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6 • The Red and Black • Wednesday, January 24, 1990
■ DOG TALK
Diamond Dogs Dos
Baseball America has ranked Georgia to finish second in the SEC this
season. Also Senior Brian Jester was a preaeason All-SEC pick at des
ignated hitter and freshman outfielder Ray Suplee is the preseason
freshman of the year and was tabbed as the fifth best freshman in the
land. Left-handed pitcher Stan Payne was picked as the country’s 23rd
best incoming fresnman.
Track teams travel
The Georgia track teams will travel to Johnson Citv, TN this weekend
to compete in the prestigious Eastman Invitational on January 26-27.
The meet will consist of many teams from the SEC, as well as a host of
teams from around the country.
The Super Dogs compete
Four ex-Bulldogs will be competing in this weekends Superbowl in
New Orleans, La. Guy McIntyre, a Bulldog from 1979-1983, plays of
fensive guard for the San Francisco 49’rs. Fellow Forty-niner team
mate Keith Henderson, who toted the pigskin for Georgia in 1985,
1986 and 1988 before leaving early for the NFL plays fullback. Trying
to help end the Denver Broncos winless streak in Superbowl games
will be offensive guard Winford Hood, 1981-1983, and tight end Clar
ence Kay, who played with Georgia from 1980-1983.
— Gene Williams
Harron takes responsibility as leader
By JAY WILSON
Sports Writer
Over the past four years,
Bulldog reserve Mike Harron hag
become a crowd favorite and a
team leader. This year Durham
and the Dogs will look for Harron,
a 6-2 senior from the Marist School
in Atlanta, to continue to be a
leader on and off the court.
Harron is one of only two seniors
on this year's squad. As a re
turning senior, he realizes his re
sponsibility to the team.
“You have to step forward as a
senior. It’s a real tough league and
a long season. I must help keep ev
eryone motivated. I must be able to
do anything on any given night,”
Harron said.
This ability aided both him and
the Bulldogs in his freshman
season, 1986-87.
That was the now-legendary
“miracle worker” season. Harron
walked on and, through a combina
tion of team injuries and hard
work, earned a scholarship.
“I came up in 1986. Coach
Durham gave me the opportunity
to walk-on. The injuries to three
starters gave me a chance to play
right away. I wasn’t expecting it."
This year Harron has received
less playing time than he did in his
first season at Georgia. His role on
the court has become more defined
as a consequence.
“I have shot more this year than
in the past. Coach Durham looks
for me to pick up the tempo and in
crease defensive intensity when
I’m on the court,” Harron said.
Even though his playing time
has decreased, hie popularity
among fans iB as high as ever.
Rarely does a game in the Col
iseum pass without the chant of
“Mike” ringing through the stands.
“The chanting makes you feel
good. The crowd makes you come
out and play a little harder. Hope
fully attendance will go up. It's fun
to play against top teams in front
of a sold-out house,” Harron said.
Harron hopes to leave the uni
versity the way he came, with a
trip to the NCAA tournament.
Harron said that the team’s hopes
rest on consistency and intensity.
"Consistent play is the key for
the rest of the season. We must be
able to win on the road. The young
guys must realize that if we’re not
intense we could lose any game.”
Mike Harron: Crowds chant for him at every game
Georgia basketball emerges in the 80s as more than just a filler sport
By ROBERT McDONALD
Sports Writer
This is the last in a series of articles spotlighting
Georgia athletics in the eighties.
Hurt by playing at a school where for years basket
ball was thought of as nothing more than something
to watch between the end of football’s regular season
and spring football practice, Georgia’s men’s basket
ball program spent the decade of the 1980’s stamping
its mark on the map of the basketball world.
Under the direction of coach Hugh Durham, the de
cade was marked by standout players, some suprising
teams and a general role reversal from spectators of
post-season play to participants.
“I think the decade of the 80s was a decade where
we established some basketball tradition at Georgia,”
Durham said. “If you look back, their was none be
fore.”
The Bulldogs earned their first ever post-season
tournament berth in the 1980-81 season as it reached
the second-round of the National Invitational Tourna
ment.
Overall, Georgia has seen post-season action eight
of the past 10 years, with five squads playing in the
NIT and three reaching the NCAA tournament.
By far, the Bulldog’s best post-season showing came
in the 1982-83 season when a darkhorse Georgia
squad led by All-American Vern Fleming, Terry Fair
and James Banks reached the NCAA Final Four in Al-
buqerque, NM.
Georgia stunned the heavily favored Tarheels of
North Carolina 82-77 in the round of eight games to
reach the national semifinals where it was beaten 67-
60 by eventual champion North Carolina State.
Another surprise team was the “Miracle Workers”
squad of 1987. Devastated by the loss of several key
players, the team led by future NBA first-round pick
Willie Anderson somehow managed an 18-12 record, a
third place finish in the Southeastern Conference and
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Durham’s Dogs hope to raise their
game to yet another level during the
next decade so that roundball
season will mean more to the
school than just a recess from
football.
a bid to the NCAA tournament.
“I liked that team because they pulled together and
went a long way,” Durham said.
The surprises continued last season, only this time
few of Georgia’s new-found basketball supporters
were left smiling as the Bulldog team, picked by many
to win the SEC, struggled to a 15-16 record and
watched the NCAA tournament on TV.
The Human Highlight Film, Dominique Wilkins,
premiered for Georgia from 1980-82. Now an Atlanta
Hawk of the NBA, Wilkins was the program’s first
big-time player, earning All-America honors in 1981
and 1982 and delighting audiences with a breathta-
kingly acrobatic style of play.
Forever to be known as the “top dog of dunk,” Wil
kins left school after his junior year to become a first-
round draft choice. Many still wonder what would
have been if Wilkins and his 21 ppg average had
clayed to play for the ’83 team which made the Final
Four without him.
The program has also seen a Bulldog player play on
the last two Olympic basketball squads (Fleming ’84
and Anderson ’88) and has produced nine all-SEC per
formers over the past 10 years.
One of those All-SEC performers was Cedric Hen
derson, who was selected in 1985, his only season with
the Bulldogs. After attending several nigh schools,
Henderson chose to attend Georgia where he showed
flashes of brilliance in his rookie year.
His college career ended when the NCAA ruled him
ineligible to play for Georgia because of rule violations
in his recruitment.
Other memorable names in Bulldog basketball his
tory over the decade include La von Mercer, Donald
Hartry, Joe Ward, Toney Mack, Patrick Hamilton and
from this year’s squad Litterial Green and Alec
Kessler.
Kessler, if he continues his present level of play,
should join Wilkens, Fleming and Anderson as Bull
dogs selected in the first round of the NBA draft
during the decade.
Durham’s Dogs hope to raise their game to yet an
other level during the next decade so that roundball
season will come to mean more to the school than just
a recess from football.
“Now that we’ve laid the foundation, we can look to
ward the 90’s and hope to maintain the same level of
success,” Durham said.
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