College Basketball Roundup : Missouri’s Stewart Is Hospitalized; Tigers Lose

For Missouri, the worst came first.

Coach Norm Stewart, suffering from a bleeding ulcer, blacked out on the flight to Oklahoma City and was taken to a hospital.

With Stewart watching on television, the third-ranked Tigers stayed with fifth-ranked Oklahoma until the final moments before going down to a 112-105 defeat in a Big Eight Conference game Thursday night at Norman, Okla.

“I’ll tell you what, I’m going to take a CPR course when I get back,” assistant coach Rich Daly said. “It was the longest eight minutes of my life (waiting for the plane to land).

“After that, the rest of the day was easy. We shot around, ate and played the game.”

Missouri, 20-4 overall and 6-1 in the Big Eight, scored the first eight points of the game and had a 21-5 lead in the opening minutes, but couldn’t hold off the Sooners (20-3, 6-1) in the final minutes.

Mookie Blaylock, who scored 22 points, made one of two free throws to give Oklahoma a 100-99 lead with 2:30 left, and William Davis followed with a basket.

After an exchange of free throws, Skeeter Henry gave Oklahoma a 104-102 lead with another free throw. He missed the second, but Stacey King, who had 32 points, got the rebound and his three-point play made it 107-101 with 55 seconds left.

“You want to get in there just in case the ball comes off,” King said. “My intent was to tip it up and keep the ball alive.”

Oklahoma stretched its home-court winning streak to 24 games at the Lloyd Noble Center, where the Sooners have won 89 of 91.

Missouri’s top assistant, Bob Sundvold, also missed the game after being suspended indefinitely for reportedly buying an airplane ticket for a former Missouri player.

The Sooners almost ended up playing without Coach Billy Tubbs after the first five minutes, when he was assessed two technical fouls. The second came when he took the public address announcer’s microphone and told the crowd to stop throwing debris on the court “regardless of how terrible the officiating is.”

Said Tubbs: “The (official) ordered me to go up there and say something to the crowd. I just responded. (The technical) is his call.”

Byron Irvin scored 22 points for Missouri.

Michigan 108, Iowa 107--Loy Vaught scored the final six points for the Wolverines, including a layup with two seconds left in the second overtime of a Big Ten victory over the Hawkeyes at Iowa City, Iowa.

Iowa (17-5, 5-4) came from 18 points down in the final 9 1/2 minutes of regulation to take an 83-81 lead, but Michigan (18-4, 6-3) sent the game into overtime on Terry Mills’ basket with two seconds left.

B.J. Armstrong sank two free throws with 44 seconds left to give Iowa a 94-94 tie and send the game to a second overtime. Roy Marble, who scored 32 points, hit a basket and Matt Bullard added a three-point play to give Iowa a 105-100 lead with 2:19 left in the second overtime before Vaught took over.

Glen Rice scored 24 points and Sean Higgins added 22 points for Michigan.

North Carolina State 98, North Carolina 88--Chucky Brown scored 29 points and the No. 17 Wolfpack took the Atlantic Coast Conference lead by beating the sixth-ranked Tar Heels at Raleigh, N.C.

North Carolina (18-5, 5-3), trailing by 22 points early in the second half, rallied to get to within 87-78 on Pete Chilcutt’s basket with 3:22 left, but came no closer.

Rodney Monroe added 24 points for N.C. State (15-4, 6-2). Jeff Lebo scored 22 points for the Tar Heels.

West Virginia 81, Marshall 73--Darryl Prue, who scored 22 points, ignited a second-half run of 11 points and the No. 15 Mountaineers beat the Thundering Herd at Charleston, W.Va.--extending the nation’s longest winning streak to 17 games.

The Mountaineers (18-2) haven’t lost since Dec. 3.

Marshall (10-11) cut West Virginia’s lead to 49-46 on two three-pointers by John Taft, who had 24 points, and two field goals by Gary Strickland before Prue scored six points in the run that pushed the lead to 60-46.

Illinois 62, Ohio State 60--Nick Anderson scored 22 points and the seventh-ranked Illini held Jay Burson under 10 for the first time in 34 games to beat the No. 16 Buckeyes in a Big Ten game at Champaign, Ill.

Ohio State (16-6, 5-4) had its chances to tie, but Jerry Francis and Perry Carter each missed in the final seconds.

Illinois (19-3, 6-3) trailed, 56-49, with nine minutes left, but scored seven straight points to tie the score. The Illini went ahead for good, 60-58, when Ken Battle scored with 2:23 left.

Burson, averaging 20 points per game, managed only nine points as Carter scored 15 for Ohio State.

Indiana 72, Northwestern 56--Jay Edwards scored 18 of his 24 points on three-pointers and the Hoosiers downed the Wildcats in a Big Ten game at Evanston, Ill.

Freshman Eric Anderson added 24 points for Indiana (19-5, 9-1), which won for the 16th time in 17 games.

Freshman Evan Pedersen scored 18 points for Northwestern (8-12, 1-9).