UNC to face tough non-conferenee foes
Tar Heels will get good look at U.S.A. in '83 -'84
By EDDIE WOOTEN
Assistant Sports Editor
It won't travel as much as the Harlem
Globetrotters, but Dean Smith's North Caro
lina basketball team will get a good look at the
United States during the 1983-84 season.
In fact, the Tar Heels have already been
travelers: UNC won four games in an exhibi
tion tournament in Thessalonika and Athens,
Greece, in October.
UNC, which usually takes at least one dis
tant trip each season, has games scheduled in
Palo Alto, Calif., New York and Little Rock,
Ark., in addition to a full slate of Atlantic
Coast Conference games.
The non-conference schedule is loaded with
high-caliber opponents, just as in years past.
Included in this year's schetkde are 1983
NCAA tournament entrants Missouri, Syra
cuse, Tennessee-Chattanooga, Boston Univer
sity and Arkansas, lona and Fordham each
made the field for the National Invitational
Tournament, while NCAA entrant St. John's
is in the ECAC Holiday Festival in New York.
Here are previews of UNC's nonconference
opponents:
Tennessee Chattanooga, Nov. 28 in Chapel
Hill
The Moccasins, 26-4 last year and a two
point loser to Maryland in the NCAA tourna
ment, return four starters. Senior guard Willie
White led the team in scoring with an 18.4 av
erage and was a key when the Moccasins near
ly upset UNC 73-66, in Chattanooga last year.
Another returnee is 6-6 forward Gerald Wil
kins, a younger brother of the NBA's Domi
nique Wilkins. UT-C has won three straight
Southern Conference championships and fin
ished in the Top 20 last season.
Stanford Invitational, Dec. 2-3, in Palo Alto,
Calif. '
Fordham
The Rams went to the NIT with a 19-1 1 rec
ord a year ago, but this year's edition may face
a big challenge because of the addition of sev
en freshmen to coach Tom Penders' roster. Of
three returning starters, none averaged more
than eight points per game. Fordham will be
UNC's first-round opponent in the Stanford
Invitational, and the Rams will be one of four
teams, along with UNC, in the ECAC Holiday
Festival in New York.
San Jose State
The Spartans were 14-15 overall and sixth in
the Pacific Coast Athletic Association last
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year. Coach Bill Berry has only one starter
back Michael Dixon, 5.1 points per game
so another tough season is expected. Grad
uation took the other four starters, including
leading scorer Chris McNealy (19.3 ppg). San
Jose State will play Stanford in the first round
of the tournament.
Stanford
All-Pac-10 guard Keith Jones, who aver
aged 19.8 points per game, leads a cast of five
returning starters for coach Tom Davis' Cardi
nals. Stanford was 14-14 last year in its first
non-winning season in 10 years. Also returning
is John Revelli, who averaged 19.1 points and
7.8 rebounds, and shot 67.1 percent from the
floor. Stanford meets San Jose State in the
first round of its tournament.
See NON-CONFERENCE on page 21
Duke
from page 6
Defense hurt the Blue Devils' last season.
They finished last in the conference in scor
ing defense, allowing 83.7 points a game, and
their opponents shot 51.6 percent from the
field. If Duke has an chance at a winning sea
son, these figures must improve.
"To hold our opponents under 50 percent
. . .is a realistic goal," Krzyzewski said. "We
have good quickness and good depth if we
don't get any injuries, so we can afford to
push ourselves more. We also plan to play
more intricate defenses than was the case in
the past.
"We'll be better than last year, but we're
still the youngest team in the league. If we can
play injury-free and gain some confidence in
our early games, we'll have a good season."
Who knows? The hopes of the Duke fans
may be resting on the shoulders of freshmen.
Tech
from page 8
someday he's going to be a great player in the
ACC."
And there is the key. Someday. Seniors
Greg Wilson and Anthony Byrd will probably
have to watch from the sidelines as the
somedays of Georgia Tech success are built
with newer stock, although Byrd is in the run
ning for the No. 2 guard spot.
Front line reserve Jack Mansell, a sopho
more, will wait for the call to use his rebound
ing skills. Freshman Neal, consistently named
among the top 25 big guards in the nation's
prep ranks; will compete for playing time at
either guard. -
Georgia Tech will face several strong non
conference teams in Regional champion Geor
gia, South Carolina and NCAA participant
Pepperdine in preparation for the ACC sched
ule. If the young Yellow Jackets, and especially
Price, can avoid injuries, they may be able to
lock the door to the ACC cellar behind them,
although the league's top three spots still look
well out of riach.
"The brightest part," Cremins said, "is that
all these players are coming back."
And someday could be sooner than the
ACC thinks.
Wake
from page 25
ACC opponents will be Virginia Tech, Mar
quette and Auburn, a team that Wake assis
tant coach Mark Freidinger labeled "the team
with the most outstanding talent next to North
Carolina that we'll face all year."
Wake Forest should have the talent and ex
perience to meet the. challenge of such compe
tition. And now that the troubles of the past
have been left behind, Carl Tacy is ready to
focus solely on the present.
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