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Freshmen KEVIN DUNLEAVY-The first tim( play, they may feel like they're bein strikingly resembles his brother Mil* years ago. Because of the obvious cc vouneer brothers decline to follow in o doesn't bother Dunleavy. "No, that won't affect me," he said, be an adjustment for the fans when th brother." But don't confuse style of play with guard, averaged 15 points, seven ass last year in high school. Hewasvotec team to the New York City Catholic Hi also chosen to play in post-season A1 New Jersey and Connecticut. ZAM FREDERICK -The biggest I make in college ball, according to M< natural ability, he has had to learn our McGuire is talking about fundame "My high school team was ba: Frederick said. "It was practically fundamentally sound. So learning biggest transition for me to make." rreaericK, a *>-/. guara, aia enougn school in St. Matthews, S.C. to averag He was first team All-State, voted one in the country by Street and Smith ai most highly-recruited players in Soi use? "I wanted to stay close to home,' whatever I was going to do in college could going far away." STEVE HARTY-Harty attended / i\ew YorK^uy. inai may nui seem Kevin Dunleavy where former Carolina standouts K their high school diplomas. "Coach McGuire and my high scl said. "I've always seen South Ca basketball. So I thought I would kee and come here to play." Harty, a 6'8" forward, came to ( credentials as Joyce and Winters rebounds his senior year. He was honors from Street and Smith. He pi games and was voted MVP in a Chri: So far, practice at Carolina has be "Everybody's bigger and faster, jus ? said. "But practicing against peopl game." HK HIi: WKJNART--The biggesl tiad nothing to do with the basketl "Because it's such a slower way o had to make a big adjustment. Uj relax. But the people here are so fri If Wejnert hasn't had any troubli it's probably because, according to rMnnU?v\An /IQM rvldlf ** Illclgiv;ui licaiiiuaia miu van piuj i A 6'7" forward, Wejnert averai senior. An All-City, All County ar picked for several All-America hig Street and Smith as one of the best & those players who could have gone t "I narrowed my choices down t Carolina," Wejnert said. "I chose and integrity in this program I die depend on Coach McGuire, and he c Although Wejnert said he was ne he is comfortable now. "My high school coach prepai college," he said. "I hope I'll be abl And he's decided he really likes tl the North at all," Wejnert. "Now 1 North to live. I'd like to settle down TUfi hntlothn 11 Koncnn Itoffins Notre Dame and Marquette on players will get a full taste of what this particular group of freshman referring to recruiting, McGuire sj had." j e Gamecocks fans see Dunleavy g transported bdck in time. He ' :e, who played for Carolina two >mparisons fans will make, most lder brothers' footsteps. But that "But I believe my first year will ey see 1 don't play exactly like my quality of play. Dunleavy, a 6'2" ists and five steals per game his 1 All-City in New York and led his eh School ChamDionshiD. He was 1-Star tournaments in New York, transition Frederick has had to Guire, is that "Zam has so much system." intals, and Frederick agrees. ni/?n 1 In o ???in onrl.cli/xAf tnom " ai^aiij u i uii UIIU'OIIUV/I luaui, like street ball, so I'm not that the fundamentals has been the running and shooting at his high e 31 points a game his senior year. ! of the top 100 high school players rid was understandably one of the Jth Carolina. Why did he choose " he said. "I figured I could do i basketball right here as well as I Archbishop Malloy High School in important until you realize that's &( ::3Uat&m?3- "Ugli' WBBWm tar';- mEmBmar mi ja Wm JBP Richie Wejnert evin Joyce and Brian Winters got 100I coach are really close," Harty rolina play on TV and liked their p up the tradition of my high school Carolina with the same impressive as he averaged 25 points and 15 All-City and received All-America ayed in several post-season All-Star stmas tournament in Virginia. en a learning experience for Harty. >t all-around better players," Harty e like that is how you improve your : transition for Wejnert -So far has 3all court. f lifp in thp South." \No\nert saiH "I 3 North, you never get a chance to endly, it's been easy to adjust." e adjusting on the basketball court, magazine reports, he is one of those ight away. ged 27 points and 18 rebounds his id All-State in New Jersey, he was [h school teams and was labeled by in the East. In short, he was one of o school anywhere he wanted, n Tnnnpssfxv N.C. Statfi and South here because I saw a lot of loyalty In't see elsewhere. I feel like I can an depend on me." rvous at practice the first few days, red me fundamentally to play in le to help right away." le South now, anyway. "I don't miss r? a I .......1.1 it I in IIm oiii v 1 wuuju gu uativ uy right here in the South. >on, and with teams like Kentucky, Purnlina'c urhrvlnlo thn froshmflll collegc basketball is all about. But may be up to the challenge, because ays, "this is as good a year as we've McGuire got _ the best of Sinatra By HON NIK IIL'TCIIINS ( aniecock Staff Writer The painted likeness of Carolina I I it 11 i. in i_ * ? ? _ uusKuiuan cuacn r i uiik mcuuire that hangs in Jimmy Weston's restaurant in midtown Manhattan is a well-storied and well-traveled piece of art. According to the story, singing legend r rank Sinatra was leaving Weston's one night, escorted by .Jackie Onassis. He spotted the McGuire portrait on the wall and said, "If McGuire can have Graziano, then I can have his picture." SIN AI HA, beaten out in