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BRYAN JOHNSTON Sports Editor
AUSTIN, Texas?The Gamecock volleyba
team advanced to the second round of the 199
NCAA Volleyball Tournament Thursday nigh
with a 3-0 (15-7.15-7.15-10) sweeD over 111
nois State in Austin, Texas.
In a surprise move, USC Head Coach Kir
Hudson opted to go with junior Cindy Robarg
instead of senior Lori Drost^ who started a]
year. Robarge, a second-team All-SEC pei
former last year, has been sidelined rehabil
tating the ankle she had surgery on in Apri
The move seemingly sparked the Game
cocks. Robarge had several court-poundin]
kills that seemed to put dents in the court a
the Recreation Sport Center on the campus o
the University of Texas.
Tve been feeling great this past week am
this lineup that we used is real comfortable,
Robarge said. Tm back."
Also playing well was sophomore-trans
fer Crystal Moore and senior Shani Abshiei
Moore had 16 kills and an ace while Ah
shier kept the Redbirds off-guard with her pow
erful kills and deceiving dink shots on her wa;
to 12 kills.
The Gamecocks used great defense an<
blocking to force the Redbirds into a miserabli
.050 hitting percentage in Game 1. USC jumpe<
out to a 3-1 lead, but Illinois State scored tw<
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the serving of Robarge. Two kills by Moon
pushed the lead to 7-4.
An ace by Moore, two kills by Shani Ab
shier and two hitting errors by the Redbirdi
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NATHAN BROWN Asst. Sports Editor
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The No. 5-ranked USC men's h
basketball team looks to extend their ni
undefeated record this season with wins h
over Virginia Tech and UT-Chattanooga m
in the Harris Teeter Pepsi Challenge.
In a round robin format, the Game- B
cocks take on the VT Hokies Friday in
night and the UT-C Mocs Saturday. 01
UNC is the fourth team competing in ?
the challenge, but will not face USC. 41
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Head Coach Eddie Fogler and former b(
UNC Head Coach Dean Smith agreed
the Tar Heels and Gamecocks shouldn't aj
play one another.
Despite Smith's retirement, new iei
UNC coach Bill Guthridge and Fogler it
will continue to keep their teams from to
playing each other in the challenge, ai
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the University of North Carolina ^
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gave USC a 13-5 lead. Moore served up all five
of those points during the run. Sophomore FerU
nanda Laires and freshman Sara Heri came
7 off the bench to serve up a point apiece to put
it Game 1 aw.ay, 15-7.
i- In Game 2, the two teams traded numerous
sideouts at 1-1 before Illinois St. pulled
q out to a 4-1 lead. After a timeout by Hudson,
e USC scored nine of the next 10 points to take
[1 a 10-5 lead. Two kills by Moore sparked the -
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USC went on a 5-0 run to put away the
L- second game. AkihbyFortman,adiiik-killby
u Abshier, a block and kill by Larkin and a block
g by Robarge gave the Carolina Game *2,15-7.
t In the third game, USC jumped out to a
f 6-3 lead on a kill by Robarge and a block-solo
by Fortman. ISU stormed back to score three
i straight to tie the game up at six. USC went
" on a 4-0 run behind kills from Fortman and
Moore, an ace by Edlund and a hitting error
by the Redbirds to take a 11-7 lead.
After taking a 12-7 lead, kills by Larkin
h and Moore gave USC a match point ISU scored
three points and held off seven match points,
y but a kill by Abshier ended Game 3,15-10.
Carolina, making their second appearj
ance in the NCAA tournament in three years,
B made it to the second round of the 1995 tourj
nament before being eliminated by Texas A&M
0 They defeated Hofstra in the first round.
1 The Gamecocks (21-7) will now face the
3 winner of Stephen F. Austin and Texas at 8
p.m. tonight.
But for now, the Gamecocks are celebrating
3 the facf that their season is still alive.
s ready Ca
hallenge' bs|
Even though USC won't take on ^re
NC, the Gamecocks will have their Three reas
ands full. Of USC's past eight oppo- ketball tea
ents in Charlotte, seven of the teams heads t
ave gone on to make the tourna- .. _
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ien * Citadel an
The Hokies, under new Head Coach gitimate t
obby Hussey, are 3-0 despite return- ones Thre
ig only one starter. Players to watch thafs the i
it for are guard Myron Guillory and As fa
inter Russ Wheeler. Guillory is hitting , ,,
i.9 percent from behind the 3-point cerne >
c and Wheeler is averaging 6.7 re
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rands per game.
