Saturday, November 27, 1999
McIntosh steps
up for ’Bows
The 6-8 forward comes off the
By Pat Bigold
bench to give Hawaii the lift it
needed in United Airlines
Tip-Off Tournament
Star-BulletinBernard McIntosh scored 10 points in 10 minutes in the first half as Hawaii broke open a close game against William & Mary and coasted to an 89-63 rout last night before 4,298 fans in the United Airlines Tip-Off Tournament at the Stan Sheriff Center.
The Rainbows (2-1) will face Virginia Military Institute (3-1) tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. in the tournament's championship game.
VMI defeated Oral Roberts (2-2), 56-44, in the opener of the doubleheader yesterday.
McIntosh, who came off the bench seven minutes into the game to become Hawaii's co-leader in scoring with 15 points, was one of four Rainbows in double figures.
With the Tribe having cut Hawaii's 13-6 lead to 14-13 with 10 minutes left in the first half, McIntosh scored six straight points on a rebound-and-stuff, an eight-foot hook, and a layup assisted by point guard Johnny White to make it 20-15.
Then a 10-1 run, capped by McIntosh's midcourt steal and stuff off the dead run, gave the Rainbows a commanding 30-16 lead.
Hawaii made it 42-26 by halftime and twice had leads of 27 points in the last 20 minutes.
McIntosh also had three rebounds and no turnovers in his first half stint. He finished with 15 points, five rebounds and two steals.
"He gave us instant action when he came in," said Hawaii head coach Riley Wallace, who earned his 199th career win against 200 losses.
"I had to do some scoring tonight because that's also part of my job," said Mcintosh, who scored well above his 8.5 average.
On Sunday, in a 53-49 loss to Bowling Green, McIntosh had only four points.
"I admit last week I wasn't focused because my girl was leaving at halftime, and my mind was on her and not the game," he said.
McIntosh's girlfriend and baby daughter visited for a few days from the mainland last week but had to catch a plane Sunday night.
Hawaii, which opened the season with a victory over Tennessee-Martin but committed 29 turnovers in that game, committed only one-third as many last night.
That made Wallace cautiously encouraged.
"Part of it was that they (Tribe) weren't putting a lot of pressure on us defensively," said Wallace.
"But our decision-making was better this time, and some of those turnovers were offensive fouls. I know Marquette (Alexander) had a couple and (Troy) Ostler had maybe one.
"So then we had only 10 turnovers, and our assist-to-turnover ratio is better."
The Rainbows had 15 assists to 13 turnovers.
Wallace said he was glad his team didn't just sit on a big lead.
"We up-tempoed in the second half, came out ready to play," he said. "Their zone slowed us down for a minute but we remained patient and got a few shots out of it, though tentative. I wanted them to attack it. I was concerned about the one-on-one defense late in the game, which has been a problem for us. They (Tribe) were able to dribble-penetrate, so we have to work on that."
The Rainbows' transition key, Nerijus Puida, had a productive 10-point, five-assist, two-steal, three-rebound, one-block game. He had no turnovers in 26 minutes and was 6-for-6 at the free-throw line.
"I think we came back to our own way," said Puida, a native of Lithuania. "I think that our worst game is behind us now and we'll be alright. It was important to win this game. We have to run. Last game, we didn't have a transition game."
Alexander (14.7), McIntosh (10.7) and Johnny White (10.0) lead the team in scoring average.
Alexander, who overtook McIntosh as the leader in rebounding average (9.3 rpg), fouled out with 1:37 left, just missing a double-double. He scored nine points and set a personal career single-game high for rebounds with 15.
Yesterday's game was the first this season in which he hasn't scored in double digits, but Alexander said that doesn't matter as long as Hawaii won.
"I'm just trying to help my team win," said Alexander. "Whatever the team needs me to do, I'm going to make that sacrifice and do it. I just want to win."
Alexander said the critical factor in the game was "intensity."
Mit Winter led four William & Mary (1-2) players in double figures with 15.
NOTES:
In the only other game involving a WAC team yesterday, a banged up Fresno State team (2-1) defeated Florida International, 90-75, in Hawaii Pacific University's Thanksgiving Classic at the Blaisdell Arena."We struggled," said Bulldogs head coach Jerry Tarkanian. "The guys we're playing were not very good at all."
