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As The r I 'Cock Flies By Bruce Honick Sports Editor John Roche and Tom Owens, two talented cagers from the Big City, have exchanged roles this season---at least for the first six games. But the Gamecocks, with the only exception being the Tennessee loss, do not seem to be affected by the tur nabout. Owens is now the big gun, the hot shot, the big man for Carolina, while Roche has taken a back seat to his roommate's hardwood exploits. The towering, slender Owens picked up where he left off last year, leading the conference in rebounding, but something new has been added---he is the Gamecocks' top scorer with a 24.5 ppg. average. Roche is still a strong point in Carolina's attack, but the daring court magician is finding the going a bit rougher than last season. After scooping up all the honors a sophomore could possibly expect to get last season, he is a marked man. He is the player every opposing defense is directed to stop. Against Virginia Saturday night Roche was held to 10 points, his first field goal coming with about five minutes left in the half. Owens managed to contribute 23 points to Carolina's cause and the Gamecocks downed a pesky Cavalier team, 62-51. The secret to stopping Roche, opponents have discovered, is by double-teaming him. The guard with all the moves and a prominent nose has not been able to get shots off as easily as he would like. But Owens takes up the slack in grand style, scoring over 20 points a game and snagging rebounds right and left. If anyone had the notion last season that John Roche was a showboat and a ball hog, they were absolutely wrong. He was just doing what was best for the team. But now that Owens seems to be capable of controlling the scoreboard as well as the backboard, Roche is content to let it stand as is. Of course he would like to be able to score more than he has been, but as long as Carolina is winning and as long as he is being straiqhtjacketed by the opposition, he doesn't mind at all. Roche is one of the most unselfish ball players in the conference. Monday night at College Park Roche got some breathing room and pumped in 22 points in the first half alone. But in the second half, with the Gamecocks ahead and victory easily within reach, he decided to let the rest of the team havte a chance. Coach Frank McGuire, sensing Roche's tokenism, hollered at the young guard to take a shot. Roche wound up with 27 points to Owens' 29. John Roche and Tom Owens---probably the biggest one two scoring threat in the nation---are not jealous of the other. This is their seventh season together on a basketball court and you won't find two closer friends than these two. Separate them and they would become first team All Americas with flying colors. Put them on the same team and they might not get all the individual acclaim, but they would be a part--- a big part---of a championship ball club. NC tickets go Tb Senate to vote on A revision in the current ticket I iiwih nfvro pe dist ribut ion system may go into effect for Thursdav's North i h pe lse. Carolina tickets (list ribuit ions if Th co mte alosi tatn passed in Student Senate todav ikt a eexhne nete If passed. each of the five class arpikdu.Sdetmsthv Lgroups will get 2(0 per cent of the terpatcT)ad ogtit h tickets andl seniors and graduate Coiemnothrparfe studlents will receive the prime crdThTcaswilecekd A'not her change would he that da;te andr spoIuse tickets will be Seiltcesfr tdnsi eliminated Instead, a sturb will he Wel(his a( vial c torn ott strudent ticke-ts rdn to ;lwa The revision was prepared by Mmeso 'Rgsrto n the Registration and D)ist ri but ion fis ih t n Cr nit(( r Commiiittee. and ('hip G;alloway. vnha MeIar( asit t chair-man of the committee, said,. himn Pgy Mri THE COLLEGE CHRIS TMAS CLUBTebadt PRESENTSwo 21T"AP~A peopl DEC.de3one bigLmistake in the i uppe r asses." 'IrJ WALTERBOROup Strts utv cAoeMOaRYhgaesfo protctio WALhemaortyofBhestdets SpcaltcetCorsuensi whel0h0rs rCOviUaPeLc USC in N4 By BRUCE HONICK Sports Editor Four of Carolina's five starters will be playing before their homefolks tomorrow night when the fourth-ranked Gamecocks take on Long Island University at Madison Square Garden in New York. But the once-beaten Blackbirds with an all-New York starting cast, will be the offi4ial home team since their school happens to be located in New York. Coach Roy Rubin will start sophomore Walter Jones at center. The 6'8" Jones is the top rebounder and scorer for the Black Muir state s best Gamecock fullback Warren Muir added another feather to his cap by being named as South Carolina's college football player of the year. Members of the South Carolina Association of Sportswriters made the selection. Carolina's split end Freddy Zeigler was second in the ballotting and the Citadel's John Small placed third. Muir who was named earlier to (he Coaches' All aamerican first team and the all and the Muir who was named earlier to the Coaches' All-America