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Talk about the proverbial tomb. . .or the silence
hanging so thick you could cut it with a knife.
There is no metaphor in the world to describe the
hush fallen over the North Carolina locker room after
the Tar Heels had been beaten for the sixth straight
time by N. C. State, 83-80.
Sweat could be heard, running off the faces of the
players and hitting the floor, perhaps mixing with a
tear or two.
There was no music blaring as in the dressing room
after the victory over Duke, only players sitting,
standing around, dressing in dead silence, except for an
occasional murmured question by a reporter.
The Wolfpack had just walked into the Heel's home
court, and then walked out with another ACC victory,
preserving their perfect league record at 4-0, taking the
lead in the regular season title race, and decisively
proving themselves to obe the best basketball team on
the east coast for the moment.
Never losing the lead or control of the game except
for a brief span in the middle of the first half. State out
shot the Tar Heels from all over the floor and out
fought Carolina underneath the basket to grab the
crucial conference game.
David Thompson hit 60 per cent of his shots from
the floor, pumping in 12 of 20 attempts, while getting
two out of three at the free throw line for a game
leading 26 total points, his best performance ever
against North Carolina.
"I'm sure we can beat them even if Thompson has his
normal good game" commented Carolina's Bobby
Jones after the game, his back to most of the clustered
reporters as he sat in the locker room, "but it doesn't
help when he's awesome."
Monte Towe had a total 21 points for the Wolfpack
as he hit 6 1 .5 per cent of his shots, bombing in baskets
consistently from 20 and 25 feet.
Darrell Elston w.s the leading scorer for Carolina
with 23 points, hitting 9 of 16 from the floor and going
five for six at the line.
It was David Thompson who gave State its final
three point lead, hitting a crucial free throw with 00:09
left to play, but both teams managed to turn the final
nine seconds into a tragic comedy of errors.
00.08 Ray Harrison inbounds pass intercepted by Tim
Burleson.
Burleson fouled in backcourt by Ray Hite.
Burleson misses first of one-and-one.
00.-07 Mitch Kupchak fouled.
Kupchak misses free throw. . .forget it.
Yea, it doesn't help when Thompson's awesome.
Not to mention Burleson, Towe, Spence or Rivers.
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Former Saluki coach
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One picture is worth
...end you know the rest State's 7-4 center Tommy Burleson blocks Darrell
Clitcn's ettempted shot during Tuesday night's game in Carmichael Auditorium.
Ciit3 wen C3-C3 and Carolina hopes to bounce back against Maryland this Saturday.
(Staff photo by Tad Stewart)
Durham (UPI) Dick Towers resigned
Wednesday as head football coach at
Southern Illinois University and joined
Duke University as an assistant football
coach.
Towers, who had a 30-37-2 record in seven
seasons at Southern Illinois, will be offensive
coordinator and backfield coach at Duke.
"Although I am leaving a head coach
position, this is a good move even thought I
will be an assistant," said Towers. "It's a
move upward in the brand and caliber of
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NEW YORK (UPI) Joe Frazier, goaded
beyond endurance by Muhammad Ali's
alternate braying and quiet needling, burst
from his chair at a tv network studio
Wednesday and got into a fullscale brawl
with the man he will fight on Monday at
Madison Square Garden. This was no
gimmick. This was the real thing. Frazier,
sitting calmly while watching the re-run of
their March 1971 bout which Joe won by
unanimous decision, commented after the
ninth round that AH had to go to the hospital
after the fight.
Alt countered: "I went to the hospital for
10 minutes. You went for a month. Why
bring something like the hospital up? That's
ignorant. It shows how dumb you are."
The word "ignorant" ignited the fury in
ACC basketball statistics
GREENSBORO (UPI) David Thompson of North Carolina State remained
unthreatened Wednesday as the Atlantic Coast Conference scoring leader.
In games through Saturday Thompson had 24.6 points a game, more than four
more than his nearest challenger, Gus Gerard of Virginia... Gerard has a 20.3,
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Right behind Gerard is Maryland's John Lucas at 19. 1
Len Elmore of Maryland, with a 14.5 average, and Tommy Burleson of North
Carolina State, with an 11.5 average, remain the conference's rebounding leaders.
But Bob Fleischer of Duke posted an 1 1.2 average to move ahead of Clemson
freshman Wayne Rollins. Rollins is now fourth with a 10.8 mark.
Bobby Jones of North Carolina still has the most accurate shot from the floor.
Jones is making a 6 1 .4 per cent of his field goals while Thompson of North Carolina
State is connecting on 55.7 per cent for second place. .
Frazier. He leaped to his feet and shouted:
"I'm tired of you calling me ignorant. Damn
tired of it. Who are you calling ignorant?"
AH did not budge from his chair, but his
brother Rahaman, who was among the 60
odd onlookers in the midtown ABC-TV
studio, jumped in front of Joe. "You in this
tooT a glowering Frazier demanded.
