The Daily Tar Heel
Wednesday, February 20, 1974
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It could net have been better if the big
television director in the sky had planned the
action. Unheralded, unsung, and unranked
Miami of Ohio drifted into Chapel Hill to play
basketball in the big time of the Atlantic Coast
Conference.
Before the Redskins left town, they had added
their name to the small list of teams to beat North
Carolina in Carmichael Auditorium.
Following a preliminary game between the
Carolina junior varsity and Laurinburg
Institute, scheduled to begin at 5:55 p.m.. the Tar
Heels will try to keep Miami from getting two
straight wins in Carmichael.
The initial meeting between Carolina and
Miami proved to be disastrous for the Heels last
year w hen the Ohio visitors blasted their way to a
surprise 102-92 upset victory over the top-ten
Tar Heels, the first time any non-conference
team had scored more than 100 points against
North Carolina in Carmichael.
" The team we played in Carmichael last year
was leading the Mid-American Conference at the
time. says Carolina head coach Dean Smith.
Any team that could defeat Carolina by ten
points in Carmichael during the 1973 season had
to be considered excellent. In the second half of
play, when most teams usually find the
Carmichael crowd and Tar Heel pressure on the
court to be a devilish mixture, Miami put
together one of the best displays of outside
shooting ever seen in Chapel Hill and pulled
away from the clinging Carolina defense.
Almost as if in anticipation of a rematch with
the Tar Heels, Miami has currently hit a hot
streak of wins after a slow start early in the
season. The Redskins have won seven of their
last nine outings to pull up their overall record to '
1 1 wins and 10 losses, and as Smith states, "they
are starting to play like they did last year."
Biggest worry for the Tar Heels should be
guard Phil Lumpkin, the man who led the way in
Miami's second-half performance last year.
Lumpkin has recently been hitting an average
17.8 points a game, the second best mark in the
Mid-American Conference.
Miami's other guard, 6-5 Steve Fields, has
been averaging 10.3 points a game while 6-10
center Dave Elmer, a transfer from Duke
University, has an average of 10.8 points and
10.3 rebounds a game.
At forward Miami has an outstanding pair of
scorers in 6-6 Rich Hampton and 6-5 Gary Dees.
Hampton has been worth 1 2.2 points a game and
Dees 14.6 points a game average gives the
Redskins five starters who hit nightly into double
figures.
"Those are the same people who came in here
last year and did a great job. Same players, same
coach, same people all around; it's going to be a
difficult game; the same as last year," suggests
Smith.
Smith is well aware oi the problems that
plagued his Tar Heels in last year's confrontation
with Miami, the foremost being overconfidence,
a common disease amongst the nation's elite of
top-ten basketball powers.
"You know there is a fine line between
complacency and confidence," he offers. "You
want to be confident when you play basketball,
but you don't want to be overconfident. I think
we are confident, and hopefully we should be
after ths way we played against Florida State.
But I don't think we are complacent."
And so the big director in the sky sits back and
gazes down on two teams tonight to see if one has
learned its lesson.
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Smith: "This is the samo team as last year."
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by Michael Davis
Asst. Sports Editor
Lacrosse the fastest game on foot, says its proponents.
The sport, as played at the University of North Carolina and in the Atlantic Coast
Conference may very well live up to its reputation.
Under Coach Paul Doty in his first season as head mentor, the Tar Heel stickmen
will open their 1974 season against the defending national champion Maryland
Terrapins on March 18 in Chapel Hill.
"We're real excited about the Maryland game," said Doty in a post-practice
interview Monday.
"The game will be televised on a delayed feedback on local stations in the ACC
region," explained Doty.
It will be the first time in recollection that a lacrosse match will reach such a wide
and diverse audience, and this Doty feels is an indication of the growth in popularity
of the old American Indian sport.
A good indication of the growth-of ther sport is the recent disclosure that
professional lacrosse will be available to the sporting public this coming spring.
" Their season will run from May until September and they'll have franchises in
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Toronto, New York and other cities," said Doty.
Doty explained that the pros will play a variation of the original game called "box
lacrosse" using a smaller number of players to be performed in an ice hockey rink.
"We're hoping that the sport continues to catch on," Doty said. "But in order to
reach the campus interest, you have to become a winner. In the ACC to be a winner
means you have to be a national contender.
Doty is referring to the fact that three of the ACC schools last year were ranked in
the national top twenty and in three of the past four years, an ACC school has
captured the national crown.
Doty has a strong feeling that this year's squad might be stronger than last year's
team that ended up 17th nationally.
"We have a well-mixed blend of enthusiastic freshmen and experienced vetransat
all positions," he said. "Our goal this year is to knock off a few of those teams that
finished ahead of us last year."
