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V Y 14 4Bn"he Daily Tar HeelThursday, April 26, 1984 i The Year in Pictures It was a year of high expectations and bitter defeats for North Carolina on the football field and on the basketball court. Picked by most preseason publications to finish in the top 10 nationally, the Tar Heel football team started out in grand fashion, winning its first seven games, sporting a No. 3 national ranking and leading the list of candidates for the Orange Bowl in Miami. But the bottom fell of the UNC machine, as coach Dick Crum's troops dropped a heart breaker to Maryland on regional television, then was throughly beaten by Clemson in Kenan Stadium. The team hit rock bottom with a loss to the Virginia Cavaliers in Charlottesville. Not even a dramatic win over rival Duke could soothe the pain that followed an embarrassing 28-3 whitewash that in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, as the Tar Heels finished 8-4 overall. Powerful William Fuller made vir tually everyone's first-team All-America squard, however, and signed a hefty contract with the USFL's Philadelphia Stars. Dean Smith's team continued its reign of terror over college bas ketball for much of the season. Keyed by the top two players in the country, Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins, the Tar Heels won their first 17 games, then suffered two late season losses as rookie point guard Kenny Smith, who had provided the team with so much floor leadership, sat out with a broken wrist for nearly a month. UNC, fav ored by many to win the NCAA championship, stumped its foot in the ACC tournament against Duke, then dropped a shocker to Indi ana in the East Regionals to finish 28-3 overall. Jordan and Perkins wracked up numerous post-season honors, and. will represent the United States this summer in Los Angeles in the Olympics. XL' tV Will Olr. lJUll WORRELL NEWSPAPERS 7 x -1Mb it 1 4 V v r 1 X Carolina Sports OTHCharles Led ford ' j .sf-" iff DTHJefl Neuville v C. X f '; 1 1 . i 4 OTHZane Saunders OTHJeM Neuville t uu-a...,,,.,, .p , WWM,UWM.i..UU.UMu..m1. I . u.-uuu - f "t w ''- '-'v. X I - - r,llv SJ) ' - t DTHJeff Neuville fc ' J f : ri v Jr Trs" 'itjF lmi. ".:... ' - . 2v V Irf "V. s : tj?fv' I m 0 fr I Xs. fx J 'x r i s 7
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