) coach Jeff Cherry, Ryan Ford, Mike Truax, Brandon Fagin, Gary Cooper and Ryan Thompson. (Banner-Graphic photo by Steve Fields)

Hawkeyes’ top scorer arrested lOWA CITY, lowa (AP) lowa basketball coach Tom Davis says he’s unsure what the future holds for Acie Earl, the team’s leading scorer and rebounder who has been charged with simple assault. “We’ll have to wait and see what we’ve got,” Davis said Monday prior to practice and a few hours after Earl pleaded innocent in Johnson County District Court. Earl is free on his own recognizance. The 6-foot-10, 20-year-old sophomore from Moline, 111., was charged late Sunday morning after an altercation in the parking lot of his residence with a 17-year-old girl from Moline.

Hoosiers look to Cheaney for momentum

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) With Indiana’s Big Ten hopes virtually dead, the No. 5 Hoosiers are looking to Calbert Cheaney, only the fifth IU player to reach 1,000 points as a sophomore, as its ticket to a high seed in the NCAA tournament. Coach Bob Knight’s club needs a miracle to catch Big Ten leader Ohio State. The No. 2 Buckeyes would need to lose their remaining three games and Indiana would have to win its remaining four to give the Hoosiers the conference title and the automatic tournament berth it carries. THE HOOSIERS (23-4) resume their conference schedule by playing at Michigan State Thursday, hoping to improve on a 11-3 Big Ten mark. “Like ground zero,” Knight said Sunday when asked about the possibility of earning the Big Ten title. “We know we’ve got to win these next four games, gain some momentum heading into the tournament,” said Cheaney, who leads Indiana in scoring with a 22point average after scoring 30 in Sunday’s 112-79 romp over Michigan. “We’ve got to work on our mental aspect of the game. We’ve got to go out and decide we’re going to play the whole 40 minutes. Anything less is a big problem for us,” said the 6-foot-6 Cheaney, who led Indiana in scoring as a freshman with a 17.1 average and has 1,090 points in his 56-game college career. THE OTHER IU players with 1,000 points by their sophomore seasons were Mike Woodson, Steve Alford, Jay Edwards and the late Don Schlundt. Cheaney has reached double figures in 40 consecutive games and only failed to reach that mark twice in his career. Knight’s regimented offense demands production to achieve those figures and Cheaney is shooting 61 percent from the field, including a 45.5 percent performance from 3-point range. BUT HE’S FAR from satisfied. “I need to rebound more,” he

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said. “I also want to improve my defense.” “He’s so tremendous offensively,” said teammate Chris Reynolds. “He gets a mental picture in his mind, the way he wants to play, the way he should play to help us out. I think once Calbert starts hitting his first couple of shots, the only person that can stop him is himself.” “CALBERT IS PROBABLY one of our best offensive players,” echoed Indiana guard Jamal Meeks. “He’s a big asset.” “Calbert’s our offense,” said Eric Anderson. “Without him doing the things he does our offense drops down. He’s the main threat in our offense ... He opens up our offense for the rest of the team. If you don’t stop Calbert you’ve got no chance of beating us.” Cheaney, one of two Hoosiers to start every game in a season when Knight has used 14 different starting lineups, gives the defense a variety of problems. “HE CAN DRIVE. He can shoot from outside. He doesn’t have any deficiencies offensively. He just needs to pick up his defensive game,” Reynolds said. “When he’s in there playing well, we’re playing well. There is just a direct correlation.” That was demonstrated last week when Cheaney, shooting 85 percent from the line for the season, missed six free throws in an 80-79 overtime loss to lowa. “You wouldn’t expect him to miss six free throws. It just happened,” Reynolds said. THE PROBLEM BECAME contagious with Indiana shooting just 56 percent against lowa (19 of 34). The Hoosiers missed six straight in the final four minutes of regulation, including four by Cheaney. Sunday, despite scoring a season-high 112 points, Indiana made only 29 of 43 free throws. “It’s like a mist above us and everybody is being affected by it. It seems like everyone is having a problem. I think it’s just a matter of practice, practice makes perfect.

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