first team and the All-ACC squad. rushed for 917 yards and scored eight touchdowns to lead the Gamecocks to their first conference title and a Peach Bowl berth. His best performance this season came against Tennessee and Georgia when he rushed for 159 andl 136 yards. respectively. uirsday; change Mickey. Glean Beinbrink, Emily Wheeler and Warren Muir. The trmes for distribution have not been changed. Thursday's schedule is: 8-9:30, students whose ID's end in 4,5: 9:30-11:11:00, students whose [D's end in 6,7; 11 :00-12:30. students whose ID's end in 8.9: 12:30-2:00, students whose ID's end in 0.1; 2:00-3:30, students whose ID's end in 2,3. At 3:30 married students can buy tickets for their spouses at 4:00 all ticke'ts are placed in a general pool for any student wanting a ticket. andl at 4:30 students can buy non student date tic'kets. l,aw students and graduate students can still pick up their tic kets ait any time. INPHIW.,p lAW biursday All New! to me Yo birds.averaging 19.6 points per game and an average of 8.8 rebounds per contest. The other big man for Long Island is senior forward Mike Cannata, who also stands 6'8". 'he is averaging 9.5 points a game and 6.5 rebounds. At the other forward will be judging Ephraim, who stands 6'2" and averages 14.3 points a game. Seniors Bill 4teeves and Bill Foley will man the guard positions. Reeves averages 6.5 points per Dietze, Athletic Director Paul F. I University's expansion prior - bit. 'I would be a little disap terview, "if there was any should be first." Everyone should strive i best in the country, and we department take its place the year continued. Dietzel emphasized that t by the Board of Trustees, not These priorities were mz have never changed," he se 'I don't feel I should attem am strictly working'under [ analysis all of us carry out tl Trustees. 'My job is to run the athle any other part of the Uni% department will keep step University." Dietzel said Carolina's ath closely scrutinized and dire4 and by the University admini I think that's the way it's shoi He said he had received sei alumni favoring the USC proc needs too, and they hope to ge Dietzel was optimistic abou stadium. "They always saic ACC championship,"' he said. to a bowl. But we sneaked u believe in what you were doir .to do it." USC Rip~ The concensus Tuesday morning on campus was tt".t--the Gamecocks played their best game or the season Monday night against Wake Forest. Tom Owens and John Roche combined for 56 points as Cai'olina hiasted Maryland. 101-68 for their fifth win in six starts. Frank McGuire was pleased with his squad's performance, saying that the Gamecocks "played the way I felt we could this year. This was the first time this season that I've seen these kids as loose before a game as they were tonight." The Gamecock mentor con tinued. "This might be just the thing we needed to get things rolling We thought Maryland h might use a zone. but we didn't c think they would try to slow things C down the way other teams have a against us." All-America John Rloche h] collect ed 27 points and tied a school pj record1 with 13 assists. McGuire i said. "Roche could haver scored 40 1b - * TO lp"Stranger"hits give pe "STRANGER 11 end "STRANGER I STA i2OO1: SPAC in 70MM MEL It TODAYa THURS. A viouI SHOWS U .. .. Fei Starting TONIGHT 'PLU et LI rk Ci contest while Foley has a 10.0 ppg. average. Long Island has a 61-56 loss to Niagra to mar their otherwise clean record. Their three wins came over Virginia Com monwealth (72-67), Bently (90-55) and Bridgeport (50-49). Forward-guard Ron McDonald and 6'5" forward Bob Cohen are also expected to see action for Long Island tomorrow night. Both cagers are averaging four points per game. sa s: )ietzel says debate over the ities "doesn't disturb me a pointed," he said in an in Dne who didn't think they..:X o hAve his department the certainly want to have our 're," the ACC's coach of the uilding priorities were set by President Jones. ide back in May, and they id. pt to call any policy shots. I )r. Jones. And in the final e direction of the Board of tic department, not to run ersity. And we hope our with everything at the.: letic department is "more::. :ted by faculty committes stration than most schools.:-X ild be." .. teral letters from Clemson iram. "After all, they have t what we get." t chances for enlarging the we would never win the "They said we wouldn't go p and did it. If you didn't ig, there would be no need T erps onight, but he could .just as soon pass of to the others to score himeseif. That's the kind of basketball player he is.." Sophomore pivotman Tom Riker ~ot 18 points and 17 rebounds, by ~ar his best performance of the ceason. McGuire said of Riker. 