Wednesday, February 29, 1984The Daily Tar Heel7
Sports
Smith ready to see action for UNC
as Heels prepare to face Jackets
By BOB YOUNG
SUff Writer
Competition should help Heels
UNC golfers to face nation's best
This weekend, UNC will travel to Lakeland, Ha.,
to compete in the Imperial Lakes Classic, where the
best golf teams in the East are expected to contend.
The following week the Tar Heels travel to
Guadalajara, Mexico, to compete in the Oklahoma
State Invitational. Brouse expects at least 12 of the
top 15 teams in the nation to compete.
Two weeks later, the team travels to the Southwest
again for the Houston Ail-American Invitational in
Texas, the site of this year's NCAA championships.
As far as this year's lineup goes, John Inman,
Davis Love, "Bryan Sullivan, jack Nicklaiis Jr. and
Kurt Beck won the starting spots for the first com
petition, and Brouse expects that they will see the
most action. Greg Parker and Todd Thiele will also
contribute.
Inman was a second-team All-American last
season and will provide senior leadership for this
year's squad.
Love, a sophomore, was a third team All
American and was UNC's low scorer in last year's
NCAA tournament.
All of the other starters, plus Thiele, are returning
lettermen. Parker is a freshman who saw some play
in the fall season. The performances of these players
will go a long way in determining what kind of season
it will be for UNC, Brouse said. 1
"We can usually, count on good performances
from John (Inman) and Davis (Love), but we'll have
to be consistent from (golfers in positions) three to
five if we're going to reach our goals."
After a short fall schedule, the North Carolina,
men's golf team was ranked sixth in the nation and
first in the Southeast district. The Tar Heels will have
more than enough chances to prove themselves wor
thy of the ranking this spring, as their schedule in
cludes competition against the giants of collegiate
golf.
And Devon Brouse wouldn't have it any other
way. ,
"Any time we have a chance to compete against
the best in the country, it's to our advantage to do
so," the North Carolina coach said. "The experience
should help the team a lot."
The Tar Heels have already competed once this
spring, finishing second to host Clemson in the
Hilton Head-Palmetto Dunes Invitational at Hilton
Head, S.C. Brouse said the Tigers could have beaten
any team in the country the way they played in the
Feb. 18-19 tournament.
' 'There seems to be a great deal of parity in college
golf this season," Brouse said. "Any of the top 15
teams in the nation have a legitimate chance to win a
tournament on any given week."
The Hilton Head Invitational was the only real
chance that the team had to test the waters of this
year's schedule before plunging headfirst into the
thick of competition.
If
By FRANK KENNEDY
Assistant Sports Editor
On Jan. 29, just hours after North Carolina point
guard Kenny Smith had taken a nasty tumble on the
court in Carmichael Auditorium before a national
television audience, and just after the announcement
was made that Smith was out of the lineup "indefi
nitely" with a fracture in his left wrist, armchair
critics bemoaned the loss as the end to UNC's na
tional title hopes.
So much for the end-of-the-world theory.
The Tar Heels, 24-1 overall and 7-1 since Smith's
tumble, don't appear to have lost any of the chemis
- try that got them off and running to the best start in
the school's history. Smith's replacement, sophomore
Steve Hale, has kept the offense flowing, as evi
denced by an 18-assist weekend against N.C. State
and Maryland, and a 12-point, six-assist effort
against Clemson Sunday.
Tonight, Smith will be able to see action, for the
first time in a month when the Tar Heels face surging
Georgia Tech at The Omni in Atlanta. The way
Smith sees it, neither team has changed a whole lot
since the Jan. 28, 73-61 UNC win.
"This is just like any other game," Smith said. "It
means a lot to us and to them. We're still working on
our goals and just trying to get a lot better every
game."
The injury has naturally been a source of frustra
tion for Smith, who was averaging 10.1 points and
5.2 assists per game before the collision with LSU's
John Tudor sent him to the bench.
"The hardest part of it was sitting on the bench
and watching the game," he said. "When you're
with the team when you're traveling you feel like a
part of the team, but when you get down there on the
courtside you don't. Sometimes, I'd feel like an out
sider." Now that he is back (he'll play with a rubber cast
on his left wrist), Smith said he doesn't want to rush i
thingsThat's probably just as well, because the Tar
Heels are hardly in desperate straits.
"We've been on a pretty good roll lately and I just
want to help out in any way I can," he said. "Steve
and Buzz (Peterson) have both been great. We
haven't lost anything since I've been out."
Smith said he has not been at all surprised by
Hale's performance in a starting role. "In fact, the
only thing that has surprised me even a little is when
he doesn't do as well in practice as he is capable of."
Hale's matchup against Tech's prize sophomore
guard Mark Price could be the key matchup in a
game, in which the Tar Heels have the upper hand
elsewhere.
Price, the Yellow Jackets' all-purpose leader, is
averaging more than 40 minutes of playing time, 15
points and five assists per game. And Price is com
manding a team that not only snapped a 19-game
road losing streak in the league by beating Duke
Saturday, but is 18-8 and hunting for an NCAA tour
nament invitation. A win over the Tar Heels might be
exactly what the Jackets need to fulfill that goal.
' "They played us very tough up here when we had
Kenny Smith and were really playing well," UNC
coach Dean Smith said of Tech. "This will be a
special challenge for our team to see if we can win
all of our conference road games."
For Kenny Smith, this will be a different sort of
challenge. "Physically, I'm in shape because I've
been working out," Smith said. "I feel like I'll be
able to at least give it a go."
AP Poll
1. North Carolina 24-1 1240
2. Houston 25-3 1133
3. Kentucky 21-3 1078
4. Georgetown 24-3 1072
5. DePaul " 21-2 1015
6. Oklahoma 24-3 888
7. Nev.-Las Vegas 25-2 863
8. Texas-e Paso 24-2 773
9. Tulsa 23-2 671
10. Illinois 20-4 658
11. Purdue . 19-5 657
12. Arkansas 22-5 586
13. Washington 20-5 415
14. Memphis St. . 20-5 408
15. Duke 22-6 283
16. Syracuse 18-6 188
17. Wake Forest 19-6 187
18. Temple 21-3 169
19. Maryland 17-7 159
20. Oregon St. 19-6 151
UPI Poll
1. North Carolina (40) 24-1 628
2. Houston (2) 25-3 535
3. Kentucky 21-3 507
4. Georgetown 24-3 505
5. DePaul 21-2 487
6. Nevada-Las Vegas 25-2 356
7. Oklahoma 24-3 344
8. Texas-e Paso 24-2 339
9. Purdue 19-5 275
10. Illinois 20-4 231
11. Tulsa 23-2 217
12. Arkansas 22-5 183
13. Washington 20-5 104
14. Memphis State 20-5 74
15. Temple 21-3 31
16. Wake Forest 19-6 30
17. Syracuse 18-6 28
18. Duke 22-6 26
19. Maryland 18-7 25
20. Oregon St. 19-6 20
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