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"Some of the shots I didn't want to take," said Ingelsby, "But I was forced to do so, because the rest of the guys just weren't hitting. INA 'Night DAY Closing IAL DINNER 19 With Student I0 price. Served with baked ed sazad and bread. YOU ARE DRIVE IN CAYCE ID-JUST OFF 1-26 T-EAST COLUMBIA Geoff Darling S te Wildcats Saturday after liseum. Joyce had 16 points ists in the game, Ingelsby rything 'Cats "The other guys have a shoot a reasonable percentage to keep us in the game," continued Ingelsby, "but we were unable to do it today. Look at the statistics, at halftime we have three guys (Larry Moody, Mike Connellv. and Ed Hastings) who were 0-13 between them." It was obvious that Ingelsby's teammates were not contributing nearly enough to the Wildcat attack as they hit just 10 of 48 shots. Even the Villanova backcourt ace's strong showing could pull his team's shooting percentage up to only .321 for the contest. "Carolina was playinga real good defense," explained Ingelsby. "Most teams play us in a man to-man defense but they came out in that real tough zone and I think that had to contribute to why we shot so poorly. They are a lot bigger team then we are, they have superior talent." Villanova's team has now lost nine of its last 10 outings, but at one point in the season they held a slate of 6-0. Ingelsby offered reasons for the turnabout. "Early in the season our defense was our key, we were holding teams way below their scor ing averages but we aren't doing that as well now, and our own scor ing has never been as it should." (See INGELSBY, Page 15) Easy To Open Gamecock Charge Account, *100 (Limit) BRITTONES SSteve Parker| The weakness of a time clock It has been quite a time since Dr. James Naismith put up a peach basket in his gym class and invented the game of basketball, but it seems as if even now nobody can quite agree on what the rules of the game should be. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the differences on the profes sional and collegiate levels of play. The most notable of the rule differences in the two levels is the lack of a shooting clock on the college courts. The pros have a clock which forces the offensive team to attempt a field goal about once every half minute, but the colleges have chosen not to adapt such a rule. However, it seems as if the colleges are leaning toward the adaption of such a rule within a few years, and in many ways that seems a shame. Already the Big-Eight Conference is using a 30-second shooting clock, such as the American Basketball Association uses, and the coaches in the confer ence seem to like the clock they are using on an experimen tal basis in league games this season. For every coach that defends the absence of the clock, you could probably locate two that are in favor of its adapta tion. Strategy is lost But why? The obvious reason is to speed the game up, forcing much more offense which supposedly attracts more fans, and prevents the stall game. But in serving this pur pose the clock weakens the game in other aspects. The most outstanding losses are from a strategic standpoint as coaches would lose their perrogative of slowing the action down and defending a lead that their team has gained. But there are other aspects of the game which would suffer from a time clock. For one thing, the zone defense would have to be outlawed, as it is in the pro ranks. The zone is a superior defense for most teams and if offensive squads were forced to hurriedly throw up outside shots against it, there would probably be alot more lower scoring contests. Simply because outside attempts are of course more difficult to connect on. Outlawing the zone, a necessary move for a shooting clock, forces teams to play man-to-man always, a defense wh.ch is notably weaker since it opens up the middle and I leaves it vulnerable to penetration. Also in a man-to-man, a single pick can spring an offensive player wide open toward the basket, but a zone enables the defenders to easily assist in their coverage of a potential shooter. The outlawing of the zone and the adaption of a clock are moves designed only to stress offensive basketball. They attempt to make the game flashy and high-scoring, but there is alot more to basketball than just scoring. The two pro moves have made such parts of the game as ball-handling, strategy and especially defense take a back seat to offense. The game is not just offense. Stalling presents no cause And the adaption of a clock to prohibit stalling seems in itself a foolish move. The stall game is relatively rare; there have of course been some real standouts such as Maryland's 31-30 victory over USC a few years back, and the victory of N.C. State over Duke, 12-10, in the ACC tourna ment, but such games are the exception and what harm did they really do the game? If anything, they made two contests which should have been routs into close upsets. A victory for two coaches who (See PARKER, Page 14) Free Draft Beer To ladies every Wed. night -,al nite 20c PER BEER - HEIDELBERG ON TAP - WED. NIGHTS Mamas Little Pump Room 215 Pickens Street Happy Hour Daily - 5 to 6,