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Two lines from the Carolina fight
song have summed up the fortunes
of the Carolina basketball team so
far this season.
| "Who gives a care when the going
^ is tough, and when it is rough. Thats
when the Cocks get going."
The Carolina basketball team,
picked by many of the experts to
finish in the "Sweet 16" of the NCAA
Tournament, won two of three at the
Maui Invitational and lost a heartbreaker
to North Carolina at The
Harris Teeter Pepsi Challenge.
Then the going got real tough.
The Gamecocks started off a seven\j
game homestand with a not very
convincing win over basketball
"powerhouse" Wofford.
Then when the students went
home for the winter break it appeared
that the basketball team should have
just left too.
The Gamecocks were thrashed
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it is to say it) very good Clemson
Tiger basketball team.
The Tigers' defense and patient
| offense stopped the Gamecocks and
got a little revenge for the football
loss in late November.
That loss really was not that bad
because Clemson had defeated
Kentucky and were ranked in the
Top 15 in the country, but then the
team lost to UNC-Asheville two nights
later.
First of all, a school like South
fe Carolina should never lose to a team
that has a hyphen in its name, and
second of all just days before Kentucky
had beaten the Asheville team by
50 points.
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not get any rougher for the
Gamecocks? Well it did.
They then lost to Charleston
Southern, who up until a few years
ago was known as Baptist College.
Then the Gamecocks faced instate
rival Furman from Greenville,
and beat them handily.
The team that showed up for that
game is the same team that everyone
was longing to see.
They shot well, played great
defense, and, most importantly,
played with intensity.
Although that win was great, no
one could be convinced that the
Gamecocks had turned around the
season as they were preparing to
face SEC West rival Auburn.
The Tigers brought to town former
Clemson head coach Cliff Ellis and
with him a chance to start out 1-0
in the conference.
Then they thrashed Tennessee
at home. Enough said.
Then the first road test of the year
came at Mississippi State on a day
when the Gamecocks moved from
pretender to contender and many
USC students moved from home
back to school.
The win over Mississippi State
had Gamecock fans excited that the
basketball team was back to their
winning ways of last year and
matched their road win total from
last year.
That win surprised no one more
than me, because after the two losses
early in the season to Asheville and
Charleston Southern, I said the
Gamecocks, who were awful on the
road, would not win two road games
all year long.
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point deficit at Florida and won that
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that accomplishment my head is now
shaven.
Then, the Gamecocks defeated
the No. 21 Georgia Bulldogs and held
on to beat Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
And of course on Saturday the
Gamecocks man-handled the Ole
Miss Rebels for their eighth-straight
victory and seventh-straight in the
SEC.
Ole Miss is not a pushover and
how the Gamecocks won by 23 points
is beyond my comprehension.
The Rebels' list of victims include
Kentucky and Arkansas in
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The Gamecocks definitely are
playing their better ball right now
than any Gamecock basketball team
has played since the McGuire days.
So when the going got tough the
Cocks got going.
They have rebounded from a
tough start to lead the SEC East at
7-0 and are the only undefeated team
in the SEC.
But Kentucky still awaits for two
contests.
A rejuvenated Arkansas team
will roll into Frank McGuire Arena
as will a Florida team that will look
to put some revenge on the
Gamecocks.
Don't forget road games at Georgia
and Vanderbilt.
With a schedule like that ahead
in the conference, plus a nonconference
road game at nationalpowerhouse
Cincinatti on Feb. 15,
the going may get tough again for
the Gamecocks.
But can they, as the'fight song
says, get it going again when the
tough times hit?
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DWAYNE MCLEMORE Staff Writer
The ACC supported its reputation
as the nation's best basketball
conference Saturday with a onepoint
game in front of a sold-out
crowd.
N.C. State won the rights to the
ACC cellar when it lost to Georgia
Tech 54-53 at McDonald's Center
in Atlanta. The Wolfpack's Danny
Strong missed a 20-foot jumper as
time expired.
"I got a good look, but it just
didn't go down," said Strong, a native
of Great Falls, S.C.
The Wolfpack coach Herb Sendek
chose not to use the team's final
timeout after C.C. Harrison stole
the ball with less than 10 seconds
left.
"Our policy is we're going to get
it up the floor and attack rather
than call a timeout," Sendek said.
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Thornton was the game's standout,
setting career highs with 19 points
and 12 rebounds. Sendek,
meanwhile, remains winless in the
ACC, while the team has lost 14
straight conference games over the
past two seasons.
Georgia Tech coach Bobby
Cremins was happy with the victory,
although he said the team is
obviously struggling at the guard
position.
"Our backcourt is the area we
need to improve on, Cremmins said.
"I played point guard at South
Carolina, and I know the importance
of the point guard position"
The Yellow Jackets (8-9, 2-5)
were led by junior Matt Harpring's
16 points. Harpring was held to just
four points in the first half.
"It's a heck of an aspiration to
try and shut him down the whole
game," Sendek said of Harpring.
Georgia Tech plays at Clemson
Thursday at 9 pm, while N.C. State
travels to Charlottesville Tuesday
to face Virginia at 9 p.m.
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The Atlanta Hawks won their
19th straight home game Saturday
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Dikembe Mutombo was also big
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of the first half because of foul
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"We came out a little mentally
drained playing a team that had
nothing to lose and was very loose,"
Atlanta coach Lenny Wilkins said
of the Celtics.
The Hawks improved to 28-12
on the season and are in third place
in the Central Division.
Boston's 9-30 record puts them
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Boston was led by rookie Antoine
Walker's 22 points and nine
rebounds.
"We wanted to be the ones to
stop their streak," Walker said "We
just couldn't come through and that
seems to be the story for us all year."
, Christian Laettner added 15
points and 10 rebounds for the
Hawks, while Steve Smith scored
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Todd Day had 17 points and four
steals for the Celtics.
Wilkins was honored before the
game for being the only person
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