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Backcourt Adjustments
Key to Cavaliers' Success
By Will Small
Staff Writer
Without even playing a game,
Virginia’s 2001 season has already had a
less-than-majestic beginning.
Virginia was one of the most danger
ous teams in the ACC and the country
last season, finishing fourth in the league
with a 20-9 record, 9-7 in the ACC.
It ended the season ranked No. 16
before losing to upset-minded Gonzaga
in the first round of the NCAA
Tournament.
The success was expected to contin
ue this season, as the Cavaliers lost only
one starter, point guard Donald Hand, a
team captain for three seasons.
The blow of Hand’s departure was to
be softened by the return of redshirt
sophomore Majestic Mapp, who missed
the 2000-01 season due to a tom anteri
or cruciate ligament in his right knee.
However, Mapp decided to undergo
surgery again on the knee, eliminating
Hewitt Tries to Sustain Success in Year 2
By David Andrukonis
Staff Writer
After half of his surprisingly success
ful 2000-01 squad graduated, Georgia
Tech second-year coach Paul Hewitt
went to the ends of the earth during the
offseason to rebuild his team.
In his first year at Georgia Tech, Hewitt
earned ACC Coach of the Year honors by
leading the Yellow Jackets
(17-13,8-8 in the ACC) to a fifth-place fin
ish in the conference and their first
Wake Features New Coach, New Style
By Ben DeSantis
Staff Writer
Wake Forest point guard Broderick
Hicks is tired of his team just being
ranked in the top half of the ACC.
The Demon Deacons, ranked No. 5
in last year’s preseason ACC media
poll, found themselves No. 5 in this
year’s preseason poll as well after fin
ishing the 2000-01 campaign at 19-11,
8-8 in the ACC.
Hicks, one of five returning Demon
Deacon seniors, said it’s time he and his
teammates step up and take Wake Forest
back to the top of the conference, some
where the Demon Deacons haven’t been
since the days of Tim Duncan.
“I can’t say it’s an honor to be in the
top four because we want to win,” Hicks
said. “To consider us in the top four is
fine, but we’re working toward No. 1.”
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any chance of him playing this season.
“It’s scary anytime you have four
surgeries (on the same knee),” Virginia
coach Pete Gillen said. “Hopefully he’ll
be back next year.”
The injury to Mapp will force Roger
Mason Jr. to play the point, although he
is better suited to play shooting guard.
“He’s more comfortable at the two,
but the question is, is (the team) better
with him at the point, or with him mov
ing back to two?” Gillen said.
Mason was a premier player for the
Cavs last season, leading the team in
scoring with 15.7 points per game. He
also led the league in free-throw per
centage, shooting 88.4 percent.
Beyond Mason, the rest of Virginia’s
backcourt will be tested with less sea
soned players.
Freshman Keith Jenifer and sopho
more J.C. Mathis will compete for the
vacant starting position. Jenifer might
even move to point before it’s all over.
“Jenifer is very good,” Gillen said.
NCAA Tournament berth since 1996. But
five of those players are gone, including
Alvin Jones, Jon Babul and Shaun Fein.
Hewitt grabbed four of the nation’s
top 100 high school recruits to fill those
spots, but he’ll count on his veterans to
come back better and healthier.
Georgia Tech will be weakest in the
front court positions, where it loses the
13.4 points and 10.4 rebounds per game
of Jones. In order to strengthen his team
near the basket, Hewitt reeled in Luke
Schenscher, a 7-foot center from Australia.
Leading the Deacons in their quest for
No. 1 is first-year coach Skip Prosser, who
comes to Winston-Salem from Xavier,
where he led the Musketeers to 148 wins
in seven years, five consecutive 20-win
seasons and six postseason appearances.
Prosser takes over for Dave Odom,
who left Wake Forest after 12 seasons and
two ACC titles to coach South Carolina.
With him Prosser brings the up
tempo style of play that worked so well
for his Xavier squads. He said his play
ers are starting to catch on to his philos
ophy but still have a long way to go.
“We’re still a real work in progress,”
Prosser said. “They’re trying to play the
way we’d like to play, but I’m not sure if
they really understand at all how hard it
is to play that way.”
