The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, January 25, 2002, Page 7, Image 7
> GAME SCHEDULE
CONTACT US WOMEN’S TENNIS vs. BYU, 12 p.m. Friday
TRACK AND FIELD at SEC 5-Way in Gainesville, Fla., Saturday
Story ideas? Questions? Comments? SWIMMING AND DIVING at Virginia, Saturday
E-mail us at gamecocksports@hotmail.com MEN’S BASKETBALL at Ole Miss, 1 p.m. Saturday
Gamecocks red-hot in rout
0 use 94
T Tennessee 60
Carolina makes
more than half
its shots, blows
out Tennessee
BY JASON NOLL
THE (iAMECOCK
The men’s basketball team
bounced back'from a disappoint
ing loss to Vanderbilt by crushing
the Tennessee Volunteers 94-60
Wednesday night in Knoxville,
Tenn., with the team showing
their most dominant play of the
season.
The Gamecocks (12-6,2-3 SEC)
were led by freshman forward
Carlos Powell, who finished the
game with a season-high 19 points.
Chuck Eidson and Rolando Howell
both added 14 points, with Howell
contributing eight rebounds.
USC head coach Dave Odom
thought the outcome was a huge
win for the Gamecocks though he
wasn’t quite sure how they won so
v “This convinced me I was
right all along. I know nothing
about basketball. Nothing.
Anything I say is simply guess
work. Anybody who could have
predicted this need not worry
about money,” Odom said.
“It was not their (Tennessee)
night. It was a South Carolina
night from beginning to end. It’s
one of those games you’ll see once
a year. It’s inexplicable.”
After USC jumped out to a 17-2
lead in the game's first five min
utes, the Volunteers never had a
chance to catch up. Carolina in
creased their lead with spectacu
lar shooting, sinking 60 percent
Carlos Powell,
right, was a
surprise start
in Wednesday
night’s game
at Tennessee,
but he made
the most of it.
The freshman
forward scored
a career-high
19 points,
including three
3-pointers, to
help lead the
Gamecocks to
a 94-60 win.
Powell only
missed one
shot all game
and made all
three of his 3
point attempts.
The
Gamecocks
handed
Tennessee its
worst loss at
Thompson
Boling Arena
and forced the
Vols into a
season-high 26
turnovers. USC
also limited
Tennessee to
only 23 field
goals.
^ PHOTO BY ROBERT
| GRUEN
of their field goal attempts and go
ing 13-25 from the 3-point line. By
halftime, the Gamecocks already
had three players with double fig
ures in scoring, and would finish
the game with a total of five.
The Gamecocks led 48-28 at
halftime and continued the scor
ing barrage in the second half,
leading by 30 or more points for
most of the period.
Nothing seemed to go right for
Tennessee as the Vols were
plagued by sloppy play, commit
ting 26 turnovers and converting
only 12 assists. The Vols also shot
poorly, making only 40.4 percent
of their field goal attempts and
making only 3-17 from 3-point
range.
The loss drops Tennessee (8
10,1-4) into last place in the SEC
East.
Powell, who was making his
second start of the regular season,
missed only one shot the entire
game. He was 3-3 from 3-point
range and 4-4 from the free throw
line. Powell began his scoring
spree after being knocked to the
floor by Volunteer Vincent
Yarborough in the first half.
After collecting himself, Powell
nailed two consecutive 3-pointers
to put the Gamecocks up by 19.
Yarborough led all scorers
with 20 points and added seven re
bounds. But he also had five
turnovers.
The most interesting point of
the second half came when
Yarborough’s knee accidentally
connected with Aaron Lucas’s
head, causing play stop and forc
ing Lucas to temporarily leave the
game with 12:27 left to play. The
fans in Thompson-Boling Arena
were angered and began throwing
objects onto the floor when the ref
. erees waited until Tennessee had
set up an offense before calling for
a time out.
By this point in the game, the
Gamecocks’ win was becoming
imminent and the Volunteers of
fered no real protest to the call.
I
Carolina on fire
USC had its best shooting
game all season Wednesday.
♦ USC shot 60 percent from
the field (33 of 55) and 52
percent from the 3-point arc
(13 of 25) in the game.
♦ In the first half, the
Gamecocks made eight of 14
3-pointers and shot 62.5 from
the field.
♦ Carolina started the game on
a 17-2 run, a far cry from
Saturday’s loss to Vanderbilt,
where they fell behind 19-3.
“It’s one of those
games you’ll see
once a year. It’s
inexplicable.”
DAVE ODOM
use MEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH
Despite the minor setback,
Lucas poured in seven points and
pulled in three steals.
Jamel Bradley had a huge
night as he pulled within four 3
pointers of B.J. McKie’s all time
Carolina 3-point record. All of
Bradley’s shots were taken from
behind the 3-point line, where he
went 5-10. The Gamecocks finished
the game with a total of 11 players
scoring points.
The Gamecocks improved
their record in road games to 3-1,
with the only loss coming against
the Florida Gators. The men will
be tested again on the road
Saturday against Ole Miss at 1
p.m. The game will be televised by
Jefferson-Pilot Sports.
Comments on this story?E-mail
gamecocksports@hotmail. com
-1
Lady Gamecocks to face
Arkansas without Geter
1
No. 7 USC at
Arkansas
3 p.m. Sunday
at Bud Walton Arena
Fayetteville, Ark.
