Saturday, January 23,2010 -Thomasville Times - B3
SPORTS
Darlington gets truck race scheduled
NASCARMedia.com
NASCAR has announced the addition
of historic Darlington Raceway to the
2010 NASCAR Camping World Truck
Series schedule.
The Aug. 14 Too Tough To Tame 200 re
places an event at The Milwaukee Mile
on the 25-race schedule and marks the
series’ return to the 1.366-mile South
Carolina track that hosted four races
between 2001 and 2004.
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6, 3-2) won its first ACC home game in
three tries.
“Our defense was the worst it’s been
all year. It was never, ever good,” Duke
coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They
were terrific, and we were not very
good. In order to beat them tonight, we
had to be terrific just to have a chance.
“They had great energy and a great
gameplan. They looked real fresh. We
didn’t look fresh at aU.”
Hard-to-handle post player Tracy
Smith proved even more difficult to
handle than usual, scoring 23 points
on lO-of-12 shooting. Veteran Dennis
Horner, recently slowed by a knee in
jury, was full speed ahead, adding 20
points on 8-of-15 shooting.
Three other N.C. State players
cracked double digits. Point guards
Javier Gonzalez and Farnold Degand
combined for 26 points and 14 assists
with just three turnovers, and fresh
man Scott Wood scored all 10 of his
points after halftime.
Duke’s lead trio of Kyle Singler (22
points), Jon Scheyer (21) and Nolan
Smith (18) did much of their damage
from the free throw line, hitting 20 of
24 between them but made just 18 of 46
from the field.
No one else did much damage for
Duke: Lance Thomas did grab 12 re
bounds, but no one outside of the top
three managed more than six points.
For the Blue Devils, however, this
game was more about defense — or a
lack thereof - than it was about wheth
er their offense was balanced. Duke
allowed 15 more points than it had in
any game all season and had allowed
just one previous opponent to shoot 50
percent, a 50.9-percent showing for St.
John’s in a nine-point loss.
While big man Brian Zoubek called
the defensive effort “horrible,” Schey
er took a slightly more diplomatic ap-
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proach.
“This wasn’t our best defensive ef
fort, but at the same time they did a
great job of executing on offense,”
Scheyer said. “We wanted to come out
and not let them get any confidence,
but they got so much confidence — and
why shouldn’t they? They hit every
thing.
“Give them credit. They punched us,
and we didn’t punch back.”
N.C. State never trailed after 21-6 run
midway through the first half built a
29-19 lead. Horner and Smith account
ed for 16 points during the seven min
utes of domination.
The Wolfpack appeared poised to
head to halftime with a six-point lead,
but when Scheyer had a shot in the
lane blocked by Tracy Smith, the ball
bounded outside, where Nolan Smith
met it in midair in order to beat the
buzzer with a 3 that made it 41-38.
Any momentum gained from that
play, however, faded fast.
The Wolfpack hit 64 percent of its
first-half shots yet still managed to
start the second half even hotter. N.C.
State started the half on an 11-3 run,
interrupted only by a 3-pointer from
Scheyer, to increase its lead to 52-41.
Duke hadn’t trailed by more than 11
points all season, but the Blue Devils
soon did. Duke whittled its deficit to
58-49 before yet another 11-3 spurt, this
one punctuated by a slam for Horner
on an alley-oop from Gonzalez for a 69-
52 bulge.
The Blue Devils threatened to rally
once more, answering with 10 of the
next 11 points, getting within 72-64 at
the 4:47 mark when Singler scored in
the lane.
But after N.C. State went more than
four minutes without a field goal. Wood
got away from Duke’s fullcourt press
for a layup. Singler hit a couple of free
throws, but then Gonzalez drained a
fadeaway 3 from 26 feet over 6-10 Miles
Plumlee that made it 77-66 and essen
tially ended it.
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“But the bottom line is,
we got ourselves here so
we’ve got to find a way.”
It also was the first
time UNC has lost three
consecutive ACC games
since 2003 when it lost
five straight games in
Matt Doherty’s final sea
son as head coach.
And like that team, this
year’s Tar Heels (12-7,1-3)
currently are sitting near
the bottom of the ACC
standings with things
about to get tougher in
the next few weeks as
they play three of their
next four games on the
road. UNC is 1-5 away
from Chapel HiU this sea
son.
“We’re extremely dis
appointed and we’re
extremely frustrated,”
UNC coach Roy Williams
said. “It’s something we
haven’t been through.
“I didn’t give them a
long speech after the
game. I old them, ‘We
have no chance if we fold.
We have no chance if we
give in.’ “
The players said they’re
confident the Tar Heels
can turn things around,
but they will have to
play better than they did
against the Demon Dea
cons (13-4, 1-2). UNC shot
a season-low 36.6 percent
from the floor, while Wake
Forest hit 50 percent of
its shots, including 9 of
16 from beyond the arc.
The Tar Heels were out-
rebounded and outscored
in the paint and had no
fastbreak points.
“We have to do a lot bet
ter job in a lot of areas,”
Williams said.
It also did not help that
UNC’s secoi^J-leading
scorer and top rebound
er, Ed Davis, missed the
game with a sprained
left ankle. Freshman
Travis Wear started in
his place and had a solid
game (13 points, six re
bounds), while senior
Deon Thompson had 13
points but grabbed just
three rebounds.
Junior Will Graves led
the Tar Heels for the sec
ond straight game with
16 points and a team-high
eight rebounds.
Wake Forest had four
players finish in double
figures, led by Ishmael
Smith and C.J. Harris
with 20 points each.
Arguably the most im
portant points for the De
mon Deacons came from
freshman Ari Stewart,
who finished with 11.
UNC had not led since
the opening minutes of
the game, but the Tar
Heels began to threaten
Wake Forest’s lead six
minutes into the second
half when Dexter Strick
land cut the score to 47-
43.
But Wake’s Tony Woods
added a dunk on the oth
er end to push the lead
back to six, then Stewart
hit three straight 3-point-
ers to put the game out of
reach.
The Tar Heels never got
closer than nine the rest
of the way
“It’s very frustrating
losing games that we
shouldn’t,” Wear said.
“You’re kind of mind
boggled at this point that
you’ve lost three [straight
ACC] games and you’re
North Carolina.
“But there’s a lot of
games left in the season,
and we can turn this
around reaUy quick and
we’ve just got to keep
fighting.”
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