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I Hokies No Turkeys, but UNC Prevails 2b DTH/CRAIG JONES UNO's Dante Calabria passes under Virginia Tech's Shawn Good. Passes like this one earned Calabria six assists in the game. And as Bucky Waters put it, he was ''flammable' from 3-point range, going 5 for 7 en route to 17 points. Look Out Below: Here Comes ‘The Nasty,’ ‘lo’ or Just ‘The Dunk’ BY ALISON LAWRENCE SENIOR WRITER GREENSBORO 3:06 left to play. UNC forward Jerry Stackhouse drives into the lane past Virginia Tech defender Shawn Smith, flies into the air over Hokie Travis Jackson and buries a slam dunk with such authority that the crowd could only rise up and roar in awe. “(Jackson) was under the basket,” Stackhouse said. “He didn’t have a chance.” “The Dunk" made television highlights and probably every newspaper story from here to Blacksburg, Va., but in Stackhouse’s book it still wasn’t a perfect 10. “You’ll have to ask Rasheed (Wallace) that one,” he said. “I’d say a high eight or nine.” So how about it Rasheed? “I told (Stackhouse) that dunk just got him on ESPN. Man, it was ‘The Nasty,”’ Wallace said. Stackhouse dunks all the time. But this time, Stackhouse flew across the lane for the slam, igniting his team and the crowd. Virginia Tech forward Ace Custis was awestruck by “The Dunk." "Low Key’ Meet Gains Black Automatic Berth BYERIN PARRISH STAFF WRITER The North Carolina track and field team came home to a “low-key” meet Sunday after a quick trip to Virginia Tech. But for one Tar Heel hurdler, the return to the Tin Can was anything but uneventful. Senior Chad Black was already a provi sional NCAA qualifier based on his 7.32- second dash last week, but Sunday Black erased all doubts about his making the trip to Indianapolis. En route to a second place finish behind unattached Terry Reese, Black became the second UNC trackster to qualify automatically for the indoor na tional championships with a time of 7.23. “That was an excellent performance for Chad,” UNC head coach Dennis Craddock said. North Carolina hosted teams from Shaw, N.C. State, Livingstone, Johnson C. Smith and Duke Sunday afternoon. For the UNC track staff, it was the sixth meet in 10 days, including four days of high school regional meets. The sprints are always the main event of the Joe Hilton Complex’s three-ring cir cus, and sophomore Tony McCall cap tured the attention of the sparse crowd with his performance in the men’s 55- meter dash. McCall equaled his provi sional qualifier time of 6.28 seconds but added a few exclamation points during his jog back to the blocks by screaming what sounded like, “more of that.” "I've never heard him chant like that before," Craddock said. “It sounded like WRESTLING Page 7 Another Successful TJ While Tonya Jackson (TJ) was dominating Maryland in women’s basketball, hundreds of miles away, UNO’s T.J. Jaworsky was earning Most Outstanding Wrestler honors at the NWCA meet in Lincoln, Neb. Jaworsky outdueled grapplers from many of the nation's topfanked squads. , ' l|Mj| |H m ||fl , K “I’ll give him a 10 on that Custis said. “That was the best onel’ve ever seen in person. He brought it down from the ankles and finished hard." And Stackhouse was playing with four fouls. “I was thinking a couple of times, ‘I almost could have had a foul on that one,”’ he said. “When you have Forward JERRY STACKHOUSE led .UNC with 21 points, including one rather vicious slam. four fouls you try to play a little gingerly. ” Stackhouse’s play was far from tender in the last minutes of the game. “The Dunk,” two jumpers and a free throw added seven points for Stackhouse in the final five minutes, including a jumper at the top of the lane with the shot clock about to expire. “Stackhouse competes,” UNC head coach Dean Smith said. “He hit the basket as the clock was winding down, that foul line jumper.” Stackhouse said: “I was trying to do some weird tribal ritual or something.” UNC represented itself well in the women’s sprints, sweeping the 55-meter dash and gamering second and third places in the hurdles. Toi Wilson won the 55 meters with a time of 7.09 seconds. Team mates Terry Vann and Pam Morrison rounded out the top three. Ayo Atterbeny, competing unattached, took the 55-meter hurdles in 7.90 seconds with Tar Heels Tyra Moore and Nadine Faustin finishing second and third. Moore had another busy day, compet ing in four events for UNC and coming up with wins in the long and triple jumps. In other field event action, high-jumper Kim Jones won her event with a leap of 5- 91/4 after passing at all heights below 5-6. After winning her first collegiate meet last week, UNCfreshmanMandy Schnupp won the shot put with a 42-10 1/4 heave. North Carolina fielded no competitors in events longer than 400 meters. The boards of the Tin Can’s four-lane track are notoriously unkind to middle distance and distance runners’ times and legs. UNC’s Melanie Sellers led the women’s 400 meters wire to wire, taking the event with a time of 1:00.88. North Carolina’s distance runners made up for their absence Sunday with some good early-season performances Saturday in Blacksburg, Va. For the men, Bill Lickert, Todd Morgan and Ken Hamden were all winners, while Jenny Musselwhite, Monique Hunt and Monique Kinnegan took home first places for the Tar Heel women. 