Monday, February 22, 1971
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"It should have been a 12 or 15 point win," John Roche was
saying. "We made some stupid plays at the end."
But the point is, it wasn't a 12 or 15 point win. It migfrt
not have been a win at all had a few more breaks gone North
Carolina's way.
South Carolina beat the Tar Heels 72-66 Saturday
in Carolina Coliseum in one of the oddest spectacles of the
year-perhaps of ACC history. But the final margin should give
UNC fans some hope when they consider:
-Carolina had a terrible shooting day, hitting 36.6 per cent
of its field goal attempts.
-Carolina had three field goals in the first half, and one of
them was a Bill Chamberlain layup after a steal.
The Tar Heels could get only one shot most of the time.
South Carolina's big men finally got their game together,
especially Tom Owens,-and outrebounded the Heels 38-26.
-The Gamecock crowd of 12,717 was at its "lions vs.
Christians" best. '
-Guards George Karl, Kim Huband and Steve Previs all
fouled out, and they were soon joined on the bench by
forward Dennis Wuycik.
-John Roche and the South Carolina defense were playing
like 1970 all over again. Roch got 32 points and sank nine of
15 shots.
Yet the Tar Heels kept it close, through foul shots, hustle
and true grit. They battled the hosts for every point and every
rebound.
Their finest hour came about midway through the second
half, after one of the Tar Heel guards missed an outside
attempt. Owens and Tom Riker went up for the expected
rebound, but tap after tap went to Wuycik and Chamberlain,
who are both at least four inches shorter.
Five taps later, the referees somehow spotted a foul on
Riker, who threw the ball into therafters and drew a technical.
Carolina sweeps Big 7 meet
by Mark Whicker
Asst. Sports Editor
Carolina took events to offset
record-setting performances by Duke's
Jeff Howser and State's Jim Wilkins and
win the Big Seven indoor track meet in
the Tin Can Saturday afternoon.
The Tar Heels' 52-point total was far
ahead of second-place Duke, which got
25 points mainly on the efforts of
Howser and 1,000-yard winner Bob
Wheeler.
North Carolina Central was third with
24;: East Carolina fourth with 17, State
fifth with 10, Davidson sixth with nine,
and Wake Forest trailed the field with six
points.
Howser took the high hurdles with a
7.1 time, breaking his old Big Seven
record by two- tenths of a second. Ron
Smith of ECU and two NCCU hurdlers
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Law Green got no pity from its fellow
Law Blue team in intramural play last
week, losing 62-23.
Blue assumed a 38-5 half time and
coasted' in behind three double-figure
scorers.
Jerry Barrett got 16 points and
received help from Mike Pozne, with 1 1 ,
and Dale Stubb, with 10.
The Sols edged MBA I 57-55 behind
David Reid's 21 points. The Sols picked
up a four point half-time basket and
matched MBA basket for basket in the
second half to clinch the victory.
In other graduated intramural play,
Dental Blue whipped Bozaboolas 82-28,
Public Health stopped Law D.T.P. 24-21,
His Guys defeated City Planning B 42-32,
Old Leaguers dispensed with MBA II
48-35, and Law T.B.A. defeated Hospital
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trailed the Blue Devil senior, who has
been slowed by injuries off and on during
the last two years:
Wilkins won the mile at 4:09.6,
another meet record. Duke's Mike Graves
also ran under the former mark with a
4:12.4 for second place.
Carolina freshman Mike Garcia
finished fourth at 4:18.5.
Two-mile star Larry Widgeon missed
the school record by three seconds,
ruiining a 8:54.2, but still lowered the
meet standard by 1 5 seconds.
Following runners-up Roger
Beardmore and Phil Wilson of Duke was
Carolina's Roy Helm, at 9:25.3.
North Carolina Central's mile relay
team established the only other meet
record with a 3:18.5 time. Carolina
finished second behind the Central team
of Porter Tompkins, Larry Balck, Melvin
Bassett and Jerry Monroe.
Wheeler's 2:12.1 time tied the old
record and beat Carolina's Tony Waldrop
by six-tenths of a second.
Charles Ball had his best high jump of
the season, leaping 6'6" and beating
Davidson's Ray Swetenburg. Bryan
Balckwelder of Duke and Hank Edwards
of State were third and fourth.
As expected, big John Jessup ran away
with the shot put for the Tar Heels, with
a 55 yVi" throw that bested second place
Ed Bradley of Wake by almost seven feet.
