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Sports
Duke unanimous selection
in R&B top twenty rankings
Just as was done with football
fall quarter, the Red dt Black
sports staff will use its compli
cated rating system to give you
readers a weekly ranking of the
nation's top 20 college basket
ball teams.
Staffers Andy Cook. Ed
Legge. Don White and Norm
Reilly will submit ballots each
week of who they feel are the
country's top teams. After this
week, the R&B top twenty will
appear in each Wednesday's
edition.
The Duke Blue Devils of the
Atlantic Coast Conference now
rank as the number one team
after gaining a concensus vole.
DePaul. which had a big victory
over UCLA over the holidays is
ranked number two. followed by
Ohio State, and SEC power
Kentucky, which has a 12-2
record.
LSU. even though it fell to
Vanderbilt last week, has a hold
on the number five spot with a
9-1 mark while Notre Dame.
Purdue. Syracuse. Virginia.
Iowa and North Carolina round
out the top ten.
Louisville, with a 10-2 record,
heads the list of the second
ten. Oregon State, a 76-67
winner over UCLA last week, is
the number 12 team in the
nation followed by St. Johns.
Missouri and Indiana.
Indiana had been the presea-
son favorite to take the national
title, but a season-ending injury
to All-American Mike Wtmdson
seriously jeopardized their
chances, as have four losses.
Brigham Young. Tennessee
(which upset Kentucky Satur
day ). Georgetown and UCLA
round out the top twenty.
1.
Duke
11-0
2.
DePaul
10-0
12.
3.
Ohio St.
9-1
13.
4.
Kentucky
12-2
14.
5.
LSU
9-1
15.
6.
N. Dame
7-1
16.
7.
Purdue
8-2
17.
8.
Syracuse
10-0
18.
9.
Virginia
11-1
19.
10.
Iowa
10-1
20.
N. Carolina 5-3
Louisville 10-2
Oregon St. 131
St. Johns 9-1
Missouri 11-1
Indiana 7-4
BYU 11-3
Tennessee 9-3
Georgetown 9 2
UCLA 8-3
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Bv NORM REILLY
Sports editor
ATLANTA—Georgia got its
first taste of bigtime college
basketball back on Dec. 17 when
15.700 people jammed the Omni
to see the Bulldogs take on the
Kentucky Wildcats. And though
the mighty Wildcats triumphed
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years. Kansas. Michigan, and
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Georgia will serve as host of the
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December.
While Georgia stayed with
the Cats point for point through
three-quarters of the first half,
the vociferous Georgia fans
made their presence known to
Kentucky. They even prompted
the Wildcats' star guard Kyle
Macy to say. “they reminded
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The game was nip and tuck
the first 14 minutes before the
Cats proceeded to reel off 16
unanswered points, mainly on
the outside shooting of Macy
and Dwight Anderson, who
combined for 48 points. Just last
week, however. Anderson quit
the team and withdrew from
school for what were called
“personal reasons.’’
At halftime. Kentucky led
45-28 and the outmanned Dogs
never managed to get any closer
in the second half.
“With our inability to func
tion offensively, we came down
14 times and got nothing,’’ a
disappointed Durham said of
Georgia's fatal cold stretch late
in the first half. "Also.-
Kentucky brought out a weak
ness I’ve been concerned with—
our defensive guard play."
One of the reasons the
Bulldogs couldn't get back in
the game in the second half was
the consistency which Macy and
Anderson ripped the nets on
their outside jumpers. The
backcourt duo out scored their
Georgia counterparts. 48-9. and
shot 21 of 33 from the field. The
senior All-American Macy was
the game's high scorer with 28
points.
"In Macy. we may have gone
against the number one floor
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Durham said. The Bulldog
coach also called the since-de
parted Anderson “one of the
quickest and most explosive
players" around.
Georgia and its fans did have
a few bright moments, though
you couldn’t tell it by the
iopsided final score. Freshman
Dominique Wilkins, the Dogs
top scorer with 21. brought the
Omni crowd to its feet several
times with some tremendous
slam dunks while center Lavon
Mercer held his own against
Kentucky’s Sam Bowie, scoring
an individual season-high 17
points and grabbing a game-
high 12 rebounds.
“Losing to Kentucky's no
disgrace,’’ Durham said, “but 1
wasn't particularly pleased with
the intensity with which we
played. The thing that im
pressed me the most about
Kentucky was that even after
they got their big lead, they still
went after us aggressively."
The 15.700 who had shown up
had not come to see Kentucky;
they’d come to see the Bulldogs,
and though the 26-point loss
wasn't exactly what they had
hoped for. one thing was clear to
them as they filed out of the
Omni. After years of lackluster
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Assistant sports editor
No one’s laughing
Winter was once a dreadfully embarrassing time for
Georgia sports fans. After football seasons that more
often than not ended in bowl appearances, Bulldog fans
were subjected to a horror show more hideous than even
Alfred Hitchcock could coniure. It wasn’t a band of
ruthless savages that brutally murdered innocent victims
No, it was worse than that. It was a three month
nightmare called Bulldog basketball
A few tidbits of history explain why even the most
dedicated followers looked for the nearest door when the
Dogs’ roundhall program was mentioned
For instance, in the last 27 years Georgia has posted
winning records four times. In 73 years, only once has a
team won 20 games in a season. The Dogs have never won
an SEC championship in basketball. Georgia has beaten
Kentucky just eight times in 69 tries. One could rave on
about the golden days but space doesn't permit it.
With such enviable statistics, it has been no surprise
that fans stayed away in droves from the Coliseum.
Maybe, on a cold night, a few wayward students would
straggle in to get warm, but who could blame them for
not wanting to see the Dogs get manhandled by
powerhouses like Rollins, Brown, and Farleigh
Dickinson?
Obviously, the players and the coaches were woefully
inadequate to bring big-time college basketball to Athens,
or for that matter, bring competitive basketball to town.
For 14 years during the 1950s and 60s. Harbin “Red”
Lawson guided the Bulldogs to 14 consecutive losing
seasons. Must have been a long-term rebuilding program.
After Lawson, Ken Rosemond surprisingly coached four
winning teams in his eight years at the helm. Then came
John Guthrie, who took up where Lawson left off. The
“little round man” had five losing seasons in five years
as the Dogs finished in the SEC cellar three of those
years.
It took a lot of alumni pressure on the administration to
hire a nationally-recognized coach like Hugh Durham.
With a 9-2 record after Saturday's game, it looks like a
long awaited winning season is on tap for 1980
Many have criticized Durham for "padding" this year’s
schedule with opponents like Eckerd and Whittier.
However, these critics seem to have forgotten that
Georgia used to lose to teams like these And why should
a crop of green freshmen take on buzzsaws like Notre
Dame and UCLA after playing Central High School for
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