'NORTH CAROLINA IS NO.1' Then: Now: UNC_Basketball 🏀
As always, there is somebody else. Bob McAdoo leaves, Bobby Jones steps in. Jones leaves, Walter Davis steps in. Davis leaves, Mike O'Koren steps in. O'Koren leaves, Al Wood steps in. Now Wood has left, and James Worthy is stepping in. Always there is somebody else, another model on the long assembly line of superior forwards that have kept Coach Dean Smith and his Tar Heels nationally prominent and this year make them the choice for No. 1.
The third mainstay back, senior Point Guard Black, averaged more than five assists and seven points a game in 1980-81. Add sophomore Swingman Doherty and freshman Michael Jordan, another player who can do it inside or out, and these Tar Heels could be a match for the 1975-76 starting five of future NBA players Davis, Mitch Kupchak, Tommy LaGarde, Phil Ford and John Kuester.
Farmer has added some new wrinkles to the UCLA high-post offense to open up a few more scoring opportunities for Gray and to isolate Sanders down low where he's even more damaging than his 55.7% career shooting figure indicates. If the coach's plan to play only seven or eight men causes no jealousy on this hydra-headed monster, the Bruins should cakewalk to the Pacific-10 championship. And after that? The NCAA tournament may turn out to be a Gray area.
But what might be a nightmare for some coaches is a dream for Crum. As good a bench coach as there is, he's excellent at such things as conserving time-outs, substituting intelligently and reacting to other teams' game plans. That kind of coaching and this kind of talent should take Louisville all the way to New Orleans.It must be as confusing to country music fans as it is to college basketball fans. A fellow named Hall is the featured singer on an album released a week or so back.
"We've got to get Bowie and Turpin playing together more," says playmaker Dirk Minnie-field. "We'll get a lot more rebounds, and I can put a lot more fast breaks on the other team." The off guard figures to be sharpshooter Jim Master.Like his older brother, Gregory, who's a full-time bodyguard for Sugar Ray Leonard, Georgetown senior Ed Spriggs has lately been involved in taking care of a celebrity.
Eric Floyd began his career as common folk, but now he's a consensus preseason All-America, who last year averaged 19 points per game. This year the Iowa faithful expect better things still, and Olson isn't saying a word to cool the fervor, mainly because he seems to have caught it himself. "Playing at our peak potential, there isn't a better team in the country," he says.
Dreiling will be flanked by the 6'9" Carr and the 6'8" Levingston, buddies who combine power, quickness and tremendous jumping ability. Carr has more natural talent, but Levingston works harder. "People say we even look alike, but I think Cliff's uglier," says Carr. "He's just as much of me as I am of him," says Levingston, who's known as Good News because he's always smiling and because he...is.
Richardson, who came to Tulsa last season after winning the 1980 national J.C. title at Western Texas College, used his exhausting shuttle system—and four of his former juco players—to propel the Golden Hurricane to a 26-7 record and the NIT championship. Ten players saw action in 28 or more games, and five of them averaged at least 10 points. For 1981-82 virtually all of that Top 10 is back Joined by two prime recruits.
"We don't have the big aircraft carrier, the [Ralph] Sampson or the [Sam] Bowie," Richardson says, "but we've got plenty of guys who'll be putting in their two pennies' worth." In this particular case, that ain't small change.Ralph Sampson can be shut out. Because he procrastinated this summer no apartments were available in Charlottesville, Va. by the time he did some serious looking.
Sophomore Guard Othell Wilson, who is extremely quick and daring defensively, should also help take some of the pressure off Jones, and so should freshman Tim Mullen, a swingman with a good jumper. Among the other returning starters, Randy Reed, who had a 12.1 scoring average last winter, is beginning his first full season at forward, Tyrone Adams is switching from forward to guard, and Guard Tim Jankovich is probably best known for having dated the coach's daughter . The center position will be manned by Les Craft and Greg Prudhoe. Two well-regarded freshmen come in from Chicago: Guard Kenny Williams and Forward Lafayette Watkins.
Meyer plans on regularly playing as many as nine members of his 11-man squad, about three more than in recent seasons. Joining Dillard and Cummings are returnees Teddy Grubbs, Bernard Randolph and Jerry McMillan and freshmen Kenny Patterson, Walter Downing and Tyrone Corbin. The 6'9" Downing, Illinois high schools' Mr.
For starters, unaggressive as the Gophers were, they did whip such formidable opposition as Iowa, Louisville and North Carolina. They also had four overtime defeats, and a win in any one of them probably would have sent them into the NCAA tournament. As long as Hastings, twice an All Southwest Conference selection and the Hogs' only true big man, isn't really struck down, Razorback Coach Eddie Sutton will be the one feeling lucky. Every starter except Guard U.S. Reed has returned from a team that was 24-8, finished first in the conference and reached the NCAA semis, where it lost to LSU.
Robinson was Bartow's first recruit. Back then he was a 6'4" forward who could leap out of the gym but couldn't hit the basket with a bazooka. Bartow told Robinson he'd have to work on his backcourt skills if he wanted to be a big-time player. So Robinson went to as many as three basketball camps a summer and practiced alone for hours in the Blazers' Bell Gymnasium. "That's the best way," says Robinson, "because you can talk to yourself.
Bartow considers 6'6" Swingman Marvin Ray Johnson from Birmingham to be his top recruit. "He has greatness written all over him," says the coach. UAB has that potential, too.In its 50th year of SEC competition, Georgia finally seems capable of reaching some goals that it should have taken care of a long time ago—its first 20-win season, its first NCAA tournament bid and its first conference championship.
The guard corps is led by 6'5" sophomore Vern Fleming, a big scorer in high school who has become a playmaker. Eric Marbury is one of the Dogs' few seniors though he sometimes plays like a freshman. Marbury had best not stray too far from Durham's team concept this season because 6'3" junior Derrick Floyd and 6'3" freshman Gerald Crosby are both capable of taking his place.
"The other coaches all came to visit me in the summer," said Blab, when Knight first called on him last winter, "and then came back to visit me again." By season's end, a lot of folks may be wishing that CBS had been a little more persuasive about that job offer.Though Winfrey Sanderson has been a part of two NCAA tournament and five NIT teams in his 22 years as an assistant and head coach at Alabama, he still finds all the hoopla over this season's Crimson Tide mighty hard to believe. There's no question that Alabama will be a good, experienced team.
The Wildcats used to depend on homegrown talent drawn to Villanova by a desire to play in Philly's Big Five series. Not anymore. There isn't a Philadelphian on Villanova's roster, and most of this year's recruits were lured by the Big East competition. Massimino, however, remains in the best tradition of the tie-tugging, arm-waving, ref-baiting Big Five coaches of the past, though he professes to have toned down his act last year.
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