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The Best
Alcorn State's Tommy Collier scores in
NCAA tournament. Alcorn, which won
lost one, has been the only black Divisi
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NCAA Division II
Double natic
By ROBERT ELLER
Chronicle Sports Editor
Prior to ihp 1 Qfi 1 _ftzl Uocl-fltUoll POmfMjinn *1
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rumblings within the Division II ranks that a t
school in Richmond, Va., just might achiev
precedented double in postseason play.
Lou Hearn's Virginia Union women's team h
ed the 1983 national title and was returning no
nine veterans from that team.
At the same time, Dave Robbins, the Pant!
coach known also as "The White Shadow," alt
Black On Sports
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By ROBERT ELLER
Chronicle Sports Editor
Has this been the longest college basketball
For some reason it secmslrke- aggyggo'whg?
watcft?d TrTdisbelief fts N.C. State; this time
without Bailey, Lowe and Whittenburg, beat
Houston again as I
took in my first college
basketball |||jjf
telecast of the 1983-84
season. Maybe it
seems that way
because, being a
basketball addict,
watch anything, m
Seton Hall and Iona.
But now that N.C. jfl
State -- reeling from a IP
late-season tailspin Eller
that ended in an NIT
loss, sits at home in Raleigh - and there are only
four teams left after everybody and his
brother seemed to enter the NCAA Tournament,
I can think back to the beginning of the
(ipasinn whpn I nirW#?H riporopfnwn and
Houston to meet in the championship game. 1
also gave outside chances to Kentucky and
Memphis State. And, no, I didn't pick Carolina
to make the Final Four.
My reasons for picking Georgetown and
Houston as the two top teams are simple: Pal
Ewing and Akeem Olajuwon. You see, I'm still
one of those people who say that the good big
man is the key to a championship team, no matter
what level the game is played on.
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ler men's year before.
eady had Add a strong recruiting year and a
town willpreva
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After watching most of the playoff, there
should be a few people who are ready to agree
with me. Kentucky, a fine team with Mel Turpin,
turned out to be a super team with Sam
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have led the Tigers to the Final Four as well.
Looking back, one can see that the onl}
regional where a Cinderella took over the bal
was in the East. And in the East there Vvas nc
legitimate super big man.
Don't get upset, UNC fans; Sam Perkins is <
super power forward, but he is not a superstai
in the middle, thus, when Michael Jordan hac
an off night, the Tar Heels fell to Indiana anc
Uwe Blab, a very poor excuse for an imposinj
center.
The only team in the East with a better-than
average big man was Arkansas, and Virginia
got by Joe Kleine and crew.
This year's- Final Four has probably the bes
group of big men ever in the event. Ewing anc
; Olajuwon will transform a couple of NB/
clubs into contenders very soon and Bowie anc
j Turpin, while they won't have the impact of th<
I former pair, will be heard from in the NBA
! too.
I I'm just about as anxious as NBA owners fo
i Ewing and Olaju von reach the pros. Witl
Ralph Sampson already there, I can see vision
I of the days of Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russel
t and Nate Thurmond relived.
I But that time hasn't come yet and right nov
; they're in a battle for college basketbal
supremacy.
Just as I did at the beginning of the season
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Bill Hayes' Winston-Salem State foot- Another
i ended its 1983 season with a lopsided, Is Dana W
?ning loss to Virginia Union in the last season
hampionship game, Hayes didn't sit after playi
and sulk. Kennedy F
d, the coach set a few recruiting goals school that
ielf in preparation for the 1984 season. "We wa
larterback Karlton Watson graduating
y Mike Winbush in the fold for next g||||9H||
coming up with at least one good H|
tiling prospect was at the top of Hayes'
; finally wound up his recruiting efforts fiBBfflF4
k and, from the looks of his ledger of
he must have made a trip to quarteraven
along the way, as he lured no less
outstanding quarterback prospects to
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i only Mike (Winbush) coming back ||
ir, it was essential that we get at least
id quarterback prospect," says Hayes.
tad no idea that I would be able to sign
who have the talent, the arms and the
he group we have."
ing the list of quarterback prospects is
i-pound Haywood Workman of Myers
gh School in Charlotte. Workman, who
n the Shrine Bowl, was one of the top
ts in the state.
