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GREENSBORO The Wake Forest
Demon Deacons stunned the nation this past
weekend when it defeated the No. I ranked
Wolfpack 83-78 on opening night of the fifth
annual Big Four Tournament.
But Carolina fans, many of whom gloried
in their arch rival's surprising loss,
experienced personal woes as the Tar Heels
fell to Duke 99-96 in overtime Friday and 82
67 to N.C. State Saturday.
Wake Forest went on to register a mild 75
71 upset over Duke Saturday for its first Big
Four championship. Carolina, which
finished first in 1971, slid Into its first last
place finish in the holiday playoff.
After UNC's setback to State, which
almost became a runaway except for Phil
Ford's accurate shooting in the final stretch,
head coach Dean Smith, though pleased
with the UNC effort, said some changes will
be made.
"Our offense is in good shape," said
Smith, who had nine players in double
figures for the two nights, but we must do
something defensively. We may have to
make some changes in defense that sacrifices .
some offense."
Need Quickness
"I think we need a little more quickness to
do what we want to do defensively," Smith
added Monday after viewing the game films.
Smith suggested he may insert a special
defensive team, similar to the "Blue Team"
concept used previous years to rattle
opponents for a two or three minute period.
The nucleus of the five-man force would be
Billy Chambers, Dave Hanners and Mickey
Bell, he said.
Concerning the Duke game, Smith said,
"They (Duke) played an amazing game. We
couldn't seem to stop them. But at the same
time. I'm very proud of our team and their
great comeback. We have a good basketball
team."
After leading 41-40 at half, Carolina fell
behind 64-56. From the 13:01 mark to 9:31,
Duke got four points each from Bob v
Fleischer on the outside and Tate
Armstrong, inside to fuel a 10-point spree of
unanswered points.
Then the Tar Heels hit 10 points to Duke's
four and tied the game at 66. Duke kept a
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two-point edge until guard Kevin Billerman
sank a pair of free throws to boost it to four
with 1:41 showing on the clock.
Tied at 80
UNC sophomore guard John Kuester
then hit an 8-footer following two Walter
Davis free throws to tie the game at 80. Blue
Devil forward Pete Kramer responded with
a back door play for 82-80 Duke with 56
seconds remaining.
Duke substitute George Moses then
missed a free throw at the 0:27 mark and
Carolina called time out. Freshman Phil
Ford, who finished as UNCs leading scorer
with 22, tied the score on a 12-foot jumper,
sending the game into a 5:00 overtime.
The score was knotted three times at 88
88, 90-90 and 92-92 during the extra
period, but Armstrong's three-point play
with 0:28 remaining put Duke up 95-92. A
24-foot bomb by Kuester pulled UNC within
one at 0:21, but the Heels, who were then
forced to foul with hopes of getting the ball,
succumbed to the foul-shooting of senior
guard Billerman, who swished four in the
last 10 seconds.
"For the winning Devils, who pushed their
season record to 6-1 going into the
championship game against Wake, Fleischer
Heels
by Jim Thomas
Sports Writer
GREENSBORO COLISEUM With
most of the state following the fortunes of
,the UNC football team in El Paso and the
Tar Heel cagers just returned from a three
day tournament trip in Spain, Utah's
'Running Utes' were primed for an upset of
eighth-ranked North Carolina here over the
Christmas holidays.
Led by All-America candidate Ticky
Burden's 44 points, the 'Running Utes' lived
up to their nickname as their fast-paced
offense (averaging 96.8 points a game) made
the Tar Heels sweat before escaping with an
exciting 94-9 1 victory.
Burden, the nation's seventh leading
scorer, entered the game with a 28. 1 average,
hitting 56.7 per cent from the field. He was
held to six of 13 attempts in the first half by
Carolina's Phil Ford but hit 14 of 16 in the
final 20 minutes.
After the game UNC coach Dean Smith
said, "We tried to hold him under 50 per cent
of his shots because we knew what a good
shooter he was. Freshman Phil Ford did a
good job on him the first half, and we tried
everything against him in the second half,
WR we could not stop hisoutsidesKoot1ng."
Fortunately for the Tar Heels, Utah was
unable to match up with Mitch Kupchak
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led all scorers with 26. For him, Billerman
and Kramer, it was their first varsity win
over Carolina.
