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>> this is ncaa march madness. >> to set the stage for a memorable comeback, a team has to first put itself on the brink of defeat and elimination. in 2005, the louisville cardinals and illinois fighting illini did just that and forged two comebacks for the ages. back-to-back with two spots in the final four hanging in the balance. first up, rick pitino's louisville team took on west virginia in the regional finals in albuquerque, new mexico. >> these two universities have great basketball traditions. >> the mountaineers hit the cardinals with a barrage of three-pointers. >> quick release -- off the glass! >> he fires, and hits. woo! they are stroking now, folks.

>> >> ten of them in the first half. as west virginia came out hitting 11 of its first 16 shots. a run that had them looking like a lock for a trip to the final four. >> these kids are really drilling it today. another three -- oh, man! >> pitino's cardinals now found themselves down by 20 with less than three minutes left in the first half. >> what a surprise. nobody giving west virginia a chance to win this game. >> and then the cardinals began to chip away at the mountaineer's seemingly insurmountable advantage. >> and here come the cardinals. they've got the swagger back. louisville within eight. >> it is a five-point deficit. >> rebounding inside -- got it! >> three-point deficit. 74-73. >> finally, with under a minute to play, louisville came all the way back.

>> the bucket -- oh, my gosh! that's 77. >> and in the overtime, steed's seventh three-pointer of the night. >> and o'bannon's five free-throws help the cardinals punch their ticket to the final four in st. louis. >> louisville somehow, some way, manages to come back after being down by 20 and defeat west virginia 93-85. >> while rick pitino made history becoming the first coach to take three different men's programs to the final four. later that night, at the regional final in chicago, before a partisan illinois crowd, the number one ranked team in the country for most of the season had its hands full with the arizona wildcats.

>> a three. and this matches the biggest deficit staring at illinois the entire season. >> and the thinnest lead of the game is now 70-58. >> down 15 with just four minutes remaining, the once-beaten illini seem ready to watch arizona cut down the net and head to the final four. but the prayers of the illinois faithful did not go unanswered and a miracle began to build. >> derrick williams gets three out of that 15-point lead. >> another field! >> luther head. he hits the three. what a game by luther head. >> lee brown gets two!

oh, my! 45 seconds left. a three-point game! what a comeba-back by illinois. oh, my! >> then, darren williams completed the miracle. >> williams with a three -- he does! >> an incredible 20-5 run over the last four minutes of regulation. answering the illini's prayers. >> the illini showing the heart of a champion. >> williams hit two more threes in the overtime, but the illini still had to hold on for dear life at the end. >> he's got to hurry. and the ball game is over -- illinois in overtime advances to the final four!

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ncaa tournament has unveiled over the years -- >> oh! my goodness! dorothy! >> -- there is nothing but elation and ecstasy. >> they've pulled the upset! >> this is what the tournament is all about. everybody's got a shot at it. >> when the brackets were released in 2003, marquette was anything but the favorite to come out of this region. led by dwyane wade, the golden eagles played with apurpose. they wore the name on theiriercies in honor of their former legendary coach, al mcguire. after winning their first two games, wade stepped on to the national stage for the fir time and he never steps down.

after a foul in the first half against favored pittsburgh, the golden eagles put their hopes in the hand of wade, and did he ever deliver. >> dwyane wade has scored the last ten points. >> there's dwyane wade. what a three! >> and the basket! oh, wow! >> school's out! dwyane wade. >> wade has been the team. 15 in this half. back it goes, wade jumps up -- and it's in! that is as good as it gets! full body control, great selection. >> wade almost single-handedly defeated pittsburgh, scoring 20 of his 22 points in the second half. now the underdogs from marquette were just one game away from the

final four in new orleans. all that stood in the way was number one seed kentucky. but that didn't seem to matter. >> our goal was to get to new orleans and no one's going to get in our way. >> the wildcats tried to get in wade's way. but from the start, wade showed kentucky that this was his night. >> wade, up, under -- oh! is that extraordinary. >> dwyane wade. >> just like that. >> oh, wow! >> we have seen the whole array. >> dwyane wade scored 29 points, grabbed 1 rebounds a1 rebounds out the first official double-double had tournament history and undeniably led his

team to the final four. >> the golden eagles of marquette university are bound to the final four. >> the following we be jen, wade and his golden eagles were blown off the court by kansas at the final four. but d. wade's dominance earned marquette a place in the annals of the ncaa tournament's great cinderella stories. dwyane wade's run in 2003 was not lost on george mason's squad of 2006. truly the ultimate cinderella story of march madness. first, they barely made the tournament. >> they came in here, didn't have a large team. a lot of people didn't believe that they belonged here. there were a lot of other schools. >> the one thing i told the players i promise you, i'm going to have more fun than any other head coach in this tournament and i'm asking you guys have to more fun than any other team. >> then, they upset michigan state in the first round.

>> george mason, rolls -- now they're celebrating. congratulations, george mason! >> in round two, the 11th seeded patriots took on the defending national champion north carolina tar heels. trying to continue their unlikely journey on the road to the final four. shortly after the opening tip, it appeared that midnight would be coming early for this would-be cinderella. >> tar heels on an 11-0 run. >> and mother steal. they were showing a different story in the beginning of second half. george mason counterpunching. george mason! how about this! the new cinderella.

65-60, mason defeats north carolina! >> in the sweet 16, the patriots shocked wichita state. >> george mason is in the elite eight. >> and now they were just one game away from an historic final four berth. >> everybody was shocked that we beat michigan state, wichita state and north carolina. but you know, when it came up against uconn, they were too big, too athletic, too many nba players on that team. >> i don't remember going through the thought we might lose. i definitely was confident. i think the team was, too. >> still, no one believed in george mason except themselves. surely, mighty connecticut, the number one seeded goliaths in the tournament, would dominate the davidlike patriots.

