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THE DAILY TAP HEEL
Carolina On Top
In ACC Statistics
By CHRIS CO BBS
1)1 II Sports Writer
It may bf. possible to prove
anything with statistics, but in
Pistol Pete
Shoots Less,
Scores More
N'KW YORK M'PI Pete
Maravich of Iouisiana State
has cut down on his shooting
this season, just as he said he
would but hardly enough to
please any of the Tigers'
opponents.
I he fi-foot-o inch junior,
who established a single season
NCAA scoring record in his
sophomore year with a 43.8
points per game average, has
cut down his number of shots
per game from 39.3 to 37.1, yet
his scoring average is better,
thanks to an increase in his
field goal accuracy from .422 a
year ago to .170.
Official figures released
Thursday by the National
Collegiate Sports Service
through games of Sunday, Jan.
4, show Maravich with an
incredible 46.3 ppg average for
the Tigers' first nine games,
making him the runaway leader
in the major college individual
scoring race.
Niagara's 5-10 all-America
guard Calvin Murphy,
runner-up to Maravich a year
ago in the scoring race,
currently is second with a 38.0
per game average while Rich
Mount of Purdue and
sophomore Spencer Haywood
of Detroit are tied for third
with 31.8 averages.
Haywood, the star of the
U.S. Olympic basketball team,
continues to top the nation's
rebounders with an average of
23.0 per game. Larry Lewis of
St. Francis Pa. is second with
21.8 rebounds per game and
Booker Brown of Middle
Tennessee is third with 19.3.
Al Kroboth of the Citadel is
the nation's best field goal
shooter with a .705 percentage
and Dan Davis of Northwestern
tops the free throw shooters
with a perfect 1.000 on 31 of 31
from the foul line.
Morehead State leads in
team offense with an average
of 97.4 ppg, and Army is the
best defensive team thus far,
having allowed apponents only
54.9 points per contest.
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the case of Carolina basketball,
it's difficult to construe the
figures as being anything but
descriptive of the Tar Heels'
lofty status.
UNC, the nation's second
ranked team, looks it on paper
as well as on the court.
The Heels head up the
Atlantic Coast Conference
standings with a 1-0 record.
They lead the league with
an average of 90.2 points a
game, two more than Wake
Forest usually rings up, and
almost ten more than third
place Virginia normally totals.
Another significant mark,
and another first is the 78
percent Carolina has hit from
the free throw line.
Team defense, an area in
which Coach Dean Smith takes
much interest, shows the Tar
Heels to have the conference's
third lowest rate of
surrendering points.
The pressure tactics Smith
asks his players to use have
limited the other team to an
average of 72.1 points a game,
South Carolina gives up about
64 points as a norm to pace the
ACC.
Of course, the gambling
style Carolina employs
sometimes hurts the team's
stats in regard to keeping the
score way down. But the Heels
reciprocate with all the easy
points gained from pressure
and up their offensive mark.
The ratio of cheap shots
given up to cheap shots gained
is about two to eight when
Smith's strategy is working at
near optimem level.
Three Tar Heels, Charlie
Scott, Bill Bunting and Rusty
Clark, have fared exceptionally
well in the individual listings.
Scott, the Olympian, may
not be moving at an all-world
clip, but he's keeping up with
the best in the ACC in four
indicative single-man
categories.
And Bunting and Clark trail
him closely.
Scott, prior to Wednesday
night's game with N.C. State,
was third in scoring at 21.5, and
Clark was at 15.2. Teammate
Bunting stood between them at
18.2, seventh in the conference.
Bunting led everyone in
field goal percentage, sticking
in 59.8 percent of his shots.
Scott and Clark followed at
48.5 and 46.2.
Fogler in fact is second in
the loop in this department,
canning 85 percent of his
charity tosses.
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Road
North Carolina's high-riding
Tar Heels step out of the
Atlantic Coast Conference wars
Saturday night to face a
Virginia Tech team which
always seems to play well in
Carmichael Auditorium.
The Techmen whipped
Carolina, 81-75, here in 1966
and led by 15 points at one
stage last season before the Tar
Heels rallied to score an 89-76
victory.
"It will be another stern test
for us," says Carolina Coach
Dean Smith. "Virginia Tech
has a 7-3 record and has only
played three games at home.
That certainly speaks well for
the team's ability to win on the
road"
Saturday night's game gets
under way at 8 p.m. following
a 6 p.m. preliminary between
Carolina and VPI freshman
teams. The game will not be
televised live, but WUNC-TV
will tape the game to be shown
over Channel 4 Sunday night.
Carolina comes into this
contest fresh from two straight
Griffin Joins
Falcons'
Grid Staff
ATLANTA (UPI)-Bob
Griffin, assistant coach with
the Montreal Alouettes, was
named Thursday as the fourth
new assistant on Atlanta
Falcons coach Norm Van
Brocklin's coaching staff.
He ended his playing career
in 1961 with the St. Louis
Cardinals.
Edwards Lost To
North Carolina's swimming
team will be without the
services of two-time
Ail-American Jim Edwards
Saturday when the Tar Heels
travel to Annapolis, Md., to
battle the Midshipmen of
Navy.
Edwards, Carolina's ace
freestyle sprinter, came down
with hepatitis during the
Christmas holidays and will not
make the trip to Annapolis.
"We don't really know the
severity of Jim's case," says
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Atlantic Coast Conference
wins. The Tar Heels whipped
Duke, 94-70, last Saturday
afternoon and then toppled
North Carolina State, 83-63,
Wednesday night.