Immediately, AH was on his feet to defend
his brother. He hurled himself at Frazier,
putting a headlock on the former
heavyweight champ. They rolled onto the
two-foot high platform, trying ineffectually
to punch at each other as stagehands and
handlers rushed to separate them.
Among those who charged toward the
platform was Tom Frazier, Joe's brother.
"I don't want anyone calling me ignorant
and I'm sick of taking his abuse just wait
until Monday night," Frazier blustered as he
was led from the studio, failing to watch the
final six rounds of the rerun and leaving AH
and Howard Cosell to take it from there.
Frazier whirled at the door and AH'
shouted to him: "Monday night, boy, you be
on time!"
"I'll be there," Frazier snapped. "Make
damn sure you're there."
football and it has to be a good step in my
coaching career."
Towers succeeds Max Urick. who recently
was named Assistant Director of Athletics at
Iowa State University,
Towers, 43, is a native of Olqthe, Kan.,
and a 1954 graduate of Kansas State
University, where he lettered for three years
in track and football.
After serving in the army, he coached high
school teams at Leavenworth, Kan., and
Manhattan, Kan., then moved in 1963 to
Hutchinson (Kan.) Junior College.
He returned to Kansas State in 1964 as
offensive backfield coach and remained
three years before going to Southern Illinois.
Towers led Southern Illinois in 1968 to its
first winning season in seven years, posting a
6-3 mark. But the Salukis had losing records
for the last two years, finishing 3-7-1 in 1973.
"At Southern Illinois we brought the
football program back after many losing
seasons, but I felt for my future and career, it
was time to leave," he said.
RALEIGH (UPI) Tickets for the 1974
NCAA Eastern Regional Basketball
Tournament will go on sale through the mail
starting next Monday.
The tournament is scheduled March 14
and 16 at North Carolina State University.
Tickets are $ 1 6 each and limited to two per
customer. Each order must include $1 for
postage and handling.
Orders should be mailed to: NCAA
Eastern Regionals, Box 5905, Raleigh, N.-C.
27607, beginning Jan. 28.
The tournament will include the Atlantic
Coast Conference champion and three other
teams from the eastern seaboard.
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Contrasting styles,
simplicity triumphs
by Michael Davis
Ass't. Sports Editor
" don't have any sophisticated game plans. David jumps up and gets it and
Monte dribbles down and shoots it. That's it." Norman Sloan
In the battle of contrasting styles Tuesday evening, North Carolina State's wide
open, free-lancing playground game overcame the Tar Heels for the sixth straight
time.
State's head coach Norman Sloan claims that there just isn't anything tricky
about the way the Pack plays the game. And, for the most part, the old boy is
truthing us.
State, spearheaded by the irreplaceable Monte Towe, concentrates on setting the
screen, firing the ball up, dumping it into the middle, and playing one-on-one. Their
style is straight out oftheYMCA get the ball off the boards and put it in the hole.
"What I want is to have more rebounds at the end of the game. ..and more
points," said Sloan in a remarkably calm post game scene.
"Some of the coaches can be great when they win, talking about some kind of
fancy name for the defense or some kind of inverted something or other for the
offense. If you're expecting one from me, I don't have it," said Sloan.
Simply stated, State won on the strength of great, natural ability and
fundamental basketball play. Nothing more and nothing less.
In Tuesday night's game, the man most responsible for deflating the Tar Heels
hopes to end the string of State victories was Monte flowe,, . . .-; j ;,:
Towe's deft ballhandling, sharp and cunning passingand , surefire, outside
shooting (when are the ACC teams ever going to realize that you have to pick Towe
up deep in the backcourt?) extinguished countless Tar Heel rallies.
Towe's game is penetration, and as he showed us when he drove on Walton back
in December, nobody plays the point guard with any more efficiency, courage or
dazzle. He is the master of his position.
We all know who the man was with the most natural ability Thompson showed
it to us when he went at least six inches above the cylinder to tap one back in when
things got heavy under the boards.
Thompson compares with no one else in this universe.
Bobby Jones, who tailed Thompson for a good portion of the game said "When
he goes up for that jump shot all you can do is put a hand up and hope that he
misses." He didn't miss much-
In essence. North Carolina State won the game on recruiting coaching really
didn't have too much to do with it. In fact, if you were looking carefully, you would
have seen that Monte Towe did most of the talking in State's time-out huddles.
"We go out there and we just play our game," said Towe. They certainly did just
that Tuesday night. They hit the boards, shut out Carolina's inside game, and put
the ball through the twine when it counted.
Dean Smith's Tar Heels have been enormously successful with their
sophisticated, multiple-offense-multiple-defense chess match style against all styles
of play in most of the major arenas in America. Their biggest test in several years,
however, will be to shut off the free flowing NCSU Wolfpack at least once. The
important game will be in March.
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