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Gamecocks Finally, USC wins on opponent's court BY STEVE PARKER Sports Editor On a day that the UCLA Bruins were setting a new col legiate record for most consecutive victories. Carolina's Gamecocks were busy establishing a streak of their own: One consecutive victory on the road. USC's 86-76 triumph over Illinois Saturday night in Chicago, was the Gamecock's first road win in over a month and their first regular season victory on an opponent's court. Last month Carolina defeated Manhatten and Villanova in the Holiday Festival tournament and earlier in the campaign USC setback Utah in the latter school's classic. Carolina's fourth road victory in nine attempts was sparked by the trio of Kevin Joyce, Danny Traylor and Alexander English, as all three scored in excess of 20 poin ts... USC's shooters caught fire early in the first half and built up a comfortable margin ove the Illini, leading by ten points before that many minutes had elapsed in the contest, and holding a halftime margin of 44-32. While Carolina's scoring was successful, that of Illinois was not. Permitted to remain in their zone defense for the first game in quite a while, the Gamecocks forced Illinois to bomb from the outside and the Illini shooters failed to connect. Illinois shot only 35.5 percent for the game, includ ing a pitifully low 27.2 in the initial half. Not one of the Illini could hit over half of his shots, with their dismal performances being lead by the team's high scorer Nick Weatherspoon, who, while scoring 30 points missed 22 of his 34 field goal attempts. Another notable poor performance was handed in by Jeff Dawson, the hot-shot scorer who transfered to Illinois from Duke, as he hit six of his 18 attempts. Conversely, Carolina had four players who connected on over 50 percent of their attempts. Joyce was the leading Gamecock scorer with 26 points, but Traylor and English were close behind with 24 and 20 points respectively. A major factor in the win was that Brian Winters was finally able to play nearly a complete game at full strength. Winters, who has been sidelined and rested from illness throughout much of the season, was able to play 38 minutes of the contest. For that playing time, Winters turned in 12 points, nine rebounds and four assists. USC's victory enabled them to sweep their games with competition from the Big Ten, as Illinois joined the ranks of fallen Michigan State and Indiana. Carolina's mark on the season is now 12-5, while Illinois' dipped to 8-5. Houston selects first in NFL player draft The National Football League will lau.Dfniebc ikeHr begin its annual player draft of col- rsnxdtedatofro h e legiate seniors Tuesday morning in Yr es pigfrCnda ot New York, when the Houston Oilersbalisedwhedfnivbck will select the first choice. B aisadTlrHlaswr The draft lasts two days, withtaebyheNwOlnsSis seven rounds of 26 being chosen theanKnssCtChe,repc first day and eight rounds being tvl.Nihrmd h lb taken Wednesday, for a total of 442 picks. NFL teams draft in inverse order of finish, with the team with Es oOe the worst record selecting first and the team with the best mark draft ing last. Last season the NFL teams selected three USC players, but none of the three played in the EVERYTHING FOR Cag com HACAME' DECOUPAGE AlllinKind,shieoffensveftsk BFiDaviesindsTylerdiclamstwer 610e byHarden StraseSint Phoarge2Accoun2 drop Ill 514 43 KEVIN JOYCE ...scores 26 points. Here's to you NowW at your College and Sumt t V ini; face Herd Carolina seeks 19th consecutive home win BY JIM HERSH Asst. Sports Editor Having destroyed the notion that it can't win on the road, Carolina returns to the Coliseum Wednesday to face Marshall, and protect the idea that it can't lose at home. The Gamecocks, 12-5, haven't lost at home for the past 18 games, and hope to make Marshall, 12-4, its nineteenth straight Coliseum victim. The Fighting Herd is extremely talented at the four guard and forward spots. Each position is manned by a senior. Only at center, where it starts a sophomore, is Marshall short on playing experience. Mike D'Antoni and Ty Collins are the Fighting Herd's backcourt starters for the second year. D'Antoni, an Academic All-America, participated in the Olympic trials during the summer. He also holds the Herd assist records, and scored in double figures as both a sophomore and junior. Collins is the scoring guard, however. He averaged 15.1 last year, and surprisingly, for a guard, led the team in field goal percentage. The Herd's top frontcourt player is 6-8 Randy Noll. A senior, Noll played at Kentucky as a sophomore, transferred to Marshall, and last year scored at a 16.8 pace and averaged 12.6 rebounds, best for the team. Bill James, who can also play guard, is the other Marshall forward. This is the first year he has been used as a starter, but in 1971-72 he averaged 8.8 points while coming off the bench. At center, Marshall coach Bill Daniels is using a sophomore, 6-7 Chuck Jackson. Jackson averaged 14.9 points and 13.6 rebounds for the Herd frosh last year. Though it is not as strong as last year, when it was 24-4 and made it to the NCAA play-offs, the Herd is good enough to give anyone a good test. 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