Banner Graphic, Volume 22, Number 112, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 January 1992 — Page 7
Ohio St. at IU now a reunion COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Lawrence Junderburke says he has dreamed about his return to Indiana’s Assembly Hall. In his dreams, he blocks every shot and scores every time he touches the ball. He also proves something to Indiana coach Bob Knight. “I’ve thought about it a lot,” said the 6-foot-9 forward-center. “I’ve had several dreams about situations, always in my favor, so to speak. I’m going in there, where I know a lot of people, and I’ll just play.” Funderburke’s dreams may or may not come true tonight when he returns to Indiana, the program he transferred from two years ago. Funderburke will return wearing an Ohio State uniform as the fourth-ranked Buckeyes take on the fifthranked Hoosiers for first place in the Big Ten. Even Funderburke expects less than a warm ovation from the Indiana fans. “I know they’ll be on me. I think a lot of people will be on me because I transferred a couple times. Guys are going to heckle me. But they don’t know the situation, so I’ll just take it from there,” said Funderburke, who figures to be Ohio State’s first man off the bench. Ohio State’s Jim Jackson, last year’s Big Ten player of the year, said Funderburke’s return has been a hot topic of discussion in the locker room. “We kid Lawrence a lot, especially about going to Indiana,” Jackson said. “We said, ‘They’re going to have guns and chains out there waiting for you to come in.’” Jackson, of course, is joking. Sort of. Funderburke spent six games at Indiana before leaving the team in December 1989 because of a personality conflict with Knight. The former Columbus prep star considered Missouri, Kentucky and Louisville, among others, before taking a circuitous route through a small college in Kentucky and landing at Ohio State. After sitting out a year be-
Super Bowl XXVI
Redskins take time to enjoy championship
HERNDON, Va. (AP) By now, Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs has been to the Super Bowl often enough to appreciate how difficult it is to get there. So a clearly relaxed Gibbs dispensed with his usual reserve Monday, confessing to reporters that he was too busy enjoying his club’s 41-10 rout of Detroit in Sunday’s NFC championship. WITH A BROAD smile, Gibbs said he had happily told his weary players to enjoy a day off “and the thrill of accomplishing something really special.” In a departure from his normal reserve, Gibbs talked candidly about mercurial wide receiver Gary Clark, whose flamboyance and sideline histrionics contrast sharply with the demeanor of his buttoneddown coach. After praising Clark’s ability, Gibbs laughed when asked whether Clark, a car collector, might be recruited to drive for Gibbs’ NASCAR team.
Norwood expects questions about past
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) Buffalo Bills long snapper Adam Lingner walked up to kicker Scott Norwood a couple of weeks ago with an offer. Lingner said he told Norwood that he, Norwood and holder Frank Reich “are a trio and I’m willing to take one-third of every (placekick) miss on my shoulders. And he said, ‘Well, will you take one-third of the interviews after the game?’” NORWOOD WOULD desperately like some relief from the questions that are bound to come up over the next two weeks as the Bills prepare for the Super Bowl against the Washington Redskins. Judging by his quick departure from Rich Stadium Monday before reporters were allowed into the locker room Norwood may have found his own solution to dealing with the media barrage he will face.
LAWRENCE FUNDERBURKE Returns to IU as Buckeye cause of the transfer, he became eligible for the Buckeyes a week ago and has played in only two games. But he’s already stamped himself as one of the top players on one of the Big Ten’s top teams. Funderburke scored seven points and had three rebounds and three blocked shots in his first game, a 62-46 victory over previously unbeaten Michigan State. He followed that with 16 points, eight rebounds and four blocked shots in a 60-52 comeback victory at Northwestern Saturday night. Funderburke said that Indiana won’t be any different from any other opponent. But old feelings about Knight slip back into his words every now and then. He said that after deciding to leave Indiana, he wanted to transfer to Louisville. But he said Knight said he would not allow that. “I don’t have any hard feelings and I’m not going to. He’s him, he’s a great coach. No one player can ever dispel anything he’s done before. I’m surely not going to try to,” Funderburke said. “But I’m going to speak my mind.... “I never said anything bad about Indiana in any interview I’ve ever had. But he wanted to try to control me on where I was going (to transfer). No one can do that. No human being can say you can do this or you can do that, no matter how great they are.” He adds, “Coach is coach. I have nothing bad to say about him (Knight).”
