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Surprise.
There was a lot of talk flying around the tennis
courts before tne 19 74 season got underway, talk about
all the stars and top performers who left the University
of North Carolina; Freddy McNair and Forrest
Simmons, the 1973 co-captains, have left to go on to
bigger and better things ... like money.
The talk was about UNCs chances of producing yet
another Atlantic Coast Conference crown under the
leadership of austere Don Skakle, the man who
produced championships time and time again from his
head coach position.
For all you people who have been biting your nails
while pacing around the room waiting for the results of
the season's first match ... (pause for
suspense) . . . Carolina seems to have a reasonable shot
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at the ACC title again this year.
Yes, playing on those decrepit old composition
courts in back of Cobb Dormitory Tuesday, the Tar
Heels continued their winning ways, shutting out yet
another opponent.
Noi it wasn't an ACC opponent; it wasn't even a
nationallyj'anked opponent, but it was West Virginia
and the Mountaineers were indeed an opponent.
The Tar Heels wiped out West Virginia right on
down the line, scoring 108 total games in singles and
doubles matches to the Mountaineers 18 games. None
of the matches went to three sets.
Despite his team's blistering performance, Skakle
still remained reserved in his post-game comments
saying, "we played like it was our first game of the
season. We played as well as we could for an opener."
Skakle saw the individual performances of his
players as the brightest aspect of the match. I was real
pleased with the play and 1 must say the players have
been working very "hard," he exuded.
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"We're a little bit ahead of the last year's pace," sai d
Skakle, explaining it to be the "physical aspects and the
mental aspects. It's just a question now of getting
mentally tough."
The results: UNC 9, W. Va. 0
Sfngios (UHC 6, 7. Va. 0)
F.lcKea defeated Cooth, 6-2, 6-0.
Hsrdaway defeated Farr, 6-1, 6-0.
Crock defeated Pariiar, 6-0, 6-1.
Dixon defeated HsKer, 6-0, 6-2.
Garcia defeated Colt, 6-0, 6-1.
Obersiein defeated Moomau, 6-0, 6-1.
Doubles (UNC 3, V. Va. 0)
UlciCee-Brock defeated Booth-Farr, 6-4, 6-4.
Hardaway-Dixon defeated Parker-Haller, 6-1, 6-1.
Garcla-Oberstein defeated Colt-Moormau, 6-0, 6-0.
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ATLANTA (UP1) The college basketball soup is filled with alphabetic post
season tournaments, the NCAA, the CCA. the NIT; but it's doubtful any will be
more nourishing than the one that decides the ACC this week in Greensboro, N.C.
The ACC. the Atlantic Coast Conference, is a seven-team basketball hotbed
stretching from Maryland to South Carolina that features three of the top five
college teams in the nation and five of the top ten players.
It's doubtful that even the NCAA National Finals will be able to make that claim.
I i the ACC tournament goes according to form, 4th ranked North Carolina (2 1 -4)
is going to play 5th ranked Maryland (21-4) in Friday's semi-finals, and the winner
of that game is going to play top-ranked North Carolina State (24-1) for the
conference title Saturday night.
It's going to be a star-filled tournament. David Thompson of N.C. State was a
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first-team All-America selection and Tom McMillan and Len Elmore of Maryland,
Bobby Jones of North Carolina and Tom Burleson of N.C. State were all named to
the second five.
State, naturally, is the favorite. After all, the Wolfpack hasn't lost to an ACC foe
in two years. In fact, the only State loss in the past two seasons was a Dec. 1 5 loss to
UCLA at St. Louis.
The Wolfpack has a golden opportunity to avenge that loss. It would be heavily
favored to win the NCAA East Regionals since they are being played on the
Wolfpack home court at Raleigh, N.C. And, the NCAA finals are being played at
Greensboro.
But favorites have been sandbagged in the ACC before. If State, which has a bye
for Thursday's first round, should lose in the ACC tournament, there would be no
NCAA, no CCA and no NIT for the nation's top-ranked college basketball team.
Not only would N.C. State be blocked from avenging that loss to UCLA, it would
be blocked from any further post-season play under a rule that prohibits hosts of
NCAA regionals from participating in non-NCAA tournaments.
This has been one of the arguments against the ACC tournament, an argument
that has been overruled by the huge amounts of cash the prestigious event puts into
the pockets of conference members and the conference office.
It simply isn't fair, argue opponents, that a team, like N.C. State, go through a
regular season with a perfect slate beating every other conference member at least
twice and then risk it all on the breaks of a single game.
If N.C. State survives the tournament. North Carolina and Maryland will go to
the National Invitational Tournament, giving the NIT two of the nation's top five
teams. Consequently, NIT officials are fervently rooting for a Wolfpack victory in
the ACC.
And it's not inconceivable North Carolina or Maryland, each having won an NIT
title in the past three years, could win yet another, while N.C. State captures the.
NCAA Tournament.
Victories in both tournaments would prove what ACC fans. have, been claiming;?
ail along the Atlantic Coast Conference is the strongest college basketball league3
in the nation.
J 'III " 1 iSTHE GREG ALLMAFTW-.
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Major Attractions
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Playing on the number one court for the Tar Heels Tuesday, Rich RJtcKee blitzed
his Weal Virginia opponent in two straight sets, 6-2, 6-0 as North Carolina blasted the
Mountaineers, 9-0 in the Keels opening match of the season.
(Staff photo by John Locher.)
State and more St cits
NEW YORK (UPI) The United Press
International's Board of Coaches major
college basektball ratings with first place
votes and won-lost records in parentheses:
19. Michigan (19-4)
20. Syracuse (19-6)
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1. north Carolina St. (21) (24-1)
2. Notre Dam (8) (24-1 J
3. UCLA (5) (22-3)
4. North Carolina (21-4)
5. Maryland (21-4)
6. VanderblH (23-2)
7. Southern California (22-3)
8. Providence (23-3)
9. Marquette (22-4)
10. Indiana (19-4)
11. South Carolina (21-4)
12. Long Beach St. (23-2)
13. Kansas (19-5)
14. New Mexico (20-6)
15. Louisville (19-5) -
16. Alabama (21-4)
17. Pittsburgh (23-3)
18. Creighton (21-5)
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RALEIGH (UPl)-For the third time in
five seasons, Norman Sloan of North
Carolina State today was named Basketball
Coach of the Year in the Atlantic Coast
Conference.
Sloan was named in 1 2 1 of 1 42 ballots cast
by members of the Atlantic Coast Sports
Writers Association to win the Gerry Gerard
Award for the second year in a row.
Carl Tacy of Wake Forest, with seven
votes, was a distant runnerup in the voting.
Other votes were shared by Dean Smith of
North Carolina vLefty Driesell of Maryland
and Tates Locke of Clemson.
Sloan's Wolfpack, ranked no. 1 in the
nation, this week will defend its Atlantic
Coast Conference championship in the
annual ACC tournament. It takes a perfect
12-0 ACC record into the event for an
unprecedented second time.
State is 24-1 overall. In the past two
seasons Sloan has directed State to a 51-1
record, the best in the nation for that period.
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