>> through the course of the game we had points where we could have given up but we didn't. we just kept fighting. >> down nine in the second half george mason would go on a run. >> campbell. oh! >> the patriots had a chance to wrap one the game. but missed three free-throws down the stretch, and uconn was left with one last chance. >> right side, brown -- yes! >> oh, my goodness! yes! >> miraculously, george mason fought through the huskies' momentum. >> jumper -- yes. >> and prevailed in the overtime. >> brown, three to go. brown for three -- no good!

by george, the dream is alive! >> the most unlikely cinderella of all-time made it to midnight, married the prince and surprised the world becoming the most inconceivable final four team of all-time. >> wherever i go, everybody knows our trademark. i'm signing autographs wherever i go. people want to take pictures. it definitely received a lot of popularity throughout country. >> we're one of those teams, we don't have the tallest team or the biggest or strongest team. we kind of look like an average basketball team, yet we've been able to do extraordinary things with just ordinary people. >> nobody gave us a chance. the name "cinderella" comes

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pepperdine, what's going on here? they're good. but we go out there and we' fl t. t. you look at one side of the bench and they're cheering and the other side they're kind of upset and angry, they're about to lose. >> we were down by five with maybe 20 seconds to play. time-out. afterwards people always say what did you say during the body or ws. o pepperdine's all-time leading scorer and still best free-throw shooter and he missed two front-ends, one-and-one. >> he missed it. >> what happened, it was just an unbelievable scene of events that took place.

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we're going to hold them. then we went right after. >> long-range bomber. >> we were up eight at half. it was perfect. we were very confident. >> state players, we've seen a big momentum change. >> 17-2 run. don't worry about it. just remember what we always talked about, be in a position to win at the end of the game. >> he's got the hot hand. >> 52-48. 2:58 left in the game -- oh. he can tie it up -- and with 1:54 left. >> we're in a position to win. we were going to find a way to win.

rick grabs it, turns and lets it fly. >> down to 14 seconds. >> ooh, almost stolen by drexler. boy, is he good at that! >> and got a drive to the basket. down it seven seconds. can you see the time. wittenberg -- oh, it's long way -- they won it! on the dot! >> i just took off in flight. i mean happiness and joy. i didn't know where i was going. i was just running like crazy. it was fabulous. >> for the 1983 wolfpack, they now live on forever, the biggest of all march miracles. >> the dream was to cut the nets down in a national championship. that was my dream. well, i'm one of the lucky people in the world that can say that, onef my fondest dreams became a reality.

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traffic is getting heavy. a lot of those cars heading to staples center for the continuation of the fourth and final round of the life pac-10 tournament. eight teams in action today vying for that treaty right there that does to the champion of the pacific life pac-10 tournament. tonight, four teams begin their quest. who will step up, meet the challenge and exceed their expectations? which teams will rise together and show the spirit that is

unbreakable? the pacific life pac-10 tournament excitement continues. arizona state takes on stanford in the first game of our special doubleheader. it's the drive to stay alive. welcome back to the pacific life pac-10 tournament. two games already in the books. we've got two to more starting with stand for

abbott is valuable to the sun devils, consider this. e first- selection. when he scored doubl going to take the floor. >> two more games tonight. the cal bears with a very impressive played outstanding. he will play ucla tomorrow night at what we have coming up next, stanford versus arizona state followed by oregon state

and washington. both teams trying to make a stronger case for getting a better cd in the ncaa tournament. >> absolutely. both teams are trying to get in. they need to get to that semifinal matchup. the way things are playing out across the country, teams like uab and memphis losing today in those ball games, their bubbles are bursting whereas asu and washington can make their case tonight. >> kurz of state and washington play their best basketball perhaps of the season the last of several weeks. arizona state won 8 of the last 10, washington 9 of the last 11. when we return we'll show you some of those other conference tournament games but also give you dial in for this game. stanford-arizona state, landry fields the top scorer going against one of the best defenses in the entire country when arizona state sun devils. you're watching the pacific life pac-10 tournament. lunch? ime hink get a grip on the new kfc boneless filet. our meatiest piece of boneless chicken ever... with a side, biscuit, and drink for just 5 bucks.

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hoyas up a four late in the second half and they would pull away. chris wright finds austin frn. getops sus toe oror b or,hetater on crutches. not sure hd ilut tamis azydouhe srond so deep. the eight, five and seven seed left. cincinnati pulled a great upset last night. >> houston taking on memphis. another bubble team as far as the ncaa tournament is concerned. elliott williams goes in for the jam, or did he? he did jam. the problem was the ball hit off his head, goes back up through the basket. that didn't count. early in the second half, no big deal but that two points came back to haunt memphis because houston up one and then in transition, calledbl dre in. houston stunsem, 66, ib kksigou ofhea na. onnca a

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great career at arizona state. their all-time leader, 1,000 points, 51st player to that. averaged 16.7 per game. five turnovers. derek glasser takes care of the basketball and he is tough to handle on the pick and roll. once again something to watch defensively if you are stanford. >> starting lineup for arizona state. boateng has not missed a shot against and for this year. 14 for 14.

