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Television has not been kind to the Georgia basketball
team this season Well, neither has the Southeastern Con
ference, but at least the Bulldogs have been able to win three
conference games thus far.
The Bogs are 0-2 on the tube - 0-3 if you count cable tape
delays Georgia goes on national TV Saturday against
nationally-ranked Kentucky (No 81 trying to end the streak
Tip-off is set for 3 p m in Lexington's Rupp Arena
The succession of TV losses began in the season opener
San Francisco outscored Georgia 92-80 on national TV on
CBS’s premiere college hoop telecast last November TVS
caught Georgia at home Jan 2, losing at the buzzer to
Kentucky 69-06 on Melvin Turpin s tip-in, and ESPN replayed
Alabama's 81 -66 shellacking of Georgia on Jan 20
But Georgia’s Hugh Durham is concerned with another
losing streak that is far more pressing than his scarcity of
wins on TV The Bulldogs are in the midst of their worst skid
since the 1979-1980 season when they dropped seven straight
Wednesday’s loss to Tennessee extended the streak to four
Georgia’s present string of defeats started at home Jan 16
when I-ouisiana State edged the Dogs 54-53. Then came the
devastating two-game trip to Alabama Georgia played its
worst basketball of the season Alabama's 81-66 win over
Georgia was worse than the score indicates At Auburn, the
Dogs (ell behind early and trailed the entire game before
losing 82-74
When the Dogs returned home for Wednesday's match-up
with Tennessee, it looked as if the streak would end. But the
Vols' Dale Ellis scored from the inside, outside i he was 13-15
from the field) and at the line for 28 points in Tennessee's 66-
64 win.
As for slumps, Kentucky worked out of one of its own It has
been a recurring problem for the last few seasons. It usually
comes during mid-January, but only lasts for a few games
The slump was not so drastic as Georgia’s, but it was bad
enough to drop the Wildcats two games behind league
leading Tennessee. After losing two straight to SEC foes Ole
Miss and Tennessee, the Wildcats got back on the winning
track by beating Florida.
Following the Wildcats 56-51 loss at Mississippi State
Wednesday night, Kentucky is 6-3 in the SEC (13-4 overall).
The Cats dropped to third in the conference behind Tennessee
and Alabama
The Wildcats have four starters averaging in double
figures Derrick Hord leads the Cats with 16.2 points. Guard
Jim Master is second with a 14.2 scoring average, followed by
6-11 center Melvin Turpin, 13.1, and point guard Dirk Min
efield, 11.6
Turpin is leading rebounder with 7.5.
The Dogs are led by Dominique Wilkins, who is leading
scorer with 19.3 points (Tennessee’s Dale Ellis is leading the
SEC with 21.9) and leading rebounder with 6.6. The only other
Dog scoring in double figures is guard Vern Fleming with
10.5. Terry Fair and Eric Marbury each have 9.6. Fair is
pulling down 6.2 rebounds.
Wildcats ’ Bowie way not return this year
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
folks at Kentucky don't like
to think about it, least of all
talk about it, but Sam Bowie
may not play basketball at
all this season
Time is running out for the
7-foot-l junior, who was
considered a candidate for
All-America honors but
hasn’t been able to play
because of slower-than-
expected recovery from a
shin stress fracture
The cast came off long
ago But Bowie, who had
hoped to be back in action by
late December, hasn't
overcome the atrophy that
wasted his leg and the
Wildcats are unwilling to
risk further injury until
doctors deem him fit.
"He looks like the same
old Sam Bowie in our non-
contact drills,” says a
Kentucky insider "But no
one has been willing to
chance his getting hurt
again Everyone agrees he
shouldn't play until the leg is
really ready."
It’s not unusual for a team
to redshirt an injured star —
Durand Macklin did that at
LSU But one of the things
that is gnawing at the
Wildcats is the dread that
Bowie may not be willing to
wait an extra year before
going after those big bucks
pro basketball keeps
throwing around
One thing is for certain:
Kentucky basketball without
Bowie has not been as good
as expected
Maybe the 8th-ranked
Wildcats (13-4) wouldn’t
have beaten 2nd-ranked
North Carolina up in New
Jersey last month even if
Bowie had been in the lineup,
but there’s no doubt his
presence under the boards
would have made a big
difference
And the Wildcats are
convinced they wouldn't
have suffered their other
three losses — 70-66 at 15th-
ranked Tennessee, 67-65 at
Ole Miss, and 56-51 Wed
nesday night at Mississippi
State, which snapped an 11-
game losing streak — if
Bowie had been available
The Wildcats had hoped
Melvin Turpin, a 6-11, 250-
pound sophomore, would be
an adequate replacement
until Bowie returned. But
Turpin has been averaging
only 13 points and seven
rebounds and isn't in
Bowie's class as a shot-
blocker
"We felt we were coming
along pretty well in
December (when the
Wildcats went 7-1), but it
seems like that tough pre
conference schedule took
something out of us," said
the insider
Kentucky Coach Joe Hall,
boiling over his inability to
pull the Wildcats out of their
stupor, was stunned when
the heavily-favored Wildcats
lost to Mississippi State.
"They broke us down
offensively and defen
sively,” Hall grumbled.
This was supposed to be a
season in which Kentucky
would win the Southeastern
Conference race in a breeze.
The Wildcats had all five
starters and five other let-
termen returning from last
year’s 22-6 team that
finished second to LSU, and
LSU lost four of its top six
players.
But doctors discovered
Bowie’s stress fracture a
month or so before the
season began and Hall said
from that point, “The story
at Kentucky is how we’re
going to do without Sam
Bowie. We'll have to make
some adjustments with
Melvin Turpin in the
lineup.”
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Gymnasts set for Tech Invitational
By CHARLESODUM
Itrd and Black < iMitriliutinK H ritrr
The Georgia men’s gymnasts will (ace their first crucial
meet of the young season this Saturday at 3 p m w hen they
compete in the Georgia Tech Invitational in Atlanta
Georgia will face Memphis State, Jacksonville State,
Eastern Kentucky, North Carolina Stale and Georgia Tech
all region opponents—in the Invitational Georgia defeated
Jacksonville State and lost to Memphis Stale earlier this
season.
Coach Steve Bonham will have a heallhy squad as Hoy
Hinz returns to action. Hinz. a sophomore, is the top return
ing all-arounder from the 1981 squad, and his presence should
add 15 to 20 points to the total score and make a big dif
ference, Bonham said
The return of Hinz should be enough (o make the men a (ac
tor in the meet, as he is returning to a much stronger team
than the Dogs had last year.
The l-l Bulldogs have been led thus far by freshmen Tim
Waggoner, the all-around winner in both meets. “Waggoner
has done real well for us," Bonham said. "We knew he would
be strong, and we are looking for continued improvement
from him."
Other strong performers for the men this year include
seniors Tommy Turco and Neil Odze, freshman W'aldon
Robert House, Mark Ewers, Ray Harris and Mark Parsons
Bonham said North Carolina State is the team to beat in the
meet "They have the highest meet score coming in, and we
know they will be a big challenge,” Bonham said "We also
know Georgia Tech is real tough this year, and Jacksonville
Stale has improved after getting their iop gymnast back."
Bonham also had a prediction about Memphis State, the on
ly learn to beat Georgia this year "We re gonna blow them
off the court," he said. "We fully expect to beat Memphis
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