“Yeah, I might let him do that,” Gibbs chuckled. “That’d be something, huh?” BUT TODAY, GIBBS returns to his usual workaholic ways, spinning reels and reels of film of the Buffalo Bills, who have purposefully moved into their second straight Super Bowl after a 10-7 victory over the Denver Broncos Sunday. For Gibbs, it will be his fourth trip to the NFL championship in his 11 years as head coach at Washington. He won the last time there a 42-10 rout of Denver in 1988 but he knows that sidestepping the Super Bowl hype and defeating the Bills will be no easy task. During a morning meeting with his players, Gibbs said, “I told them, “The good news is we’re going to the Super Bowl. The bad news is, we’re going to the Super Bowl.’” BUT FOR AT least a day, his
They won’t be asking him about his impressive playoff performance this year. Norwood has gone 4-for--4 against the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos. They will be asking him about “The Miss,” the 47-yard field goal he kicked that, had it not skidded wide right, would have given the Bills a victory over the New York Giants in last year’s Super Bowl. AFTER SUNDAY’S AFC Championship, when he kicked a 44-yard field goal that proved to be the game-winner in Buffalo’s 10-7 victory over the Broncos, Norwood said he could handle the interrogation. “I don’t dread this,” he said. “It’s part of the business. When it comes time to buckle it up in a couple of weeks, it will have nothing to do with it. As long as you guys (reporters) aren’t out there rushing field goals and running around the football field, the hype
Kansas too deep for Missouri
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) Four players fouling out would be a big problem for most schools. Not Kansas. “I’ve always said the only way to have depth is to play it,” coach Roy Williams said after his sixth-ranked Jayhawks pulled away from No. 13 Missouri in overtime for a 92-80 victory Monday night in the Big Eight Conference opener for both teams. Regulation play ended at 73-73. “THIS GAME SAYS we’ve got pretty good doggone depth and those kids that we put in there can hold their poise in the end,” Williams said. Richard Scott fouled out with 2:44 to play. Eric Pauley followed him with 1:08 to go. Reserve Ben Davis got his fifth foul with 1.1 seconds remaining and Alonzo Jamison fouled out with 3:24 left in overtime. Still, Kansas (12-1) outscored Missouri 19-7 in overtime with a makeshift lineup. Rex Walters had nine of his team-leading 21 points in the extra period. Walters hit a 3-pointer with 1:59 left in overtime to put Kansas ahead 83-78, and he added two free throws with 1:17 to go to give the Jayhawks a seven-point lead. WALTERS, WHO LEADS Kansas with a 15-point average, said he had trouble getting
Dedication paying off for Villanova
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ. (AP) The wheel is as tight as it can get Villanova can’t turn things around anymore than it has in the past nine days. The Wildcats had been dispatched to the second division of the Big East when they were beaten in the conference opener by St. John’s on Jan. 2. That gave them a 2-6 record and the letters N, I and T suddenly became a disappointing trio on Philadelphia’s Main Line. JUST ADD ANOTHER Just add another season to the list since Rollie Massimino led the Wildcats to an improbable national championship in 1985. “We sat down and told ourselves that we were going to work as hard as we possibly could and come out of it,” Massimino said Monday night after the Wildcats evened their overall record at 6-6 and improved to 4-1 in the conference with a 73-68 overtime victory over No. 21 Seton Hall. “We didn’t try to jump off the bridge, we just played hard and circled our wagons. The expression I used was ‘To find a way.’ There’s no big secret. All it is is playing hard. In this day and age, you must play hard.”
