The Daily Tar HeelMonday, Marchl 8, 19917
.MC smashes Duke for ACC title, 96-74
By Jamie Rosenberg
Senior Writer
CHARLOTTE The moment Duke
stepped onto the Charlotte Coliseum
court for last Sunday's ACC Tourna
ment final, King Rice knew he wasn't
looking at the same Blue Devil team
that had beaten the Tar Heels twice
during the regular season.
"When a team comes out you can just
see in their eyes and in their faces how
much they really want it," Rice said.
Rice probed Duke visages, specifi
cally that of counterpart Bobby Hurley,
and saw nothing but blank stares. So the
senior point guard licked his chops,
fired up his teammates, and turned those
stares into grimaces as UNC pummeled
the Blue Devils, 96-74, in the most
lopsided tourney final since 1968.
The outcome shocked most of the
23,532 on hand, including UNC coach
Dean Smith, who was rather awed by
Duke's 93-72 dismantling of N.C. State
the day before.
"I saw Duke yesterday and against us
last week in Chapel Hill, and I thought
they were practically unbeatable," Smith
said. "But this game does strange
things."
Smith will have to double up on one
of his pinkies to accommodate his 12th
ACC championship ring. Four UNC
players seniors Rice, Rick Fox and
Pete Chilcutt and junior Hubert Davis
earned their second piece of ACC
jewelry.
But they were just young 'uns when
the Tar Heels took the title in 1989. In
1991, all four earned all-tournament
recognition as UNC's elder statesmen
and primary weapons.
Fox was named tournament MVP
after totalling 52 points and 27 rebounds
in victories against Clemson, Virginia
and Duke. He pulled down a career
high 15 boards in Saturday's semifinal
against Virginia, and he blitzed theBlue
Devils for 25 points on 10-of-16
shooting. His scoring and rebounding
totals led all tournament players.
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Davis joined Fox on the first team
after scoring 17 points against Duke
and nailing 7 of 1 1 3-point attempts on
the weekend. Rice and Chilcutt were
the leading vote-getters on the second
team.
The Tar Heels trudged their way into
Sunday's final with rather incomplete
efforts in the first two rounds. They fell
behind 12 points to seventh-seeded
Clemson Friday before coming to their
senses and pulling out a 67-59 victory.
And after dominating Virginia in the
first half of Saturday's semifinal, UNC
allowed the Cavs a 61-61 tie with 4:29
to play before winning 76-71.
"The Clemson game was a wakeup
call," Fox said. "We were lucky to still
be here. We came prepared to play
Virginia, but we learned a lesson from
the second half that we need to keep up
the intensity."
If intensity was the buzz word Sun
day, then the Tar Heels buzzed for the
full 40 minutes, a feat they had not
accomplished in 29 previous games.
"When we play like this, I feel like
nobody can beat us," freshman point
guard Derrick Phelps said.
UNC blazed out to an 1 1 -2 lead in the
first five minutes, and the margin grew
steadily throughout the game.
"North Carolina seized control of the
game from the very beginning," Duke
coach Mike Krzyzewski said.
UNC built its edge with quickness,
rebounding and solid outside shooting
areas in which the Blue Devils fig
ured to have the advantage. On the
defensive end, the Tar Heels continued
to unveil their newest twist the zone.
Against Clemson and Virginia, Smith
had reluctantly given way to the point
zone and sagging man-to-man defenses
whenever the Tigers and Cavs began to
hurt the Tar Heels with quickness.
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plan from the start, and the Blue Devils
never adjusted to UNC's new look. The
Tar Heels pounced on every early Duke
mistake, capitalizing on six Blue Devil
turnovers in the first 4:20.
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the nets after the Tar Heels' ACC triumph
you get back into it. But they were
missing the shots early."
Rice regained the edge in his two
year war with Hurley, turning in a near
perfect performance. He scored 12
points, dished out seven assists and
committed no turnovers. Meanwhile,
Hurley ' s two points equaled the scoring
output of the Tar Heels' Scott Cherry,
and his three turnovers in the first four
minutes set an ominous tone for the
Blue Devils.
"We've had certain points of the year
where we just haven't come out hungry,
and we haven ' t played defense or played
together," Hurley said. "We did that at
Virginia. We did that at Wake, and we
did it again today. If you're going to be
a great basketball team, you need to
have that hunger and do that every
game."
Lacrosse fronwio
got five of his 20 saves. Adelphi fired 1 1
shots at the Tar Heels goal, netting one
and having five smothered by Piazza.
"We gave up some goals on the extra-man
situation," Klarmann said.
"That bothers me. But as a unit, we're
sliding pretty well. The team is not
standing around and watching guys get
burned one-on-one. As long as everyone
is trying and making the effort to help
out, that's team defense. We're not going
to overpower people one-on-one. We've
got to play together."
The fourth quarter was the other end
of the spectrum an offensive show
case for the players who may not play
much except during a blowout. Tar Heels
Webster, Donnie McNichol, Dan
Donnelly, Ryan Wade, Jon Speers and
Rick Codd all scored. The Panthers
tallied three times on UNC backup goalie
Billy Daye to account for the final score.
On March 9, the UNC lax team ended
the fourth-longest win streak in college
lacrosse history. The Tar Heels handed
the No. 1 Syracuse Orangemen a 10-3
loss in front of 2,500 fans at Fetzer
Field. Thomas had three goals and one
assist. Goldstein had two goals and three
assists. Donnelly added two goals, and
Eric Seremet, Steve Muir and Webster
tallied one apiece.
UNC scored the first five goals of the
contest and cruised to the win.
Piazza played the entire game and
had 16 saves while allowing only three
goals. The defense held the Orangeman
attack scoreless in the first period, the
first time Syracuse had been shut out in
1 14 quarters. The three goals were the
fewest Syracuse has scored in a game
since 1975.
