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Cota's Floaters Lift UNC Offense
UNC point guard Ed Cota
took 10 shots against the
Tigers, giving him a total of
33 in his last two contests.
By Bret Strelow
Assistant Sports Editor
CLEMSON, S.C. - North Carolina
point guard Ed Cota had Clemson
sharpshooter Will Solomon on a string.
Solomon drilled a 3-pointer with 23
seconds left in the first half, but he left
Cota just enough time to return the
favor.
Cota, isolated one-on-one with
Solomon, pulled up from the top of the
key and knocked in a trey with two sec
onds left to send the Tar Heels scurrying
to the locker room with a five-point
advantage.
“I love when it’s crunch time, but
you’ve got to keep your poise out there,”
Cota said. “I was about to penetrate, and
he was backing up, so I just took the
shot."
Cota, who finished Sunday’s victory
against Clemson with a team-best 17
points, has been taking a lot of shots
lately. He was averaging 6.2 field goal
attempts a game before Thursday’s
overtime loss to Duke.
He attempted a career-high 23 shots
that evening and followed up that effort
with 10 more against Clemson on
Sunday.
“I’ve never seen nobody that could
stop and go like that,” Clemson guard
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Marcio Petrone trailed the Campbell
pair of Julian Tejada and Alexander
Grupp 6-3 before rallying to an 8-6 win.
At the No. 1 singles slot, Phillips needed
a tie breaker in the first set to defeat
Andreas Mardbrink 7-6 (7-4), 6-2.
“I was a little nervous, and I think I
came out a little slow in singles and dou
bles,” Phillips said. “As the match went
on, 1 started finding a rhythm, and that
really helped out.”
The rest of the Tar Heel doubles pairs
had little difficulty in disposing of the
Camels (0-1). North Carolina’s second
seeded duo of Tryston Meniane and
David Cheatwood defeated Mardbrink
and Hans Peter Gaber 8-6, while third
seeded Tar Heels Assaf Drori and Greg
Archer topped Loic Legoff and Sasa
Ljumic 8-1.
UNC swept the singles matches with
out losing a set. Drori took out Grupp
6-4,6-0 at No. 2, and Cheatwood topped
Tejada 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 at the third seed.
Other Tar Heel winners were No. 4
Petrone against Gaber 6-0, 6-2, No. 5
Meniane against Ljumic 6-3, 6-3, and
N0.6 Chad Riley against Legoff 6-0,6-1.
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Edward Scott said.
“He was shooting
floaters right and
left that were noth
ing but net.”
Cota resembled
Sherwin Williams
will all his work in
the paint.
But his finishing
ability was more
characteristic of
Shammond
Williams.
Cota scored all
five of his two
point field goals in
the paint
UNC forward
Jason Capel
said Ed Cota's ability
to beat his man puts
extra pressure on
UNC's opponents.
“i think I’m a better player when I
penetrate more,” Cota said. “Playing on
the road, you want to take the crowd out
of it.”
The crowd at Littlejohn Coliseum
was definitely in the game as Clemson
drew to 58-56 with 7:02 left. But Cota
deflated the crowd when he drew a foul
from Clemson center Ray Henderson
and banged home both free throws.
“I think that took a little bit of ener
gy out of them,” UNC guard Joseph
Forte said. “Ed stepped up big tonight in
crunch time.”
When Cota wasn’t scoring, he was
running the show like General Patton.
He registered a game-high seven assists
while committing three turnovers.
“They have to guard him when he
drives, and if the guard helps, we’re
open,” said UNC forward Jason Capel,
who benefited from Cota’s driving abil-
T *<WBI
Sam Paul said his
team did not play
to its potential.
“We can play
better in doubles.
They stretched us
a little bit,” Paul
said. “We settled
down and played
some pretty good
tennis in singles
play.”
Although
Campbell provid
ed little opposition
for UNC, the Tar
Heels used the
UNC senior
Tripp Phillips
rallied for comeback
victories in singles
and doubles against
the Camels.
match to get a strong start to the year
and to gauge their early-season progress.
“It’s a great way to start. We can see
where we are standing,” Drori said. “We
got a feel for the season in these first
couple of matches.”
Last weekend’s South Carolina Winter
Invitational was cancelled because of poor
weather, so this weekend was UNC’s first
competitive play in two weeks.
“We need a lot of matches,” Paul said.
“We’re just going to focus on getting bet
ter and improving every day.”
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ity and hit 4 of 5 shots from 3-point
land.
“If a big man comes and helps, then
our big men are open. If nobody comes
and helps, he can take anybody one-on
one. It’s a lot of pressure on the opposi
tion when he’s aggressive.”
Cota’s aggressiveness, it should be
remembered, allowed him to average
31.5 points a game at Tilden High
School in New York before he went to
St. Thomas More Academy in
Oakdale, Conn., for his junior and
senior seasons.
During Cota’s junior season, he aver
aged 21 points a contest to lead his
squad to the New England prep title.