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number seven seed stanford leads number two seed arizona state 5-3 in the pac-10 tournament and we've seen some good games early like reeves nelson. >> marques: that's how you go 8 for 9 from the field. from the floor you get conversion's like that. jerome randle, the pac-10 player of the year and most of those points i believe game in the first half of that game. i took a nap. he had about 20. >> steve: 22 in the first half

alone. our pacific life first half summary as we seek ucla will meet california's approximately 6:00 tomorrow and then the winner of this stamford/arizona state game will meet the winner of the oregon state/washington game, which will be an interesting matchup of a team that's clock control against the speed of the huskies. at the free-throw line, landry fields, who came in averaging 23.5 points per game his last 12. he's gotten better over several games. >> marques: he could have very easily got the award as stanford goes into someone-2-2 full-court pressure. along with quincy pondexter and ty abbott, they could have been candidates for the conference most improved player of the year award. >> steve: you can add eric boateng to that. >> steve: >> marques: without question especially the way boateng is coming down the stretch. defense a 2-3 zone. kind of a matchup.

>> steve: boateng in good position. then he was shoved. it appears the foul will go against andrew zimmermann, the 6'8" sophomore from wisconsin. >> marques: boateng is working. see him write. nice job. get the inside position for the rebound and he's coming off of injury. just doesn't have enough strength and the movement to work himself around. >> steve: glasser to inbound. kuksiks had an opening and then fields puts it up and then regards, who is more of a catch and shoot guy, scores on the drive. >> marques: that old throwback, kind of jerry lucas runner. he's got that kind of touch. he gets to the square. he's got a good chance of knocking that down. >> steve: he went back to ohio state in 1965 to find a similar player.

coaches or somebody. missing his first three. he's had a great game against arizona state and a miserable one. travel against ty abbott. >> marques: was going to say you go green. not too many people recognize his name. here he is coming. fight through the defensive pressure of landry fields and then kind of short steps it. kicks up the right knee, knocks it down. fields continues on and create space, which is so important when you don't have the athleticism and the skill. you've got to be able to create space when shooting to get the shot off. >> steve: kuksiks used a lot of those moves playing for the latvian national team this past summer. he averaged 30 points a game. second turnover on stanford and jeremy green, who is a big-time scorer, needs that confidence early because he's been slumping a little bit from the field lately. >> marques: arizona state doing a good job. there is another one.

back screen. popping back into that post area. he's very active, eric boateng looking to get that. derek glasser. it didn't work out but it gives you an idea of the game plan of herb sendek early in this game. keep boateng involved. >> steve: so important to victory overeat usc and ucla last weekend. mike williams told you that arizona state are playing much better. they won 8 of their last 10 coming in. taylor rohde was a sophomore from phoenix to nicole high school and now the freshman in jerren shipp, a senior. >> marques: stanford tries to match up fields. >> steve: playing a lot more recently, he's a 6'2" senior from houston, texas. rohde is more of a screener in

asu offense now. >> marques: they're back into their man-to-man. johnny dawkins switching up defenses. >> steve: shipped missing. rebound to kuksiks. no, and it will be to the line for a pair. >> marques: we've seen stanford extended, 1-2-2, 3/forecourt token pressure. we've seen some zone. i know they've got the 1-2-2 zone and now back to man-to-man. dawkins trying to keep arizona state offensively a little off balance, keep them guessing, keep them from recognizing right away what kind of defense is. >> steve: they've held arizona state to only seven points in the game's first seven minutes. they came in dead last in field goal percentage defense, lasted rebounding, last in steals and done a good job against an asu team playing very well. >> marques: the problem for stanford this season is

eventually the average is going to catch up. can they sustain this kind of average? we're talking about stanford. maybe 60% of their points against their seniors. >> steve: arizona state is a team. igbinosa drops in the three pointer to give stanford a five point lead. asu a very pleased team. they were down by 11 points in the first half was to the cardinal and arizona state wound up winning by eight. shipp gets mugged and fouled, and i believe it will go against dildy. >> marques: a little slippage on the logo at top. sometimes those can be a little slick. they take some getting used to buy the players and jerren shipp had some issues with that. arizona state guard going to run their stuff. herb sendek does a nice job to teach. the adrenaline is flowing for

these guys. they know the enormous to of this game in terms of trying to solidify an ncaa spot. >> steve: shipp defended by fields. trying to post up on his man. >> marques: he goes down hard and comes up limping. >> steve: right on that decal again. >> marques: the decals, they are kind of bad ons. this is where the lakers and the clippers play. they've got the floor all spruced up for the pac-10 tournament here. jerren shipp having some difficulties keeping his footing. >> steve: mcmillan gets it to happen. he is well defended. >> marques: stanford doing a good job making arizona state negotiate their offense toward the decal. >> steve: a turnover for arizona state and they're a team that doesn't turn the ball over. they had a marvelous showing against the stanford cardinal where they won by eight. they only made five turnovers in

the entire game and last in -- none in the last 29:02. >> marques: that's what happens when you've got derek glasser and jamel. these guys are 1-2 mackinaw assist to turnover ratio in this conference. >> steve: arizona state already has four early turnovers. igbinosa missing a three pointer. rebound out to mcmillan. >> marques: arizona state going to continue to execute, run their set, play that tough 2-3 matchup zone. >> steve: that's five turnovers already for the sun devils. shiller. hit. >> marques: nice job, and emmanuel igbinosa running in transition. finds that spot up. stanford following their game plan to perfection. you can't set up that 2-3 matchup if a team is pushing and probing and been productive like stanford has done. igbinosa, a great shooter in his own right. nice job with the jump stop top

of the key. you don't see a lot of that in college basketball. drew shiller, give him a chance to get his feet set, get the bucket, it's over with. >> steve: shiller was a local legend in birmingham, california. quarterback. also basketball and baseball. last night on behalf of pac-10 commissioner larry scott, the stanford senior landry fields is a 2009-2010 men's basketball pac-10 scholar-athlete of the year. >> marques: i was a first-team all-american and first winner of the john wooden award and academic all-american. you know which i'm more proud of? >> steve: academics. >> marques: no, john wooden award. >> steve: you set me up. >> marques: it is a close second or close third. >> steve: you were the one who kept saying keep writing. i'm taking writing class is now.

