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"" 1 THE NCAA PLAYOf Aggies C By ROBERT ELLER Sports Editor For the third straight year, North Carolina A&T cruised through the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference regular season, won the league's postseason tournament and stalked the NCAA playoffs, hoping to snare their first win there. So, what else is new? Well, this time around, the Aggies had an honest-to-goodness shot at winning. Though they were trounced b) West Virginia in '82 and humbled b) Princeton in '83, Don Corbett'j players were hungry and confident ir '84. This year's Aggies arrived ir Dayton, Ohio, for their preliminary round game with Morehead State o! Kentucky on a roll, riding the crest of i nine-game winning streak and havinj lost only one MEAC regular seasoi game. Corbett, his players now seasoned ir playoff action, and having played th< tikes of defending NCAA champ Mnrfli PorAlino QtatA anrl pvpntlial Mil I 1 V/1 HI X_ Ul W1I11U kjiuiv UMU v ' ViliUUI I 11 I champ Michigan during the regula season, felt his Aggies were ready it '84, and so did they. "We arc better prepared to go int the NCAAs this year," said forwar Joe Binion, who paced the league i both scoring and rebounding durin the season. "In the past, we were a li tie awed by playing the big-nam schools that we had seen on TV, bi this year we are going in with a positiv attitude and we are going to play oi game rather than try to react to wht the other team does." Binion also promised a better perfo mance than his 10-point, 11-reboun effort in the MEAC title game. Eric Boyd, who captured his secon straight MEAC tourney MVP awar< was upbeat, too. "In the past tw years, we have not played well in tf NCAA," he said. "Maybe we wei nervous, but, for some reason, 01 shots just weren't falling. I don't e pect that to happen this year. Persona ly, I'm a lot more confident this ye? than ever before." Added Corbet*, who perience and determination th season. And we have played son tough Division I competition on tl road this year." "We have accomplished three of oi goals ^or the season," Corbett sa following A&T's win over Howard the MEAC championship game. "V u/nn 70 cames. the regular seas< title and the tournament. Now we wa to destroy the stigma attached to blai colleges. They say we can't win the fc one. I can't guarantee you that we w win but I can guarantee you that > " A 'FS/THi ME AC S= rould Have U b^K^F V \^H ! H p^B ; J?OT1 A^ ] ^J ^gggJ ? ~^w!R 'e ir It ? O 1C IT Xll ar lUv. -z ? The Tournament Blu he Though he huffed and puffed, Binion i NCAA playoffs (photo by Joe Daniel nr id in will give it our best shot." /e Corbett made good on that promise )n as the Aggies gave it their best shot nt against Morehead State right down to Eric Boyd's 20-footer at the buzzer. ig ill The Aggies came out hot, showing vc no signs of the NCAA jitters that had <T CCILCGC SI' sed One Mc ^ jf/M I B , |P^ -^w- -.rW--'? 'v .-^jl II " r~> I MI * I lllTlf 111II111 H mi IT! I HI! Tfr.rpp Hill ?* l| L M. HUrJUHMli ".LI.L JUlMW, jmj ies scored a total of only 20 points in the 1 s). plagued them the past two seasons, s Even with Binion having a sub-par first < half, A&T grabbed an early lead and i held a 38-35 halftime advantage due j mainly to the play of guards Boyd and Jim Brown. Boyd, who earlier had claimed his I 114 tf VII H >re Replay l; ? m jpj HEAC championship game and the second straight MEAC tourney MVP iward, scored 15 of his game-high 23 joints in the first half. Brown, son of he NFL's all-time leading rusher, Jim Brown, wound up with 16 points, most jf them on shots from the key. The Aggies continued to have things Please see page 14 S5SSS555S April. 1984-Page 11
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