Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, March 25, 1995                   TAG: 9503270072
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: DOUG DOUGHTY STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: KANSAS CITY, MO.                                LENGTH: Medium

UVA ROARS INTO FINAL 8

The Cavaliers came into Kemper Arena, where Kansas had not lost a non-conference game since 1983, and never trailed in defeating the top-seeded Jayhawks 67-58.

Sophomore guard Harold Deane had 22 points to lead Virginia, which also got 18 points from Curtis Staples and Junior Burrough. Burrough added a game-high 12 rebounds.

Jacque Vaughn had 13 points to lead Kansas, which shot a season-low 33.9 percent from the field, including 9.5 percent (2-of-21) from 3-point range. UVa outrebounded the Jayhawks 49-44.

The Cavaliers (25-8) advanced to the regional final for the fifth time in school history and will meet defending national champion Arkansas (30-6) in the regional final Sunday at 5 p.m.

The Razorbacks, bidding for a second consecutive NCAA title, rallied from a 10-point second-half deficit to defeat Memphis 96-91 in the evening's first semifinal.

Virginia ignored a partisan Kansas crowd in taking a 6-0 lead to start the game and stretched its advantage to 25-16 on a pair of free throws by Yuri Barnes with 5:11 remaining.

The Jayhawks got a boost when UVa, holding for a last shot, threw the ball away with 9.6 seconds left. Vaughn's jumper at the halftime buzzer cut the deficit to 31-28.

The difference in the game was the backcourt. Staples and Deane combined for 19 points before Vaughn and Jerod Haase got on the board. Haase did not have a field goal in the first half.

Kansas (25-6) did virtually all of its scoring in the paint, repeatedly working the ball to 7-foot-2, 270-pound Greg Ostertag and its other two big men, Scot Pollard and Raef LaFrentz.

The Jayhawks went 0-for-8 on 3-point shots in the first half and missed all five of their free throws before LaFrentz hit the second of two shots with 2:46 remaining.

LaFrentz, the freshman of the year in the Big Eight, had seven points and six rebounds by the half. Vaughn had six points, all in the last four minutes.

Staples, a freshman from Roanoke, Va., had 12 points in the first half half, including a pair of 3-point field goals. A third 3-pointer in the second half gave him 99 for the season, breaking the ACC record held by Dennis Scott of Georgia Tech.

NOTE: Please see microfilm for scores.