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No. 16 Cavs Cope With Injury
BYJACSONLOWE
SENIOR WRITER
Don’t think Cory Alexander isn’t im
portant to the Virginia Cavaliers. The first
page of the Wahoos’ media guide season
outlook says in bold letters:
A healthy Cory Alexander, four returning
starters and a promising freshman class have
heltedgenerate expectations of asuccessfidl994-
95 campaign.
Aftergoing 18-13 last year and shooting
under 40 percent from the floor for the
season, UVa. couldn’t wait to get its leader
back. Alexander missed all but 11 minutes
of the 1993-94 year with a broken ankle.
But this year things were to be different
—and they were until Feb. 8, when
Alexander once again went down with
another ankle injury against N.C. State.
“Cory has a stress-type fracture in the
inside bone of his right ankle, in the same
general area of the injury he suffered in
November of 1993,” said Dr. Frank
McCue, UVa.’s team physician. “It’s not
displaced, and it’s anew fracture; it’s not
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the same fracture as
the one he suffered
last season. He will
not play again this
season."
And with that,
head coach Jeff
Jones and his troops
must push onward
without their floor
leader once again.
It’s not going to be
easy. Before the in
jury, Alexander had
returned to the form
which made him a
UVa. point guard
CORY ALEXANDER
broke his ankle Feb. 8
vs. N.C. State.
second-team All-ACC selection in his
sophomore season.
He was averaging 16.6 points and 5.2
assists per game. More importantly, he
was the coach on the floor helping to or
chestrate, among other impressive perfor
mances, a 23-point second-half comeback
against Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
With the Waynesboro, Va., native rel
egated to pine time forthe remainder of the
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season, more pressure is being put on sopho
more Harold Deane to take on the ball
handling chores. Deane, a first-team All-
Freshman in the ACC last year, paced the
Cavaliers to the conference tournament
finals against North Carolina. Jones said
that he feels Deane is ready for the leader
ship role on the court.
“Given the experience last year and
what he has gone through this year, Harold
has improved as far as running the show,”
Jones said. “If we need to, we can put the
ball in his hand the entire time and have
him handle it in some ways the same way
Cory did or the amount of time Cory did
and feel comfortable with that.”
But more importantly, Deane, along
with freshman Curtis Staples, has been
able to pick up the scoring void left by
Alexander’s injury. In Wednesday’s 64-58
thumping of hapless Duke, the backcourt
duo combined for 31 points.
“Harold and Cory are different,” Jones
said. “Harold is a little less of a penetrator
than Cory. He’s more of a power player,
making stronger moves to the basket.”
Sullivan Returns, Contributes ‘Little Things’
BYJACSONLOWE
SENIOR WRITER
They rose to their feet, 21,572 strong,
and applauded his return. He checked in at
the scorer’s table with 13:58 left in the first
half, and for the first time in 680 days,
UNC’s Pat Sullivan took to the court in a
regulation game.
“It really was nice to have that reaction,
that ovation when I first went in there, ” the
Bogota, N.J., senior said. “It kind of gave
me chills up and down to be out there with
those guys.”
And why shouldn’t it? After redshirting
the 1993-94 season as a senior to benefit
the good ofhis team, Sullivan returned this
year with big hopes. But those hopes were
dashed in the form of a back injury so
severe, surgery was needed to repair the
damage. The 66-39 blowout of Clemson
Thursday night was a long time coming for
UNC’s co-captain.
“Basically it was just a blessing to have
thisjersey ontonight,”hesaid. “Therewas
talk before I had my surgery that I might
never be able to come back. I might not
everplay basketball again. Itjust feels good
to be back out here again.”
And it was the same ol’ “Self’ on the
hardwoods—his nickname an oxymoron
in terms of his unselfish style of play. At
10:32, UNC point guard JeffMclnnis pen
etrated and dished to Sullivan. Despite a
chorus of “Shoot!” from the stands, Sullivan
hesitated and dished to Donald Williams
for a 3-pointer that turned out to be a four
point play. His contribution to an already
lopsided lead would come later.
With 3:25 left in the first stanza, Sullivan
found himself in the same place he made
his last contribution to his team, 15 feet
from the basket in a one-and-one situation.
Twenty-two months ago, it was for a na
tional championship. Thursday, it was for
his first points of the year. Both shots found
nothing but net.
“I wasn’t really worried abut my free
throws, because that’s all I’ve been shoot
ing the whole time I’ve been rehabbing,”
he said. “I felt good about that—it was the
outside shot that I passed up when Jeff
threw me the ball, and I got it to Donald. I
was really scared to shoot that one— I
didn’t want to shoot an airball in front of all
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SPORTS
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His 24 points Thursday vsL'.Diahed out 11 assists The Wahoos have not been known as a great
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those fans.”
Sullivan might not have had 100-per
cent confidence to begin with, but UNC
head coach Dean Smith had no problem
letting him play 16 minutes against the
Tigers.
“I put him in the game with four min
utes left to go in the Michigan game in the
national championship,” he said. “Do I
have confidence in him? Certainly.”
Smith has always said it’s the little things
about Sullivan’s game that make him valu
able, and one of those little things hap
pened with 0.4 seconds left in the first half.
Sullivan lobbed the ball inbounds to Serge
Zwikker, who promptly scored his only
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bucket of the night before the buzzer.
“I think it’s good to have Pat back,
because he’s that role player that every
team needs,” Williams said. “It may not
seem like it, but when he comes back I
think we’re just a much better team be
cause of the little things he does for our
basketball team.”
One of those little things is picking up
loose balls, and Sullivan did just that under
the basket with 9:46 remaining and con
verted it into his first field goal of the year.
“Coach Dave Hanners gave me some
goodadviceinthe training room, ” Sullivan
quipped. “He said, ‘Don’t shoot any out
side shots. You wait till you get a layup.’
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And that’s what I did. I felt really good
after that.”
Even though he got 16 minutes Thurs
day , those kind of minutes might be a little
harder tocome by down the stretch. UNC’s
not been doing too shabbily without
Sullivan, and now the transition begins.
“It was good to see (Sullivan) out there
contributing,” Jerry Stackhouse said.
“We’re not trying to force anything on
him. We know he’s taken some big steps.
We need to incorporate him into our rota
tion. Everything’s been running kind of
smoothly. We definitely want to make a
smooth transition bringing him in.”
Smooth sailing thus far.
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