players were taking a deep breath and a look back at how far they’ve come an NFL-best 16-2 mark and a crushing victory over Detroit in Sunday’s conference championship since a 1-3 training camp. “It’s kind of a shock,” said AllPro tackle Jim Lachey, who’s getting ready for his first Super Bowl. “We’ve worked so hard all year, and now we’re at our last goal, which is to win the Super Bowl.” Gibbs said his objective is to give his players as normal a week of preparation as he can. They will have light workouts this week, taking off Thursday and Sunday, practice and fly to Minneapolis Monday, take Tuesday off to meet with the media, then begin regular workouts Wednesday. But while the players may have it easy for a few days, Gibbs doesn’t plan to extend his leisure time much longer.
isn’t important.” But coach Marv Levy and special teams coach Bruce DeHaven both said they are recommending that Norwood not talk to the media before the Super Bowl. Judging by his quick departure Monday, Norwood took that advice to heart. “I’D ADVISE HIM not to talk about it and to concentrate on the game,” Levy said. “He’s talked about it up to here.” DcHaven said he’s telling Norwood the same thing. “I think that it’s the best thing for him to look ahead, not back,” DeHaven said. “You know one of the big stories this week would have to be Scott Norwood because of his kick last year,” he said. “I don’t see how anybody could possibly do an interview with him without asking that question. And every time that question arises, that’s going to be a negative.”
into the flow of the offense until overtime. But fatigue wasn’t a factor because he got enough rest, playing 31 minutes. “Every time we go back in the game, we’re fresh,” Walters said. “At the end of the game we’re not going to be holding our shorts and gasping for air because we know we’ve got guys who can come off the bench and play.” Reserve Steve Woodberry added 19 points, hitting 7-of-10 shots and going 3-for-3 from 3point range, and Ben Davis came off the bench to score 10 points. A total of nine Kansas players saw at least 15 minutes of action, and the bench scored 39 points. A FAMILIAR WEAPON for Kansas, the 3point shot, helped bury Missouri (11-2) in overtime. Walters and Woodberry each hit a 3pointer in the extra period. “We got worn down towards the end and they hit two big threes,” Missouri coach Norm Stewart said. “We were tired and needed more organization on the floor.” Kansas was 7-for-13 from 3-point range and is 44-for-95 the last six games. Kansas rebounded from a loss to Louisville on Saturday that ended its 24-game homecourt winning streak.
VILLANOVA HAS gone from the second division to second place. The Wildcats have turned from a sure ‘W’ for the top teams in the conference into the same old pain-in-the-neck to prepare for team opponents have hated and respected for the 19 seasons Massimino has been storming the sidelines, turning nice suits into rumpled masses of material by game’s end. Losses to Houston, Georgia Tech, La Salle, Alabama, Hawaii and St. John’s have been followed by wins in the last nine days over Georgetown, Boston College, Connecticut and Seton Hall, the last a come-from-behind effort in which the Wildcats trailed by 11 with 2:20 to play. That’s a 5-2 record against ranked teams, and that means the chance is still alive for a 12th NCAA berth in 15 seasons. The turnaround will face two more ranked tests in the next eight days when the Wildcats travel to No. 14 North Carolina on Saturday and then play No. 20 Syracuse at home next Tuesday. “There’s no big secret,” Massimino said again. “All it is is playing hard.”
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ANTHONY PEELER HAD 30 points and 12 rebounds for Missouri despite the fact Kansas used a box-and-one defense to hold him down in the second half. No. 14 North Carolina 96, Maryland 76 Hubert Davis scored 16 of his 26 points in the first half as North Carolina recovered from its upset loss against Notre Dame to win at home against Maryland, which has lost six straight games after a 7-1 start. The Tar Heels (11-2 overall, 2-1 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) turned the ball over four times in the first four minutes. But Davis came off the bench to score 10 points in a 3 span as the Tar Heels took a 19-9 lead with 11:28 left before halftime. No. 19 Tulane 83, New Orleans 61 Pointer Williams, a reserve freshman point guard, had 17 points and six steals as Tulane remained undefeated after 12 games with an easy victory against New Orleans. Four of Tulane’s reserves, dubbed “The Posse” by coach Perry Clark, scored in double figures. None of the starters did but the Green Wave still handed New Orleans its worst home loss in the nine years the Privateers have played in Lakefront Arena.
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