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Summitt
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practice situations. When I don’t
feel that way, I’m out of here.”
Summitt was hired as a gradu
ate teaching assistant and wom
en’s coach at Tennessee in 1974 at
age 22. She earned her first career
victory in the team’s second game
in January 1975.
It took Summitt nearly four
years to reach her 100th win on
Jan. 13,1979, at North Carolina
State. She won her 300th at home
on Jan. 4, 1987, against North
Carolina. She picked up No. 500
against Ohio State in Jackson,
Tenn., in 1993.The Lady Vols won
85-62 at Wisconsin on Dec. 5,1999,
as Summitt joined Texas coach
Jody Conradt as the only two
women’s college basketball coach
es to reach 700 wins. Summitt said
winning 800 games wasn’t one of
her goals.
“Someone asked me last week
if I was determined to beat others
to 800.1 said, ‘No, I was deter
mined to play and coach and try
to win every game we’re involved
in,’” she said. “Maybe down the
road when I reflect, I will realize
what it does mean. I think the
thing that stuck out was when I
saw Dean Smith and Adolph Rupp
at the top of the list.”
Tennessee (12-3) made it clear
early in the game that Summitt
wouldn’t have to wait until the
next game to reach the milestone.
After the Blue Demons (12-4) tied it
at 2 in the opening minute, it was
all Tennessee. The Lady Vols slow
ly built a lead and then went on an
18-0 run in the first half.
Reserve Brittany Jackson start
ed it with two consecutive 3-point
ers. Loree Moore caught a pass be
hind her, dribbled it around her
back and drove to the basket and
then Tye’sha Fluker capped the
run on a putback that gave
Tennessee a 36-10 lead with 5:19 re
maining before halftime.
The Lady Vols’ lead didn’t drop
below 19 the rest of the way.
As the last seconds ticked away,
the fans rose to their feet and
chanted, “800,800,800!”
When the game ended, Summitt
walked over and hugged DePaul
coach Doug Bruno then hugged
each player as orange and white
confetti rained onto the court.
School officials played a taped
congratulatory message from
Smith on the arena’s video board
and then presented Summitt with
a cake, roses and game ball. She
posed with her team and the
DePaul players and coaches for
pictures.
“I am amazed and excited to
have been a part of this,” senior
Kara Lawson said. “She is going
to set a lot more records, and when
years from now we look back at
playing at Tennessee, we’ll look
back on playing for the greatest
coach in college basketball.”
Summitt does have more goals
to achieve, including winning a
seventh national title.
“It’s just to keep getting better,”
she said. “Our basketball team has
pretty much the same goal every
year. We want to be in Atlanta,
and we want to cut down the nets.”
Basketball
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strous dunks by Howell got it
within three.
Carolina trailed by as much as
10 with 6:20 to go, but two Boynton
3-pointers and a pair of Eidson free
throws cut the lead to three.
Daniels then answered with a
□ jump shot over
Howell and two
free throws to seal
the win for the
Tigers.
Carlos Powell
was injured early
in the second half
but returned to
play with 10:36 to
go. Powell’s injury
was diagnosed as a mid-high an
kle sprain, and he is listed as prob
able to play against Florida.
USC now turns its attention to
Saturday night’s matchup with
the sixth-ranked Florida Gators at
the Carolina Center. Florida (14
2,3-0) is coming off a 77-64 victory
over Tennessee on Wednesday
night, in which Matt Bonner
scored a season high 25 points for
the Gators.
Bonner was 5-for-7 from the
three-point line and David Lee
added 14 points and seven re
bounds to extend Florida’s win
streak to 10. Bonner leads the SEC
East’s top team with 15.1 points
per game.
Freshmen Matt Walsh and
Anthony Roberson are averaging
14.8 and 14.4 points per game, re
spectively. Roberson was named
last week’s SEC Player of the
Week after nailing a buzzer beater
to down the Georgia Bulldogs.
Florida head coach Billy
Donovan said, “Traveling to
Columbia is a challenge for any
basketball team. They have a lot
of excitement with the addition of
a new arena. They play very well
at home, and we will have to be on
top of our game. I have a lot of re
spect for them and their pro
gram.”
Odom knows it will take a
strong game from USC’s post play
ers to have a chance against the
Gators.
“We’re taking far too many out
side shots,” he said. “Florida is
definitely the wrong team to try to
outshoot from the outside. We’ve
got to work extremely hard the
next two days to get the ball inside
in a position to score.”
Tip-off for Saturday’s game is
at 8 p.m
The game will the first sold out
USC basketball game at the
Carolina Center.
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SEC Standings
EASTERN CONF. OVERAU.
Florida J3-0_14-2
Kentucky3-013-3
Georgia 1-19-4
USC 1-2 7-6
Tennessee1-28-4
Vanderbilt 1-2 8-6
WESTERN CONF. OVERALL
Auburn1-014-2
Alabama 2 0_12-2
Louisiana State 1-012-2
Arkansas0-15-8
Ole Miss0-19-4
Mississippi State 0-1 10-4
BRIEFLY
Track will compete
at Virginia Tech
In only the second meet of
this infant 2003 season, the
South Carolina track and field
team is quickly diving into the
national competition circuit as
they will compete at the
Virginia Tech Invitational this
weekend in Blacksburg, Va.
The Gamecocks will be com
peting against six other na
tionally-ranked teams, includ
ing the third-ranked Tennessee
men’s team and the sixth
ranked North Carolina wom
en’s team.
South Carolina has 12 male
and female athletes in the
“Dandy Dozen” in 12 different
events with many athletes
ranked in more than one event.
The Dandy Dozen is the top 12
rankings of the nation’s colle
giate athletes by
Trackwire.com, the official
source of the weekly power
ranking of NCAA Division I
collegiate track & field teams.
The Gamecock men’s team
is ranked fourth in the natjon
while the women are ranked
second.
Bailey gets second
SEC weekly honor
USC women’s track senior
Aleen Bailey was named the
SEC Athlete of the Week in
track and field for the week
ending Jan. 12.
Bailey began the season by
taking victories in the 60-meter
dash (7.43) and the 200-meter
dash (24.06) at the Father
Diamond Open at George
Mason University last weekend.
The St. Mary, Jamaica, na
tive was the only female ath
lete to claim two titles at the
meet. Both of her times were
NCAA provisional qualifying
times.
This marks Bailey’s second
Athlete of the Week honor for
her career and South
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Carolina’s first honor since
~ Bailey won it in Feb. 6,2002.
Baseball picked as
1st in SEC East
The 2003 USC baseball team
has been selected to finish in
first place in the SEC Eastern
Division, as voted by the
league’s 12 baseball coaches in
the 12th annual preseason SEC
poll.
Carolina owns preseason
rankings of eighth (Collegiate
Baseball) and 14th (Baseball
America).
Over the past three seasons
under head codch Ray Tanner.
Carolina has won more games
(162) than any team in Division
I baseball.
The 2002 Gamecocks set a
single-season team record for
wins, finishing with a 57-18
record. They lost to the Texas
Longhorns in the champi
onship game at the College
World Series.
South Carolina opens the
2003 season on Feb. 7 at 3 p.m.
at Sarge Frye Field against
Charleston Southern.
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