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Wilson, Ji By JIMMY DeBUTTS pc Senior Writer in; USC ? The women's basketball team has started the 1 1993-94 season on a positive note. of The Gamecocks are 2-1, winning against Miami and ^ South Carolina State. USC lost 311 the first game of the season to 'e Old Dominion 69-79. re' Coach Nancy Wilson is looking to sophomore guard G; Shannon Johnson and senior fr( center Melinda McDaniel to pl< lead the team this year. 19 Johnson is the only returning starter on this year's squad. H The past year's team finished po 17-10. Wilson will have to replace three starters lost from th< the 1992-93 team. This year's f& team has six guards, two for- wi wards and three centers. They Cc will use their speed to keep the tri game fast-paced on both ends wl of the court. 11 The Gamecocks will use le their depth at the point guard Ti Gamecock n in Diet Peps By TONY SANTORI Senior Writer USC ? Coach Eddie Fogler's b< ketball team travels to the Charlo Coliseum this weekend to compete the four-team Diet Pepsi Tournament Champions. The tournament consists USC; two teams who were picked win their respective conferences, UT (ACC) and BYU (WAC); and Geoi Washington, which was a preseas Associated Press Top 25 choice. . 1 _ - - 1 urNL. siariea me season as me i preseason No. 1 team and defendi National Champion. USC begins play at 7 p.m. toni< when it takes on Brigham Young. (0-1) will provide stiff competition the young USC squad. The Coug; start two seniors, two juniors and c sophomore. The Gamecocks, on the other haj enter the tournament with only t' players with Division I experiem seniors Jamie Watson and Emm Hall. Junior point guard Carey Ri will be out of the Gamecock lineup at least three weeks following a bout appendicitis. BYU showed solid scoring balai in its loss to Arizona State with players scoring in double figur Junior forward Shane Knight led Cougars with 19 points in the contt Junior forward Mark Durant came the bench to add 14. The player u fCz a i?jk m I llll mSSH3Collet Dec 1-3 Unive ohnson le? sition to incorporate a press- Wend g defense this year. lot thi Johnson has led USC so far So is season, averaging 23.7 Game >ints per game and hitting six in fiei seven three pointers this nents ar. In 1992-93, Johnson led Altho ^ Gamecocks with 83 assists as ac< d 65 steals. This year, she is the C ading the team in total their < bounds with 21. game Johnson is the first Wil imecock to win a gold medal as U! )m the Olympic Festival. She recori ayed on the South team in the winn '92 summer games. Game McDaniel has pulled down a wir ' rebounds and scored 29 but or ints so far this season. Wi] With Coach Wilson using Metri a nrapp onrl b-OPfMflfT fhp CTQTTIA P h on * aiiu ivvvpi"^ 51""^ v ii an it-paced, most of the players Metre 11 see action in each game, has a >ming off the bench to con- to fh bute will be Shayla Wilkins, amass 10 has already pulled down those offensive rebounds, which Th ads the team. Christi N.C. mmons, Brit Canty and the Aj ien's basket! i Tournamen could give USC the most fits, he is junior Russell Larson. The 6-f js- 220-pounder had 12 rebounds tte along with 12 points against ASl in BYU Coach Roger Reid will hp tirith hie firpnnpnt ciihsfitiitinrv U1 ?*"? of to wear down the short-h to Gamecocks. Against ASU, Rei sfC 10 players, each for at least nir ge utes. on USC enters the tournament 84-80 loss to Old Dominion in F \p regular season debut. The Gair ng are led by Watson and Hall, I whom received All-SEC hone jht season. Watson, a 6-foot-7 guarc fU aged 14.7 points per game last for lead USC. Hall, a 6-foot-7 fc irs was second on the squad in see >ne 14 points per game last season ; the team in rebounding with nd, eight per contest, wo Fogler will have to get contri ce, from any of the Gamecocks seve ett comers if he hopes for his team ich in the championship game Si for night. of In the other game Friday, UNC takes on the George Was ice Colonials. The Tarheels finishe six in the preseason NIT after de es. Minnesota following an upset the Massachusetts. The defending sst. Champions only lost forward off Lynch to the NBA from the 1 'ho squad, and the Tarheels replac 5j IeBm >e Last Che Christm frsity Bookstore s Sports id women's ba: ly Moss will also play a I is season. far this season, the :cocks are shooting .411 Id goals, while their oppo- H i are shooting .449. ugh USC is not shooting curately as its opponents, jamecocks are keeping opponents to 65.7 points a while scoring 76.5. Ison is in her 10th season SC's coach, compiling a rl nf no nc ci,? ?k^ n v/i i out i*> lilt I mm ingest coach in Lady cock history and has had ining season every year ! *** Ison has led USC to five d Conference tpionships and three ) Tournament titles. She lso taken the Gamecocks /e NCAA tournaments, ,ing 20 victories in four of e Gamecocks will face State at 9 p.m. today at i ?jg| rizona State Invitational. ??