jerren shipp missing the three short. long rebound. stanford has their biggest advantage of eight points. >> marques: this is a matchup that arizona state wants. they feel that ty abbott is their best, toughest, most physical on the ball defender. >> steve: dildy gets fouled. he will go to the free-throw line, or is that aver. ody gfor fic li-10amen ophy o wil it

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attacking the rim. not just settling for jumpers against that zone defense. this is a stanford team that took kentucky to overtime earlier in the year. >> landry fields leading the way with seven. let's send it back down to steve and marques. if you're going to beat the number two team in the tournament you need a total team effort. >> marques: they're doing a good job. good point about driving the basketball. first two games they shot 54, the two highest three point attempts of the year with this team. you can see johnny dawkins is getting a concerted effort. can move the ball out first, get the zone to switch or get a matchup like, drive it to the rim. >> steve: are you more impressed with stanford's offense or their defense? >> marques: defense without question. containment, passing type of defense. they are attacking, trying to force turnovers and they've done a nice job. get up there and swat it out of there.

>> steve: they have a limited arizona state to just six field goals and this is their 19 shots. >> marques: the guards are trapping. the defense can't get much better than that. nothing easy. ty abbott, no points. zero. not up. the only one, if you are going to have to give up something. >> steve: shot clock down to four. got to take the shot. then the whistle and a foul called and i'm not sure -- was it an illegal screen on boateng? that's his first foul. >> marques: that's, out of a panic situation. boateng trying to free up glass with the shot clock running down. everybody else pretty much a non factor. right into stanford's hands. 6 of their last 7 and 8 of their last 10.

meantime, stanford lost their last three games to arizona state, arizona and cal, and they lost 8 of their last 11. there's timeout on the floor but the sun devils have to regroup. as we take a look at the award winners in the pac-10 conference, the player of the year, jerome randle, the california guard at 5'8" tall. you've got the freshman of the year. this guy is going to be a monster. he can score. >> marques: he's a terrific player. cerebral. and a well-deserved and herb sendek of arizona state. what did i say? >> steve: seth greenberg. >> marques: werema going with that one? seth tarver. >> steve: isn't he an actor? . >> marques: he's the voice of something. >> steve: he can't play

basketball at all. >> marques: maybe jerome randle. i thought the coaches to vote on the all conference team awarded seniors this year. mike followill, ucla, all conference. jamal boykin, second team all conference. they are rewarding seniors for four years. >> steve: second team has some very good numbers as well, guys like boykins, green, haynes, robertson. all quality players. >> marques: arizona state has got to follow these shots. stanford has done a masterful job of mixing up the defense. landry fields, he's defending. kuksiks. >> steve: another defensive strict. the tenth turnover by arizona state. they've been one of the most efficient teams in college

basketball and they're first in assists to turnovers. but they reversed that in the first half. >> marques: the top two assist to turnover guys on arizona state. >> steve: mcmillan, nice read. kuksiks the three! >> marques: you're the man. to the man, sweetheart. shoot down as you catch them. four point game. >> steve: one of the things i like most about arizona state, when teams out play them like california, for the share of the title at the pavilion. >> marques: this team, it's not because of lack of effort. the other team did it better and more consistently than you did. >> steve: asu's first pac-10 coach of the year since 1980. >> marques: some of that great

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we come to you from staples center in downtown los angeles. there is a look at the stanford band. they have been penalized a little bit in the past because of their outrageous style, but they're trying to pick up the cardinals, who have the four point lead on the number two seeded arizona state sun devils. the most interesting mascot in all sports, the tree. >> marques: interesting is a good word for it. >> steve: i asked the individual in the tree. he would not give me his name or what his act score was when he left high school. it was more than 1400. engineering major.

>> marques: and he's a treat. >> steve: 83. >> marques: >> marques: >> steve: all right. >> marques: some zone defense. they are in kind of a matchup zone. kind of a 2-3, morse into a 1-2-2. a different alignment of an arizona state did. >> steve: herb sendek wants to get ty abbott involved. >> marques: he should. this is the all pac-10 conference performer in ty abbott, who has just been terrific down the stretch for this basketball team. kind of struggle to couple games of late. january, february has been really consistent. >> steve: 7-0 run. no, it spins out. rebounded, as you. one and don. >> marques: arizona state down 11 the last time these two teams met. >> steve: abbott, not this time. he knocks down a three but no

foul called. >> marques: arizona state not going to get frustrated. they're going to keep grinding it out, keep running their stuff, keep relying on defense >> steve: stanford has not scored in the last 4:30. >> marques: as well as they've played to be a 24-22, show the frustration, he's complaining that his jersey was called. ty abbott, nice job moving without the basketball. right wing, comes through the zone. talk about creating space. fade going left. allows me to get the shot off of a much bigger landry fields. >> steve: arizona state can tie it or take the lead with a three. they put it inside. taylor rohde fumbles with it and they swing it to glasser. >> marques: back in man-to-man defense now. ball screen except for glasser. ball is not going to be there but the jump shot is good.

stanford converges in the key. >> steve: glasser in and out. >> marques: the big guys setting the screen. fool's gold. look for the role. >> steve: the steal by kuksiks. a three-on-one break. counts it! a chance for arizona state to take the lead for the first time tonight. >> marques: rihards kuksiks. this young man, the quick hands against landry fields right there, converges defensively in the 2-3 mzone. going to push. the man got caught on that new rules. you cannot take an offensive foul if you are the secondary defender in a transition situation. that's what you're considered as. >> steve: johnny dawkins was able to hold kuksiks without a field goal in the last game but tonight he is 5 for 6 from the floor. the rest of the team is 4 for 18.