While his team learns the new sys
tem, Prosser will rely on Hicks and the
other upperclassmen to lessen the leam
Basketball 2001-02
“We think he may have a chance to win
a point guard position, not at the start of
the season, but maybe halfway
through.”
Depth will not be a problem for
Virginia’s frontcourt. Chris Williams,
Adam Hall and Travis Watson make up
one of the league’s best front lines.
“We’re going to be bigger, a little bit
thicker on the low post, but we won’t be
as quick in certain spots,” Gillen said.
Anything less than quick will be a
strong contrast to Virginia’s style of play
last season.
Hand led a high-power, fast-break
oriented offense that helped guide the
Cavaliers to a 14-1 record at home.
Mason’s adjustment at the point and
the transition of four freshmen might be
the deciding factor in Virginia’s ability
to continue that style.
“You’ve got to pick a style, and that’s
our style,” Gillen said. “The way we
play, chuck and duck, quick, we’re going
to need these young guys.”
“He’s very skilled,” Hewitt said. “He
knows how to play the game. He’s just
got to get stronger. Once he gets up to
speed from a physical standpoint, he’s
going to be a very good ACC player.”
Schenscher not only will have to step
up in the wake of Jones’ departure but
also for Jones’ replacement-apparent
Michael Isenhour, who was diagnosed
with acute lymphomic leukemia
Oct. 23. Sophomore Robert Brooks,
who measures only 6-7, and Ed Nelson,
a 6-8, 245-pound freshman, will be
ing curve for the freshmen.
Wake returns its top three scorers,
Josh Howard, Darius Songaila and Craig
Dawson, who combined to score nearly
40 points per game last season.
Songaila said he thinks the new sys
tem and more intense conditioning will
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Clemson to Score by Committee
By Chris Gilfillan
Staff Writer
With its first exhibition game on
Halloween, the ghost of Will Solomon
continues to haunt Clemson’s basketball
team.
Any time the upcoming Tiger season
is mentioned, the absence of Solomon is
referred to constantly.
Without the 19.7 points a game from
Solomon, Clemson (12-19, 2-14 in the
ACC last season) will look to sopho
more guard Tony Stockman to handle
more of the scoring load.
Last season, Stockman’s 12 points
per game led the ACC freshmeri scor
ing.
Other than Stockman, Clemson
boasts a recruiting class of eight fresh
men that will likely be the crutch for the
Tigers to lean on this year.
“Our freshmen and sophomore class
es are effectively as talented as any in
this conference,” said Clemson coach
Larry Shyatt. “I look forward to two,
three, maybe four years from each of
them.”
Nevertheless, the starless Tigers will
focus on a balanced team offense and a
strong defense.
pressed into early action.
Hewitt repeatedly stressed rebound
ing as a major determining factor of his
team’s success this season.
As expected, Georgia Tech’s strength
will be its back court, where it returns
point guard Tony Akins, a senior who
received an all-ACC honorable mention
last year and is gunning for more. Akins
led the team in points per game last sea
son, averaging 18.1 points per game and
46.6 percent from 3-point range since
Feb. 1.
allow the Demon Deacons to surprise
some of their ACC foes.
“We have a lot of athletic guys, and I
think everybody on this team is able to
play this kind of basketball,” he said. “I
don’t think it is going to be detrimental
torour team.”
“Now I would be happy as a lark if
we could get nine of them at eight or
nine points per game,” Shyatt said.
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are devoted to defense.”
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offense is anew motion-oriented twist.
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Both of these forwards were plagued
with injuries throughout last season.
Hobbs had a ACL injury, and
Henderson has recovered from three
surgeries on his knee and ankle.
“It’s going to be tough for other
teams because we have some big guys,”
said lone senior Jamar McKnight
“They’re big guys, and they’re bmisers.
A lot of teams, they really just want to
push it, but us, we can slow it down.”
To add to Shyatt’s spooks, last week
starting guard Dwon Clifton passed out
before practice. Clifton, who averaged
3.9 points and 2.6 rebounds a year ago,
was cleared to play last week.
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