“That’s high school, and now that I’m
in college, a lot of teams ain’t used to
seeing me going out and scoring that
much because I’m playing this role,”
Cota said.
That role comprises doing all the
other things a leader must do, including
distributing the basketball and rebound
ing errant shots.
Cota, who collected five first-half
rebounds, was the only Tar Heel with
more than one board in the first half.
He also notched a team-high four
assists and matched Capel’s nine points
in the first 20 minutes.
“I believe Cota was brilliant from
start to finish,” Clemson coach Larry
Shyatt said.
“The dagger in the back was Cota.
He sliced us pretty good.”
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UNC 73, Clemson 60
Box Score
UNC 35 38 73
Clemson 30 30 60
UNC (73)
fg ft rb
min nw (M CH a pf tp
Capel 34 6-9 00 04 1 2 14
Lang 28 6-10 2-3 04 0 2 12
Haywood 31 34 5-6 3-8 33 H
Cota 39 6-10 4-6 0-6 7 1 V
Forte 30 3-8 44 06 2 311
Owens 10 1-2 34 OO 0 0 6
Peppers 18 1-1 00 0-1 0 0 2
Johnson 4 00 00 0-1 0 1 0
Newby 2 0-1 OO 00 1 0 0
Brooker 1 00 00 OO 0 0 0
Holmes 10-100 00 0 0 0
Melendez 1 OO OO OO 0 0 0
Everett 1 OO OO 0-1 0 10
Total 200 2446 18-22 3-31 14 t3 73
Percentages - FG .522. FT .818
3-point goals - 7-16 487 (Capel 4-5. Coffi 1-3. Forte 14.
Owens 1-2. Holmes 0-1).
Team rebounds —3.
Blocked shots 4 (Caper, Lang, Haywood Forte).
Turnovers K) (Cota 3. Forte 2. Capel. Lang. Melendez.
Newby. Peppers!
Steals 1 (Cota)
Clemson (60)
fg ft rb
mn m-a m-a o-t a pf tp
Jurkunas 35 2-K) 00 2-3 33 5
Gitmore 31 3-5 44 14 1 2 10
Altenspach2B 2-9 OO 24 2 3 4
Solomon 36 10-18 0-1 1-2 1 4 26
Scott 36 3-9 2-2 0-3 3 2 9
Braddick 24 2-5 OO 0-2 3 0 4
Henderson 6 1-2 00 0-5 0 3 2
Bains 4 OO OO 0-1 0 10
Total 200 23-58 6-7 6-24 13 t 8 60
Percentages - FG .397, FT 857
3-point goals B-24 .333 (Jurkunas 1-8. Altenspach 0-1,
Solomon 6-7, Scott 1-8. Braddick 0-2),
Team rebounds 1
Blocked shots 2 (Jurkunas 2\
Turnovers - 6 (Altenspach 3. Jurkunas 2. Henderson)
Steals 5 (ASenspach, Braddick. Jurkunas. Scott. Solomon)
Technical fouls none.
Attendance 10.300.
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years is how to blend when
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If you ever get in this racket as a writer
or TV guy, you can’t please everyone. Fll
give you the best example of that 1 did
a great game between Indiana and Ohio
State for the Big Ten championship years
ago. I’m (at the airport) in Indianapolis,
and all these fans come running over to
me from Indiana: ‘We were tired last
night, Dick, of you talking about Jimmy
Jackson and the Buckeyes, and Jimmy
Jackson this and Jimmy Jackson that.’
Now I get off the plane, I’m laughing as
I leave. To me it’s great when they do
that It means they’re listening to you.
I get off the plane at Cincinnati at the
airport I’m standing there five minutes at
the airport, and these fans come over
from Buckeye land: ‘Oh, my God. All
you talked about last night was Calbert
Cheaney. You only talked about the gen
eral Robert Montgomery Knight.’ I just
threw my things up in the air, my papers,
and I said, ‘You try and win doing this.’
You walk with me tomorrow, and 1
will guarantee. I will bet I’ll tell you what
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(Standing and
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tomorrow at least a
minimum of five
Dukies will come
up to me and say, ‘Oh , Dicky V, you
talked about North Carolina. That’s all
you talked about the other night -
Carolina’s comeback.’ You can’t please
everybody, man. You’ve just got to be
honest and do an honest job. And I feel I
do that.
I don’t care who wins, believe me in
my heart. You think I care whether
Carolina beats Duke or Duke beats
Carolina? I just care to have a great game
- everybody having fun. Somebody’s
going to win, somebody’s going to lose.
All I know is one of my favorite places to
come is Tobacco Road because I know
one thing at Carolina and Duke - you’re
always going to see great basketball.
You’ve got fans that care about it. But
obviously Carolina fans - there are a lot
of them today in deep depression. I
mean they take it like it’s life and death.
And the same at Duke. Duke loses, and
it’s like the end of the world.
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