arizona state would be about ten back without rick. >> marques: my main concern for the cardinal, can they sustain it that superlative effort that they gave a in the first 20 minutes of this game. they played so well in stretches but they just don't have it's a lot of time. >> steve: jeremy green with a big three and he has deep range. >> marques: if they are to pull out this monumental upset it's going to be behind the efforts of jeremy green, having a huge game for them shooting the basketball. >> steve: glasser knocked down. that's a foul on shiller. that's his first. our acura halftime report, michael eaves and miles simon talking about the quarterfinal round today, where ucla knocked off arizona in our first game and california beat oregon, 90-74 behind pac-10 player of the year jerome randle's

24 points in the first half. >> marques: the better at our production meeting between michael eaves and miles simon. miles run to a championship, his most outstanding player. >> steve: didn't they beat kentucky? >> marques: he beat kentucky but also had to remind us that they beat three number ones, took the easy route as miles put it. >> steve: that was a pac-10 team that finished fifth in the conference and beat three number ones. >> marques: caught fire. >> steve: miles got the arguments won. >> marques: stanford looking for equality shot, looking to try to go into halftime with just a semblance of momentum. arizona state converges defensively. >> steve: green down low. no. kuksiks has done every time. that time his defense denied the easy basket. stanford will have it with nine seconds left on the shot clock. >> marques: johnny dawkins semi

irate, as irate as a cool johnny dawkins can be. >> steve: mann looking to score. gets it down low. trotter does find home. >> marques: good ball movement but stanford looking for some semblance of momentum offensively. >> steve: savvy senior point guard derek glasser controls to go and have the sun devils take the final shot of the first half trailing by four. >> marques: ball screen, taylor rohde trying to set up a shot possibly for ty abbott on the right wing. >> steve: glasser pulls up with five seconds left, nails the three to make it a one point game. all the good defense by glass and kuksiks, denies stanford from taking a shot to and the first half. glasser's three pulls ksu to within one after the stanford cardinal had a ten point early leads the to put in a lot of work in the off-season using that title screen, kicking out the angles.

the defender sloughs off, knocks down the jump shot. derek green, glasser loves this building. >> steve: 29-28. seventh seed over two seed. let's go to michael eaves for the acura halftime report. >> welcome to the acura halftime report. michael eaves and miles simon, what a spirited effort by the 7 seeded stanford cardinal in the first half to lead the second seeded arizona state sun devils by one going into the half. what you saw the first 20 minutes. we'll also take the to the s.e.c. see if there are any upsets in that conference tournament going on in nashville and how it may affect what happens as far as the pac-10 getting into the ncaa tournament. that's all coming up on the acura halftime report. landry fields the leading scorer in the pac-10 this season and right now his team is up one over arizona state at the pacific life pac-10 tournament. boneless filet is... c o chi b) so meaty icy, or cuthwg hu of orireci

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evening set for the pacific life pac-10 tournament at staples center in los angeles and right now it's stanford with the one point lead over arizona state, 29-28. the cardinals shooting 50% in that first half so stanford's played so well up into this point, what must they do in the second half they're going to pull off this upset? >> to pull off the shocker they're going to continue to be active on the defensive end. they forced ten turnovers. in the second half you have to the your big dogs carry you. jeremy green and landry fields taking them home. >> a lot of energy that stanford brought to that first half and landry fields is the leading scorer in the pac-10. can he continue this in the second half against one of the best defensive teams not just in the pac-10 but in the country? number seven trying to pull off an upset of the number two d. anford with a leaver a s

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like it was kind of simultaneous or ruled the other guy was making contact. >> steve: mann could not finish the three. missing but getting hammered inside by stanford. earlier tonight i was talking about jarrett mann and his outside shooting. johnny dawkins revealed to me yesterday that jarrett mann, you see how his wrist is heavily taped, he said because of an injury he suffered as a child, he has a claitt in that wrist that affects the shot. he said doctors in the off-season said surgery is needed to correct the problem and jonny said he will have it done, and the to therapy immediately, because they want him working on that shot during the summer because they think he can be a quality point guard in this league. >> marques: that kind explains his former. he flays that elbow out to the right side. there were some issues going on. if he can become just a solid outside shooter he will really help his team out, helped

himself out. >> steve: a solid outside shooter misses from three point range. >> marques: he's got the size, he's got the handle, he's able to get where he can get. >> steve: jamelle mcmillan tried to run the baseline. throws it away. shiller with the steal. >> marques: great anticipation by shiller. >> steve: then it is thrown away but it still belongs to the stanford cardinal. they say last touched by the sun devils. >> marques: penetrate baseline. usually the baseline outlet on the opposite side is wide open. shiller understands that. he got into the passing lane and steals. >> steve: you can see asu in that zone with man principles towards the ball. >> marques: what do you know about the anita? >> steve: listening to you all the time. >> marques: 1-13, unlv, jerry tarkanian created kind of a deal. 1-13 but it does work.

>> steve: jeremy green with the 3-pointer and stanford's back in front by four. >> marques: nice job of getting the ball and dawkins has done a nice job preparing his team to attack this 2-3 matchup zone. he wants to isolate the situation. wants it to move. >> steve: swing it around to kuksiks but field's is there. stanford really rotating their defense well. teams got to watch out. what do we have? a travel against erik and i think they'll take boateng out to keep him from getting that fourth foul. taylor rohde will come in for herb. >> marques: he just exploded through the contact and you're right, good move by herb sendek. got to save him. a good, aggressive move. did not get the together to finish. i like his aggression in this game.

