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& Georgia Tech waiting for someday to arrive 1 By ROBYN NORWOOD Staff Writer There is basically one reason things are looking so good for Georgia Tech this year: things were so bad before. Before as in before last year, before Mark Price, before a sixth-place finish in the Atlantic Coast Conference and before winning its first game ever in an ACC tour nament. Coach Bobby Cremins earned ACC coach-of-the-year honors in just his second year of reconstruction in Atlanta largely because of Price, a Cremins recruit who led the league in scoring with a 20.3 average and was named ACC Rookie of the Year. At a school that hasn't had a winning basketball season since 1979 and actually charted a 20-loss season (4-23) in 1981, last year's. 13-1,5 record looked tantalizingly close to even. But that was, after all, last year. "Our biggest challenge this year will be trying to sustain the enthusiasm we have brought in," Cremins said. "I don't think people will be taking us lightly anymore." Wake Forest won't be the Yellow Jackets handed Carl Tacy's team a 70-69 loss during the regular season last year. And neither will Maryland, after an over time defeat in the first round of the ACC tournament at the Omni in Atlanta. With the element of surprise gone, Geor gia Tech will have to depend on last year's freshmen this year's sage sophomores to lead the team. Forward Danny Pearson had academic problems and transferred to Jacksonville University, but the other three freshman starters all return bigger (6-11 power forward John Salley is up to 215 pounds from just 185), better (Cremins said Price has improved after playing in the Pan American games) and faster (that's Tim Harvey, who picked , up some quickness after dropping 10 pounds from his 6-10 frame). So Price is back. Unfortunately, the three-point goal is not. For Price, who hit 73 from beyond 19 feet to lead the league last season, that represents a 2.6 point-per-game drop in average. For Tech, that could represent some close losses. Fresh in to assist Price in the backcourt is Bruce Dalrymple, the first All-American recruit (Parade Magazine, first team) ever to sign with the Yellow Jackets. A 2,740 point career scorer at St. Johnsbury Acade emy in Vermont, Dalrymple will start. The only question is where. If it's at guard, Scott Petway, a 6-6 trans fer from Pensacola (Fla.) Junior College will probably start at small forward. But if t-pvr. t fa & W f i md '"ir-r mi rrnr rrnmrrf M '.'5jL MV li.niii.mi.ru mmmti& i - mm in Hot-shooting guard Mark Price, the ACC's 1982-83 leading scorer, again is the pivotal player on Bobby Cremin's squad. GEORGIA TECH YELLOW JACKETS No. NAME HTWT CLASS HOMETOWN 30 Anthony Byrd 6-2180 Sr. Apex, NC 45 Bruce Dalrymple 6-4190 Fr. Manhattan, NY 20 Scott Gardner 6-4180 So. Greenville, SC 44 Tim Harvey 6-10225 So. Plainfield, NJ 54 Yvon Joseph 6-11245 Jr. Cap-Haitian, Haiti 34 Jack Mansell 6-7210 So. Sharon. PA 10 Craig Neal 6-5165 Fr. Washington, IN 24 .Scott Petway 6-6210 Jr. Chicago, IL 25 Mark Price 6-0165 So. Enid, OK 22 John Salley 6-9215 So. Brooklyn, NY 43 Greg Wilson 6-8220 Sr. Grand Ridge, FL Cremins uses the 6-3 Dalrymple inside, the other freshman, Craig Neal, moves in at guard., A strong rebounder, Dalrymple averaged 20 boards and 28.5 points per game in his senior prep season. "He's a real fighter and a battler," Cremins said. "But he realizes there's a major difference between high school bas ketball in Vermont and ACC basketball. He's going through that transition right now but he's starting." At center, returning starter Harvey may find himself just half that the returning half. Junior Yvon Joseph, a transfer from Miami Dade North Junior College who was redshirted last year after an early sea son back injury, is likely to push Harvey out of the center position with his 6-11 frame. A native of Cap-Haitian, Haiti, Joseph has only been playing organized basketball three years. But in his 32 minutes of pre- injury playing time last season, Joseph scored 20 points. According to teammate Salley, "If he gets the ball within four feet of the basket, he's going to score." A little wisdom on the situation at Geor gia Tech comes from one of the ancients sophomore forward Salley, whose 11.5 average was second only to you-know-who. "After each game Oast year), I had dead butterflies in my stomach," he said. "I was more nervous after the game than before it. "In New York they say the only way you learn to fight is to get beat up. That's what happened to us last season," Salley said. Beat up or not, Cremins called Salley the brightest spot in the team's preseason drills. "He used to be very timid, but he's im proved tremendously," the coach said. 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