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Ungl amorous ending
Ford pulls jersey No, 12 off one last time
after dismal performance against Dons
By GENE UPCHIIRCH
Staff Writer
TEMPE, Ariz. Carolina's loss to San Francisco Saturday was not a
glamorous way for Tar Heel senior Phil Ford to end his glamorous college
basketball career.
He sat in the humid, cramped lockerroom at Arizona State's Activities Center
after the 68-64 loss and pulled his sweaty jersey over his head, looked at it once,
then folded it carefully with the rest of his uniform and put it in his travel bag. He
turned to entertain the countless questions being fired at him by reporters.
"I hate to end on a note like this," he said. "With a game like this, it'll be hard
for me to remember right off my career at Carolina. This will take a longtime to
. go away."
Ford ended his career far from home in the preliminary game of the West
Regionals, where the Tar Heels were sent when they failed to win the ACC
tournament last week after winning the regular season title. He scored seven
points below his 21-point average and suffered with his teammates when open
shots wouldn't fall through the rim.
He ended his career, however, with a brief flare that has been typical of his
tenure at Carolina. He directed the Tar Heel offense to bring the team from eight
down with a minute to go to only two with 20 seconds to go. He set up plays in the
spurt and coordinated a defense that forced a five second violation on a crucial
San Francisco inbounds play. His final collegiate basket and the last one of the
season for the Carolina team came on a drive and an underhanded layup.
But the game was mostly one of frustration for Ford. There were things like a
maddening zone defense and a timeout request at a crucial point that went
unheeded by the officials.
With a minute left and Carolina down by six, 62-56, the Tar Heels wanted a
timeout after a Ford basket. But the Dons got the ball inbounds and Ford's man
to guard, Chubby Cox, raced down the floorfor an uncontested layup while the
Carolina senior was calling for a timeout.
"We did call a timeout," Ford said in the same tone of voice in which he has
explained winning plays for four years. "Everybody was yelling 'timeout.' The
guy (Bill Cartwright, who threw the ball inbounds) got a lucky bounce and was
able to get it inbounds. We called for a timeout as soon as the ball went through
the net."
This was not the first game Ford has come down the court on offense and seen
the opposition in a zone defense. Nearly every team uses it to neutralize Ford's
outstanding one-on-one ability.
"They didn't make me change my style," he said. "But everytime I got the ball,
someone's hand was in my face. Against a man-to-man defense, UNC plays
really well. But we play well against a zone, too. Look at the number of games
we've won this season against a zone."
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Writers select Ford
ACC player of year
Phil Ford captured 86 of the 1 25 votes
cast by the ACC Sports Writers
Association to become the league's player
of the year.
Rod Griffin of Wake Forest received
33 votes to finish second. Griffin won the
award last season.
Ford, Carolina's all-time leading
scorer, was also named a I' PI first-team
All-America and picked as playerof the
year by the United States Basketball
Writers Association. The Sporting News
and Basketball Weekly.
Griffin was bidding for his second
straight ACC player of the year award
after leading the conference in both
scoring and rebounding this year. Ford
was second in scoring at 2 1. 1 points a
game and finished first in assists. He is
Carolina's all-time assists leaders.
Duke's Eugene Banks won rookie of
the year honors in the ACC by getting 1 15
of 1 25 votes. It was the third yearinarow
that a Duke player has won the award.
Virginia's Jell Lamp received the other ID
votes.
Dons 68, Tar Heels 64
SAN FRANCISCO M FO FT R
Phil Ford and the Tar Heels had their
problems shooting Saturday afternoon
against San Francisco.
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Jemison
Cartwright
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Williams. S.
Totals
CAROLINA
O'Koren
Bradley
Woll
Zaliegirii
Ford
Colescott
Ooughton
Wood
Budko
Crompton
Virgil
Totals
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40
40
23
37
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38
13
29
23
38
4
2
23
2
11
16
10-140-0
3- 9 2-2
9-12 5-7
1-4 1-2
4- 11 4-4
1-4 0-0
28-5412-1539
FO FT
5-13 4-5
2- 3 0-0
2 8 0-0
3- 6 0-0
7-21 0-0 1
1- 1 0-0
0-0 0-0
3-9 0-0
0-0 0-0
2- 5 0-1
5-8 0-0
200 30-714-8 27
A
4
2
6
5
4
2
23
A
6
0
0
0
3
0
1
1
0
2
2
15
TP
20
8
23
3
12
2
88
TP
14
4
4
6
14
2
0
6
0
4
10
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San Francisco 21-36 68
North Carolina 32-32 - 64
Officials Carotto, Fouty.
Gminski's free throws lift
Devils over Rhode Island
CHARLOTTE (UPI) - Rhode Island
coach Jack Kraft said he felt Duke deserved
Sunday's NCAA playoff victory but his
team didn't deserve to lose.
"It's that way anytime you have a one
point ball game." Kraft said of the 63-62 loss
on two Mike Gminski free throws with 17
seconds left. "We had our opportunities but
we just weren't able to capitalize, right on
down to the 14-second mark," he said. -
With about six seconds left, Rhode";
Island's Stan Wright missed a 15-foot shot,,
from the baseline and John Nelson's follow ;
shot at the buzzer also failed. Kraft said he
wasn't disappointed with the shot. "It's a
good shot, one that we can make," he said.
Gminski's first attempt in the onc-and-one
situation hit the back and front of the rim
before going in.
"1 was very confident at the line." Gminski
said. "I just went up there and stuck it in."
Gminski scored 25 points in leading the
ACC champions to their 24th victory of the
season against six losses.
With the Blue Devils down 62-59,
Gminski hit a basket with 33 seconds left to
pull his team to within one point. Rhode
Island's Sly Williams went over Gminski's
back for a rebound, committing his Fifth foul
of the game and sending the 6-foot-1 1
sophomore to the line to score the winning
points.
Jim Spanarkel finished with 18 points for
Duke, which led by as many as five points in
the closing minutes of play.
Duke shot just 42.6 percent from the field
to a 44.6 percent for the Rams and Blue
Devil coach Bill Foster said it was an
afternoon when the ball just wouldn't go in.
"We got good shots," Foster said. "1
wasn't worried about our shot selection.
They just wouldn't drop.
"We played too tentative and not really as
well as we could have," he said. "I really felt
like in the first five minutes we would break
it, but nothing went in gear."
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