And Darryl Kelly gave the Heels
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But that was incidental to the gallantry of the Tar Heel flurry
on the boards.
Carolina also won points for poise, at least in the eyes of a
regional television audience who could see South Carolina's
"hatchet" tactics much better than officials Roy Owen and
George Conley.
The refs, faced with an impossible situation, called 57 fouls,
which broke the Carolina Coliseum record of 53 set last
Wednesday night when USC and N.C. State got together.
But they didn't see John Ribock kick George Karl, when
the Carolina guard was on the floor and hurting. Instead, they
called a technical on Carolina coach Dean Smith, who
protested Ribock's boot.
They did slap Ribock with a "T" after he blasted Huband
with an elbow to the back.
Later, when Owens elbowed Karl in the nose after a Karl
foul, Ribock saluted his teammate with a wild gleam in his eye
and an insane smile that seemed to say, "Right on!" Aside
from criticism of the clock operator ("we must have the
slowest clock in the league") and the officiating ("Ribock is
the most closely watched player in the ACC"), USC Coach
Frank McGuire was cheerful.
"North Carolina is fast; theyre like little scooters out there.
I really think that UNC should go to the NCAA tounament,
because they've proved themselves in the regular season.
Tournament gives the first-place team too much pressure." -
"We lost some games earlier in the season, and I think we're
probably a better team, but that was our fault. However, we're
getting there now.
"Roche is a magician with the ball and Tommy Owens is
coming around. I also thing Riker will start playing better, and
I was very pleased with Bobby Carver's play."
In short, Carolina Coliseum is a classy arena, and there are
enough top players on South Carolina's team to give McGuire
any kind of championship he wants.
another win, taking the triple jump with a
leap of 47 feet. Second, at 45'7", was
NCCU's Lawrence Wilkerson. Jim Steele,
another of Carolina's talented freshmen,
was third at 45'3'
North Carolina Central's speed paid
off in the 60 and 600 yard runs. Black
took the sprint at 6.3 over Davidson's
Tom Richardson, Carolina's Mike
Canzonieri and ECU's Les Strayhorn. J
Tompkins and Monroe were one-two
in the 600, with Tompkins running
1:13.3. Don Wheless of UNC came in
third at 1:14.1 and Central's Stan Dixon
was fourth at 1 : 14.3.
The ...Tar,- Heels took the early lead
Friday night as Hubert West captured the
broad jump with a 22-foot effort and
Danny Deacon again vaulted 14.6 for a
pole vault win.
With impressive strengrh in the field
events and good balance elsewhere,
Carolina aims for a better showing in the
ACC indoor championships next
Saturday night in Woollen Gym.
Maryland, the perennial champ, is
loaded agian, but Carolina was a strong
second last season and Coach Joe Hilton
thinks the Heels are stronger indoors this
year.
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by Mark Whicker
Asst. Sports Editor
The ACC tournament will be held in
Greensboro this year, not Charlottesville,
which doesn't soothe the temper of
Virginia coach Bill Gibson.
And it's only three weeks away, which
brightens the world of Duke coach Bucky
Waters.
No one has ever accused Waters of
ranking among the world's best basketball
coaches, but he is a great recruiter, with
an attractive school working for him.
And Saturday night, in Duke's 101-69
slaughter of Virginia in Durham, the
talent finally came together.
In other ACC games Saturday, Wake
Forest topped State 89-85, Clemson
nipped VPI 56-53 to avenge an earlier
loss, and Maryland edged Seton Hall
56-55.
The Blue Devils, who have won 1 1 of
their last 14, were awesome against the
Cavaliers.
Duke hit 71.2 per cent of its field goal
attempts and victimized Virginia on the
boards 36-27. It was the second decisive
road loss in two weeks for the Cavs, who
were butchered at Wake Forest 95-71 last
Saturday, and it makes their chances of
winning the tournament all the more
remote.
Randy Denton hit eight of nine shots
for 20 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in
leading Duke's victory. Four other Devils
hit double figures, Larry Saunders picking
up 16 points.
A six-minute dry spell in the first half
put Virginia behind Duke at intermission
50-30. Denton came out with 13 minutes :
to go, but the reserves kept mounting up
the points.
Wake Forest, another team with
tournament hopes, extended State's
frustration behind Charlie Davis' 35
points.
The Wolfpack, losers in five of the last
six, played better than usual and stayed
in the game until Davis hit four foul shots
in the last 12 seconds.