The Bulldogs, favored to win the WAC title, are still missing their All-WAC shooting guard Courtney Alexander, who has a stress fracture in his foot, and are without point guard Demtrius Porter, who has a bruised chest. Porter's sub, Nick Irvin, had six points, 12 assists and five turnovers.
Melvin Ely, the Bulldogs' 6-9 center, played with his stress-fractured shinbone in a brace and had 19 points.
Color me red:
It appears that both of Hawaii's Canadian freshman scholarship players, guard Carl English of Newfoundland and forward Phil Martin of Ontario, will be redshirted.Martin is not yet eligible due to a letter of intent technicality. English, who had two points last night, can play about two more games before Wallace must redshirt him. He will then have surgery to repair badly stretched ankle ligaments.
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United Airlines Tip-off Tournament
Hawaii 89, William & Mary 63
Tribe (1-2)
fg fga ft fta reb a tp Strohbehn 1 4 0 0 6 0 2 Scott 1 6 0 0 2 2 2 Moran 4 9 0 0 2 1 10 Klein 1 2 0 0 0 0 3 Haunty 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 Duggins 4 9 3 5 5 1 11 B. Brown 0 4 0 0 1 2 0 Davis 4 5 1 4 5 2 9 Rivers 4 13 2 5 2 3 11 Coughter 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Carbaugh 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 K. Brown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Winter 5 8 4 5 5 2 15 Team 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 Totals 24 61 10 19 33 15 63Rainbows (2-1)
fg fga ft fta reb a tp Savovic 4 11 3 4 5 2 11 White 4 11 0 0 5 2 9 Puida 2 4 6 6 3 5 10 Ostler 2 4 2 8 5 0 6 Alexander 4 11 1 1 15 1 9 McIntyre 2 6 0 0 0 1 6 McIntosh 6 11 3 4 5 2 15 Takaki 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 English 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 Hall 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Robinson 5 5 4 5 4 1 15 O’Connor 1 3 2 4 2 0 5 Fields 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 Holliday 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Team 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 Totals 31 69 22 34 50 15 89Key--fg: field goals; fga: field goals attempted; ft: free throws; fta: free throws attempted; min: minutes; reb: rebounds; a: assists; tp: total points.Halftime-Hawaii 42, William & Mary 26
3-point goals--W&M 5-16 (Moran 2-3, Klein 1-1, Winter 1-2, Rivers 1-3, Strobehn 0-1, Carbaugh 0-1, Scott 0-2, B. Brown 0-3), UH 5-14 (McIntyre 2-4, Robinson 1-1, White 1-3, O'Connor 1-3, Savovic 0-3). Personal fouls--W&M 24, UH 20. Fouled out--Alexander. Steals--W&M 5 (Moran 3), UH 10 (Puida 2, Alexander 2, McIntosh 2, Robinson 2). Blocked shots--W&M 5 (Duggins 4), UH 6 (Alexander 3). Turnovers--W&M 18, UH 13. Officials--Charkes Range, Frederick Hu, Rick Jones. A-6,657.
VMI 56, Oral Roberts 44
Oral Roberts: Taylor 3-9 1-3 7, Binam 1-9 0-0 3, Irving 2-7 1-1 5, Tate 6-12 5-6 18, Perry 1-5 2-4 5, Black 0-0 0-0 0, Ratzlaff 0-1 0-0 0, Warrior 0-2 0-0 0, Sanders 3-5 0-1 6, Brown 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 16-51 9-15 44.Virginia Military Institute: Richardson 7-12 0-4 16, Demory 2-3 2-3 6, Mann 2-8 1-4 5, Quarles 5-16 0-1 10, Bruce 1-6 5-6 7, Harper 0-2 2-2 2, Ad. Trombley 3-6 0-0 7, Aa. Trombley 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 21-55 12-20 56.
Halftime--VMI 23, Oral Roberts 20. Rebounds--Oral Roberts 34 (Tate 7), VMI 40 (Mann 10). Assists--Oral Roberts 10 (Perry 4), VMI 11 (Quarles 4). Total fouls--Oral Roberts 19, VMI 18.
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