Terps or Twerps?
Maryland looking for answers
to baffling basketball problem
By LEE PACE
Assistant Sports Editor
The Atlantic Coast Conference
$10,000 basketball question today is
bound to leave Billy Packer, Bones
McKinney and Al McGuire scratching
their heads and quabbling among each
other, at least until the next Holly Farms
commercial.
Question: The reason the Maryland
basketball team has lost seven of its last
10 games, six of them in the ACC, is
because:
A) The Maryland players are out for
themselves instead of the team;
B) The Terrapin guards make too
many ballhandling mistakes;
C) The Terps don't have a natural
leader on the floor;
D) The Terps don't realize that playing
a good game one night doesn't mean they
can play the Invisible Man the next;
E) The Terrapin coach, Lefty Driesell,
is no good.
Heels fall
NEW YORK (DPI) - The Uniied Press International
Board of Coaches' college basketball poll, including games
pi lyed through Feb. 5.
T;am
1. Kentucky (37) (16-1)
2. Marquette (I) (17-2)
3. Arkansas (I) (21-1)
4. UCLA (I) (16-2)
5. Notre Dame (16-3)
6. Kansas (18-3)
7. North Carolina (18-4)
8. New Mexico (I) (17-2)
9. Louisville (14-3)
10. Michigan St. (16-3)
11. DePaul(l8-2)
12. Texas (18-3)
13. Purdue (13-6)
14. Florida St. (16-3)
15. Georgetown (15-4)
16. (tit) Wake Forest (13-5)
(tie) Detroit (17-1)
18. Nebraska (18-3)
19. Virginia (15-3)
20. San Francisco (17-4)
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Billy Packer has no peer as basketball analyst
COLUMBIA, S.C, (UPI) - Anthony
William Packer is an entrepreneur.'
He buys and sells real estate, businesses
and such, but his biggest pitch is basketball,
and those who know him say he's the best at
it.
Billy Packer has been the principal analyst
for NBC-TV's college basketball games for
three years, and former Marquette coach Al
McGuire, who teamed with Packer to cover
the nationally televised Marquette-South
Carolina game last Sunday, says the former
Wake Forest guard has no peers in the job.
"He's the best analyst in the country,
college or pro," said McGuire.
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The above answers are all right and all
wrong, depending on what critic one
listens to.
Mike Davis, a Terrapin forward, had
an answer for the Washington Post last
week.
The Terps, he said, "are selfish,
confused, sulking, bitching (and) not
even together enough to have a party."
Davis is no longer on the team. Driesell
threw him off the day after his remarks
appeared.
Things got so bad in College Park at
one point last week that Maryland
Athletic Director Jim Kehoe thought it
necessary to publicly say that Driesell's
job is in no danger.
Several Carolina players who will
contest the Terps at 9 tonight in College
Park offered their assessment of the
Maryland problem last Saturday night
after Carolina collected its 18th win in 22
starts, a 101-88 win over Virginia Tech.
"I think the main thing," said Tom
Zaliagiris, "probably is that they haven't
had a couple of big wins yet. If you keep
losing and losing you kind of get into the
habit. You keep thinking things will go
against you. If they could win a couple of
games back to back and get their
confidence and play as a team they could
be tough. It's not a matter of personnel.
It's a matter of getting together and
getting confidence."
"They played so strong in the first
half," Mike O'Koren said about UNC's
85-71 win in January, "but then they
didn't have the fire power in the second
half. I hope they do that again. But. I'm
not gonna count on it."
"You shouldn't count 'em out," Phil
Ford said. "I'm sure not. They've got a
super team. They've got so many great
players."
Maryland hasn't played that bad its
last three halves. The Terps played an
excellent second half a week ago before
losing by two at Virginia and then looked
good Saturday in downing Nevada-Las
Vegas 81-68. Both teams entered that
game with four-game losing streaks.
"I knew one of us would break out of
it," Driesell said. "And I didn't want it to
be them."
But the Terps still have a three-game
ACC losing streak to break, and nothing
would make Driesell happier than to
break it against Dean Smith. But then,
that's an entirely different question.
Play-by-play announcer Dick Stockton,
the third member of the team, agreed.
"He's the best there is," Stockton said
before the game. "There is no one close to
him.
