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SPORTS
DIGEST
.. By MAC HILL..
Deadlines and Basketball Don't Mix .. .
Those Gamecocks just beat Furman! We were
there ! Now we're faced with a deadline . . . what shall
we do . . ? we shall say a few words about these same
Gamecocks.
The tempo in activity, at least sportswise, around
Carolina has picked up considerably during the past
week. Some of our athletic teams are going down the
home stretch in their respective sports and others are
preping for their approaching seasons.
To focus on basketball, USC's paramount sporting
interest at the moment, our Gamecocks cagers are
currently holding a 13-9 won-loss record and their cap
tain, Grady Wallace, is leading the entire country in
scoring with a 30.409 per game average.
In conference play, the locals have garnered a 4-7 slate and
with but three league games remaining they are almost assured
of a sixth place seeding in the ACC tournament at Raleigh, March
7, 8 and 9.
The parings for the ACC tourney are, one vs. eight, and four
vs. five in the top bracket, two vs. seven, and three vs. six in
the lower bracket.
It will be most advantageous for the Gamecocks to finish in
sixth place for that will pit them against the number three team
in the tournament's first round and if they should win they will
meet the winner of the second team-seventh team game.
The only position already "in the bag" is number
one which North Carolina cannot lose. At the present
time four teams, Maryland, Duke, Wake Forest and
N. C. State are still in the running for the second place
position.
Should Maryland finish in second place, then three of
the "Big Four" (UNC, State, Wake Forest and Duke)
will be pitted in the upper bracket.
Coach Jimmy Ratcliff's tankers will engage in a triangular
meet at the natatorium tomorrow afternoon in what will amount
to a state swimming meet. Clemson and The Citadel are the
other teams entered in the event.
Coach Ratcliff will take his squad up to Chapel Hill next
Thursday for the three-day ACC swimming meet.
The tankers have a somewhat dismal record with only one
victory in nine outings. However, Winter Kimes in diving and
71 Storm Bailey, Arthur Gaston, David Rembert and Don Bigby
in the 400-yard relay have been fairly consistent winners through
out the season.
Coach Weems Baskin will send his cindermen to
Chapel Hill tomorrow for the ACC indoor track meet.
They open their regular season March 20 when Presby
terian will invade the cinder paths behind the "Round
House."
Baseball, tennis and golf, the remaining Spring
sports, will also get under way within the next week
or two.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Bob Thompson, sports editor
of the "Furman Hornet," was looking ahead to the '58-'59
basketball season tuther day and was quite happy with visions
of a FU starting line-up of then seniors Dick Wright, Steve
Ross, Steve Benya (all members of this year's team), Edd
Selvy (recent transfer) and then junior Byron Pinson, plus
North Greenvivlle's hotshot Pete Carlisle (if they can get
him). "Just picture a starting unit of Wright, Pinson, Selvy,
Ross and Carlisle, all at their peak," boasted Thompson.
SHate to spoil his dream, but what about a Gamecock team
composed of Pericola, Hoffman, Lentz, Goodroe, Franz,
Prater, Callihan, W. Hudson and B. Hudson!
At his present pace, Grady Wallace will break at least
one national record formerly held by Frank Selvy and then
D)arrell Floyd. He bids fair toward scoring the most points
in his first two years with a major college team. Wallace,
a transfer student, will not be eligible after this year.
'Wallace can easily become the fifth basketball player in
history to have averaged better than 25 points per game for
a career. Only Frank Selvy, Buzz Wilkinson, Bob Pettit and
Darrell Floyd have done it before him.
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Last week's basketball develop
ments changed the ACC lead in
team offense. USC supplant
ing North Carolina, mainly on the
strength Gamecock ace Grady Wal
lace. USC is now averaging 81.5
points a game, North Carolina
80.6.
Maryland's deliberate Terps, the
Atlantic Coast Conference's most
improved team since semester
examinations, have regained their
perennial place of honor in the
Atlantic Coast Conference - top
run in dlefense.
After trailing Wake Forest for
nearly the entire season, Mary
land took over the defensive lead
after last Saturday night's games,
wvhich found Wake beaten 75-64
by Duke while the Terps downed
N. C. State 56-49. According to
ACC games of last Saturday
night, Maryland's average yield is
60.3 points a game as compared
to the Deacons' 62.
The top-ranked Tar Heels,
(despite the fact that they have
won their last four games by an
average of only 4.5 points, still
boast an average over 20 victims
of 14.7 p)oints a game. This does
not include Tuesday's game with
N. C. State.
North Carolina also claims the
biggest average rebound margin
over opposition, a decisive 12.8 a
game. But USC tops team re
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N. C. State, though not a big
winner, still leads the ACC in
field goal accuracy at 44.5 per cent.
North Carolina at 43.2 per cent
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Carolina's Gamecocks invade
Chapel Hill tonight for another
look at the nationally leading Tar
Heels with revenge on their minds.
The North Carolinians edged the
Birds 90-86 in an overtime thriller
earlier this season.
Coach Frank Johnson's charges
will carry a 13-9 overall and 4-7
ACC record into tonight's game.
They will travel to Durham tomor
row evening for a return engage
ment with the Duke Blue Devils.
Duke beat USC 104-76 in Char
UNC Players
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Chapel Hill, N. C.-Coach Jim
Tatum has announced that four
expected candidates for the Uni
versity of North Carolina foot
ball team have been lost because
of scholastic troubles.
The four include two starters
from last season-center Ronnie
Hoes, junior from Duryea, Pa.,
and senior fullback Wally Vale of
Ellerson, Va.
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Grady Wallace will carry a
30.409 per game scoring average
into the game, good enough for
the national leadership in that de
partment. In his latest game,
against Furman, the dead-eye
cager hit for 27 points which
brought his average down from
an even higher 30.57.
North Carolina has an overall
record of 20-0 and an ACC mark
of 10-0. I)uke is in third place
in the ACC standings behind
UNC and Maryland with a league
record of 6-5. The Blue Devils
have an overall mark of 12-9.
Coach Johnson Is expected to
rely on his usual starting quintet
composed of Wallace and Dick
Hoffman at forwards; Fred Lentz
at center and Bobby McCoy and
Ray (Coolkie) Pericola at guards.
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