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^ A gigantic, colossal, huge, big, 1 gargantuan, titanic, muy grande, n strous, phat and fantastic preview Carolina-Kentucky basketball gam ^ Larry Williams' weekly column. Wednesday, February 25,19 Dawgi Junior Recus Nix finished the gar crucial shot early in the first hal throttled the Gamecocks back into asst. sports aft/or NATHAN BROWN The defending SEC-Champions did ^ something that they couldn't do last year- beat Georgia two-times in the regular season. And in typical Gamecock basketball fashion, the game was a thriller down to the wire and was decided on the last shot, just as the Cincinnati and Florida games were. But in order to get the 78-76 win, the No. 14 Gamecocks (21-5,11-4 SEC) had to overcome the first half suspen e *ii cvr> i n: x/r_u:_ 1 *u_ sion ui guaiu dj iyiliuc ana ine hot-handed Bulldogs. ^ "[It] was an exciting win for our team, obviously under interesting circumstances," USC coach Eddie Fogler said. The second half we played really well offensively.. .Certainly I was 1 Puke ? _ . 16 Mictions St. 8 Rhode Island . ? . FxiTtef 5 UCLA 12 Western Mich. 4 Princeton TSTongTbiand 14 Princeton 3 Arkansas 14 C. of Charleston |3Arkansa! 6 UMass A 11 Iowa |6UMass 7 Wake Forest _ . - i7 Walro Pnroct 10 UNC-Charlotte | 2 Kentucky iSCoppin St. \ Kentucky 1 Arizona 16 Lafayette |1 Arizona 8 Indiana 9 Illinois-Chicago 5 Temple , _ ^2 Georgia Tech ^"H1 a Tech 9 4 New Mexico 13 Pacific (4 New Mexlco 3 Texas Christian 13 Texas Christla |q pujiwii M. | 6 Syracuse TTArtcansasSt. f Syracuse 7 Oklahoma St. ioWoomlnq ~|7 Oklahoma ?L 2 Utah ? 15 Valparaiso |2Utah , ?f ? large, tionof the e. >98 s apt su I"18'*! Mckii And \ T team Geor| 12-foi Behii olina' 13 m ing,n trade dead! times B bejui T half: 3-01< back wher freet vanti butG defici reclai a3-p tfi cm SEAN RAYFORD The Gamecock matt ne with eight points including this *unei if.. Nix along with guard Bj Mckie ?^8a - W?? j kfilh Uic ^anic vii n tunv^uaj iiigiii. whi< veiy impressed with Bj, the way he was part able to play under control as well as he p did considering he didn't play in the cjiar, first half." conc| Even though Mckie saw no playing time in the first half, he made up for u. lost time in the second, scoring 15 points J and the game winning bucket. Mckie S10I\( hit a 2-point bucket with 1:20 to go in P^d the game to tie the score at 76-76. Then a Georgia took its time in bringing the keen ball down the court and missed its shot. s&id After C arolina pulled down the rebound, thro\ USC called time-out to get the ball at I agr half-court and to devise the strategy for foul] the last shot. out. 1 "If they were going man-to-man, we Can; were going to run the high ball screen since for Mckie," Fogler said. there After the inbounds pass, Mckie took doth control. With more spins than your par- preC( 1 Duke 4 Princeton 1 4 Princeton EAST Greensboro, N.C. 3 A ~ 3 Arkansas 3 Arkansas 2 Kentucky Alamoc San Am March 1 ~ 1 Arizona 1 Arizona 14 New Mexico _J WEST Anaheim, Calif. 1_A n 3 Texas Christian 3 Texas Christian 2 Utah T SPOR' The Gamecock :ked by cashing machine when you take wash home for the weekend, he i to the hoop to sink the winning ;t with only 1.2 seconds remain- B | ByJ went in and saw an opening," 3 said. "I guess you could say that ny patented spin move in the lane. ;he ball fell in." tie Gamecocks weren't the only whose balls were falling in, though. jia kept the game close by going * 4 r-28 from behind the 3-point arc. J" id Georgia's 3-pointers and Cars propensity to come back, the last inutes proved to be a nerve-rackail-biting experience as the teams d the lead seven times and were ^|gsi locked with the same score seven at the first half of play proved to 3t as interesting. he Dogs hit one of seven first 1-pointers to jump out to a quick ;ad. But the Gamecocks battled and took the lead at the 16:46 mark k 1 William Gallman drained two ;hrows. Carolina built up its adage to eight points on a 13-6 run, reorgia slowly chipped away at its t. And at the 3:02 mark, Georgia med its lead on nothing other than |F Jr ointer. In fact, starting with 5:32 ? Jgjllii , the Dogs hit four consecutive 3;ers to spark a 14-1 run. UGA's V est lead was seven points in the - J half. s the Dogs took a five point ad age into the locker room, USC's WL* W-SEC guards were scoreless. On \ty II1 i shooting, Melvin Watson played inutes of the first half and could ;er only four assists. But Watson unded in the second to finish eleven points. s mentioned before, Mckie was ended for the first half because of ciplinaiy action taken by the SEC aissioner regarding Mckie's elbow Florida player in Saturday's con- ' igainst the Gators. ''m sorry what took place," Mckie shawn SI "I'm sorry that I put my team- Singleton j ss in that type of situation. Some 3 emotions run high in those types mes. It was a very intense has- wins W all game. I lost my composure, sheets with 1 :h is uncharacteristic on my otuaent Lroi ? store has bei 'ogler also recognized Mckie's un- to i'^1683 *? acteristic move but seemed more JNowtna arned by the SEC's uncharacter- ,uam cyrren this column move. n tj- rxv. onn ?ne cares. Roy Kramer [the SEC commis- gon, ir who made the decision to sus- Winter Olvn Mckie] explained to me that it was Japan freei jrant foul and that Bj should have ter a C( thrown out of the game," Fogler expect? . "I agree. Bj should have been pecially our vn out.. .1 said [to Kramer], Well, ey teams. Th ee with your assessment [of the tacular, if yo that flagrants should be thrown won't see an But I disagree with your judgment. ticipating in you tell me one other flagrant foul In reali s you've been commissioner, where watches thi ;'s been a suspension?" He couldn't a luge? And tat. To the best of my knowledge a except some ;dent has been set." hair? rkansas 1 bryan JOHNSTON Sex, Stogies & Stories iome tonio, Tex. 1 Arizona 1 North Carolina 28 rizona _J North Carolina rs bitten U -> : :.