Coach Doty explained that the lacrosse squad "had a real good fall practice"
performing particularly well against national powerhouses Navy and Johns
Hopkins.
The UNC lacrosse team also performed well in a scrimmage against the Raleigh
Lacrosse Club last weekend and will play an exhibition against the perennially
strong Maryland Lacrosse Club this Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. at the Astroturf
Field. Spectators are most certainly welcome to attend and get their first glimpse of
the 1974 Tar Heel stickmen.
The schedule: March 18, Maryland (defending national champs) at Chapel Hill;
March 21, Randolph Macon at Ashland, Va.; March 28, North Carolina State at
Chapel Hill; March 30, Towson State at Towson, Md.; April 3, Virginia (3 last
season nationally) at Chapel Hill; April 6, University of Maryland-Baltimore at
Baltimore Md.; April 1 1, Roanoke at Chapel Hill; April 17, Washington & Lee (4
nitionatlY last season), at Lexington Va.; April 20, William & Mary at Chapel Hill;
April 22, Washington College (12 nationally last season) at Chapel Hill and April
25, Duke at Chapel Hill.
Dean has always played the numbers
by Dave Draper
Special to DTH Sports
Dean Smith plays the numbers.
Now before you jump to conclusions (so that's where he gets his Carolina Blue Cadillacs),
it's not that kind of numbers game. Smith and his Tar Heels make much more profitable use
of the numbers than the corner grocer with his weekly bet the careful use of applied
statistics by the Carolina coaching staff is a large factor in bringing basketball glory to U NC.
And while the grocer plays a long shot, it's a sure thing that a Dean Smith team can make it a
game with any ball club in the country, by looking for and executing the percentage plays.
And the high percentages are what Carolina's strategy is all about. The cornerstone of the
Dean Smith offensive system is working the ball for the best field goal attempt, and
statistically all aspects of the typical Smith ball club reflect this.
- His teams shoot somewhere around 55 per cent from the floor, usually leading the nation in
field goal accuracy, while tight defense limits opponents to a shooting percentage of about 45
per cent. (The current UNC team is making 54 per cent of its floor attempts and holding the
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opposing teams, since assists are the stuff that layups are made of. This year's squad is out
assisting the opponents 25-12 on the average.
The Carolina rebounding margin (currently only 40-37 per game) is usually nothing to
write home about, but you don't need to rebound a shot that goes in. That's an over
simplification, since it doesn't say anything about defensive rebounds, but other teams need
more offensive rebounds to make the same number of field goals as Carolina.
There are some unfortunate consequences of looking for the good shot you have to pass
more to get the easy bucket, and more passes means more turnovers. Carolina does turn the
ball over a lot, but so do the opponents, thanks to Coach Smith's defensive tactics pressure
defense and constant hustle.
The Dean Smith style has hardly been more successful in recent memory than against
Florida State last Saturday night. You probably already know that when the smoke cleared.
Carolina had won handily, 104-85; but hidden between the lines in the box score are some
surprises. Florida State attempted and made as may field goals as in their previous games, on
the average (34-75 for 45 per cent); but the Tar Heels worked open for 90 shots, 23 more than
usual for Carolina, and their average shooting night of 54 percent brought them 49 buckets,
15 more than the Seminoles.
Florida State got 20 more chances at the line than Carolina (28-8), but the Florida team
only made 1 1 more free throws than the Tar Heels ( 1 7-6, with FSU only 6 1 from the line to
Carolina's 75 per cent). Carolina got all those chances from the floor by having a great
rebounding night, out-rebounding the Seminoles 46-36. And, as usual, the Heels had about
twice" as many assists as the opposition (20-1 1).
There is one other characteristic thing about Dean Smith teams they are deep talent
wise and this permits Carolina to substitute liberally. The advantages are that you can
always keep fresh players on the floor and that you can try many different lineups until you
find the ones that really work.
Against Florida State, Smith substituted 25 times, throwing 22 different lineups at the
Seminoles. Carolina played 15 men to FSU's 8, and 6Tar Heels ended up in double figures.
Of the 22 quintets Coach Smith tried, there were two that made the difference in the ball
game: in the first half the lineup of Walter Davis, Darrell Elston, Ray Harrison, Ed Stahl, and
Tommy LaGarde took the Heels from a 3-point deficit to a 6-point lead; and after
intermission it was that same lineup, with Bobby Jones in for LaGarde, who blew the game
open by taking Carolina from a 6-point lead to an insurmountable 1 8-point advantage. And
that was the ball game.
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RALEIGH (UPI) North Carolina State
coach Norman Sloan was pleased but not
surprised Tuesday when the Wolfpack
vaulted to the top of the UPI Board of
Coaches major college basketball ratings.