For Carolina, Davis had 13 while Mitch
Kupchak, who fouled out during regulation
time (1:27) collected 21 and 11 rebounds.
Ford's 22 points topped the Heels and 14
each were added by seniors Brad Hoffman
and Ed Stahl.
Against State
The next evening in the consolation game
against N.C. State, the Tar Heels suffered an
extremely poor shooting night with 40.3 per
cent from the field. Ford again got high
scoring honors with 20, but perhaps most
disappointed was Kupchak, who though
pulling down 13 rebounds only got four
points and fouled out with over two minutes
left in the game.
"They got the tempo and got the lead," the
6-9 forward, leaving the Greensboro
Coliseum before the Duke-Wake
championship game, said. "It's been a bad
habit of ours in the last several games. We get
behind and can't seem to catch up."
Carolina only trailed 38-34 at the half;
Kupchak. had eight rebounds, eight points
and only one foul. But then All-America
Wolfpack forward David Thompson, who
squeak
inside. The 6-9, 230-pound center muscled
his way for 30 points, connecting on 12 of 17
shots from his post position and grabbing 1 1
rebounds.
"Mitch has been playing like that all year
when he has been available," said Smith.
Kupchak, who played only sparingly in
Spain, has been bothered by an injured back
most of the season.
Brad Hoffman dished out nine assists in
the backcourt and bombed in 10 points.
Ford had 16 points and three assists. Walter
Davis, the Tar Heels' leading scorer with an
18.2 average, had 18.
Utah coach Jerry Pimm had hoped the jet
time lag would aid his team's chances, but
the Tar Heels showed ho signs of fatigue
from playing their fourth game in five days.
However, adjusting from the more
physical style of play abroad, Carolina's big
men got in first half foul trouble. Ed Stahl
picked up four fouls in only six minutes of
playing time and Tommy LaGarde and
Mickey Bell had three each at halftime.
Utah hit 14 of 16 free throws to stay within
reach of the Tar Heels, despite going 6:23
minutes without a field goal in the middle of
the first half. Carolina led 46-41 at halftime
while sHooting only 42.5 per cent. Utah
connected on 46.2 per cent.
The Tar Heels hit their first seven shots of
the second half butUtahkeptpaceas they hit
their first five. After 10 minutes UNC had
made 12 of 14 shots and the Utes 11 of 16.
Carolina hit 72 per cent in the second half
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most of the season has led the nation in
scoring, found himself after hitting on 4 of
nine in the first half and 15 points the
previous night against Wake.
In the second half the Shelby, N.C. senior
canned seven of 10, including eight quick
shots at the start of the final 20 minutes of
play.
"Personally I shot really poor," said
Kupchak, who hit on only three of seven
attempts in the last half. I don't think I was
intimidated. I went up to shoot. 1 did hesitate
a little though. It may have looked like
intimidation."
Battling Kupchak underneath was State
frosh Kenny Carr (15 points, seven
rebounds) and Phil Spence (17 points, 10
rebounds, who was selected to the all
tourney team with Wake's Skip Brown and
Cal Stamp, Duke's Fleischer and teammate
Thompson.
Cold Spell
At the 9:57 mark, Carolina suffered from a
cold spell, having gone over two minutes
without a score and falling 10 points behind
59-49. But a barrage of fouls and turnovers
stifled a comeback, as they went another
four minutes without stripping the net.
When Davis fouled out (2:53), State's Carr
by Utah
and Utah 61.5. UNC finished at 55.8 and
Utah, 55.2.
After reaching their biggest lead of the
game at 79-67, the Tar Heels blew three
straight three-on-one fast breaks, as the Utes
cut the margin to 81-75 with 6:04 remaining
in the game. Smith ordered the four-corner
attack with Ford controlling the ball in the
middle. Ford, who in a few uncertain
moments lost the ball to the Utes' quick
hands, penetrated down the middle many
times, passing off for easy baskets.
"1 thought Ford ' did an excellent job
executing the four corners," said Smith,
"and he is going to get better and better at it.
Cagers have a roMgli lime
with Yale in New Haven
by Bill Kay
. Sports Writer
NEW HAVEN, Conn. Carolina versus
Yale?