Radio: Sports Radio 1400 AM
BY JAMES STARNES
theuamecock
The USC women’s basketball
team (17-2, 5-1 SEC) will be
putting their No. 7 ranking on the
line Sunday as it travels to
Fayetteville, Ark. to take on the
.Arkansas Lady Razor backs (10-7,
1-4), and they will do it without
Senior forward Teresa Geter.
Geter, who has started 16 of
the 19 Lady Gamecock games this
year, has a stress fracture in her
left foot and will miss an indefi
nite amount of time, according to
team physicians.
Geter’s absence will leave the
Gamecocks with a 25.4-minute
void per game to account for. She
is also second on the team in re
bounding (6.8) and third in scor
I ine (9.41.
On the loss of one of her key
Starters, head coach Susan
Walvius commented, “Teresa
Geter is one of our leaders on the
court and off. She plays a vital
role in our offensive and defen
sive schemes and we’ll need
some of her teammates to step
|lp and produce while she is
put.”
• “This team has demonstrat
ed all season that it doesn’t de
fend on just one player and
Eieter’s absence will further test
our versatility,” Walvius said. A
Test Carolina will face against a
struggling Lady Ra?-orback
squad.
I Petra
Ujhelyi,
shown here
driving down
the lane
against
Kentucky,
will have to
help No. 7
use
compensate
for the loss
of senior
forward
Teresa
Geter, who
has a stress
fracture in
her left foot
and Is out
indefinitely.
Ujhelyi is
averaging
1 6.5 points
H and 5.4
J rebounds a
R game.
9 PHOTO BY ROBERT
R GRUEN
The two teams met two weeks
ago on Jan. 13, in a contest where
the Lady Gamecocks won sound
ly, 91-66. Jocelyn Penn tied her
career best 32 points in the game.
The team also shot a season high
56 percent.
The Lady Razorbacks’ lead
ing scorer was Dana Cherry with
19 points. Following her was
India Lewis with 17.
Arkansas is currently com
ing off a tough loss to LSU in
which they only allowed the Lady
Tigers 35 percent shooting from
the field. The Lady ’Backs fell
way behind thanks to some
dreadful shooting in the first half,
but made a brilliant comeback,
only to fall short in the end by
falling victim to some very cru
cial turnovers in the closing min
utes. LSU claimed the victory at
65-55.
Arkansas has struggled
shooting the ball all season and
now are facing a defense that
gives up less than 60 points per
game, and only allows teams to
hit 38 percent of their shots.
Also look for the Lady
Gamecocks to force a number of
turnovers in this game, possibly
more than LSU did. In their last
meeting versus USC, the Lady
’Backs turned the ball over 14
times.
This is an important game for
Carolina, being only a half game
out of first place in the SEC.
Three of the next four games are
on the road, including a contest
against No. 18 Florida in
Gainesville, Fla. The only home
game in that stretch is against
No. 16 Georgia, who will be look
ing to avenge a 71-64 loss to the
Lady Gamecocks in Athens, Ga.
earlier this month.
Comments on this story? E-mail
gamecocksports@hotmail.com
BRIEFLY
USC’s Brown, Paige
to play in Senior Bowl
A pair of USC football stand
outs — cornerback Sheldon
Brown and offensive tackle
Melvin Paige — are on the South
Team and will play in this
Saturday’s Senior Bowl in Mobile,
Ala. The all-star game will be tele
vised nationally by ESPN (5 p.m.).
The South Team is coached by the
staff of the NFL’s Arizona
Cardinals.
Brown, a 5-10, 190-pounder
from Fort Lawn, was a 2001 All
America selection (third-team by
The Sporting News) and was a
first-team AU-SEC pick (coaches
team).
He broke up a team-high 12
passes and was tied for the team
lead with three interceptions.
Brown had two interceptions in
the win over Clemson and a cru
cial interception and return in the
Outback Bowl against Ohio State,
which set up Daniel Weaver’s
game-winning 42-yard field goal as
time expired.
Paige, a 6-5,305-pounder from
Dillon, was a 2001 second-team All
SEC selection by the league’s
coaches. Paige finished his USC
career having started 38 games at
offensive tackle.
He was a four-year starter for
the Gamecocks and was the team’s
most consistent linemen the past
two seasons.
Women’s tennis team
starts season Friday
The 21st-ranked USC women’s
tennis squad opens the 2002 sea
son Friday at the Maxcy Gregg
Tennis Center when it plays host
to BYU at 12 p.m.
Facing off against the Cougars
for the 14th time in school histo
ry, the Lady Gamecocks hold a 7-6
advantage in previous meetings.
In the most recent meeting be
tween the two schools, the USC
claimed an 8-1 victory over the
Cougars in Columbia on March 12,
1999. That season, Carolina ad
vanced to the NCAA
Tournament’s “Sweet 16"’’
COME TO THE GAMECOCK’S INTEREST MEETING AT 7:30 P.M. ON
MONDAY, FEB. 3. E-MAIL GAMECOCKEDITOR@HOTMAIL.COM.
Red, White and Blue
@ Old Mill
* up to $2,000
^ , FREE RENT
OldMill
C^tfuiw/me/ru&
www oldmillapts com 809 ** Street (803) 996-25°°
www.oiamillapts.com Lexjngton> ^ 29072 Fax (goj) 996-25OI
MORE
PRANKS
THAN
HELL
WEEK