Mar. 16, 1997
Cardinal Edges Wake Forest and Tim Duncan, 72-66
TUCSON, Ariz. -- Peter Sauer hit consecutive jumpers and Arthur Lee added a keytip-in in the final two minutes as sixth-seeded Stanford edgedthird-seeded Wake Forest and ended the college career of TimDuncan, 72-66, in a second-round West Region matchup at Tucson,Arizona.
Sauer hit a turnaround jumper with 1:46 to play and addedanother hoop with 70 seconds remaining as Stanford (22-7) clungto a five-point lead. The Demon Deacons drew within 66-62 withjust over a minute to play when the six-foot Lee tapped home amissed jumper by Sauer.
The Cardinal, who have won six straight games, advance to faceregional two-seed Utah on Thursday. The Cardinal move on to theregional semifinals for the first time since 1942, when they wontheir only NCAA Tournament.
Duncan, the consesus choice for player of the year honorsfinished with 18 points and 20 rebounds but had just a bucketand two free throws in the second half.
Wake Forest finished 24-7.
Lee finished with 14 points as did Kris Weems, who made 5-of-8shots. Brevin Knight had 19 points, five assists and made apair of key free throws with 20.5 seconds to play.
Stanford starting center Tim Young scored just four points butdid a solid job of neutralizig Duncan, especially in the secondhalf.
Duncan was 5-of-11 from the field and 8-of-11 from the freethrow line but committed six turnovers. He never got into theoffense in the second half and flew out to defend Sauer,vacating the key and enabling Lee to tip-in the pivotal basket.
"This (senior) class has been a part of some exciting times atWake Forest," said Wake Forest coach Dave Odom. "They've takenus places we've never been and done things we've never done.These guys have always done it with the highest of dignity andthe highest of class, great grace, tremendous commitment, notonly to our team, but to our university. They've been a creditto all of college basketball."
The game featured 44 fouls and Young and Wake's Ricky Peralfouled out in the final four minutes.
"I took Tim Young out with two (fouls)," said Stanford coachMike Montgomery when asked about the physical play. "Wake Forestwas starting to complain, and rightly so, about the contact. Ianticipated then that the officials might be a little morecognizant of maybe calling a third, so I took him out. "Myconcern was the second half. "Duncan is so good that I wasconcerned that if we had people with three fouls in the secondhalf, that we would run out of gas and they would just go to himand he would score every time, so I was trying to save my bigpeople."
STANFORD (72) fg ft rb min m-a m-a o-t a pf tpWeems 38 5-8 2-2 0-4 2 0 13Sauer 33 5-12 4-5 1-7 2 1 14Young 14 1-4 2-4 0-1 1 5 4Lee 35 5-10 3-5 2-3 4 1 14Knight 39 5-11 8-8 0-2 5 4 19Moseley 8 0-1 0-0 0-3 1 1 0Van Elswyk 10 1-2 0-0 1-3 0 4 2Seaton 6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0Madsen 17 1-2 4-6 2-5 0 3 6_______________________________________________TOTALS 200 23-50 23-30 6-28 15 20 72_______________________________________________Percentages: FG-.460, FT-.767. 3-Point Goals:3-8, .375 (Weems 1-1, Sauer 0-1, Lee 1-2, Knight1-3, Moseley 0-1). Team rebounds: 2. Blockedshots: 1 (Moseley). Turnovers: 10 (Lee 3, VanElswyk 2, Young 2, Knight, Sauer, Weems). Steals:8 (Knight 4, Sauer 2, Lee, Van Elswyk).WAKE FOREST (66) fg ft rb min m-a m-a o-t a pf tpAllen 15 0-1 1-2 0-1 0 4 1Peral 27 6-8 0-1 1-2 1 5 12Duncan 40 5-11 8-11 6-20 2 4 18Braswell 38 5-12 0-1 0-1 5 4 13Rutland 37 5-14 3-3 0-0 2 4 16Goolsby 15 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 1 0Amonett 18 1-3 0-0 0-1 3 2 2Woods 10 2-3 0-0 0-2 0 0 4_______________________________________________TOTALS 200 24-53 12-18 7-28 13 24 66_______________________________________________Percentages: FG-.453, FT-.667. 3-Point Goals:6-19, .316 (Peral 0-1, Duncan 0-1, Braswell 3-4,Rutland 3-11, Goolsby 0-1, Amonett 0-1). Teamrebounds: 2. Blocked shots: 3 (Duncan 3).Turnovers: 16 (Duncan 6, Peral 3, Braswell 2,Rutland 2, Allen, Amonett, Woods). Steals: 3(Duncan 2, Amonett).__________________________________Stanford 25 47 - 72Wake Forest 19 47 - 66__________________________________Technical fouls: None. A: 11,916. Officials: TomOneil, Jodi Silvester, Rt Day.