'lie showed a lot of poise tonight. fe's coming along fine." "We feel we just have to keep >lavmng him so that he can get his >earings and find his niche in the imeip. That's part of the key for vhat we want to do this season." Tourney here The Amateur Athletic Union will old its national basketball hampionships at Carolina 'oliseuim March 29-April 1 it was nnounced Monday. Sixteen of the top amateur asket ball teams in the nation will alrticipate' in the tournament and le finals of t he four-day event will i('elevised( nationally. O R ROW! 11 twice the blast' 9I TOWN" IETURNS+ RTS TOMORROW! E ODYSSEY" md STREg IA MER COURI IS NT i)RAMA OP PROI ANI LOvI 2-4 -6-8 med on the compus at UNC 5: "PENTHOUSE" Page 4-- THE GAMI U The Blackbirds are averaging 67 points per game while holding their opponents to an average of 58 points per contest. The Gamecocks will be winding up a five-day road trip which netted them wins over East Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. Coach Frank McGuire is ex pected to go with the usual starting five of Tom Owens and John Ribock at forwards, Tom Riker at pivot and John Roche and Bob Cremins at the guard positions. The Gamecocks are currently ranked fourth by United Press International and fifth by the Associated Press. Before bowing to Tennessee, 55-54 at home Dec. 6, Carolina was rated tops in the country. Owens s in ACC Junior guard Charles Davis of Wake Forest has jumped out front in both the individual scoring race and free throw shooting in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Davis has a 26.8 average through games of Saturday, December 13. The 6-1 performer, who finished as the fifth leading scorer in the ACC last season with 22.8 average, has scored 107 points in the Deacons' four contests. His in dividual high is 36 against Auburn. He had 27 points each against Ohio State and Maryland and 17 against I Appalachian. Davis. who led the ACC in free I throw shooting last year and I finished No. 5 in the nation, has i canned 33 of :37 from the charity < line for a .892 figure. South Carolina's Toni Owens is second in the scoring race with a 2:1.6 average. and - Is, tops in rehounding with an average of IS recoveries per game. Third in t scoring Is Duke's Randy [Denton 1 with a 2:3.0. followed by V'ann Williford of N.C. State and Rod Hlorst of Maryland each at 22.5 and h' Charlie Scott of North C'arolina and Ed L-eftwich of N.C. State each v with a 21.x mark. John Roche of p South Carolina. ACC Player of the C Year in 1969. is eighth with an even F 20 points per game. ni Denton. who trailed Owens in a individual rebounding a year ago. " is second1 again with a 1:3.8 mark. Hlorst is third at 12.2 followed by. NC. State sophomore Paul Coder 10 at 11.8. p; Maryland sophomore Charley NI Blank leads in field goal per - I' centage 'ith a .703 figure. He has ~ connected on 26 of :37 attempts. Gil " McGregor of Wake Forest is i se'ondl at .688. p Coach wan Notre Dame head football coach [ tra Parseghian would like to see n, he top two teams in the nation di trike it out1 in what he refers to as he 'Challenge Bowl." Parseghian was quoted as "I a.ving in "Scholastic", a ' miblicahion originating from Notre "I Goodbye Columbus. In CUCKOO'' 10 ' SHOWS 13-S-7 "4 min ticisls " hel..: COCK December 17, 1969 John Roche econd 1q13 ormg Clemson's Butch Zatezalo. the .scoring leader the past (wo seasons. has seen action in only one contest. scoring 17 points. Williford and Denton rank amiong the leaders in all fmur in dividual departments. The N.C. State performner is fourth in wcoring. seventh in rebounding. niinth in free throw shooting and 17th in field goal percentage. Denton is third in scoring. second n rebounding. 12t(h in free thiro%% ;hooting and 11ith in field goal weentage. Leftwich of N.C. State has the op individuial single game per ormance of the y %ear wi(h 431 points n the Wolfpack's record 139-78 w%in ver Atlantic Christian N.C. Statv. which finished eventh in the Atlantic Coast .onferenc-e a year ago in team ffense. is off to a red-hot start in his season's scoring, race willh -- ( '8a eag o t frt fu Johnd 055 winovehe iCaem. In the 39-7h tumph. the scorn shtIr the preor fo One cointestin, soinge7 oints.an Ilifrd an cofeentce mark ainuejin theamedersen ahre ofr ihe diiin thi department Thi Nc Stelderfomer sftiurdai i cemrin. 'nThei (;reockdis. ith a, f-rec o hveianlwd inthsi fiela go.a; a ere tg 1tre "is atvir indScoinsicyond in emingh besthnfe tea~ heoposead ha Ithe iii fiega )Che Calnge Hw e e ld eciwhich NCte had the opt idivfidul singdle gau per orneo the bear withnse pants Ri he Wofadk 'ha e( Idoub7tedi Na. Suchtplyof wch fnedr (menat h ndth Aai Cast fensemenis of toleedhotall hisseon'sh pcori--ng rgacewihe ams ith cothe sps c ma es o e heave ty "a' vicreinudint eord that-th ilstoay re taid "Chmistia.J teld an whether wi oterm Theo iae. Tere 13a-m7l trep,oth ashteedcthieain ACC neo( for iset aru es conferencoue mar itliatfed gals.pte Sot,e rontin. "ic hasled hee chde gf ahmetici a i dw ei herly/ t.he obenIethonk ' mpwith a m'crl haoe alIc ' 'iaie oppents. ohnl we ha aiNever.thatss' aryofgofth isti ther a griealiti way tol nutatm intherest t(i cile lnienpoe thatgis the (o masu Ilie hgotalkng aboult i e ost pfu hi'to1I( thhe (nit