his iirst recruiting effort by long-time acquaintance McGuire for star high school forward Jim Graziano, proceeded to take the portrait from the wall and back to Las Vegas with him. A spokesman for Weston's confirmed the story but added, "Sinatra did return the portrait. It's hanging in the foyer now." Now ready to start his second season of Carolina basketball, Graziano says, looking back on the experience, that being sought out by such dominant personalities as Sinatra and McGuire was nice, and he didn't feel too much pressure from it. "It really wasn't pressure," Graziano said. "I knew they'd lx>th had everything in the past, and I was just something else new they were after." Graziano, named to Sport Magazine's "Dream Five" his senior year, was an object of heavy recruiting, lie speculates it was Jerry Tarkanian, coach at the University of Nevada-I^s Vegas, whojiad Sinatra try to recruit him. "1IK WAS looking for a center, ana since i m irom incw iork unci since I'm Italian, frank (Sinatra) seemed like a good contact," Graziano said. "But he didn't really have a great influence on me in making a decision on where to play. He was just something different. He wasn't a coach or a sports person." Graziano, however, does admit Sinatra was a major reason Mmrnrla.T ac Vndac u;qc amnnfl Iho 11V V UV4II V IIIV six schools he finally decided to choose from. The others were North Carolina, Duke, South Carolina, Tennessee and Cincinnati. Seniors to B> JOEY IIOLLEMAN Gamecock Staff Writer Karlton Hilton, Golie Augustus ; will be completing their last y eligibility at USC this year. Auj have been at Carolina four years sferred here from Anderson Jun beginning of last year. Coach Frank McGuire will rely < iui it'ctut'idiii^ una yxrai aa wt'ii c "GOLIK IS greatly improved th said. "He has come a long way sii man. "Karlton had to make a big a from Anderson to here. I think adjustment and will play better I inougn Augustus ana union ai wards with similar styles, both wi line-up. "If we started tomorrc playing because we have to put th the court," McGuire said. If Gilloon, the ball control guar* he would play up to his potentii ""i'L* 1 * \jfuBk ShfS Ilk 13 Bf> ?W Sophomore Jim Graziano (31 year, although forward is his na siders the 6'9" Graziano to be player." "At first. 1 thought it might be nice to go out there," he said. "You might be able to meet a lot of interesting people. But, when 1 went out there to look the place over, I knew it wasn't for me. Graziano came in contact with Sinatra twice. "To me, he really didn't look that good or anything, hut you knew he was a legend and he could still sing so it was an honor to get to meet him. "UK JUST talked about the advantages of going to I^is Vegas. 1 knew the basketball program was goou, oui i mougni ine rest ?i me school was pretty poor. But, what do you expect when the school's only 15 years old?" The first time Sinatra contacted Graziano contacted Graziano was by telephone, and his message was relayed through a secretary. Graziano was away at a summer basketball camp, and his mother wasn't too sure the whole thing nmwarflA IA/i |#l VTIM^ <*>*-?*! "Jackie ishisowi to do too many tl doing his best to :?nd Jackie Gilloon The seniors agr ear of basketball and will have to r< Justus and Gilloon "We're not rel , and Hilton tran- we're not shootii ior College at the Gilloon said, "Tl man mey naveai The six-foot, N >n his three seniors role is any differ is points. making, quarter is year," McGuire AUGUSTUS II ice he was a fresh- forcer the past fe said the Columb djustmcnt coming "I'm going to he has made that I'm going to try t his year." 'cause that hurt *e both strong for- everybody has t< II be in the starting team to win." >w, both would be Hilton is a 6'6 ie five best men on "I just want ti team success," \ 1, would slow down play together, tn il, McGuire said. trouble." Gene Gaillard THE GAMECOCK will again play tenter this tural position. McGuire conthe Gamecocks' "next great wasn't a joke. "The second time he called himself, and my mother answered, again," he said. "For a middleaged lady to hear something like Frank Sinatra's voice on the phone, it must be some sort of a shock. She just handed me the phone without saying anything.'" ON ON'K VISIT to Sinatra's New i oi k k ny apartment, uraziano said, "We just sat there and watched a football game on television and talked about things in general. We sort of talk alike, so we understood each other pretty u ell." All along, however, (iraziano mii'w u was oasKeioaii aiul not show l)usiness lie was trying to establish himself in. That's why he went with MeGuire to Carolina. In great contrast to his flashy "show business" connection with Frank Sinatra, Graziano chose MeGuire, who had been a co-worker with his grandfather in Brooklyn's shipping yards during the depression. I mersmp i worst enemy," he said. "He wants hings with the ball." The coach is make Gilloon slow down this year, ee this year's squad has no real star ely more on team play. ying on Nate (Davis) anymore so ig after the first pass anymore." he team is executing much better any time since I've been here." lew Jersey native doesn't think his ent this year. "My role is just play backing the team," he said. AVi hoon cAncidoroH Iho Inam <>n. w years. This year will be different, ia native. still play aggressive, but this year o turn away from some of the fights s my game," he said. "This year i) do what they can do best for the " forward from Norfolk, Va. o contribute my abilities to overall le said. "We can win as long as we it if there's a breakdown we'll be in