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North Carolina picked to win
1982 NCAA basketball crown
United Press International
NEW YORK — The road to the
NCAA championship may well
begin along Tobacco Road.
North Carolina, one of the
kingpins of college basketball, has
been named the No. 1 team in
preseason balloting by UPI’s
Board of Coaches.
The Tar Heels, who lost to In
diana 63-50 in last season’s cham
pionship game, are in strong posi
tion to at long last provide Coach
Dean Smith with that elusive
NCAA title.
Anchored by an imposing front
line and a gifted freshman class,
North Carolina was awarded 20
first-place votes and 574 total
points by the 42-member panel of
coaches.
UCLA was a tight second with
11 first-place votes and 556 points
followed by No. 3 Kentucky (four
first-place, 521 points). No 4.
Louisville (three first-place votes,
409 points) and No. 5. George
town (three first-place votes, 399
points). ,
The rest of the Top 10 is: No 6.
Virginia (one first-place vote, 293
points), No. 7 Wichita State (285),
No. 8. Iowa (255), No. 9 DePaul
(247) and No. 10 Minnesota (191).
Smith enters his 20th season at
North Carolina. One of the game’s
most innovative and respected
coaches, he has won 20 or more
games 11 straight years and been
to the Final Four six times. But
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Wilson says Ags ready
RITCHIE PRIDDY
Sports Editor
percentc e Texas Longhorns are com-
to town, and if that isn t
h to get the Aggies fired up
ursday’s game, nothing is.
ead coach Tom Wilson said
lay in his press conference
le wouldn’t have any trouble
g his players motivated for
game. Injuries, however,
play an important part in the
meeting between the Lon-
p | ns and Aggies.
'ilson said the status of Aggie
terback Gary Kubiak remains
-to-day mystery. Kubiak in-
his right shoulder against
and has not worked out with
jeam, and Wilson said he may
ow his quarterback’s situa-
until game time Thursday.
ie status of Gary Kubiak will
ably be questionable up until
time, Wilson, said. “We
to have him throwing the
a little bit today. His shoulder
adly bruised and very sore,
re just not going to know until
let him out there and see how
Isponds."
iked if he thought Kubiak
d be ready, Wilson replied:
always been a positive per-
:oI am going to say that he will
Jady. He needs to be and I am
ing very strongly that he will
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feel one-hundred percent
er,” Kubiak said Monday
t. “Yesterday I couldn’t move
achbut today I can. I feel good
it my chances. ”
case Kubiak doesn’t play
rsday, Wilson said he will
ttle John Elkins and Marvin
ley at quarterback throughout
game.
/don’t know if we woidd alter-
them every play, but we
dd alternate them quite a bit
ing the game.”
Ikins was also hurt during the
game when he was tackled
r along gain in the fourth quar-
Wilson said Elkins suffered a
d concussion but is all right
“I think his strength is throwing
the football,’’ Wilson said of the
sophomore quarterback. “He’s
got a strong arm. He’s a strong
runner, not nifty, though. He’s
similar to Kubiak in the type of
runner he is.’’
“Of course, Marvin is classified
as an option runner.’
Elkins has seen little playing
time. He’s carried the ball five
times for 22 yards, but has not
completed a pass in five attempts.
Wesley saw his first action
against TCU, carrying the ball five
times for 13 yards.
However, the quarterback
situation is not the only one
bothering Wilson.’’
“We’re still questionable in a lot
of areas,” he said. “We held Hec
tor, Little and Cannon out of the
TCU game. However, they’ve all
worked out this week and we anti
cipate that they will be ready to
play this week.
“We probably received more
injuries in the TCU game, overall,
than we had in our nine previous
games combined.”
Wide receiver Burnis Simon
and safety Chris Brown will miss
the game Thursday. Simon suf
fered a fractured ankle and will be
operated on this week, Wilson
said. Brown suffered a cracked
vertebrae which ended his career.
“We are very saddened about
Chris with the fractured neck.
Doctors say that he will not have
any permanent paralysis and that
pleases us a great deal,” Wilson
said. “He will not be able to play
football anymore, but that is not
the important thing. The impor
tant thing is that he he is going to
be OK.”
Wilson complimented his team
on Saturday’s performance against
TCU, saying the Aggies finally had
some breaks go their way.
“It was a good win for us,” he
said. “I thought it was a good, solid
game by the whole team - the
offense, defense and the kicking
game. We got some breaks in the
game that we took advantage of.
“I was very pleased to see our
offensive team control the ball on
the ground. TCU ran more offen
sive plays than we did but, at the
same time, we had the ball quite a
bit longer than they did.”
Wilson said that the defense
played one of its better games
against TCU, especially consider
ing the Frogs’ passing ability.
“Defensively, I thought we
played one of our sounder football
games, particularly against a pas
sing football team. It was one of
TCU’s lowest productive games of
the year.”
Wilson said that the coaching
staff challenged the team at half
time.
“They have been a very big
comeback team in the fourth quar
ter. So, we allowed TCU to have
the wind and the ball in the third
quarter. We felt that we had to
keep the point spread at least 13
and stay even with them in the
third quarter to win, which we
were able to do.”
The coaches chose junior full
back Earnest Jackson as the offen
sive player of the game. He
rushed for 219 yards on 19 carries
and three touchdowns. He also
caught one pass for 40 yards.
Junior linebacker Bobby
Strogen was named defensive
player of the game. Strogen inter
cepted a Reuben Jones pass in the
endzone to kill a TCU drive. He
also had five tackles.
Junior placekicker David Hardy
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the NCAA crown has never been
his.
The Tar Heels, although losing
forward Al Wood through gradua
tion, come back with two tough
big men in James Worthy and Sam
Perkins and an able point guard in
Jimmy Black. And Michael Jor
dan, one of the most ballyhooed
freshman in the country, will
strengthen an already outstanding
team.
Completing the Top 20 is: No.
11 Indiana, No. 12 Tulsa, No. 13
Georgia, No. 14 Wake Forest, No.
15 Missouri, No. 16 San Francis
co, No. 17 Alabama-Birmingham,
No. 18 Louisiana State, No. 19
Arkansas and No. 20 Nevada-Las
Vegas.
Balloting was based on 15 points
for a first-place vote, 14 for second
place, 13 for third, etc.
UCLA, under new coach Larry
Farmer, has one the nation’s best
backcourts in Rod Foster and
Michael Holton and extraordinary
depth at forward. And there is
now height in the middle with 7-
foot recruit Stuart Gray.
was voted special teams player of
the game. Hardy tied Tony Frank
lin’s record of three field goals in
one game. The three field goals
against TCU was the second time
in his career he’s done that.
TCU is out of the way and now is
the time to think of Texas, Wilson
said.
“I don’t think our football team
has to worry a great deal about
looking at last week’s TCU per
formance, or looking ahead to the
bowl game,” he said. “The only
thing that is on our mind is Texas.
“It’s been said many times that
anyone that comes to Texas A&M,
either as a football player or as a
student, knows the importance of
the A&M - Texas game.
“Our players are excited about
it, very much looking forward to
it. I feel that we are to the point
now where we are a very competi
tive team and we look forward to
the challenge that lies ahead of
us.”
Wilson talked to his players last
week about the rumors of his re
moval, and he told them not to get
involved in it.
“I told them that I didn’t think
they should be concerned about
it,” he said. “I know that they are
concerned about it, though. They
wouldn’t be human if they didn’t
think about it some. But, at the
same time, we as coaches and we
as a football team have said that we
are not going to talk a great deal
about it.
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