3ljp laxly ®ar Heel what we had to do to win. Like I always said, I love the last five minutes of the game. I think they were trying to collapse and getting some open looks for baskets. “The game was close, and we had to take the initiative and be aggressive offen sively as well as defensively.” And that’s not his only contribution. Stackhouse was 7 of 10 from the floor and 6 of 8 from the charity stripe, adding 21 points and two assists for the game. “Every time he drove to the basket, he got a foul or got the bucket, so that was good for us,” Wallace said. He was effective on the defensive end as well, racking up two steals and one block. “I definitely felt like I contributed,” Stackhouse said about his game perfor mance . “I tried to get screens and get every body involved.” Butwillweeverseethatperfect-lOdunk, Jerry? “You ’ll see it. You’ll see it, ” Stackhouse said. “You’ll see it at College Park (where UNC plays Maryland Feb. 7).’’ Ironically, in 1983 another UNC sopho more by the name ofMichael j rrdan made a spectacular, scooping dunk, a perfect 10, at Cole Field House in College Park, Md. ‘ MMIMT. ' -t. ' DTH/KATIE CANNON Tar Heel sophomore Tyra Moore, shown here competing in the triple jump, won that event and the long jump at the Hilton Track on Sunday afternoon. BY JUSTIN SCHEEF SPORTS EDITOR GREENSBORO The North Caro lina Tar Heels thought they would test out the recently refurbished Greensboro Coli seum, site of the 1995 ACC Tournament, against Virginia Tech Saturday. The 3-point line: check. Dante Calabria and Pearce Landry hit a combined 8-of-l 1 3-pointeis. The rims: check. Rasheed Wallace made sure they were Ra-proof. The crowd: check. Jerry Stackhouse made the fans ‘ooh’ and ‘ah’ several times, but particularly when he threw down a thunderous one-hander to help seal the game in the second half. All this led to North Carolina’s 87-76 win over Vir ginia Tech be fore a coli seum-record Men's Basketball Virginia Tech 76 UNC 87 crowd of 22,101. The Tar Heels upped their record to 14-1 while the Hokies fell to 13-4. But it wasn’t easy for UNC. Virginia Tech, which used only six players in the game, stayed in it and was up 53-50 with 12:15 to go. North Carolina used a 20-7 run to take a 70-60 lead with just under five minutes left. Virginia Tech’s Ace Custis cut the lead to six again with free throws and a dunk, but then it was Stackhouse time. “Like I always said, I love the last five minutes of the game,” said the Kinston sophomore, who scored 21 points. Stackhouse, playing withfourfouls, first hit a tough-angle layup off the glass from the baseline, swished a 15-foot jumper as the shot clock wound down and then sent the crowd into a frenzy with “The Dunk. ” Stackhousebeathisman, Shawn Smith, and then went right over 6-foot-8 center Travis Jackson. It could have been called 11. i VHidgi ' I Wm W y i / jfljppH Jerry Stackhouse s monster dunk brought an amazed and excited reaction from Charlie McNairy (left), Octavus Barnes (middle) and Ryan Sullivan (suit). NCAA Basketball Scores Temple 58 Syracuse..... 60 UMass 59 Providence 59 UConn 86 Kansas 91 Seton Hall 81 Colorado 77 UCLA 85 Arkansas..... 88 Ariz. State 72 S. Carolina 73 Vanderbilt 68 Georgetown.. 60 Kentucky.... 81 Villanova 66 an offensive foul on Stackhouse. “I don’t think he could have drawn a charge on that one,” Stackhouse said. “I think the reft were watching too. They were watching the dunk too.” Custis said: “We let Travis know after the game that he’d be on the highlight film this week on (ESPN’s) Sports Center.” “The Dunk, ” or “The Nasty” as Wallace put it, gave UNC a 75-66 lead with 3:06 to play, but it was a Jeff Mclnnis jumper before the shot clock expired, two Mclnnis free throws and a Wallace rim-hanging slam that cemented the game for the Tar Heels. Somehow, Virginia Tech stayed in the game for 39 minutes despite shooting 37 percent from the field. UNC shot 62 per cent, including 17 of 25 in the second half. “The thing that hurt us was that they shot the ball so well,” said Tech coach Bill Foster. “And North Carolina’s shots weren’t gimmies.” UNC was the first team this season to shoot better than 47.5 percent from the floor against Tech. Smith led the brick-laying brigade for the Hokies, making only 4-of-22 shots from the floor. The Hokies got multiple opportunities each trip down the floor as they out-re bounded the Tar Heels on the offensive glass 25-7. But they couldn’t capitalize on the offensive boards. “They’re big and athletic inside,” Jack son said. “We did a pretty good job, con sidering their height advantage.” UNC head coach Dean Smith said he wasn’t happy with his team’s defensive rebounding. “One problem is that when you try to block a shot, you get out of rebounding position,” he said “They killed us there. But I don’t want Jeny and Rasheed to quit trying to block shots.” See MEN’S BASKETBALL, Page 6 Terp Bricks, Tar Heel Boards Lead