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USC rolls, BY BILLY COX Of The Gamecock staff Against Georgia Tech on Saturday night, Carolina put on a performance that left the people in the stands muttering in dismay. NCAA-no way. NIT-first round loss. Three days ago the real Gamecocks stood up as they belted Villanova, 93-70. USC threw a party that evoked a standing ovation from the crowd for the last five minutes of the contest. In a topsy-turvy season that saw Carolina knocked off of its 'Top Five' pedestal early in the cam paign and scrambling for the right combination, Frank McGuires' troops could have picked no better way to close it out. The Gamecocks gave the 9-18 Wildcats indigestion in every imaginable way: pinpoint passing on the tailends of sizzling fast breaks, a zone jammed so tight that a worm on a diet couldn't have slid through, a game of volleyball on the offensive boards, and Napoleonic leadership from an unsung senior guard. Jimmy Walsh closed out his last game in the Carolina Coliseum with an artistic floor game and eight assists. "I've got no regrets at all," he confided as he summed up his career. "I can't express my appreciation enough to the fans, the students, and the guys I've been playing with for all these years. Everybody's been great to me." Walsh didn't even bother to take a shot during his finale, despite the crowd's urging him to put it up. "Well, scoring's not really my bag," he explained. "My job is to set up the offense, and if I can do that, things are usually going pretty good. I really dig winning," he said. . Walsh was the main man in generating the excitement that boosted USC's regular season record to 18-8. He helped slice up Villanova's man-to-man early by hitting Alex English on the roll or feeding Mike Dunleavy for back door snowbirds. "Yeah, Jimmy and I work really well together," Dunleavy revealed. "We've played together so often that we know exactly what we've gotta do." English finished with 24 points on ten of 17 shots from the field, with Dunleavy notching 23, at an 11-of 17 clip. The match was never really in doubt. Carolina raced to an 8-2 lead on a Dunleavy jumper from the key, and stretched it to 21-8 at the 10:07 mark on another Brooklyn bomb. Nate Davis got in on the act and scored five of his 17 points within a 12-second span late in the first half to run it up to 40-19. The only sour note struck when frontliner Bob Mathias collapsed with 7 minutes to go with a badly sprained ankle in the middle of a blocked shot scramble. The Wildcats employed a frantic press at the end of the first period and the start of the second to outscore Carolina 14-4, cutting the margin to 44-33 on a Keith Herron shot with 17:35 left in the game. But with English flicking in his patented turn-around sky shots, Dunleavy coasting through the lane, and Tom Boswell (laboring under a minor foot injury) clogging up the middle, the Wildcats were out of butane. Villanova also forgot about Chuck Sherwood, a sparingly used 6-10 reserve who seemed deter past Wildc remember who he was. The sophomore center, in only 11 minutes laying time, dumped in 10 points and snared eight rebounds in his finest performance as a Gamecock. NCAA invitations are expected to be extended to all qualifying schools toda . Assessed Dunleavy, Carolina guard Mike Dunleavy st NCAA selection committee to choc HE WAN PART DAYS/NI( Apply 1211 College 5th At 1:00 - 3-0 ats "We're looking really good now. I just hope we can keep it going." In the past, a victory like this was only icing on the cake in preparation for a trip to the regionals. Now, the only thing Dunleavy and his teammates can do is wait. Russell Jeffcoat ems to be expressing a plea to the ie his team for their tournament. LP 'TED TIME H Ts BURGER KING Week 5 -7:15 - 9:25 P6mm 41 i F t Fo esl Drive phof- IR22228 ALBERT MAM 14M Im I U 4319 Fort Jackson Boulevardi poe787-5~300 CHAN "TI "THE IIre 1417 Main Street phone 254.5800 I 1 FMY JHN GUlQO KAs mwmms DAN WESSA IGRW X MST RAD~RRM MRE NM $2.00 a carOad ILES BRONSON In 1I MECHANIC" I KLANSMAN" mnd Directed By H.B. HALICKI SLATE SHOW FHI. & SAT. - 11:15 OF DRACULA ring Ringo Starr I,ATE S1low FBI. & SAT..- 11:15 "MASH", & NUSHING POINT" YTYTnI" TTT