~ )all to comnete JL it of Champions iwever, with two of the best freshmen in the oot-11, land. to go First-year players Jerry Stackhouse J- . and Rasheed Wallace have already concontin trjbuted for UNC. Their play, along s to try landed with senior All-American center Eric d used Montross and junior All-American le min- guard Donald Williams, are the reasons most favor the 'Heels to win the after a NCAA Tournament again this season. ogler s George Washington, led by thirdlecocks yeaf coach Mike Jarvis, was 1992-93's 30 , ?. "Cinderella" of the NCAA Tournament. >rs last 1 aver- ^he 12th-seeded Colonials advanced to year to tJie "Sweet 16" before losing a tight >rward, game to eventual runner-up Michigan. >ring at GW is led by 7-foot-1, 265-pound and led Yinka Dare. The 21-year-old sophoalmost more from Kabba, Nigeria, flashed on , . to the national spotlight last season, butions . . . . ... averaging almost 13 points and 11 :n new- & c 1 to play rebounds a game in only his third seaifnrdav son of organized basketball. Dare aver "?J v aged almost three blocked shots a game No. 4 last season and made a handful of prehington season Ail-American publications. ;d third Should the Gamecocks defeat BYU teating prj(jay vvouid take on the loss to NCAA UNC/GW winner in the championship George game Saturday night. If USC falls to 992-93 tbe Cougars, the Gamecocks play the ed him UNC/GW loser at 7 p.m. Saturday. mm?m. Bp m\ | H W A Wmk ym ince to Guarantee 014 as Delivery! *it Russell House sketball tean ****** ji v *^w v . m? < % ><* ^<i*'^il<i8PW^: . .*, ^V I Santori's Shots TT7 1 ^ 1* 1 wooas s dismissal By TONY SANTORI Senior Writer The Santori Jinx. Most avid sports readers have probably heard of the "SI Jinx." For those of you who do not know, the SI Jinx involves the longstanding theory that whenever Sports Illustrated features an athlete or team on its cover, that athlete or team sometimes loses a crucial game, suffers injuries or completely collapses. Well, welcome to the Santori Jinx. If anyone remembers my last column, I said the Pittsburgh Steelers are probably going to represent the AFC in the Super Bowl, and the UNC Tarheels have a good chance of going undefeated in college basketball this season. Since then, the Steelers have been blown out twice in a row, and IJNC lost in the third game of its season. I printed the None Dame Fight Song. Lou Holtz's then No. 1 Irish proceeded to choke at home against Boston College about three days later. Remember the story of King Midas? You know, the "Midas touch" thing, where everything the old monarch touched turned to gold.1 Just call this the "Santori touch." Everything 1 touch just rusts. am I So, now what? Do I just slop praising teams for their sake and mine? Of course not. I figure I can use this thing to my advantage. 1 really do not want the Cowboys to win the Super Bowl, the Tarheels to win the NCA/> tournament, the Knicks to win the NB^ Championship and most of all for Clemson te win its bowl game. So...the Cowboys are unstoppable, the Heels will bounce back, the Knicks are toe nVJU XT. ^ ^ i to 2-1 start i Sophomore guard Natalie Funderburk takes evasive action against a South Carolina State defender. Pete Rogers/The Gamecock delivered too soon strong and Clemson is the best football team on the planet. There. That should take care of that problem. Just Thinking. Speaking of Mr. Lett: Which do you think weighs the most? A: One stick of chewing gum. B: The nucleus of a hydrogen atom. C: Lett's brain. I am not a science major, but I would have to say "B." Sparky Gets the Shaft. Over the course of the 1993 Gamecock football season, I was as critical of former Coach Sparky Woods as anyone else. I questioned everything from his handling of players to the play calling. But I completely disagree , with Athletics Director Mike McGee's deciI sion to hand Woods his pink slip with one year left on Woods' contract. I do not know if Woods is cut out to be a , Division I football coach. 1 just know that when he was hired here in 1989, Woods said i it would piobably take until the 1994 campaign for LISC to be a competitive and win1 ning program. That took a lot of guts on [ Woods' part to put a time table on something that would ultimately determine his job status. ; Granted, the Gamecocks have won only 12 games in the past three seasons. But the fact I remains that this coming 1994 season would ; have been Woods' first "true" senior class that l he could call his own. Unfortunately, Woods i will not be around to see his players win sev> en or eight games next season. And if he is lucky enough, he will be far enough away that : he does not have to hear someone else get ) credit for what he did. I 1 The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity on/4 Tclim (VX1V4 XaiOlll Random House $27.50