can run the option, and is an excellent
' says Hayes of Workman. "He could
ne to any school that he wanted but he Bill Haye
a couple of our football games and a James Pa
nore of our basketball games. When he
re to visit, the students made him feel at school, but
ia ne just Kept coming oack. lege, says
> says Workman was at the top of his home and
l it came to getting a quarterback but he us." ^
s happy to have signed the player who East Ora
:ond on his list at that position, all-state pic
te Olympic's Bobby Junior, at 6-3, 180 10-1 record
to
bip achieved, but
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er starters and six transfers, and Robbins' team
at finished 20-8 the tender for the NCAA title. Ro
tie in 1981.
But a not-so-funny thing
teams on the way to their res
therettes were derailed in the c
kllluldiifl to go into NCAA play as an i
Robbins' team, meanwhile,
the semifinals of the CIAA toi
back to take the South Atlar
rubber match with toD-ranked
couple of hot-shot Panthers the only team to ma
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I'm going with Georgetown.
The Hoyas are my pick not only because they
have Ewing but because I feel John Thompson
I gives them an edge on the bench over Joe B.
f ter team last year but lost to N.C. State when *
I " he, for some ungodly reason, decided to slow~* "
the tempo to protect a lead he got by speeding
/ up the tempo.
1 Hall has won a national title, may have the
) most talented and experienced squad in the
Final Four with three seniors starting for him,
i and, in Winston Bennett, has one of the top
r freshmen in the country as sixth man. Still, I
1 can't see the Wildcats winning,
i Even if they get past Georgetown, they must
I face Houston and the Cougars should have an
easier game against Virginia.
And. whv would I count out Virginia? Ever
i hear of the old saying that lightning doesn't
strike twice in the same place? For the Cavs to
t win, that would have to happen. Last year, the
J N.C. State bolt struck. To hope for another
v Cinderella to show up at the ball this time is just
i a little too much.
e Really, it's only justice for the Hoyas to win
, after the kind of berating they've taken from
the media this season. Two years ago, Thompr
son and Ewing were called Idi Amin and Darth
i Vader. This year, the Hoyas have been tabbed
s as thugs -- a group that starts a fight every
11 chance it gets, and beats up on every team it I
faces.
v If the officials don't let that propaganda go
1 to their heads, Thompson should become the
first black coach to win an NCAA Division I ]
, basketball title. i
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so has the size and Hayes says he who, says
even better passer than Workman Steve Li
le option well. . School in
top-flight prospect inked by Hayes Hayes to
'alker. The 6-3, 190-pounder spent group,
at Eastern Arizona Junior College "He ha
ng high school bail at Armstrong- and is an
iigh in Richmond, Va., the same "With th(
: produced Kermit Blount. against, h
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we are glad he is coming home to But qu
Hayes wa
nge, N.J.'s Angelo Garnett was an Linebacke
:k there while leading his team to a recruit he;
. Garnett is a fine drop-back passer,
not by Panthe
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was picked as a top con- year,
bbins had captured that ti- All seemed well
second-ranked Ken
happened to the Panther losing by a point,
pective crowns. The Pan- The Pantherettes
onference tourney and had to destiny as did
it-large team. Falcons as Central
ran into St. Augustine's in rensburg, Mo., wor
irney and fell, but bounced Division 11 basketb
itic Regional by taking its The Central Mi
Norfolk State, making the 80-73 while the mei
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Hayes, reminds him of Joe Gilliam,
ee (6-3, 185) of William Fleming High
i Roanoke, Va., is considered by
be the potential surprise among the
is a good arm, runs the option well
excellent field general," Hayes says.
s type of competition he has played
e might just be a sleeper."
Lth signee is Pontiac, Mich.'s Jeff
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is an excellent field goal kicker,
arterback wasn't the only position
nted to shore up for next season^
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again until the Panthers ran into
tucky Wesleyan in the quarterfinals*
did make the final, however, but fell
Harvey Heartley's St. Augustine's
Missouri State University of Wari
both the men's and women's NCAA
all titles.
ssouri women beat Virginia Union
n topped the Falcons 81-77.
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