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Monroe wakes up hot and State burns IowaPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -North Carolina State Coach Jim Valvano gets angry when Rodney Monroe misses. He didn’t get angry with his top scorer Sunday.Monroe, whose baskets sent the game into both overtimes, scored 11 of his career-high 40 points in the second overtime, giving 19th-rankcd North Carolina State a 102-96 NCAA tournament victory over 14th-ranked Iowa.“He has the shooter’s mentality,’’ Valvano said. “When did Rodney feel he was hot? When he woke up this morning.“When it leaves his hand, I think it’s going in. I get very mad at him when it doesn’t.’’“I’m a very confident shooter,” said Monroe, the Wolfpack’s leading scorer during the season. “It’s something I work very hard on.”The Hawkeyes worked veiy hard on stopping the sophomore guard.“I didn’t realize he is so lethal from outside,” Iowa guard Roy Marble said. “He just got hot and there was nothing you could do but get him farther from the basket. I’ve never seen a player shoot like that.”Both Monroe’s shots that sent the game into the overtimes came off picks against a tight defense.“I would prefer to take the easy” shot, Monroe said. “It justseemed like their weren't any easy ones out there today.”N.C. State, 22-8, meets second-ranked Georgetown, 28-4, next Friday in the East Regionals at East Rutherford, N.J. The top-seeded Hoyas beat Notre Dame in Sunday’s first game, 81-74.Monroe gave N.C. State the lead for good, 86-85, on a 3-point basket with 4:00 left in the sec ond overtime. With the score 88-87, he connected on a three* point play that made it 91 87 with 3:06 remaining After Iowa’s Wade Lookingbill sank two foul shots, Monroe hit another 3-pointer, building the lead to 94-89 with 118 to go A 3-point field goal by Marble gave Iowa a 96-92 lead with 47seconds left, but Monroe hit two free throws with 36 seconds left, giving the Wolfpack a 98-92 advantage.The closest Iowa came after that was 98-94 on B.J. Armstrong's jumper with 28 seconds left, but Mickey Hinnant and Chris Corchiani made two foul shots each Ibr N.C. State before Marble scored with three seconds left.“This was one of our better games of the year, and it’s such a tough loss because we had it in our hands one or two times,” said Iowa Coach Tom Davis, who suffered his first career loss in 10 first- and second-round NCAA tournament games.Monroe beat his career-highof 37 points set this season against Nevada-Las Vegas. Corchiani and Brian Howard had 16 points each and Chucky Brown 14 for the Wolfpack.Iowa, 23-10, was led by Ed Horton with a career high 32 points, Marble with 24 and Armstrong with 20.Monroe sent the game into the first overtime with a 12-foot jumper from the right baseline that tied the score at 75 with four seconds left in regulation.With 21 seconds to go in the second half, Brian Garner, who had been scoreless, sank two free throws to put Iowa on top 75-73. Iowa had scored seven consecutive points to take a 73-71 lead. But Monroe made a 14-footer in the lane to even the * score with 1:08 remaining. •He connected again with a 12-footer from the left with four * seconds remaining to send the ! game into a second overtime at 83-83. Marble’s foul-line jumper, had given the Hawkeyes an 83-81 lead with 41 seconds left in that periodThe score was tied 41-41 at halftimc and Iowa led 56-53 with 12:38 left in the game after an 11-2 run in which Horton -J had six points.But N.C. State responded with a 16-8 surge led by Monroe's seven points, all on free throws,, to take a 69-64 lead with 6:18 remaining.
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