>$ScW:= ter Olympics were Tl To set A slalom sounds like some gr the mood sexual technique, even though for this proclaimed Chapstick girl won week's lat- medal in this event. And wha est dia- name is Picabo (pronounced tribe, let boo)? Why did her parents pui if - me de- like that? I haven't heard a m ft scribe, in that since I heard the names .. short de- my high school class gave to ' ' tail, how legitimate bastards. NGLETON things have Why is snowboarding an ( 116 g?ne since sport? Shouldn't it be somet the last col- served for the X-Games? Wha umn. Sting mountain bike racing in Syd CW World Title, white course, leave it to a Canadiai burning crosses take over a gold medal, then have a di /ernment, and the liquor troversy afterward, but thei en temporarily closed due leave it to the Japanese to the owner. flnrmpk kper> bis mpdal 1 Kansas 5 Cincinnati Kansas MIDWEST St. Louis, Mo. 3 Stanford 3 Stanford 2 Purdue Alamodome O A : ^ T oan /\muiuu, lex. March 28 1 North Carolina 1 North Carolina 5 Michigan I North Carolina SOUTH St. Petersburg, Ha. 3 South Carolina 3 South Carolina 2 UConn 1 Nate says with the one half suspension of Bj Mckie, that snaps a streak of 49-consecutive games the junior has started. Even though he did not start, Mckie has played in every game of his career. Page 9 SC star SEAN RAYFORD The Gamecock a waste of time otesque Dave Thomas as a center. Our men t you all know what mood The only sports I cared alx tly in, let me get to what hockey and figure skating, ] is really about, as if any- larly women's. There is sou about sexy you-know-whats y spectacle known as the dresses shaking their you-kno ipics was held in Nagano, across the ice. It gives me a gre from nuclear radiation af- 0f pride in what this country 1 intury. Our country had fer, except for Tara Lipinski, v itions for our athletes, es- ]y and jailbait, but thanks for figure skating and hock- medal anyway, lis is the one sporting spec- I am very disappointed in o u can call it that, that you hockey team. If s pretty bad wl y African Americans par- again the women have to clean because it's too damn cold. Olympic messes (remember' ty, who the hell really ban team in Atlanta?). By t s stuff, anyway? What is congratulations to our womei 1 what exactly is curling, ey team for beating those evil < sthing women do to their twice to do what the men c Maybe they really should h? iwniiiinfinn . 1 Kansas 6 West Virainia 1 6 West Virgin,a [-? 7 St. John's 10 Nebraska j iQ Nebraska - .... 2 UConn 2 UConn 1 15 UNC-Asheville I < our self- get all the hype but our women actuthe gold ally bring home the gold, t kind of It is now time for the return of what peek-a- used to be a weekly ritual for me at nish her the liquor store, other than drinking, une like If s time to take another soul down the girls in lost highway called Interstate 316. their il- Next exit, the Singletonian Hall of Shame. Dlympic This week's winner is a man who hing re- is a candidate for the All-time Idiot it's next, List. Whether he's throwing someone iney? Of through a plate-glass window or openn to win ing his big mouth, Charles Barkley rug con- will always be an overpaid jerk in my i again, mind. 1 et th e When asked aftSunday's thrashing of his Rockets by my beloved Knicks jut were how he felt being the only player left particu- of all the active sports legends not to nething have won a ring, he referred to John in short Elway and Dale Earnhart as "angiy w-whats white males." This is ironic coming sat sense from his mouth, because after he relas to of- tires, he wants to run for governor of irho's ug- his home state as a Republican and the gold isn't that the party of the "angry white male?" ur men's His favorite talk show host is the hen once - now passe Rush Limbaugh, and was i up your he not at one time the voice of the "anthe soft- gry white male?" And if he hates the he way, "angry white male" so much, then why i i, J ~ ui?i?; 3 ui..? l a nuLisr is lie mai i icu iu a uiuuuc-iiaii cu, uiuc Canucks eyed white female? The hypocrite ouldn't. should be happy; he stole one of their tve used women. ? 1 Kansas 1 Kansas 1 16 Texas Southern" ....... 8 Illinois St. 9 Detr0lt 1 9 Detroit 5 Cincinnati 5 Cincinnati 1 12 Ball St. 4 Michigan St. 1 4Micl..janSt. fnSaan, 3 Stanford 3Stal"l,fd 114 lona 6 Illinois 6l"'nois 111 Arizona St. j 7 Maryland 7Maryland 1 10 Miami, Fla. . 2 Purdue 2 Purdue 1 15 Appalachian's^" 1 North Carolina 1 North Carolina ["is Northern Arizona 8 Tennessee 8Tennessee 1 9 St. Louis CUi u. 5 Michigan 5Mlch'flan 1 12 Crelghton 4 Ole Miss 40leMlss 1 13 Murray St. 3 South Carolina . 3 South Carolina rr