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Tar Heels blast Devils, lay claim to No. 1
BY ALEC MORRISON
SENIOR WRITER
The 199th renewal of the UNC-
Duke rivalry dissolved Thursday in an
ocean of North Carolina’s romping,
unyielding offense, leaving the Blue
Devils riddled and weary.
The second-ranked Tar Heels owned
the paint Thursday night, and with it
came a 97-73 victory over the top
ranked Blue Devils (20-2, 9-1 in the
ACC) in the most hyped, most signifi
cant game of the college season to date.
As an over
flow crowd
of 22,050 at
the Smith
Men's basketball
Duke 73
UNC 97
Center looked on, the Tar Heels (23-1,
9-1) renewed their claim to the top of
the ACC and the national standings.
“I was thrilled with our team,” UNC
coach Bill Guthridge said. “It was a
great victory for us, really fun. Both
teams wanted this game badly.”
Duke was supposed to be the pres
suring team, but UNC countered the
Devils’ trademark defense well by pen
etrating and giving the ball up for inside
baskets. The Tar Heels beat the Devils
at another of
Duke’s strengths
the transition
game —as UNC
ran up a 16-point
halftime lead and
scored the game’s
final 18 points.
For the third
time in his career,
Tar Heel forward
Antawn Jamison
dominated the
Devils in the
Smith Center
paint, finishing
with 35 points and
11 rebounds. The
Devils matched
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UNC forward
ANTAWN JAMISON
scored 35 points
Thursday, giving him
68 points in his last
two meetings with the
Blue Devils.
defensive-minded forwards Roshown
McLeod and Shane Battier on Jamison,
but he used a variety of moves in the
post to snake around the duo.
Jamison also became a prime target
on the fast break for sophomore point
guard Ed Cota, who poured in 12 assists
after committing an uncharacteristic
five turnovers early in the game.
“Antawn demonstrated why he’s an
All-American,” Guthridge said. “If not
the best, surely he’s one of the best play
ers in the country. We were getting the
ball to him, but he was going and get
ting the ball, too.”
With Jamison scoring inside, UNC
had little use for a perimeter game.
The Tar Heels attempted just three 3-
pointers, sinking two; Duke shot 9 for
30 from beyond the arc, including a 2-
of-7 night for guard Trajan Langdon.
UNC’s steady ball movement was its
best weapon against Duke, but the Tar
Heels needed some time to warm to the
Consulting team seeks
ideas, input on advising
BY KELLI BOUTIN
STAFF WRITER
The Advising Steering Team and its
consultants are seeking advice from stu
dents about how to improve University
advising.
A forum will be held from 1 p.m. to 3
p.m. today in Union 205, and students
are asked to participate.
The steering
committee, which
was started last
semester to exam
ine the status of
advising, will be
joined by Wendy
Whittemore, assis
tant director of
Letters and
Science at the
Advising
forum
1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Union 205
University of Maryland at College Park.
Whittemore is one of three consul
tants reviewing the University’s advising
program. She will answer questions at
the session.
Barbee Crowley, chairwoman of the
Academic Affairs Committee of student
government, will facilitate the forum.
“I hope that students see it as their
opportunity to share their perspective
with the outside consultants,” she said.
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North Carolina guard Shammond Williams (left) takes it to the basket against Duke forward Roshown McLeod
in the first half of the Tar Heels' 97-73 victory Thursday night. Williams finished with 17 points.
task of facing the Devils’ defense.
Cota’s early turnovers, coupled with
six points from McLeod in the game’s
first six minutes, gave Duke a 16-10 lead
with 13 minutes to play in the first half.
But the Tar Heels came alive then,
beginning with a 3-pointer by UNC cen
ter Makhtar Ndiaye that sparked a 9-0
Tar Heel run. An 8-0 run by the Tar
Heels later in the half put UNC up 43-
31. The Tar Heels led 50-34 at halftime.
“It’s a situation we hadn’t been in,”
Duke point guard Steve Wojciechowski
The forum will cover four basic top
ics: freshman advising, General College
advising, advising in the College of Arts
and Sciences and career counseling.
Susan Kitchen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said she hoped the forum
would generate student input. “We want
to make sure that the team hears lots of
different student voices, so they have as
complete a picture as possible,” she said.
Kitchen also said students would
have an opportunity to explicitly outline
suggestions to improve advising.
The forum is a chance for students to
speak for themselves, Student Body
President Mo Nathan said.
“We complain about advising all the
time,” he said. “Here’s our chance to do
something about it.”
