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N.C. State coact aftor uncot m#in * VIH&WM U|JUU 1 Will 1 Associated Press _ w ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. ? At the moment g? of his greatest triumph, excitable Jim gi r Valvano was almost subdued. , gi "It's awesome. I'm almost speechless/' he said. "I've got no funny lines. I'm simply tr in awe of this team." p< The North Carolina State coach's dream ar of a national chamDionshiD culminated with C( perhaps the most improbable statistic of the 1982-83 college basketball season ? Houston ba had only one dunk, while the Wolfpack dc methodically attacked the Cougars and won '64-52 in the National Collegiate Athletic "1 Association championship game Monday M night. ar "That was one of the things we wanted to la do ? keep them from having a lot of dunks," said Valvano, whose happy-go-lucky ru demeanor and witty quips are his sp trademarks. le; The only dunk the Phi Slama Jama Vi fraternity got was a follow shot by Akeem wj Olajuwon in the first half that cut the Wolfpack lead to five. "\ "We knew how much they loved to dunk ju and that dunks had a way of sparking them yc on," said Thurl Bailey, N.C. State's 6-11 ga senior forward. "That was something we w< 20,000 fans celeb RALEIGH, N.C. ? Some 20,000 North be Carolina State fans began a wild celebration do within minutes of the Wolfpack's 54-52 inl victory Monday night over Houston in the m NCAA championship basketball game. ha Lorenzo Charles' dunk following Dereck Whittenburg's missed jumper in the closing *ir seconds gave N.C. State its second National Collegiate Athletic Association cham- ] pionship title ? the first coming in 1974 ? sti and the Wolfpack fans were ready to party. sti The Wolfpack, which finished 26-10 and became the first team to win the national title with as many as 10 losses, had been called the "Team of Destiny," but T-shirts S^1 that went on sale moments after Charles' heroics disputed that, saying, "Destiny My co Foot, We Were Bad." ir. What started as a trickle of people soon "r? u ijjH^BSWw/oumm hi | | Astounding Technology's ! Unbelievable Price | In 5 Points I\M| SOUTI /m/it /I Select/Check r\ M Be sure to a jtf k\ Admlnist a Public R< Motor Mi General I I 'sDeechless' )ver Houston ere thinking about all along ? control the *me, not get destroyed on the boards, not ? 1^4 4 :A!? i * * * vc up a iui *ji uaiisiuun oasKeis ana not ve up a lot of dunks." Valvano had said for two days he would y to slow down the tempo against the >werful top-ranked Cougars. But, to the nazement of the Wolf pack, it was Houston >ach Guy Lewis who put on the brakes. With about 10 minutes to play and Houston ick on top by five points, Lewis slowed it >wn. "I was a little surprised," Valvano said, t wasn't like they had four minutes to go. aybe they were trying to get us extended id further from the basket to get some yups." The Cougars made one of their patented ns at the outset of the second half, a 17-2 ?ree that turned N.C. State's 33-25 halftime ad into a 42-35 Houston advantage. But ilvano said it was exactly what N.C. State as expecting. "I think we were a little bit tired," he said. Ne knew they were going to have a run. We st came out in the second half not flat ? iu can't be flat in a national championship ime ? but we just weren't clicking. 1 think ? were just a little tired." rate in Raleigh came a river as students poured from rmitories on nearby Hillsborough Street to the Brickyard, a bricked area in the iddle of campus where past celebrations ve taken place. Beer flowed freely as did toilet paper, and ecrackers uooDed loudlv around a hncr#> nfire. Police said most of those celebrating were idents, but there were several nonidents joining the party. 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