The Tar Heels have an
Atlantic Coast Conference
record of 4-0 and an overall
mark of 10 victories in 11 games.
Rusty Clark, the 6-10 Tar
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UNC Gymnast Bill Reid
Placed In Six Events Against Virginia
Coach Pat Earey. "I have no
idea when he will be able to
return to action."
Besides the loss of Edwards,
the Tar Heels will also be
unable to use their freshmen in
the meet against the Middies.
Despite NCAA rules allowing it
to do so, Navy does not let its
freshmen swim as part of the
varsity team. Carolina,
therefore, will be unable to use
its frosh for this meet.
"Navy annually has a fine
team," says Earey. "They have
Heel center who missed the
game with State, still is nursing
an injured ankle and may not
play against the Techmen. If
not, he once again will be
replaced by Lee Dedmon, who
did a sensational job against
the Wolfpack. Dedmon scored
27 points and grabbed 11
rebounds.
If Dedmon does start
Dolphins
at least one top-flight
performer in every event. The
loss of our freshmen will hurt
us in the butterfly, but I'm
hoping for outstanding jobs in
the other events to help offset
it."
Carolina goes into the meet
with a perfect 4-0 record. A
freshman match between the
two schools will immediately
precede the afternoon varsity
contest.
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By ART CHAN SKY
DTH Asst. Sports Editor
State Coach Norman Skoan
exhibited what might be
termed "Carmichael
Auditorium frustration" both
during and after his Wolfpacks"
83-63 loss to the Tar Heels on
Wednesday night.
"It never fails," he
half-moaned in the
locker-room afterwards, "every
time we come in here and they
are hurting physically,
somebody comes off the bench
to do the job."
The scrappy State mentor
was of course referring to Lee
Dedman's super performance
while filling in for the injured
Rusty Clark.
"We knew- Dedman is a
good player," he continued.
"We've been saying it all along.
But tonight he really hurt us."
Sloan sounded like an
architect that had just seen one
of his buildings crumble,
although what had happened
really wasn't that out of the
ordinary.
Carolina had just once again
proven its basketball
superiority over the Wolfpack,
something it has now done for
against Virginia Tech, he will
drawr one of the toughest
assignments of his career. It
will be his task to defense 6-9
Dan Wetzel, a 230-pounder
who paces the Virginia attack.
The freshman preliminary
Saturday night will find Bill
Guthridge's Tar Babies seeking
their fifth win in six starts.
Gymnasts Edge
Virginia's Cavs
The Carolina gymnastics
team won its first regular
match of the season over the
University of Virginia,
105.650-102.275.
Led by Lloyd Fickett, John
Guenther, Frank Powell Reid,
the gymnasts took five of seven
first places to capture the
meet.
Guenther and Powell took
two firsts each, while Fickett
won the other first for Carolina
and Reid placed in six of the
seven events.
Guenther won the
all-around and horizontal bar
categories. He barely edged
Virginia's Richard Lutz in the
all-around and again narrowly
defeated teammate Powell in
the horizontal.
Powell meanwhile won the
long horse vault and floor
exercise. He beat Guenther out
for the floor victory and then
took a solid first over the Cavs'
Bob O'Neill in the long horse.
Powell also placed fourth in
the still rings and sixth in the
parallel bars.
Fickett, whom Coach Fred
Sanders brought with him from
Tucson, Ariz., was an easy
winner in the side horse.
Reid was a jack-of-all-trades,
failing to place in only one
event, the still rings. He was
third in floor exercise and
all-around, fourth on the side
horse and parallel bars and
fifth in the long horse and
horizontal bar.
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the seventh consecutive time.
With Clark sidelined,
though, Sloan had an inkling of
an upset, but neither Dedmon
or or the boisterous Carmichael
crowd would allow it.
Dedmon, that agile
sophomore with the air of
nonchalance, scored 27 points
and added 11 rebounds in his
first starting role. It won't be
his last.
Playing the kind of
basketball Coach Dean Smith
said he had been "showing
signs of up until now,"
Dedmon bettered by one point
Clark's three year all time high.
But except for a few defensive
gems here and there, his
performance was mostly
offensive. "Rusty Clark will most
certainly be back in the lineup
as soon as he is ready," Smith
assured after the game. "Up
until nowr Dedmon has been
our sixth man, and that's
UNC's scheduled match
tonight with Western Carolina
was forfeited by WCU.
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probably where he will remain
for the time being. Three bi?
men make us a little too weak
defensKely."
Smith went on to prais? the
play of Charlie Scott. Dick
Grubar and Eddie Fooler, but
in Scott's case it wa
ironically, for his defense.
"We can't overlook the job
that Charles did on State's fine
center Van Williford," Smith
said. "We started out with Bill
Bunting covering Williford. but
when State chose to draw
Bunting outside by having
Williford bring the ball up.
Scott switched off and held
him to two field goals."
Carolina's Olympic v.hiz
also added 26 points to one of
his most crowd pleasing shows.
The fans were rowdy right
from the start, with the
television cameras and pep
band which greeted the Tar
Heels on the floor adding to
the hysteria.
The game was spiced with
alternate choruses of "01
McDonald Had a Farm" and
chants of "Go to hell ref"
throughout. Smith and Sloan
took turns providing the
fireworks from their respective
benches. with the State
bossman nearly tearing his hair
our on several occasions.
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