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sportopics MIKE McCARTHY Sports Editor - The 1962-63 basketball season has ended for the Game cocks, but Chuck Noe still has a big job ahead of him. No( must not only find replacements for guard Scotti Ward and center Bob Haney, but also he must solve the problen of finding some height for next year's team. John Schroeder who is 6-6, showed great promise as a member of the USC freshman team, but he alone cannot fill the gap left by Haney's departure. John Gorsage playe only sparingly this year, but his game experience will be very important next season. The newspapers have hinted that Noe may turn to the junior college ranks to find some big men. At present this is the only logical solution to Noe's problem. Because he was hired late last Spring there was littl opportunity to recruit. Coach Noe had to be content witt boys who had already committed themselves to other schools. Despite this disadvantage Noe did recruit some good basketball players, but academic failure cut the fresh man squad to six men by the end of the year. For the future Chuck Noe faces an even more challeng ing problem. There are not enough good basketball player in South Carolina to rely on in-state recruiting so Noe mus1 look elsewhere. When he does, he runs up against the rest of the Conference or the Southeastern Conference. The biggest setback to Carolina's recruiting program is the poor playing facilities. The only other schools in th Conference with poorer playing facilities and seating capaci ties are Clemson and Virginia, but neither of these school have ever sought to build up a basketball power. Noe has the ability to produce a great team. His coach ing record at VPI is proof enough of this, but whether h will be able to recruit players with which he can build a winning team is a big question mark. Carolina basketball would have been greatly aided if the citizens of Columbia had voted for the Richland Coli seum, but the proposal was a failure. Without adequat playing and seating facilities it is difficult to stimulate any real interest. A coach with Chuck Noe's ability should be given a de cent place to show his team. The fans at VPI acknowledged this and Noe was given an 8,000 seat Field House. He lefi this to come to USC where the facilities were by far poorer. Noe refused to throw in the towel despite preseasor predictions and his team won nine games because of hustl< and Noe's ability as a coach. Only two teams in the pasi six years have had better records. The Gamecocks are members of a Conference which is noted for its basketball. It is about time that USC jumped on the band wagon and made use of some of that prestige. For the first time in Carolina basketball history we have a coach who can produce a great team if he gets the players he needs. Why don't we take advantage of this situatior and give him a decent place to play so that recruiting goot players will be easier. The 1963-64 basketball season is a long way off, bu1 between now and then Coach Noe will be doing all he can t< give USC a winning team. There are some other people wh< should be doing the same thing. As usual Maryland is favored to retain the ACC In door Track Championship, but UNC will give them a run for the money. Maryland has won the ACC title every year except in 1955 since the Conference was formed. It would not be a misnomer to speak of the ACC as Maryland and the Seven Dwarfs in regard to track. N. C. State has the big guns and the depth to win the ACC Swimming Meet, but it will be a team effort if Statt expects to get by Maryland and North Carolina. Maryland was undefeated until they came South to swim State and UNC a week ago. The Maryland wrestling team goes unchallenged in the Conference as a team although UNC and Virginia may have a few individual champions. Maryland has not been beaten in the Conference the past five years. Gamecocks Bow Out In Blaze Of Sniffles The Gamecocks managed to getrcodt9-5frteya.D five men on the court for their itthsCocCukNc loss suffered in the first round ofmntodasagdpsiblyf. the ACC tourney against UNC. AC CocofteYasieth This in itself was a major victory. Gnccshdmdor aei All nine players and Coach Chuckanbetevrlemsndca Noe were very sick with variousclstoheopeasiteCn forms of the flu. In addition, Bill frne Yarbrough fouled out with 17:23 Ls erBbSees o to go and Jimmy Collins ran intoOlhoareivdteCch; an upright in a valiant effort to teYa wr o i 51 e block a shot with 10:23 remaining.od.AolstyrChcNc a Jimmy sufferea a concussion and Vt( otenCneec oc missed viewing the rest of the o h erfrhs1- eoda tournament on doctor's orders al-.VI though he was able to visit down town Raleigh on Saturday. Coach Noe remarked that he was sorry the team had to go out this way after fighting so hard all season long. Yogi Poteot of the Tar Heels got the opening tip and drove in for the score. UNC's points were not to( come this easily but the Heels scored often against the weakened Gamecocks. USC came back