Gil McGregor picked up 12 rebounds
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Coach Bill Guthridce's
Carolina Tar
Babies, after
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victory skein snapped with two losses to
N.C. State, will attempt to initiate a new
win streak tonight at 6:00 as they host
the freshmen of East Carolina in
Carmichael Auditorium.
The two Tar Baby setbacks dropped
the UNC season slate to a still impressive
9-3, but Carolina's ACC record fell to a
mediocre 4-3. The Tar Babies have
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ACC Standings
Conf. All Games
W L W L
North Carolina 9 2 17 4
South Carolina 7 4 16 4
Duke 6 5 14 7
Virginia 6 5 14 6
Wake Forest 5 5 14 7
N.C. State 4 6 11 10
Maryland 4 7 13 8
Clemson 2 9 8 14
and scored 16 to aid Davis, along with 18
points from Bobby Rhoads and 1 1 from
Neil Pastushok.
Ed Leftwich, recovering from a
one-for-15 shooting night at South
Carolina Wednesday night, sank eight of
14 attempts and led State with 23 points.
Rick Holdt and Dan Wells contributed 18
apiece.
It was the third straight ACC victory
on the Deacons' home court, but Wake
must play South Carolina twice before
the tournament.
Maryland survived the heroics of Seton
Hall's Ken House to win in Madison
Square Garden Saturday afternoon,
taking the victory on two free throws by
Jim O'Brien.
House got 21 points and 18 rebounds
to bring Seton Hall back from a six-point
haiftime deficit.
O'Brien and Barry Yates had 15 each
for the Terrapins.
Clemson" won its eighth game of the
year, all in Littlejohn Coliseum, on a
six-point spree by guard Dave Thomas.
Wrestlers lose agate
The Carolina wrestling team lost to
Davidson Friday 30-6, in a contest that
Coach Sam Barnes described as "the
worst match of the year."
The only two Tar Heel winners were
Rickey Weisner in the heavyweight
classification, and Captain Luther Gatrell
in the 142-lb. class. Carolina's regular
heavyweight wrestler, Charlie Sara, did
not compete. "We just sat back waiting
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have lost to Duke in addition to State.
The Tar Babies irr. prove din their Feb.
13 return match with the Wolflets, an
84-74 loss. Six-nine center Bobby Jones,
who was out-played by 7-4 Wolfkt center
Tommy Burleson in Carolina's first
setback to State, came through with an
inspired performance the second time
around against the heralded prvotnan.
Tar Baby forward John ODonse Q had
his problems in the two State contests,
hitting for a total of only 26 points, well
below his team-high scoring average of
24.9.
The New York City lefthander had
been scoring steadily in the high 2 CPs in
ail games before the two meetings with
State and should be back on target
tonight against East Carolina.
Jones is right behind OTJonnell in
team scoring with a 24.1 mark, and the
Charlotte native leads all Tar Baby
re bounders with an average of 16.3
takedowns per game.
The 6-6 O'Donnell stands second in
team rebounding with a 7.8 average,
while 6-4 forward Darrel Elston, who
ranks third in scoring at 10.8, is grabbing
off an average of 6.6 rebounds per
contest.
Jones and O'Donnell have been so
consistent all season long that fans have
come to expect miracles from the
talented frontcourt pair. As a result,
anything less than perfection from either
player seems like a shoddy performance.
In the backcourt, 5-1 1 Ray Hite and
6-0 Fred Gianiny have worked expertly at
guiding and manipulating the Tar Baby
attack and innumerable passes and assists
from the two guards have served to fatten
the averages of the top three Carolina
scorers.
The Tar Babies, who split two games
with Duke, have a March 5 meeting with
strong Blue Imps on tap, in addition to a
March 3 appointment with State at home.
Guthridge likes the idea of doing battle
three times a year with Carolina's two
strong arch-rivals.
"That's what collegiate athletics is all
about," he says. "We welcome the
competition and the opportunity to
win."
"We try to work within the limits that
we have. Our main goal is to prepare
players for the varsity and to instill in
them what we feel are the important
aspects of Carolina basketball."
Following tonight's meeting with East
Carolina, Guthridge will send his Tar,
Babies to Charlottesville, Va. for a
re-match with the Virginia Cavayearlings
on Feb. 27.
'for something to happen, and it did,"
explained Barnes.
The loss to Davidson left the Tar Heels
with a 1-8 record with one meet
remaining, at home against perennial
Atlantic Coast Conference powerhouse
Maryland Feb. 26 at 8:00 p.m.
The ACC championships are slated for
Mar. 5-6 in Charlottesville at the
University of Virginia.
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