Carolina leads the all-time series Presu
tainst Tech 17-13. cocks know
After their opener against the Hok- happened
s, Carolina takes on UT-C, who made opened wil
to the Sweet 16 of last season's NCAA a so-so Viri
urnament with victories over UGA then wen
id Illinois. UT-C's two upsets in the more befoi
urnament took place at the Charlotte needs remi
iliseum, the site of this year's "Chal- last Decerr
age." Thoug
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rlier in the season) and the rest of the
irsday in the NCAA tournament.
kv to ho 3-0
te SEC, shock Carolina. We can assume Vir>ick
up a con- ginia Tech will be another
prom break- tonight. Chattanooga? The Mocs
ice title? You were in the Round of 16 in last
e the method year's NCAAs, but they've
e motive. lost three starters, so that's a
1 the Game- w"1' to?- r^ie &ame on Dec. ^
ible to suffer Clemson will be a toss-up.
early-season So, when USC travels to
y have visions Oxford, Miss., Jan. 3 to open its
her champi- conference slate against Ole
Miss, its record should be, at
n is much dif- the very least, 7-1. There's no
in SEC teams reason to think otherwise,
a hand these Which will make possible
wn rear-ends, another exciting season in Co:ky.
Everyone lumbia, one that might extend
le Gamecocks, farther than the first round in
at happens Pittsburgh, Penn.
3d No. 5 in the gu^ iose tonight or tomorrow,
then again in a few
USC is aware weeks, and the Gamecocks will
ley see these be in trouble sooner or later,
at they really Last season, it was later,
victories that Though they entered the
l*er- SEC Tournament fresh off a
Belmont, St. win at Kentucky, it was the
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Heisman a joke
| new world order :
After a short holiday of eating and drinking at
midnight in the garden of good and evil, USC's most dangerous
man is back with more bitches, gripes and complaints
for anyone who cares.
Let me start off by saying one thing, "b.s." This is ,
what I think about that annual award thaf s given eveiy
year at the Downtown Athletic Club in the greatest city
in the world, and no, Fm not talking about Spartanburg, v
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unce again, me neisman iropny nas Decome more
political than Bill Clinton at Hooters, according to my
tactless friend Keith, and it won't get any better this year.
It has become rather obvious the trophy will go to a backwoods,
rich kid from New Orleans who is the biggest hero
since Davy Crockett to the rednecks in Tennessee. As
soon as he said that he was staying at Tennessee, he be- <
came the Heisman winner, no matter how crappy his season
was.
Peyton Manning doesn't deserve to win the Heis- t
man. Frankly, he doesn't even deserve to be considered, x
He isn't even the best quarterback in the country, much
less the best player, and last I heard, that's whom the
award is supposed to go to.
My choice for the award would be Charles Wood- ,
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the Heisman? It's supposed to go to the best player in
America, right? To me, he's the best player in the country,
and for all those out there who believe in the unwritten
rule about offensive players, Woodson even plays
some of that, too.
But if the idiots in the media don't give it to him, and x
they feel compelled to give the award to an offensive player,
why not give it to Ryan Leaf from Washington State.
His numbers are better than Manning's and he is about
to do something that Drew Bledsoe or Marie Rypien couldn't
do ? eet the Couerars into the Rose Bowl.
How about Ricky Williams from Texas? Even though
the Longhorns are a far cry from the team that won its
conference title last year, should that decrease his chance
for consideration?
There is one comforting fact about Peyton Manning.
How many Volunteer quarterbacks have actually made y
it into the pros? Andy Kelly couldn't do it. The Washington
Redskins wasted a No. 1 pick on Heath Shuler,
but he's Mike Ditka's problem now.
Either way, weH probably see another quarterback
from a big-name institution win the Heisman Trophy this
year, then see him on the bench a few years later playing
behind a quarterback drafted in the later rounds from
some small college in Alaska.
While we're on the subject of trophies, if s now time
for me to give away the trophy for "Idiot of The Week" by , *
inducting a new member into the Singletonian Hall of "
Shame with the "U Suck" Award.
This week's award goes to a man, if you can call him
that, who instead of kicking ass on the court, elected to
kick his coach's.
P.J. Carlesimo should have brought mace or a stun
gun when he was attacked by Latrell Sprewell. This shows
once and for all that basketball players are the biggest
thugs in all of sports, especially the ones who make millions
of dollars a year.
I'm glad Sprewell was released instead of being traded
to another team and suspended for a year without pay.
No other team deserves to have another high-priced thug
on their roster. They have plenty of them already.
Welcome to the next millennium, folks. Next time
we'll probably see some NBA player shoot his coach
during a game.
As for me, IH just kick back at the liquor store and
watch college basketball. It's much more interesting.
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