to take the lead 3-2, but this was the last time they Ga would be ahead as UNC dumped in eight straight points to lead, 10-3. Carolina cut the lead to four points andi hung on for a long while but UNC opened the gap at Sh tS ee 49-34. The teams traded shots for most of the half but UNC pulled away Sesce at the end of the half and led, 49 34. The Tar Heels had the lead again cut to only four but their Shrsdei so superior speed andl strength de feated Carolina. Scotti Ward and Ronnie Collins led the Gamecocks with 23 points each. Billy Cunningham led UNC with 18. The Birds started off with their SyeHaq 3-2 offense but later switched to a running game in order to keep 14 up with the red-hot Tar Heels. The osebroghttheGamc nc beat_several_eams_and_cam .lI "The name of the game is k at Rex Enright Center. The boys Carolina Stadium on Saturday, lN Block "C" Club. Tourney As B1 The Duke Blue Devils, the No. 2 team in the nation, came through e to win the Atlantic Coast Confer- 1 ence tournament with a win over E Wake Forest, thus ending the two- a year reign of the Demon Deacons. C Wake Forest had the Devils in d trouble for the first twenty-seven t minutes of play. The Deacons were f tied with Duke at 39-39 when All- t American Art Heyman broke loose. s Heyman scored 15 points in 10 minutes and Duke led 59-51 with a 3:25 to go. t' The tournament was unusual in 4 that it followed the pre-tournament r form. The bottom four teams were f eliminated in the first round, the f next two in the next round, and the top two fought it out for the v championship. C In the first game of the tourney, s the flu-ridden Gamecocks lost to the Tar Heels of North Carolina. f Mermen Attend ACC Meet A travel-weary USC swim team arrived home late Saturday night after losing to Maryland on Fri dlay and Virginia, Saturday. The two defeats marked the end of a very unsuccessful season for the Gamecocks wvho have not won a meet in their last thirty-one out.. ings. Against the Terps the USC squadl could only win two of eleven events. Johnny Evans won just the 200-yd. ind(ividual Mledlay and .Joe Hulings won the 200-yd freestyle. Virginia p)ouredl it on against the undermanned USC team and won -(GG-26. It was the worst beating that the team has suffered all year. H[ulings won the 100-yd. free-. style and .Johnny Evans captured firsts in the 200-yd. Individlual Mled ley and 500O-yd. freestyle. There was one consolation in (de feat. Many of the boys had never been to Washington, D). C. andl the trip) t.o Maryland gave them a chance to see the nation's capital. The varsity swimming team wvill (C:ontinuedl on page 7) ig Arrivals It dras Skirts - $7.95 oats - $16.95 stripes - $3.95-$4.95 - $6.95-$7.95 arters For Men" Aain St. nock." Two hefty lines of Carolina are preparing for the Spring Footbi [arch 16th at 3:00 P. M. The gar 'redictions u e Devils The second game saw the small st crowd of the tourney as Mary md was downed by Wake Forest, 0-41. The crowd left en masse fter the score became known. oach Bones McKinney praised the efense but it was generally agreed hat Maryland, in setting the record or fewest points and largest vic ory margin, put on a pretty poor how. Virginia looked like they were bout to pull a Maryland when hey got behind against Duke, 4-23. The Cavaliers came back and ianaged to come within four be are losing to Duke's superior orces. The last game of the first round ras the most thrilling of the day. lemson led State by eight points rith three minutes to go but Clem on managed to make a few mis skes and only led by two. John .akins made a basket and was ouled. Woody Morgan touched the hot as the ball bounced around the C flay 50 CASH AWARDS A MONTI First, think of an answer. An a nutty, surprising questio "Crazy Question." It's the make loot. Study the exam p Send them, with your name to GET LUCKY, Box 64F, M~ entries will be awarded $2 mitted on the Inside of a Lu $25.00 bonus. 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Conference champion Don VanReenan will be favored to win the 60-yd. dash again this year. The hefty sprinter finished third in the AAU Championships held in New York. Van Reenan is from Maryland. The 600-yd. run will be a toss-up between Bob Hart of North Caro lina and Don Stauffer of Maryland. Hart is the defending champion, but he will have a race on his hands against the sprint star from Maryland. 880 The 880 could be the most exciting race of the meet. Maryland's sensational distance man, Dick Smith, has placed well in all the indoor meets In which he participated this past season, but he will have to get a good running position if he expects to run away with the race. Last year he failed in this attempt and finished third. The mile is left to Louis VanDyck. He placed second this year in the Conference cross-country meet behind Henry of UNC. VanDyck also placed second in last year's outdoor meet. Unless Maryland's Dick Smith runs the mile Van Dyck should run away with it. 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