>> steve: shiller now at the point as they move win. man onto the wing along with jeremy green. >> marques: a touch and a shot. >> steve: shot clock down to five. zimmermann with the left hand. >> marques: nice. trying to regain that edge. jeremy green here in the second half. great for landry fields. he's just kind of laying in wait. they need someone else to step up and put offensive pressure on landry fields momentarily. defense man on ty abbott. >> steve: 9-2 stanford run. that was great when arizona state took their first lead of the game. stanford said no, we're not backing down. >> marques: that's impressive because i was questioning whether or not stanford was going to be able to come back and regain the intensity and the focus and the efficiency, more

importantly, in the second half after they had a 22-12 lead. arizona state fought back. >> steve: zimmermann down in that low block. now he's trying to set a screen for him. >> marques: the defense of stanford here to start the second half is just like the first half. it is very outstanding. man-to-man primarily. >> steve: in and out from the three. feels rebounds. >> marques: great defense contests the long jumper. >> steve: fields will be at that three -- free-throw line for a pair of shots. >> marques: stanford playing off each other extremely well. jeremy green on the penetration fein's adams zimn on in he r a prot in he b. thmy susin ialira.

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state, 17-5 off turnovers. a steal by landry, tipped and a couple reflections that have gone to teammates. they've resulted in stanford points. >> marques: the transformation of landry fields, they were kicking sand in his face when he first came. 6'4", 180-pound weakling. now he's lifting, he's growing, he's developed. he's a man! >> steve: you'd be proud to find out that fields was named the pac-10 scholar athlete of the year just last night. >> marques: he's a smart man. >> steve: just like you were when you were the wooden award winner and more importantly an academic all-american. >> marques: yes, indeed. landry fields. that's one of the special things about this job, as you know. watching these guys to come in as 17-18-year old kids and they just develops, mr. johnson, and by the time they leave they're like what up, marques. >> steve: we have a chance to watch them get better. they're staying in school and getting better.

landry has made himself into an nba prospect. boateng, nice rebound. >> marques: took a gamble on that fourth foul. stay in the game. pick up that fourth, get him out of there, sitting down. give stanford a lot of time. trying to establish position down low. >> steve: senior jerren shipp back in the game. boateng bowls over his man and is that a blocking foul? that would have been the fourth. that will be called against eric. >> marques: that is a blocking foul. zimmermann underneath but nice job, boateng. faceup moved. put the pressure on the defense to have to stop. he's got to be careful. >> steve: kuksiks trying to chase it down. green has it and lays it up and in! >> marques: another turnover. another miscommunication by arizona state.

herb sendek express's -- as expressive as he'll get in this situation but i get the sense he does not like the way his team is performing out here. that's the understatement of the year. >> steve: down low, glass. almost turned it over. they swing it. ty abbott trying. man has he been cold. green got bumped by rick kuksiks. >> marques: what did we talk about early on? get out in that transition for the 2-3 matchup. have a chance to get set up and then on the inbound execution play, you don't do a good job of it, leads to turnover, leads to a tough but productive play by jeremy green down at the other end. i like the way stanford looks to force the issue offensively. keep getting out in transition at every opportunity. >> steve: he has really stepped up his game. shooting 33% the last six games but green, big-time scorer, he broke casey jacobsen's record

for numthree pointers in a season with 90 coming into tonight's claitt. >> marques: here is another guy in terms of most improved. also if he would have won the award, it would not have been any kind of conversation even justified. >> steve: this equals stanford's biggest lead of the night. a ten point a john arizona state. will we see an upset in the quarter finals? >> marques: arizona state may be feeling the pressure of having to perform well in the pacific life pac-10 tournament in order to assure themselves of an ncaa bid. they would look to be playing just a little bit tighter right now. >> steve: it tells you how important ty abbott is to their success. he has only two points and when he scored in double figures they're 25-4 the last two years. >> marques: boateng another guy that can really help their pace. jerren shipp.

>> steve: nice job. >> marques: take me on inside the paint. this is what they need to do. steps in, gets the offensive foul. kuksiks just out of control. nice, aggressive take to the basket. out of control. makes him pay the price for it. >> steve: you can see the turnover difference. arizona state doing something that they rarely do. they've got two of the most efficient point guards in the game in glass and mcmillan, but they're part of the 13 turnovers. here's what's on the line. ucla already knocked off a higher seed arizona by six. california did their job by smoking oregon by 16. but arizona state wants to break down that march madness door by winning their 23rd. they finished second in this conference, 12-6. >> marques: i'm of the opinion that they have to win this game. that looks good. beat san diego state late. jerren shipp.

ty abbott is struggling. jerren shipp has to be the guy, the senior. here in los angeles. step up and make some offensive plays for arizona state to have a chance to win this game. >> steve: that was your battle cry a couple weeks ago. were screening on the air, seniors, seniors, seniors. fields, senior. >> marques: that's that matchup we talked about in the first half playing against this matchup zone. that will be the matchup you want. that is landry fields against derek glasser on top. >> steve: boateng. >> marques: got to go up, baby. got to go up. 3-second violation. got to go up the first time. landry fields 6'7" over 6'2". derek glasser get team in the paint. no help. just up and over. that looked like a conventional man-to-man defensive lineup because of the way johnny dawkins had his players situated defensively. great job by stanford attacking that 2-3 matchup zone.

