1989
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(#16) Princeton
(#8) Vanderbilt
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(#5) N.C. State
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(#4) Iowa
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By KEVIN ADAMS
Sports editor
M.K. Turk was livid.
George Felton was relieved.
Thus began the 14th annual Metro
Conference Tournament this past
Friday night at Carolina Coliseum.
In what was expected to be an easy
first-round breather for Felton's
USC squad over a team that the
Gamecocks had defeated by 42
points on the same court a little over
a month earlier, Turk's Southern
Mississippi squad gave Felton and
USC a tougher time than expected.
Only after an inadvertent whistle
blew with two seconds left and the
Gamecocks' John Breckenridge
grabbed the ensuing rebound could
Felton, his team and the partisan
crowd of 10,025 relax over a narrow
63-62 victory that sent the
Gameococks into the Metro
semifinals and Turk into a frenzy on
the Golden Eagle sideline.
With Southern Miss coming in
with a 2-10 conference record and
USC playing in front of its home
crowd and with an NCAA tournament
bid on the line, most observers
figured an easy Gamecock win was in
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the cards. Especially considering
USC had defeated the Golden Eagles
twice already, with one of those wins
a lopsided 105-63 decision Feb. 6 in
Columbia.
But Turk's Eagles gave USC's
NCAA hopes more than a brief scare
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as much as a 5-point lead at 22-17
with 6:21 left in the half.
Led by eight first-half points from
freshman Joe Rhett and a short
jumper by Bill Vernau with :30 left,
USC came back to take a 31-29 lead
into the locker room at halftime.
After the teams traded baskets for
the first six minutes of the second
half, USC went on a 10-2 run to take
a 48-38 lead with 10:12 left in the
game.
Down 59-52 with 4:12 remaining,
Southern Miss came charging back
with a 9-2 run of their own to tie the
score at 61 with 2:04 left. USC senior
forward Dozier hit two free throws
with a minute and a half to play to
give his team a 63-61 lead. After a
foul by Dozier, the Eagles' Jimmy
Smith closed out the scoring by making
one of two foul shots with :49 on
the clock.
But Smith didn't close out the excitement,
as a pass from USC guard
Brent Price wasn't met by Dozier,
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and Southern Miss got the ball back
with 20 seconds left. With about four
seconds left, Randy Pettus launched
an 18-foot jumper from inside the
top of the key that bounced high off
the back iron.
Mayhem followed. A half-dozen
players went up for the rebound and
a whistle blew. After a brief hesitation,
Breckenridge grabbed the tipped
rebound and the final horn blew.
Turk immediately found the
referee and yelled in his face for
several seconds after the game had
ended.
"Obviously, the play at the end of
the game is a major concern," Turk
told the media after the game. "You
were there. You saw it. You know the
whole story. It's not a very classy
thing for a coach to blast the officials
and I'm not going to do that.
Naturally, I had to pursue it. I owed
that much to my team. That situation
was handled very poorly, to say the
least."
SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI (62)
Hinton 2-5 0-0 4, Weatherspoon 2-5 2-6
6, Brown 1-2 0-0 2, Pettus 2-6 1-2 7,
Chancellor 8-16 6-9 24, Boyd 3-4 2-2 8,
Smith 4-7 2-4 11, Bates 0-1 0-0 0, Crowell
0-2 0-0 0. Totals 22-48 13-23 62.
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Breckenridge 1-1 0-0 2, Price 1-7 4-4 6;
Manning 5-12 3-5 13, Vernau 1-2 0-0 2,
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By KEVIN ADAMS
Sports editor
Little did young George Felton
would be 15 years before another I
team would make it to the
tournament.
What he probably also couldn't 1
he would be the man to lead the Ci
In 1974, Felton was a seldom-use
legendary Frank McGuire's 1973-74
squad, a team that finished 22-5 wit
the first round of the NCAA
After graduating from USC in
assistant coach at Appalachian Si
A&T, East Carolina and Georgia 1
the head coaching post at his aim
1986-87 season.
Felton led USC to a 15-14 record
last year coached the Gamecocks tt
might have been good enough for ai
Gamecocks not on probation for rt
the tenure of Bill Foster, Felton's p
Sunday afternoon, with probatioi
man 15 years earlier all but forgo
Felton looked once again like a br
dent after finding out that his USC
Conferei
Roulston 0-0 0-2 0, Rhett 7-9 0-1 14
English 2-5 0-0 4, McKoy 2-2 0-0 4. Total
23-51 17-26 63.
Halftime ? USC 31, Southern Miss 29
3-point goals ? Southern Miss 5-10 (Hin
ton 0-1, Pettus 2-4, Chancellor 2-3, Smitl
1-2), USC (Dozier 0-1, Price 0-2). Re
bounds ? Southern Miss 25 tWeathers
poon 10), USC 38 (Dozier, Rhett 8)
Assists ? Southern Miss 17 (Pettus 6)
USC 11 (Dozier 4). Total fouls Southern
Miss 17, USC 19. Attendance 10,025.
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Semifinal
Louisville 71
Memphis St. 70 ^
By JEFF NICHOLS
Staff writer
After 36-and-a-half minutes o
Saturday's opening Metro Con
ference Tournament semifinal, Mem
phis State had Louisville right wher
they wanted them.
Up 70-61 with 3:34 remaining, thi
Tigers' only task was to hang on.
That proved to be a task the;
weren't up to as the Cardinals ran of
10 unanswered points to beat Mem
phis State 71-70 at Carolina Col
iseum, advancing to the tournamen
championship for the ninth time.
The Cardinals trailed most of th<
contest, but the nine-point defici
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to get the ball in the basket."
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conference at the conclusion of the
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out the good news from USC
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selection process was aired nationally
lton said. "1 decided 1 would stay out
game instead. It was the first time 1
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Memphis State was led by guard
"heyenne Gibson's 26 points. Elliot
>erry scored 20 points, 15 in the seond
half.
Smith was the high scorer for the
rards with 18 points. Ail-American
'ervis Ellison had 17 to go with 11
cbounds. Forwards Kenny Payne
cored 12, and Williams added 11.
.OU1SVILLE (71)
Payne 6-12 0-1 12, Kimbro 0-4 0-0 0,
illison 8-14 1-1 17, Williams 5-12 0-2 10,
dith 6-10 6-6 18, Sullivan 2-5 2-6 7,
ipencer 2-3 3-6 7, Holden 0-0 0-0 0.
dais 29-61 12-24 71.
4EMPHIS STATE (70)
Smith 2-11 3-4 7, Douglas 1-3 0-0 2,
lallard 0-2 3-4 3, Gibson 6-12 12-14 26,
erry 7-16 3-3 20, Mundt 2-8 0-0 4,
dadlock 3-4 0-0 6, McClain 0-0 0-0 0,
dcLaughlin 1-2 0-0 2, Watson 0-0 0-0 0.
dais 22-58 21-25 70
Halftime ? Louisville 34, MSU 34.
-point goals ? Louisville 1-8 (Payne 0-2,
Villiams 0?2, Smith 0-2, Sullivan 1-2),
4SU 5-15 (Gibson 2?5, Perry 3-10). Refunds?
Louisville 40 (Ellison 11), MSU
7 (Ballard 12). Assists ? Louisville 15
Payne 4), MSU 12 (Douglas 4). Total
ouls ? Louisville 17, MSU 25. Atteniance
? 10,433.
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