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Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1968 Griffin Daily News
South May Have Half
Os Top 10 Cage Teams
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPD—The South,
it’s ever - growing basketball
consciousness reflected in its
rash of large new coliseums,
may have half of the nation’s
top-10 college cage teams this
winter.
North Carolina, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Florida and David
son all appear to have what it
takes to wind up as UCLA’s
rival in the NCAA champion
ship game next March.
The North Carolina Tar
Heels, missing all - American
Larry Miller but with the other
four starters returning from
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last season’s NCAA runnerupthe gangly young man who set
club, looks like Dixie’s best.
But wait for a closer look at
Adolph Rupp’s Kentucky Wild
cats before making a final ap
praisal.
•'The Wildcats are looking
forward to a great year as I
believe we have some fine tal
ent returning,” says Rupp who
has won more games (782)
than any other college coach.
That issued could resolve it
self early for Kentucky hosts
North Carolina Dec. 7.
The individual everybody will
be watching here in the South
this winter is "Pistol Pete”
Maravich of Louisiana State —
18
a lew national record as a
sophomore last season when he
averaged a hard-to-belleve 43.8
points per game.
But "Pistol Pete” claims he
isn’t going after the scoring
title this time. “Let someone
else like Calvin Murphy (the
Niagara sharpshooter who was
runnerup last year with a 38.2
average) have it,” the free
thinking Maravich said recent
ly.
‘‘l’ve been working on my
dribbling and my passing.
We’re going to put on a real
circus at LSU this winter.”
As it now stands, with the
season openers only a few days
away, it looks like North Caro
lina will win the Atlantic Coast
Conference, Kentucky will win
the Southeastern, and Davidson,
especially now that West Vir
ginia has become an independ
ent, is a shoo-in in the other
wise relatively weak Southern.
Florida State, an at-large
NCAA entry last season, fig
ures to head up the region’s
independents.
Now, let’s take a closer look
at those conference races:
Atlantic Coast
North Carolina, 28-4 last sea
son and with starters Charlie
Scott, Rusty Clark, Dick Gru
bar and Bill Bunting all back,
was the overwhelming choice to
repeat as champion in a recent
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pre-season poll.
Duke, with only two starters
returning from a 22-6 campaign
but with some promising sopho
mores and Warren Chapman re
covered from an injury, was a
distant runnerup in that poll.
North Carolina State, with
three starters from a 16-10 club
and Bradley transfer Rick An
heuser, is the conference dark
horse while South Carolina and
Wake Forest appear to be the
best of the rest.
Southeastern
Kentucky has last year’s three
great sophs — Mike Casey, Dan
Issel and Mike Pratt — plus a
6-foot-10 sophomore and a cou
ple of fine redshirts. Although
a sophomore-dominated team a
year ago, the Wildcats posted a
22-5 record — finishing two
games ahead of Tennessee for
the league title.
Tennessee, 20-6 last year,
thinks sophomore Jimmy Eng
land will help veterans Bill Jus
tus, Bill Hann and 6-10 Bobby
Croft overcome Kentucky. Flor
ida’s hopes ride with 6-10 Neal
Walk, who led the nation in re
bounding last season with an
average of 19.8 per game.
Sophomore Todd Lalich, who
averaged 25.4 ppg as a fresh
man, could be the shooter the
Gators need to compliment
Walk’s board work. Walk also
was the No. 10 scorer in the
nation with his 26.5 average.
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Vanderbilt, figured to be big
ger and stronger than last
year’s 20-6 aggregation, is a
darkhorse behind 6-9 Bob Bun
dy, Tom Hagan and Perry Wal
lace, who last year was the
SEC’s first Negro basketball
player.
Despite Maravich, LSU doesn't
figure as a contender, although
all regulars return from last
year’s team which had a 14-12
mark.
Southern
It’s hard to see how Davidson
can be stopped. The Wildcats,
24-5 last season, have all five
starters back plus 6-6 soph
omore Steve Kirley who had a
24.3 ppg frosh average.
If there is a challenger, it is
expected to be either Richmond,
with four returning starters in
ducing 6-6 Wilton Ford who
averaged 20.4 and 6-7 soph Stan
Ryfinski, or George Washington.
The Colonials were only 5-19
last year but have added soph
omore Mike Tallent (29 ppg),
his brother Bob who transferred
in from Kentucky and 6-7, 220-
pound holdout Bill Knorr.
Independents
Florida State has nine vets in
cluding 6-8 Dave Cowens who
averaged 18.8 points and 16.9
rebounds per game and Jeff
Hogan This could be the Seml
noles' best year yet.
NBA Standings |
By United Press International
East
W. L. Pct. GB
Baltimore 16 5 .762 ...
Boston 13 5 .722 l’/a
Philadelphia 11 5 .688 2*4
Cincinnati 12 6 .667 2*4
Detroit 9 10 .474 6
New York 9 13 .404 7>/ 2
Milwaukee 5 13 .278 9>4
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Los Angeles 14 6 .700 ...
San Francisco 10 9 .526 3%
Atlanta 10 12 .455 5
San Diego 9 11 .450 5
Seattle 9 17 .346 8
Chicago 7 15 .318 8
Phoenix 5 12 2.94 7*/ 2
Tuesday’s Results
Detroit 134 San Diego 120
Baltimore 102 Atlanta 99
New York 104 Lo Angeles 100
Philadelphia 126 Phoenix 119
Seattle 99 Chicago 98
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Dan Curnutt who averaged 22.7
ppg; Georgia Tech bases its
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Virginia lost Ron Williams (21.4
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There’s A Ford
In Petty’s Future
CHARLOTTE, N. C. (UPD—
The famous "Petty blue” 1968
Plymouth Richard Petty rode to
NASCAR fame and fortune will
be seen no more around the
stock car circuits next year.
Petty, the most successful dri
ver In NASCAR history, an
nounced Tuesday he had signed
a contract with Ford Motor Co.
His first outing behind the
wheel of a blue Torino will be
Jan. 19 at Riverside, Calif., in
a 500 - mile event.
•‘We’ll run the majority of the
races as we have in the past,”
Petty said. “It’s up to us,
though, just how many we’ll
run.”
Piloting his famous No. 43
Plymouth, the "Randleman
Rocket” won 92 races during his
10 • year career to become
NASCAR’s top driver. He took
the point championship in 1964
and 1967, last year winning
$130,000 in purses to set a rec
ord that was erased this year
by Cale Yarborough of Tim-
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boils down to business, and
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in his Plymouth was a major
consideration for the switch,
which he said was in the mak
ing for the past two weeks and
sealed in Detroit Monday.
"There were certain malfunc
tions of equipment that could
have been corrected in between
races, but it seems that the
same things, such as oil pump
failure, kept happening, he
said
Petty won 16 races this year,
but only one long track event,
the American 500 at Rocking
ham at the close of the super
speedway season.