>> steve: defending the three. wow! he's beginning to take over. >> marques: there was a matchup arizona state wanted. jerren shipp a bigger, more physical defensive player. landry fields a little inside out maneuver with the ball on the dribble, freed him up to get to the basket and then he powered his way through the contact. the height kiss. >> steve: that's a classic example of what you were talking about earlier. came in, no way he makes that shot. that play, that time he took the push. able to still get his balance together and knock down and the shots. >> steve: we were talking about arizona state's mental toughness. we're going to have to see it in the last 12 minutes. a whistle and a foul will be called against the stanford cardinal. >> marques: stanford, can they sustain it? they had that ten point lead in

the first half. can they sustain this high level of play to pull off this monumental upset? and possibly douse the ncaa tournament hopes of arizona state. >> steve: coming into this year, arizona state had the worst record in the tournament. just 5-11 but did make their first title game last year, losing by three points to ufc. >> marques: let me say this also about the way things are shaping up nationally, in terms of different tournaments and teams that are on the bubble. uab, memphis losing today. teams that have lost that will still help arizona state. it's not a done deal. they can secure it, i think, by winning this game. it can be a no-brainer for them if they win this game. >> steve: glasser 88% foul shooter, just missed the front end of a one-and-one. >> marques: tightness. a little tight this. allowing the enormity of the situation to get to him. >> steve: igbinosa back in.

here's fields for three! >> marques: feeling no pain. feeling no pressure! >> steve: it's a three point lead. a 21-5 run by the cardinal. >> marques: it's all up in the grille of derek glasser. >> steve: how about this? stanford coming in, not playing well, lost their last . ayin, wi of tast t la filayie an l-am.

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out of bounds. zimmermann nice finish on the inside. >> steve: that's our perfect play book. what a do you have been fields and green. they came in averaging 39 points per game, 56% of the team's offense. they've just passed lighty and howard right as the most points per season for stanford it do doaks. >> marques: they're thinking about this monumental upset, how to sustain this effort that they have shown so far in the first 30-plus minutes of this game. nice job by abbott trying to come alive. takes way too much time for stanford to feel too good about themselves. got to maintain, you've got to keep it up especially with that score. >> steve: herb sendek knows how important ty abbott is, so during the timeout he drew up a place. ever since they went to that motion he's averaged 16 points per game. they've won 12 of their 16 games. rebound by boateng off a

stanford miss. >> marques: shots like that and misses sometimes. take the kind of come back that you need to throw down. >> steve: at no. boateng tries for the rebound. saves it. gets it back to glasser. not good. here's abbott. three! >> marques: and that's what great hustle gets you if you're tat abbott. battling on the inside. abbott at the scorer's table on the left side of the floor. comes back in. uncontested three pointer. knocks it down. huge shot. >> steve: rebecca haarlow had talked with assistant coach taylor at halftime. she said we wanted to have more energy. we've seen it the last minute. green with a miss. shipp dives for it. loose ball. scramble. igbinosa. what are they calling it? >> marques: igbinosa gets fouled on the play on the inside. nice hustle. there is abbott. a little bump. no foul called. comes back into the play.

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39%. nevada came in and shot 60% against arizona state behind tweety carter. this is very uncharacteristic but arizona state was down 11, five minutes to go. down seven at half but that was only the first half. they wound 68-60. there's that last play that herb sendek was trying to say that his team had possession and he was trying to call a timeout. doesn't look to be the case based on the replay. does he ever gets possession? not really. almost in football, it just keeps squirting loose. comes up in the hands of the emmanuel igbinosa. gets the foul. they say he's in the act of shooting. another point of contention for the arizona state bench. these are two big free-throws in this situation for igbinosa. >> steve: the officials went to the score table to check the monitor to see who committed the foul and it was kuksiks with his third personal foul, so you have kuksiks with three, boateng with three and jerren shipp with

three. igbinosa, who has upped his play recently, getting a lot more quality minutes. points in his last three games. >> marques: management sciences major. he can only play saturday's on the road because of his class schedule. he had to play in palo alto on thursday is for this class he had to take for his major. >> steve: the other student athlete letting school gets in the way of his education. >> marques: to smart. >> steve: abbott scores of two buckets. now the assist to boateng. >> marques: there's the energy they were looking for in that halftime conversation. the coaching staff had it with ty abbott. he seems to be taking over. >> steve: sun devils on a 7-1 run to make it a nine point game. >> marques: can stanford sustain it? as arizona state makes an adjustment, that matchup, it's a tough matchup for kuksiks.

>> steve: left hand does not go. igbinosa, yes! emmanuel igbinosa coming inside. >> marques: out jumping the taller trees for the offensive rebound and a nice job maneuvering the left-handed finish. >> steve: the only averages three points per game and he already has eight. >> marques: emmanuel igbinosa out of houston, texas, right there, jump up and over jerren shipp. you got to locate and block out. even if a you're in the zone used to have blockouts responsibilities, specifically. i think it's a case of a little guy here, i've got the big guy, one of the rebounders inside. he just snuck in the. >> steve: eric boateng will get the second one after making the front end of the bonus. he's just a 53% foul shooter, but what a story eric boateng

has been. he's a global studies major, already has graduated. he wants to be a diplomat or ambassador after his basketball career is over. i love that story. his mom works at the st. james palace, working for the royal family in england. how about that? >> marques: that is something. boateng has really made himself a very good basketball player. transferred to arizona state's. stanford needs to continue the aggressive -- take the air out of the ball. landry fields. >> steve: he loses the basketball and glasser the senior comes up with it. shipp in the corner. stanford's gotten back well defensively and fouled their man. >> marques: get back and you've got green on shipp. then you've got dildy on kuksiks on that right wing and fields

guarding abbott. good matchup. first-team all pac-10 performers. >> steve: shot clock down to eight. abbott when does it to kuksiks and that shot is knocked away by igbinosa. >> marques: emmanuel igbinosa, management sciences major. he's already got a job lined up for a major search engine company in the bay area. he's searching the ball on this one and swatting it out of bounds. >> steve: abbott. punched out and picked off by jeremy green. stanford with a ten point lead in side of eight to go. >> marques: i'm sensing a little tight this on the part of arizona state, especially that last shot. look for ty abbott. was not close. got to settle down and stay in the moment. don't think about how badly you need this game. stay in the moment. >> steve: green misses the three. shipp is there for the rebound. real problem for arizona state.