Whittemore coordinates the advising
system at Maryland. She was recruited
by the steering committee to help its
review because she was instrumental in
turning around Maryland’s advising sys
tem, said Bobbi Owen, associate dean of
Arts and Sciences.
Owen added that part of Maryland’s
success stemmed from its advising sys
tem’s inclusion of both faculty and fall
time advisers. Under this system, stu
dents have access to advisers year
round.
When you’re as great as I am, it’s hard to be humble.
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said. “They did an outstanding job of
transition defense. We weren’t able to
get anything easy.”
Depth, which many tabbed as Duke’s
biggest advantage, never became a fac
tor. Though the Blue Devils could rotate
repeatedly at any position, they couldn’t
find the right combination to match
UNC’s intensity.
Duke played three freshmen, who
scored a combined seven points. That
total was matched .by UNC freshman
Brendan Haywood, who scored seven of
BY LAURA GODWIN
MANAGING EDITOR
It’s considered by some students the ultimate test of a
“true fan.” Camping out all night in the dead of winter,
just for two basketball tickets.
But to those who have had a
year to supervise the event,
ticket distribution for UNC
men’s basketball game tickets
is a problem-filled process in
need of revising.
The ticket distribution poli
cy is set by the Carolina
Athletic Association presi
dent, and it can change with
each administration. When a
new president or co-presidents
take the helm of the CAA, the
group devises their distribu
tion policy, which must be
approved by administrators.
This year’s co-presidents
Charlie Roederer and Jason
Reynolds ran on a platform
that supported campouts.
CAA ticket distribution co
director Dan Valenti said stu
dents wanted campouts.
Last year, the CAA deviat-
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veyed 305 students to find
out which issues they con
sidered the most important
in the upcoming student
elections. This week the
DTH presents the following
issues:
Tuesday: Food Service
Wednesday: Cable &
Internet
Thursday: Tuition
Friday: TtettT Dbtwbutkw
Monday: Parking
ed from the traditional campout and implemented a
Sunday morning ticket lottery.
But Valenti said this year had taught him you can’t
please everyone all the time. “Last year you had students
See TICKETS, Page 4
his own in 10 minutes on the floor.
North Carolina led by as many as 20
points in the second half before Duke
drew together enough to whittle into its
deficit. When Ndiaye was whistled for
his fifth personal foul and a technical
with 6:01 to play, the Devils were able to
close to 73-69.
But by then, UNC had all the confi
dence it needed on offense to get the
points back. Cota knocked down a
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Unhappy campers
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Students camp out Oct. 3 for coveted tickets to men's
basketball games at the Smith Center.
Duke’s pressure fails
to rattle UNC guards
BY KURT TONDORF
SENIOR WRITER
Ed Cota had to do it.
The North Carolina point guard, star
ing into the eyes of Steve
Wojciechowski nearly every possession
Thursday night, knew he could consis
tently beat the hounding Duke point
guard off the dribble.
So when Duke chopped a 19-point
UNC lead to just four with 5:48 remain
ing, the 6-foot-l floor leader decided to
take over the biggest game of the college
basketball season.
“I ain’t gonna lie,” said Cota, who
finished with 12 points and 12 assists in
UNC’s 97-73 win. “I was playing soft,
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Carolina fans swarmed onto Franklin Street after the Tar Heel victory over the
Blue Devils late Thursday night. It was a raucous night on the Hill.
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knowing how I could beat him. Then he
started grabbing me, smacking me up.
Toward the end of the game, I just start
ed taking it to him.”
Cota usually makes opponent’s heads
swim with his uncanny knack for find
ing and feeding his teammates. On
Thursday, he did it with his own offense.
With UNC up 75-69, Cota scored or
assisted on four of UNC’s next five pos
sessions, boosting the weary Tar Heels
back up to an 11-poinf cushion with
3:07 remaining. He drained a pullup
jumper, made two free throws off a
Wojciechowski foul, and hit a lefty
layup high off the backboard to give
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INSIKL
From kids to graduates
Marian Wright Edelman, founder of
the Children's Defense Fund, will
speak at May commencement
ceremonies. Page 3
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On the way to Capitol Hill
Students give
reasons for
joining Student
Congress ranks.
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The Daily Tar Heel and Book's newspaper, The
Chronicle's banner was printed in Carolina Blue
today. All loyal UNC fans are invited to the DTH
office (Suite 105, Student Union) at 11 a.m. to
see The Chronicle’s editor deliver 200 copies of
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