to Romp BYROBBIPICKERAL ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR North Carolina’s 88-67 annihilation of Maryland in Carmichael Auditorium Sun day afternoon can be summed up in three chapters poor shooting by the youthful Terps, great rebounding by the powerful Tar Heels and a hot-handed reserve named Tonya Jackson. With its 32nd consecutive win, UNC’s record rose to 18-0,6-0 in the ACC. Mary- Wonwn's Basketball Maryland 67 UNC 88 land fell to 9-8, 1-5. “I thought Maryland played very hard, very physical, like a typical Maryland team,” UNChead coach Sylvia Hatchell said. “They’rejustyoung.” And as the game wore on, it showed. After UNC controlled the opening tip, 3,4oofans watched the Terrapins hold then own against the defending national champs, trading baskets for the first six minutes. For Maryland, both sophomore Lillian Purvis and freshman Sonia Chase actually hit a shot during that span, but afterward, Purvis missed her last 19 attempts, and Chase fared only slightly better. The duo went 7 for 43 on the afternoon. Purvis tallied two points; Chase had 17. “They have a couple of freshmen that do a good job, and they’re getting to play,” Hatchell said. “They’ve got an opportu nity to play, just like Lillian Purvis got the opportunity to play last year, and they’re going to get better. use 74 Oregon 92 Arizona 93 Washington... 83 Michigan St. 73 Illinois 66 Michigan 71 Minnesota .. 77 lowa State .. 79 DePaul 82 Kansas State. 73 Cincinnati... 92 Missouri 70 Florida. 62 Okla. State ..85 Tennessee 47 Monday, January 23,1995 Wallace Denies Accusations by ESPN2 Analyst North Carolina Sophomore Questions How Feinstein Could Know If He’s in Class BY JUSTIN SCHEEF SPORTS EDITOR GREENSBORO Rasheed Wallace doesn’t especially care for John Feinstein. In fact, he doesn’t really know who he is. Feinstein, a basketball writer for the Washington Post and a commentator on ESPN2’s “Sports Night,” reported last Wednesday on the television program that the “only thing harder, it seems, than guard ing Wallace is to get him to go to class. Right now he shows no interest in academ ics, and people think he’ll be in the NBA draft in June.” Wallace’s mother, Jackie Wallace, andNorth Carolina head coach Dean Smith denied the accusa tions in Friday’s edition of the Phila delphia Daily News. Saturday, the sophomore from Philadelphia gave his own opinion on the subject. rr z < ——- i M \ UNC center RASHEED WALLACE Is averaging 18.4 points and 9.1 rebounds. “I don’t know the guy who wrote that in the paper (Feinstein reported on televi sion), and he doesn’t know me,” he said. “If I don’t go to class, how can I be in Greensboro (to play Virginia Tech) today? I have good grades. “Basically, maybe everybody has 15 or 20 seconds of fame, and everybody will remember him for saying that. Remember the guy for saying, ‘Wallace didn’t go to class, blah, blah, blah.’” When asked if the allegations bothered him, Wallace said he was trying not to let them get to him. “That bothers me because if he’s up there in Philadelphia and I’m down here in North Carolina, he flies down here every morning to check if! go to class?” he asked. “At first it didn’t bother me, but then it started to get to me a little bit. Now I just brush it offbecause I know what I do, and he won’t get me upset.” Feinstein, a Duke graduate, told the Philadelphia News that he stood by his comments and that his source was some one connected with the University but not with the team. “I was told,” Feinstein told the News, “that he was late for a couple of exams and that he was being dragged to class, almost literally” by someone connected with the program. UNC head coach Dean Smith said: “He was well over a ‘C’ average. I don’t know where (Feinstein) got his information. He’s in his classes, working hard again. If he was cutting, he’d have to face our rules.” Wallace is averaging 18.4 points, 9.1 rebounds and 3.4 blocks and is shooting 65.4 percent from the field. The Associated Press contributed to this story. “They’re young. And if you’re going to be one of the top teams,you’ve gotto have some experi ence.” And with only two seniors —one (Karon Ferguson) who was forced to the bench early with foul trouble and the other (Kesha Camper) who scored only a quiet four points it showed. |r m.m grabbed her I,oooth career rebound against Maryland on Sunday. At the 13:05 mark, UNC led 16-14. Enter Tar Heel junior Tonya Jackson. The left-hander from Conway, S.C., tied her career high of 14 points—includ ing 10 points on five straight possessions during an 11-minute ran in the first period, and the Tar Heels went into the locker room with a 15-point lead. “We wanted to come out early and play intense from the beginning,” senior for ward Charlotte Smith said. “I think we came out and played intense in the first 18 minutes... and I think that’s something we wanttocarry overfortheentiregame. And I think each game we’re getting better at that.” Hatchell said: “The first 18 minutes of the game, I thought we played well. We See WOMEN’S BASKETBALL, Page 7 12
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