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he's done a marvelous job defensively. they've held arizona state to just 43 points. just 7:30 left. the winning touch from touch of grey. jeremy green. >> marques: out of austin, texas. done a nice job. we talked about maybe somebody else stepping up. he and landry fields, he's got that kind of range but he's playing the game he needed to play at both ends of the floor for his team to have this ten point lead with 7:35 left. >> steve: green and fields have been incredible. they have 31 of the team's 53 points and they have combined for 56% of the team's offense. the last time that young man

faced arizona state, that moving zone went his way, and he hit 2 of 14 shots. >> marques: he needs that kind of a player. real streaky. he usually can burn you for a 30 point game when he's on. i take arizona state and i believe they can run. can stanford sustain their defense especially against the efficient offensive production they need to hold on to this lead? >> steve: steal by abbott knocked out of bounds. ten seconds left on the shot clock. it will be cardinal basketball. >> marques: arizona state back to the wall, desperation time. you've got to scramble, hustle, get in passing lanes, pressure. be aggressive contesting passes even if the result is a foul called on you. >> steve: landry let him go. here is a steal and glasser has it. >> marques: aggressiveness,

contesting passes on the part of the freshman. good denial on that inbounds play by the arizona state defenders. the freshmen have been played a lot in this game. now is a crucial state right here for arizona state. >> steve: nice rebound. gets it back to glasser. abbott for three. in and out. boateng, he's held and will go to the line for penalty shots. >> marques: i talked about the gamble by herb sendek:jerren shipp out, put in trent lockett. sometimes these freshmen have no clue as to the enormity of the situation. they're impervious to the pressure. boateng does a nice job rebounding but it was lockett's offensive rebound at the offensive possession alive for arizona state. >> steve: ty abbott only 3 for 13 in this game. eric boateng tying your mark of 11 for 11.

he came into this game 19 for 20 from the field against stanford. >> marques: in the shootaround this morning he came to me. i kind of teased him about welcome to the club, the 11 for 11 club. he said you put up or shots than i did. i said no, i was a garbage man just like you. i was a garbageman, too. >> steve: your spin move was pretty good. it wasn't garbage. >> marques: now stanford, the pressure is on. i love the way emmanuel igbinosa has handled it so far. they have to make these plays down the stretch if stanford is to hold on for the upset. >> steve: ripped away by rohde! >> marques: give me that! taylor rohde aggressive. two nice, aggressive plays. we talked about that. go after the ball aggressively.

>> steve: stanford finding the shooter. kuksiks from about 25. foul against the freshman, lockett. >> marques: we're down here by nine. you have to continue to be the aggressor, trying to get yourself another possession if you're trent lockett. >> steve: this tells you what a great job herb sendek has done this year. he lost two go to guys, pendergraph, harden to the nba. they don't have a guy outside tie abbott who can break an opponent down and he's 3 for 13 in this game. >> marques: he's the best on the team. he's not one of the elite guys in this conference at breaking down off the dribble, but herb sendek does a tremendous job cutting his guys in positions to be successful. kuksiks, you saw his second half numbers. 15 points in the first half. 0 for 2 in the second half.

credit stanford defense for putting a blanket on him. matthew fields has been matched up. kuksiks on much of this second half. >> steve: summerton pushes the lead to you levon by making two foul shots. falling down and traveling. is that 17 turnovers now? yes. >> marques: seeing a lot of that from arizona state. how much longer do you keep trent lockett out on the floor at this

rebounds, playing with a cut over his eye caught a detached retina, having to wear go knocks off arizona in the first quarterfinal game today. watch the right side of your screen. there it is. >> marques: left elbow right on top of that i wear it's kind of flesh and bone. easy to caught. >> steve: they're going to have to clean up the court as well because as he was heading to the sideline, that cut was drifting right in the free-throw lane and they're cleaning it up right now. you can see mark riesling, the official in the middle of that. this is his fifth decade as a referee. >> marques: wow. >> steve: he should be in the hall of fame. we can see some of the upsets. oregon knocked off arizona in 1987. that was a sean elliott team. usc over stanford, 79-74 in

2003. four years ago or again surprised, 84-73. >> marques: which was a surprise. now stanford trying to add their names to that list. doing a great job. i question whether or not they will be able to sustain, not so much sustained but even to start the second half after they had a 22-12 lead in that first half. arizona state battles back. they're down one at halftime. i didn't know stanford would have that fight left, but credit the coaching staff. they got this team mentally prepared for the second half and they played even harder in the second half than they did in the first half. >> steve: boateng, because he got some blood on him, had to change his jersey, so he's wearing number 34 and it looks like a jersey that you might buy in a souvenir stand. doesn't look like it fits him.

>> marques: not at all. >> steve: big short, skinny top. >> marques: and a good foul by andrew zimmermann. eric boateng at the line and fortunately does not make one of those two free-throws. >> steve: he'll come out now and taylor rohde basket with kuksiks, mcmillan, glasser and abbott. asu needs some stops. stanford getting the best foul shooters back in the game. shiller with the basketball. a 91% foul shooter. there is green. left baseline. >> marques: you've got to be an all out aggressor. if you are arizona state you got to gamble, go for steals, try to get in passing lanes. then it's a matchup zone, a zone with man-to-man principles. opportunities will be there. >> steve: shot clock down to three. green pulls the trigger.

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