"He understands and is enthusiastic about
the game of basketball and can relate it to the
broadcast audience."
Packer is good and because he does not get
emotionally involved in a game and speaks
to the fans, McGuire said.
"He's a student of the game," he said. "He
keeps it simple, and he doesn't give a clinic.
"Most analysts try to show how much they
know and are talking to coaches."
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Carolina freshman Al Wood was intimidated by no one last week not even this
basketball-minded Virginia Tech player and was named ACC Rookie of the Week for
his performances against Mercer, Furman and VPI.
The 6-foot-6 forward from Gray, Ga., scored 39 points in the three games including two
freethrows with time running out to ice a 73-70 Tar Heel victory over Mercer. He wound
up with 12 points against the Bears, 13 in Friday's loss to Furman in the North-South
Doubleheader and 14 in the 101-88 win over the Gobblers Saturday night.
Wood made his first starts of the year against Mercer and Virginia Tech and upped his
seasonal average to 9.8 points. He is hitting on 64 percent of his field goal attempts to rank
second on the team behind Mike O'Koren.
Packer said he is just appreciative of a
chance to do the games.
A Wake Forest assistant coach for four
years. Packer fell into broadcasting almost
by accident.
Nick Patella, a former Wake Forest
football player who operated a radio station
in Winston-Salem, N.C, had Packer on his
sales staff and used him to do color in high
school football game broadcasts.
Seven years ago, Marvin "Skecter"
Francis, Assistant Commissioner of the
Atlantic Coast Conference and a former
Wake Forest publicist, told him television
producer C. D. Chesley needed an analyst
for an ACC game of the week at the last
minute.
Packer, 37, worked for Chesley for four
years before landing a spot with N BC during
the NCAA playoffs and has been with the
network ever since.
He still serves as analyst for the ACC
games, and McGuire said he and others kid
Packer about his pride in the league, which
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Packer contends is the best in the nation.
Packer, a native of Bethlehem, Pa., whose
knowledge stems in part from his father
being a head coach at Lehigh, said the
network has never censored him.
There is virtually no preparation involved
for an ACC game because he has been
around the league since college, but he
normally scouts other teams and talks to
their coaches the day before a game to be
prepared, Packer said.
Packer and All-America l.en Chappel led
Wake Forest to third place in the NCAA
championships in 1961, losing to Ohio State
in the semifinals. He played under Bones
McKinney, one of the league's most colorful
coaches and an ACC television analyst.
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Wednesday, February 8, 1978 The Daily Tar Heel 5
Carolina's IM programs
similar to other schools
If a Carolina student were to transfer to
one of several universities in North Carolina,
he would be greeted by an intramural
program very similar to the one at UNC.
Conversations with several other North
Carolina university department officials,
and a look at their IM handbooks indicate
that intiamurals on the college level, aside
from minor differences at each school, are
basically equal.
Though one school may have a different
divisional setup of its intramural
competition, and another may employ
slightly different sports schedules, the desire
to have heavy participation of the student
body rates as the prime goal of most
universities.
That doesn't mean intramurals aren't
competitive. Wake Forest Assistant
Intramural Director John Nelms said, "It
(intramurals) is very competitive, especially
in the fraternity and dorm competition." At
N.C. State, Bill Chappell, a student
supervisor with the IM program, offered the
same sentiments.
At Wake Forest, competition in
intramurals is set up with a residence hall
division, a fraternity, division, a women's
division and an independent division. The
university has a point system, and overall
champions are determined at the end of the
year. Wake is small in sie compared to
UNC, but the Deacon campus draws a
proportionately large number ol students in
lM's.
"We had over 100 teams in the men's
basketball competition this year," Nelms
said. "We have women's intramurals too, but
the participation is not as high."
Wake Forest, like UNC, employs women
officials to referee ballgamcs. But the
women, Nelms said, don't officiate many
men's games.
The Wake intramural program takes up a
great deal of time and space on the Deacons'
athletic facilities, causing problems for those
wanting to use such facilities for free play.
This problem is one shared by the "Big Four"
UNC, State, Duke and Wake. Officials
from Duke and Statesaid that free-play time
and space in their facilities was limited as
well. At UNC, basketball intramurals have
taken away much chance for free play in
Woollen Gym.
