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By JEFF NICHOLS
Sports Editor
Any coach worth their chalkboard
knows it ? basketball is a
lot like life.
Sometimes you have to learn the
hard way.
For ACC regular-season champion
Clemson, learning couldn't get
much harder than a 54-53 shocking
defeat at the hands of the USC
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After the loss, Tigers head
coach Cliff Ellis said he hoped his
team learned something about
handling their new role atop the
ACC.
"In two games, I don't think
we've handled our success very
well," Ellis said. "I don't think we
learned anything from losing to
Georgia Tech. I've been concerned
about that. I was told about that
Wednesday night (following Clemson's
win over Duke to clinch a
share of the ACC title). I'm learning
about it, too.
"But I don't want to take anything
away from South Carolina,"
Ellis said.
He would be hard-pressed to do
that. For a USC team that's had so
much taken away already, a win
over the regular-season ACC
champs is a hard one to tarnish.
"This is a great win for us,"
USC head coach George Felton
said. "We've had some tough losses
lately, and to come back and
beat a team like Clemson, it's just
a great compliment to our
team . . .
I m just real happy. When you
think about our season and what
this group of young men has gone
through, I can't ask for a better ending.
Well, I can, maybe next
Saturday."
A win Saturday would give Felton
and USC their first Metro Conference
tournament championship.
But it probably wouldn't make
most of the 10,863 fans in attendance
any more excited than they
were after Monday's win. Few
wanted to leave.
Or maybe they couldn't believe
it was over.
After Jo Jo English hit what
proved to be the game-winner with
1:00 remaining, David Young had
a chance to give Clemson the lead
with :33 left, but he missed a
3-pointer.
USC got the rebound, but
promptly turned the ball back over 1
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clock down to : 14 remaining before
calling a timeout. j
After senior Elden Campbell
missed a short jumper from the left
baseline and Dale Davis missed a
tip-in try, USC freshman Chris
Leso came down with the rebound
and went to the floor as the clock
ran out.
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That last minute was indicati
of Clemson's offensive woes 1
much of the game. The Tige
who came into the game averagi
82.1 points per game, scored 01
53 Monday after shooting 39 p
cent from the field. From the fi
throw line, they weren't much b
ter ? 42 percent.
With USC content to olav
tight 2-3 zone designed to lir
Campbell and Davis inside, Clei
son was given a wide-open invi
tion to hit the outside shot.
No one was willing to accept
Campbell and Davis were held tc
combined 23 points, almost h;
their season average. But it was
4-for-22 performance from 3-poi
land that spelled doom for t
Tigers.
"If you had put a number ni
washtub up there, I don't know
we would have hit that," Ellis sai
"It was that bad. We didn't ha
anybody that wanted to step 1
and hit the shot tonight."
Maybe somebody like Stefc
Eggers would have been nice, b
the 6-foot-10-inch freshman w
already claimed for the side wea
ing garnet and white.
Eggers came into the regula
season finale averaging only 2
points per game, but the freshrm
scored a career-high 18 points ar
grabbed 12 rebounds against tl
Tigers. He was a perfect 6-forfrom
the field.
But then there was more at stal
for the West German native tha
just beating arch-rival Clemson.
"Hopefully I made a good inr
pression on my dad, and he'll g
home and tell my mom that IT
doing alright," Eggers said.
Senior Eric Sykes, playing in h
final game at Frank McGuir
Arena, scored 12 points for US(
who improved to 14-13 on th
year. Jo Jo English scored eigh
including the game-winner.
Clemson, 23-7, was led b
Campbell with 13 points and 1
rebounds. Davis, who had 2
points and 17 rebounds in the tw
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points and a season-low fiv
rebounds.
USC will face Memphis Stat
Thursday in the first'round of th
Metro Conference Tournament at p.m.
"We have to put this win behim
us, but hopefully we can take som
of what we learned with us int<
the tournament," English said.
And maybe they'll even have .
few more lessons to teach as we
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By DOUG AUBE
Staff Writer
As the end of a college athlete's
career nears, ine apprenension inai
the athlete feels toward that final
contest can be one of disappointment
or pleasure.
Add to that apprehension the
drama of playing the team's archrival
in the last home game of the
athlete's career.
Mix in some spine-tingling, nailbiting
action that doesn't subside
until the home team, led by an
underdog player who is playing his
last home game, pulls off an improbable
last-second upset victory.
Sounds like a script made in
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USC's lone senior, forward Eric
Sykes, played the role to perfection
in Monday night's USC ba^
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Sykes stared the apprehension
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jg "I loved it and wouldn't have it
any other way," Sykes said about
his final game at Frank McGuire
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Sykes scored 12 points and
pulled down 7 rebounds against
the "Duo of Doom."
Sykes has played the role of .
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