Word: second-half
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Gracing the Final Four three of the past four 1 years, Louisville has set a standard in college basketball recently, and it is not enough to say Houston raised the standard with a 21-1 second-half rampage that transformed the exercise into a 94-81 exhibition of stunt flying. "Kinda awesome," murmured Louisville Coach Denny Crum, whose players had never seen anything like it. "Not in a real game," said Scooter McCray...
...cool days that followed, people would fault but not blame Olajuwon for permitting Lorenzo Charles the inside position on the rebound. But there was no rebound. Whittenburg's 30-ft. buzzer shot missed completely. Standing under the backboard, Charles caught it and, scoring State's only second-half basket not shot from outside, stuffed it. Against Phi Slamma Jamma. That was the poetry...
While the Crimson's attack wasn't especially effective, neither was its defense. Coming into the second half trailing 28-24 the hoopsters' weak defense versus the Eli fast break and inside passing collapsed. Yale raced to an eventful 20-point lead, helped by center Margaret Hutchison's 14 second-half points (24 for the game...
Harvard, which makes a habit of spotting opponents a hefty advantage, never recovered from the early second-half collapse that saw the Bruins nab as high as an 11-point margin...
...battles won on defense carried over to the offensive front, as the Columbia defense rarely rattled Harvard. The Lions' full-court press, a key factor in the Crimson's loss a month ago in New York, didn't force a single turnover until late in the second-half--too late, it turned out, for Columbia to pull out a victory...