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‘Men from UNCC,’
a Cinderella story
By The Associated Press
Top-rated Michigan and
third-ranked Kentucky bit the
dust Saturday, No. 2 UCLA
bowed out two days earlier and
San Francisco, which held the
top spot for much of the season,
has been long gone from the
National Collegiate basketball
championships. But the “Men
from UNCC” are still alive.
The “Men from UNCC” isn’t
a TV spy story. It’s more a
Cinderella tale in which a school
whose basketball history only
dates back a dozen years
knocks off the No. 1 team in the
nation to make the cham
pionship round-of-four in At
lanta next weekend.
If you’re not aware of it by
now, UNCC stands for the Uni
versity of North Carolina at
Charlotte, as differentiated
from THE University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, which
also advanced to the national
semifinals and which hereafter
shall be known simply as
“North Carolina.”
Joining them are Marquette
and the University of Nevada at
Las Vegas. Saturday after
noon’s nationally televised sem
ifinals sends fourth-ranked Ne
vada-Las Vegas against No. 5
North Carolina, followed by the
“Men from UNCC," rated 17th,
against seventh-ranked Mar-
Bonnies win NIT
NEW YORK (AP) - Ever
hear of a basketball player who
recruits himself? Greg Sanders
did.
“I sent St. Bonaventure a
brochure about my high school
career,” says Sanders, “just to
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quette.
The pairings came about last
Saturday when North Carolina
upset Kentucky 79-72 in the East
Regional, the “Men from
UNCC” shocked mighty Mich
igan 75-68 in the Mideast, Mar
quette trimmed Wake Forest 82-
68 in the Midwest and Nevada-
Las Vegas ran away from Idaho
State 107-90 in the West
Regional.
If UNCC meets UNLV in the
finals, it might be mistaken for
a spelling bee. And North Caro
lina Gov. Jim Hunt has sug
gested that the NCAA’s name be
changed to North Carolina
Athletic Association. Imagine if
Wake Forest had made it, too.
The No. 1 Man from UNCC is
a lanky 6-foot-8 center with the
catchy handle of Cedric “Corn
bread” Maxwell, who led the
the 49ers past Michigan with a
25-point, 13-rebound show. Lew
Massey added 19 and Kevin
King helped hold Michigan cen
ter Phil Hubbard to just 14.
“We’ve never played guys
like that before,” marveled
Michigan All-American Rickey
Green, who led the Wolverines
with 20 points. “Their arm
reach was so long I couldn’t be
lieve it. No matter how high
you’d get your shot, it seemed
like they’d be waiting to tip it.”
If UNCC is Cinderella, veter-
make sure they knew I was
alive."
St. Bonaventure got the mes
sage — and then got Sanders. It
turned out to be a happy cor
respondence.
Sanders became one of the
school’s best forwards and led
the Bonnies to a dramatic 94-91
victory Sunday over Houston in
the final of the 40th National
Invitation Tournament.
“This is just a dream come
true,” said Sanders in the eu
phoria of the winners’ locker
room at Madison Square Gar
den. “This is just wonderful.”
Sanders says that he had 150
offers for his services, but ulti
mately settled on St. Bonven
ture “because I wanted to be a
an Marquette Coach Al
McGuire, with his past pen
chant for drawing costly techni
cals, certainly isn’t Prince
Charming. However, McGuire
will have plenty of followers in
Atlanta, having announced his
retirement at the end of this
season.
McGuire would have been
granted early retirement but
for a career-high 18-point per
formance against Wake Forest
by 6-9 substitute Bernard Toone
to go with Bo Ellis’ 20 and Butch
Lee’s 19. Toone, a sophomore,
will be back on the bench when
the ball goes up against UNCC.
And he’ll probably be off the
bench in a hurry if the Warriors
fall behind again.
North Carolina was comfort
able most of the way against
Kentucky’s physical Wildcats
despite the loss of foul-plagued,
sore-elbowed All-American Phil
Ford for the last 19 minutes.
While he was in there, Ford
scored only two points. But his
backcourt mate, John Kuester,
took over, running the Tar
Heels’ four-comer offense down
the stretch and hitting four cru
cial free throws in the final 72
seconds after Kentucky had
whacked a 15-point deficit to
just one.
big fish in a small pond.”
He has developed into the
team’s leading scorer — and
Sunday was certainly the big
shot on the court. Sanders
scored 40 points, including the
go-ahead shot with 40 seconds
left.
When Sanders first let the ball
fly, St. Bonaventure Coach Jim
Sataiin was not sure it was a
high-percentage shot.
“I looked at it and it was one
of those ‘No, no, no — oh, yes!’
shots,” said Sataiin. “Had it not
gone in, that would have been a
bad shot. But since he scored,
we’ll say it was a good one.”
The way Sanders was shoot
ing, every shot was a good one.
The cool, efficient junior hit 14
of 23 field goal attempts, many
of them difficult, twisting shots
that had the Bonnie-oriented
crowd of 12,451 roaring with
pleasure.
Sanders, who had the hottest
hand in the Garden after Hous
ton’s Otis Birdsong cooled off,
thought he had every right in
the world to take the shot, even
though it was on the run and
from 20 feet out.
“I was open,” said Sanders
succinctly, “and I just took it.”
Before Sanders became the
game’s dominator, Birdsong
was the Garden’s adored figure.
He scored 36 of his 38 points to
help the Cougars take a 73-63
midway through the second
half. But then he ran out of gas,
coming up with only one field
goal the rest of the way.
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North Carolina-Charlotte center, Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell goes up for rebound against
Michigan’s Phil Hubbard in Saturday’s NCAA Mideast regional tournament. Maxwell
scored 25 points, dominated the boards with 13 rebounds and helped his team defeat
Michigan 75-68 to represent the Mideast in the semi-finals in Atlanta. (AP)
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Petty outruns field
HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) -
There is a sign on the wall in
Richard Petty’s garage which
says, “There are good years,
and there are bad years...and
then there was last year."
Petty had fewer victories last
year in Grand National stock
car racing than at any time in
his career since 1961.
But now there is this year.
Things have turned around
completely for the six-time na
tional champion.
“We’ve won two out of five so
far this season, and I suppose
with a little better luck, we
could have had a chance to
make it five out of five,” Petty
said after winning Sunday’s At
lanta 500.
“There are only three or four
cars that can win everytime
out—the ones that don’t have
trouble win, and the ones who do
don’t.
“We were never really in a
position to do it last year.”
But with some diligent work
in the off-season, Petty’s crew
came up with some extra go
power.
“Yes, we have more horse
power, but most of them out
there are pulling substantially
more horsepower. By substan
tially, I mean 15-20 more than
last year,” Petty said, not re
vealing how much more power
he is enjoying. “My car won’t
run if it don’t pull rpms. We’ve
always had a lot of rpms. The
trouble was keeping everything
together while pulling ’em.”
Everything stayed together
Sunday, except for parts of the
right rear fender on Petty’s
Dodge, where the driver eased
twice into the wall on turn No. 2.
“It was real loose all day
long. And the track started to
break up in turn two. There’s a
big patch of red mud out there,”
he said.
Otherwise, Petty’s troubles—
in the form of Cale Yar
borough—were far behind him
at the finish. Yarborough drove
almost the last half of the race
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Petty’s brother Maurice told
Yarborough, "We were lucky
you had trouble.”
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