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wealth of interesting infol
By Jamie Rosenberg
Sailor Writer
SYRACUSE, N.Y. As North
Carolina plowed its way through to
the Sweet Sixteen over the weekend,
many of the other squads who made
the trip to Syracuse provided some
food for thought.
The Carrier Dome and the city of
Syracuse drew mixed reactions from
many players and coaches who visited.
Even two members of the UCLA
Bruins, handed an early exit by Penn
State, couldn't agree.
On the one hand, Brum senior Keith
Owens said the Carrier dome was
"kind of like a great basketball
monument of the East."
But junior Gerald Madkins was
less impressed with the Syracuse en
vironment. Both the city and the
campus seem to be stuck somewhere
between the old and the new, each
containing a hodge-podge of archi
tectural styles that together present a and his Princeton Tiger team, last
rather schizophrenic landscape. Add second losers to Villanova in Friday's
in slimy weather and Jim Boeheim,
and the place seems to have few re
deeming qualities.
Indeed, when asked why he thought
so many Southern California basket
ball players wound up at Syracuse
Orangemen LeRon Ellis, Mike
Hopkins and Scott McCorkle all hail
from the Los Angeles area Madkins
was at a loss. "I just wonder what
those guys see when they get out here
on their recruiting trips," he said.
UCLA coach Jim Harrick, sitting
next to Madkins at the time, muttered,
"typical California remark."
ODD
Just to pick on Boeheim a wee bit
more, after the second-seeded
Orangemen had been knocked out by
Richmond the night before, some
heady fan in the Carrier Dome Friday
held up a sign that read: "Welcome
back, Boeheim."
DOB
UCLA's Don MacLean has to be a
frontrunner for the Whining-Brat-of-the-Tournament
award.
MacLean, a 6-foot-10 junior and
the Bruins leading scorer, found
himself riding the bench for five
minutes against Penn State after
drawing his fourth foul with 14:45
left in the game.
The Nittany Lions went on to stun
the Bruins, 74-69, and MacLean pre
ferred to focus his post-game com
ments on the officiating, which he
believed kept him from being a factor
in the game.
"It's a shame that you work your
whole life to get to this tournament,
and three guys take it away from you,"
he said.
But Mac seems to have forgotten
that, after hitting 6 of 7 shots in the
first half, he took just three more in the
second period, even though he did
play 15 of the 20 minutes. And his
three second-half points were hardly
the contribution UCLA needed from
one who averages 24 a game.
That's not officiating, folks.
BBS
The most headline-prone first
round game had to be Eastern
Michigan's 76-56 shocker against
Mississippi State. During the first half,
Griffin
being fired.
Griffin said he received the highest
ratings possible on evaluations before
he filed the first grievance.
"It was a chance to discredit me so I
could be fired," Griffin said. "They
could have gotten me fired."
McSurely said the second grievance
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play was stopped suddenly when EMCyrl
point guard Lorenzo Neely vomited
on the court.
Neely apparently did not care foj I
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he ate just fruit and juice before me j
12:25 p.m. game. Unfortunately, the
Carrier Dome crowd and many of
you watching at home got a rather
unsightly look at Neely's meager
breakfast when it appeared just to the
left of the free throw line.
"I don't think he wants to throw up
on T.V. anymore," Huron coach Ber j
Braun said.
But the Hurons went on to knock
off the fifth-seeded Bulldogs, and
Neely, who returned to the game,
poured in 17 points and had seven
rebounds and five assists.
The headline, you ask?
"Eastern Michigan upsets stomach,
Mississippi State"
DOB
You gotta feel for coach Pete Carril"
first round. A perennial "almost giant
killer," Carril has brought his
overmatched Ivy Leaguers to the brink
of upset each of the past three years,
but each time the impossible has
slipped away.
In 1989, the Tigers' patented de
liberate style nearly stunned top-seeded
Georgetown before the Hoyas eked
out a 50-49 win. And last year
Princeton threatened Final Four-bound
Arkansas but lost 68-64.
Friday night, the Tigers led by as
many as 10 against the Wildcats before
Lance Miller's buzzer-beating eight
footer gave Villanova the 50-48 vie
tory.
"This stuff looks like it's ordained,1
Carril said.
Walking out of the interview room,
Carril added a parting shot as he
watched his players head in the other
direction for the required drug test.
don't have to be drug-tested, do I?" the
59-year-old coach said. 'That's the
next thing that'll happen to me."
BHB
Dean Smith and his players scoff at
the statement that, due to the East
Region's slew of upsets, UNC has a
clear path to the Final Four. But con
sider this: If UNC beats Eastern
Michigan Friday, the Tar Heels could
find themselves in the Final Eight
without having played a Top 25 team
And if Temple beats Oklahoma State
UNC, ranked fourth in the final Asso
ciated Press poll, could make it all the
way to Indianapolis without facing a
ranked team. 4
Does it get much clearer?
BBfl
Eastern Michigan may be only team
in the nation to have twin starters. Car
and Charles Thomas look identical
have virtually identical stats 13.8
ppg and 4.5 rpg for Carl, 10.4 and 4.3
for Charles and differ by one inch in
height and five pounds in weight.
The two seniors, both Communica
tions majors, hail from Everett High
School in Lansing, Mich.
Knowing this, if Carl was having &
hot shooting night but ran into fou
trouble in the first half, would he and
Charles switch jerseys at halftime?
Would it work?
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was proceeding to Step 3 and that he
was confident that the committee would "
rule in favor of Griffin at that stage.
"The problem is that there was no
real investigation (at Step 2)," he said; ;
At Step 2, it was determined that
there had been no retaliation against,-
Griffin, McSurely said.
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