At N.C. State, intramural play is also
divided into distinct divisions. On the
Raleigh campus, residence hall competition
is held one night per week, as is fraternity
play. State has an "open league" division
which is similar to UNC's All-Campus
division. State's open league takes up two
nights per week and attracts the most
participants on the State campus, according
to student supervisor Bill Chappell.
Chappell said 2,450 students participated
in Wolfpack intramurals during the fall
semester. This represents an increase in
student participation in intramurals.
Like UNC, State has a Co-Rec program
consisting of several sports. Tennis and
volleyball are very popular, Chappell said.
Duke, a private school, maintains a strong
intramural program, and has a characteristic
the others around the state do not have.
Duke's intramural program has the
competition all in an open league.
Fraternities, dorms and graduate students
participate. Duke does this partly because of
the campus' physical structure. Unlike the
situation at UNC, the fraternities are not in
separate houess but are instead in residence
halls. This doesn't cause a softening of
competitive spirits, said IM staff assistant
Robbie Williams.
"It creates more enthusiasm this way," she
said. "Fraternities and dormitory teams
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wouldn't be happy playing only each other."
Appalachian State and East Carolina
maintain intramural programs closely
resemblingthe UNC IM effort. Bothschools
offer intramural competition in fraternity,
residence hall and grad-independent
divisions, and they each also have a club
vision designed for members of university
clubs.
Appalachian, situated in the North
Carolina mountains where streams abound,
uses nature as a setting for one of its
intramural events. ASU has two inncrtube
river-races, one in September and one in
May. In the ASU intramural handbook, the
river races are jokingly listed as "Survival"
under the type of competition heading. Also
under the Co-Rec heading at ASU are two-on-two
basketball, horseshoes and a hole-in-one
contest.
At East Carolina the IM department
sponsors some unique events like free-throw
shooting, archery and a Frisbee pentathlon.
UNC intramural managers are unique in
that they receive pay for their efforts.
Officials at Duke, State and Wake Forest
said that managers at their schools did not
get paid. IM offices at those schools do
employ student assistants in the department,
as does Carolina.
Concerning the tallying of points scored in
intramural play, the departments of all the
universities including UNC cither keep the
point totals or have committees set up to do
so. Most of the point systems resemble the
ones used at UNC.
An attempt is scheduled Feb. 22 to break
the Guinness World Record for the most
number of persons sitting down in a building
without the aid of chairs. The present record
is 3,333. According to Bob Montgomery,
who is in charge of the attempt, students w ill
sit on the floor of Carmichael Auditorium
with the lines of people stretching up into the
corridors and lobby if necessary.
The attempt was set originally for the
Virginia ticket-distribution date, but was
changed to Feb. 22, the date of the Duke
ticket distribution. It was changed to allow
more publicity before the record attempt.
Ford, Brown
up for award
Two Carolina seniors, basketball star Phil
Ford and swimmer Bonny Brown, are
among the nominees for the 1977 Lewis E.
Teague Award which annually goes to the
outstanding amateur athlete in North
Carolina.
Ford, a 6-foot-2 guard from Rocky
Mount, is in his fourth year as a starter for
coach Dean Smith. He was a consensus first
team All-America last season and recently
became UNC's all-time leading scorer. Ford
surpassed the Tar Heel record for assists last
season.
Brown, captain of the Carolina women's
swim team, is from Murphy. She is a North
Carolina AIAW Champion in three events
and finalist in six events at the 1977 National
AIAW Championships.
As in the past, there will be both a male
and female recipient of the award which is
selected by N.C. AAU officers, sports
supervising committee chairpersons and the
news media.
Ford is competing against N.C. State
swimmer Duncan Goodhew, ACC
basketball player of the year last season Rod
Griffin from Wake Forest, N.C. State
swimmer Dan Harrigan, former UNC
Charlotte center Cedric Maxwell and
amateur golfer Dale Morey from High
Point.
The other female nominees are N.C. State
basketball player Genia Beasley, swimmer
Allison Grant, Marie Riley, a three-sport
athlete at High Point College, and Julie
Shea, the 1977 North Carolina High School
Athlete of the Year from Raleigh.
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