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Friday,January 28, 2000
Emotional Tar Heels Knock Off Terrapins
The UNC men's basketball
team fed off of the crowd
at the Smith Center to snap
its four-game losing streak.
B\ Brian Murphy
Senior Writer
Maybe it was the boisterous crowd,
filled with students who flooded the
court following the win.
Maybe it was the days of cabin fever
caused by the
snowstorm
that forced
the game to
be postponed
a day.
Men’s
Basketball
Maryland 63
UNC 75
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Or maybe the players were tired of the
constant criticism of their effort. But
North Carolina’s basketball team played
Thursday night like it had nothing to lose.
“I don’t diink we had much left in us,”
UNC coach Bill Guthridge said of his
team after the Tar Heels’ 75-G3 victory
against No. 22 Maryland. “I don’t think
we could have played five more minutes.”
Indicative of the team’s effort was
Kris Lang.
Lang, hobbled
by the stom
ach illness that
limited his time |
in Saturday s
loss to Florida
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Even after taking an IV at the half to
rehydrate, lang scored seven points and
grabbed five boards in the second half.
“I had as much as (Guthridge) needed
me to have,” said Lang as he sat receiving
medical attention. “I could have played
all night. I was playing on adrenaline.”
Much of the adrenaline was supplied
by the 15,455 fans, nearly three-quarters
of whom were students. Normally rele
gated to the upper deck, the students
filled the lower deck and stood or
jumped the entire game.
“It was a great atmosphere with the stu
dents courtside,” Maryland coach Gary'
Williams said. “I even had a couple of
people yelling at me, which hasn’t hap
pened here before.”
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But the crowd
can’t defend the
3-pointer, and in
the first half nei
ther could the Tar
Heels (12-8, 3-3 in
the ACC).
The Terps
(13-6, 2-4) hit 7 of
13 3-point attempts
in the first half en
route to a 41-34
halftime lead.
Maryland’s
prowess from
behind the arc was
also its undoing.
Junior guard
Max Owens
hit a 3-pointer during
UNC’s second-half
run to give the
Tar Heels the lead.
The Terps fell in love with the outside
jumper, hoisting 14 more treys after half
time. But this time the iron was unkind,
and Maryland missed its last 10 attempts.
Content to shoot jumpers against
UNC’s zone defense, the Terps didn’t
get to the free throw line or put up much
of a challenge on the glass. UNC took
31 free throws to Maryland’s 12 and
grabbed 12 more boards than the Terps.
“The game is played inside-out, and
tonight we played it outside-in,”
Williams said.
The Tar Heels used a different strategy.
UNC shot miserably in the first half (9-for
-25) but was 15-of-lt) from the line, includ
ing a perfect (i-of-li by Brendan Haywood.
In the second half, the Tar Heels’
shooting touch returned. Joseph Forte
canned a 3-pointer on the team’s first
possession, igniting the crowd and his
team. UNC shot 50 percent in the sec
ond half.
Trailing 50-47, the Tar Heels scored on
six of eight possessions, rattling off 14 con
secutive points. A Max Owens 3-pointer
at 13:15 -and in the middle of the run -
gave UNC a lead it would not relinquish.
The Tar Heels, who entered the game
losers of four straight, fully understood
the importance of the matchup.
“This point here was our season basi
cally,” said Haywood, who tied a career
high with 24 points. “We dug ourselves
a hole, and now we’ve got to dig our
selves out of it.”
The Sports Editor can be reached at
sports@unc.edu.
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By Will Kimmey
Assistant Sports Editor
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Haywood Talks, Plays
Good Game vs. Terps
By Evan Markfield
Senior Writer
When North Carolina center
Brendan Haywood stepped to the line
for a pair of free throws near the end of
the Tar Heels’ victory against Maryland
Thursday night, there was a noticeable
buzzing in his right ear.
That buzzing was Maryland’s trash
talking freshman point guard, Steven
Blake. And after rattling in his first free
throw, Haywood decided it was his turn
to get a few words in.
“I saw him push (UNC guard) Joe
(Forte), and 1 told him we didn’t need
that. Then he just started talking at me,”
Haywood said. “I hit a free throw, so 1
had to let him know about it.”
Forle was glad to see Haywood feed
ing off the intense crowd as he played -
and talked -with more fire than he’d
displayed in recent games.
“Big B tried to set it straight,” Forte
said. “It’s good to see your big man take
your back for you.”
But Haywood did more than just
police the Terrapins’ talkative point
man. The Tar Heels’ 7-footer tied a
career high with 24 points while adding
seven boards and a pair of blocks.
He was not alone. UNC’s starting
frontcourt of Haywood, Jason Capel and
Kris Lang put in 48 of the Tar Heels’ 75
points and hurt Maryland on the glass.
Capel led UNC with 12 rebounds,
and Lang chipped in six as the Tar Heels
beat the Terps 42-31 on the boards.
“They got aggressive and really
asserted themselves in the paint,” UNC
point guard Ed Cota said. “(Jur big men
ways these fans are.”
Although the Smith Center was not
filled to capacity, the crowd still made its
presence known. It started the game
with a deafening rendition of the alter
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“It’s usually a lot more quiet with the
wine and cheese crowd,” sophomore
Chris Helin said. “It’s a lot more energetic
with the students here. 1 like it a lot better.”
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This caused some problems when
some ticket holders showed up a bit late.
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were really active.”
While the Terps
had planned to
keep Haywood
from getting posi
tion down low, the
effort was a fruit
less one.
“(Maryland)
didn’t double,”
Haywood said.
“My teammates
got me the ball at
the right times,
which made me
look even better.”
It didn’t hurt
Junior center
Brendan Haywood
tied a career high
with 24 points and
added seven boards
against the Terrapins.
that “Big B” hardly missed the basket all
night thanks to his ability to get good posi
tion inside. Haywood was 7-for-9 from the
field and 10-for-l 1 from the line. That kind
of shooting helped UNC bounce back
from a 36-percent shooting effort in the
first half and take control of the game.
“(Haywood) got a lot of second shots
in the second half," Maryland forward
Danny Miller said. “That’s how they got
their points in the second half.”
As he smiled and jawed at Blake in
the waning moments of UNC’s win,
Haywood might have not only been
quieting the Terrapin freshman, but also
the critics who have taken aim at him
regularly this season.
“A lot of people criticize Brendan,
and I guess he got tired of it,” Forte said.
“He had a big nighL When he’s hot, you
give him the ball."
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moved all of us out,” junior Jacobe
Foster said. “We had people standing
up, and they kicked half of us out.
“The rich people get here and get mad
because we’re loud - this is ridiculous.”
Despite some of the ill feelings
between the students and the ticket hold
ers, the crowd never got out of control -
until the final buzzer when students
rushed the floor to celebrate the victory.
Some of the crowd’s energy seemed
to carry over to the players on the floor,
especially during UNC’s second-half
surge.
“It felt good to have the students on
top of us," center Brendan Haywood said.
“I’d like to get more students down low.”
The Sports Editor can be reached at
sports@unc.edu.