Sure enough the Carolina varsity
basketball team was meeting the Eli for only
the fourth time in UNC's long heralded
history.
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tossed in the free throws to give the reigning
national champs a 15-point command.
"When State went to its spread offense
with four minutes to go," Coach Smith said
after the game. "From there, it was just
chasing."
With both Davis and Kupchak out on
fouls. Ford assumed the scoring burden,
hitting outside jumpers of 14, 15 and 18 feet
to limit the hungry Pack's victory margin to
15, 82-67.
"I don't think we deserve to be fourth in
the tournament," said Kupchak. "We're just
fourth because we lost two games. Yes, it
may be the worst start for a season, but other
(UNC) teams have had more losses at the end
of the season than we have now.
. "Only if we had that number of (end-of-seas.on)
losses would this be a bad season,"
the Brentwood, N.Y. junior concluded.
"As far as changing the defense," he
added. "Coach Smith has already
simplified it. He's made it easier for me. I
can't see much more that he can do.
"Execution is the problem. If we can
execute and practice a little more," he noted,
"we'll be a good basketball team. We really
have an explosive team. The ACC is a new
season." -
in Greensboro
Our points per possession was just fantastic,
but the problem was they scored every time,
too." With Burden getting 16 of Utah's last
24 points, the Utes cut the deficit to three
points on two occasions before the final
buzzer.
Utah's record dropped to 7-2 with its only
other defeat to sixth-ranked Southern
California, 102-82, on the Trojans' home
court. The Utes beat 20th-ranked Rutgers
earlier in the season, 92-89.
Carolina's record following the game was
5-1. The games abroad do not count in the
regular season record.
So what happens?
The.Tar .Heels almost iose face except for
some dazzling moments by brilliant Walter
Davis, the all-around court savvy and hustle
of freshman Phil Ford and the noticeable
return of Ed Stahl, as they come away with a
70-53 victory.
In Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium with
a seating capacity of only 1 600, the sparse
gathering was treated to what was supposed
to be a college level game.
But the fact of the matter is the game
resembled more of a high school contest as
the teams committed 31 turnovers each.
Yale opened with a spread offense
designed to slow down the UNC attack. For
awhile, it kept the Tar Heels off balance,
leading to easy Yale buckets.
Fine plan
"Yale presented a fine game plan," said
Coach Dean Smith after the sloppy victory.
"We had to chase the ball on defense and
gamble in order to maintain any sort of
tempo." Yale had an 0-4 record going into
the game and was obviously undermanned.
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Cal Stamp, Wake Forest's center, was
a dominant factor in the Deacon's Big
Four wins over State and Duke. (Staff
photo by Gary Lobraico)
Against Cuba Walter Davis made a
spectacular last-second shot to send the Tar
Heels into the finale against host Real
Madrid, the European champions. Real
Madrid ran away with a 112-101 victory,
which was not as close as the score indicated.
Concerning Real Madrid, Smith said. "I
believe they could beat most any college
team and a lot of pro teams if they played
over there and under international rules with
their Spanish officials. They are an excellent
basketball team. I think the trip helped us a
lot. We had the crowd against us, and I feel
we still played awfully well over there."
It is small wonder the Eli tried a slow-down
type of balK - u
With both teams floundering on the court,
UNC held an 1 1-8 lead with 10 minutes gone.
However, after two Davis free throws, a
bomb by John Kuester, two free throws by
Tommy LaGarde and one by Mitch
Kupchak, UNC opened to a 10-point lead
and were never headed.
Davis brought the crowd to its feet when
he scored four points in a 10-second span for
the game's most exciting moment. He began
with a dazzling turnaround lay-up and
capped the display with a jump shot from the
left on a fast break after bringing down the
rebound from the rafters.
Despite an overall ragged performance,
UNC used its height advantage, out
rebounding Yale 46-37 and pulling away in
the second half.
Ed Stahl contributed poise to the Tar H eel
attack, chipping in a game high 1 1 rebounds
and 14 points. Walter Davis led all scorers
with 20 and added lOTebounds. And Plfil
Ford never stopped his aggressive style of
play, despite a poor shooting hand (4-12).
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