"We're a vastly improved team over
December," said Sloan, thinking back to the
Wolfpack's 84-66 loss in St. Louis to UCLA.
The defeat was the only one in 21 games
this season for North Carolina State.
McLeod optimistic and eager
Golffeirs .prepare, for
by CaroSln Baxewell
Sports Writer
Finley Golf Course lies far from
central campus, over the hills and
through the woods from Fraternity
Row, but if you can find the place, a trip
to the home of UNCs golf team is sure
to be rewarding.
Carolina has had a long tradition of
good golf teams and head coach Mike
McLeod feels that this year's squad will
be representative of the best UNC has to
offer.
McLeod, who replaced former head
coach Clyde Walker this year, has been
manager at Finley for the past two years
and has been associated with the team
since 1967.
The golfers began their season in the
fall, competing in the Dixie
Intercollegiate Tournament in Georgia,
Sept. 28-30, and in the Alabama
Invitational Tournament in Tuscaloosa,
Nov. 9-11.
Captain Skip Dunaway led the Heels
to 13th place in the Dixie Tournament,
out of a field that included nationally
ranked Wake Forest and Georgia.
The Tar Heels finished second in the
Alabama meet, over Tulane, Memphis
State and Auburn. Junior Pete
Wallenborn and freshman Scott
Humrickhouse led the UNC squad with
226 totals for three rounds, putting them
in the top five of the entire field.
The spring schedule, which begins
with a meet March 4-6 at Pinehurst,
matches the Tar Heels against teams like
Wake Forest, State and Duke and
should be a challenging one, coach
McLeod said.
"Of course. Wake is in a class by itself ;
they have one of the leading teams in the
country and coulcTvery well take first
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place this year, but after Wake Forest, I
feel we can play competitively with the
rest of the ACC," he said.
"State will have a good team this year;
they've been giving scholarships for the
past five years or so, and have built up a
strong squad.
"Duke's got a new coach and is
building their program up also. In fact,
all the teams in the conference are
stronger than last year," McLeod
added.
This year's squad, led by a largely in
state, senior contingent is headed by
captain Skip Dunaway from Charlotte,
Sid Aldridge from Raleigh, Brad Burris
from High Point and John Beddow
from Washington, D.C.
Junior Pete Wallenborn, freshman
Scott Humrickhouse and sophomore
mark Andrew promise to add talent and
depth, rounding out the top six players
on the team. Other players, not ranked
in the top six, will play on the junior
varsity team.
Coach McLeod cited seniors Bill
New ton, Pete Vernon and Ted Kulp as
strong players. Juniors Bob Singleterry,
Dave Finks, and Greg Hilton, along
with newcomers Ben Mercer and Bruce
Disdrow, round out the junior varsity
squad.
Second-ranked Notre Dame also has only a
loss to UCLA in 21 games. The Bruins, after
back-to-back losses in Oregon, fell to third in
the UPI ratings.
I think anybody who supported us had a
sound argument," said Sloan. "But I can
understand someone supporting Notre
Dame, UCLA or Vanderbilt or Marquette
or, you know."
In December, junior college transfer Mo
Rivers had just moved into a guard spot held
last year by senior Joe Cafferty.
Junior-Tim Stoddard was also new to the
starting lineup, taking over the forward
position played last year by another senior.
Rich Holdt.
"We've adjusted to each other," Sloan
said. "We had to put new men in those two
spots. It simply boils down to that."
Rivers scored 24 points, his highest total in
a Wolfpack uniform, in a game with
Davidson last week. Three days later he got
19 points against Wake Forest and boosted
his average to 12 points a game.
Ail-American David Thompson is
averaging 25 points a game, and although a
foot shorter than 7-foot-4 center Tommy
Burleson, Thompson gets nearly as many
rebounds. He has eight per game to
Burleson's 11.
The Wolfpack has four games left on its
regular season schedule all with other
teams in the tough Atlantic Coast
Conference, Duke at home Wednesday
night, Clemson at Clemson Saturday, 4th
ranked North Carolina at home next
Tuesday and Wake Forest on the road the
following Saturday.
Although the Wolfpack is 8-0 against
ACC competition, the regular season title
and a first round bye in the conference
tournament are by no means assured.
"We've got to win three of these last four
games to clinch first place for the bye," Sloan
said.
The tournament, not the regular season,
determines which team will represent the
ACC in the NCAA playoffs, and the best one
does not always via.
"The tournament's a whole new deal," said
Sloan. "We look forward to the tournament.
We look forward to it every year. It's kind of
traditional. Tournaments are exciting and
important to us. We don't dread 'em."