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80-74 Overtime Win

Cavaliers Wake Up, Put Duke To Sleep

By JOHN MARKON

Cavs' Jim Hobgood Drives In For Layup Against Duke's Willie Hodge

Did you ever wake up from
a bad dream and feel relieved
that you weren't really dead
after all? The Virginia Cavaliers
did. It happened at U-Hall just
last night as the Wahoos
overcame second-half deficits
as large as 11 points to whip
Duke, 80-74 in overtime.

Pacing the Cavaliers in their
second half comeback were
guard Al Drummond and
forward Wally Walker. Each
was scoreless at intermission
and each came on to score 16
points. Drummond did not
miss a shot of any description
in the second period and rallied
the team from a 52-41 deficit
with eight straight points.

With 6:31 remaining the
Cavs grabbed their first lead
when Drummond skied over
the taller Blue Devil
frontcourt men to tip in a
missed shot by Barry Parkhill,
who also netted 16 points.
After that the game became a
see-saw affair and was tied
66-66 with three seconds left.

At that precise instant
Parkhill, who never seems to
miss a shot in the last seconds
of any game, let fly with a
20-foot jumper that hit
nothing but net and seemingly
clinched the victory.

Not so, however, as, on the
Duke inbounds play, Parkhill
fouled Devil guard Kevin
Billerman, Billerman calmly
sank both ends of a
one-and-one free throw
situation and threw the game
into overtime.

Virginia quickly grabbed a
74-68 lead on hoops by Jim
Hobgood, who had 15 points
and contributed many key
shots from his typical long
range, and Parkhill and two
free throws by Drummond.
Duke began "intensifying"
their effective pressing defense
shortly after and the Cavaliers
won the game with a successful
parade to the foul line.

Forward Chris Redding led
Duke with 26 points and was
almost unstoppable inside as he
connected on ten of 12 shots.
Also in double figures for the
Devils were guards Pete Kramer
and Gary Melchionni with ten
points and Alan Shaw, a 6-11
"center" who spent a lot of
time around midcourt,
pumping in 11.

Virginia and Duke were
both bothered by the quick
and frequent whistles of
referees Otis "Cootie" Allman
and Jim Nichols 22 personal
fouls were called on each team
with Duke coach Bucky Waters
claiming his team's
abandonment of their effective
man-to-man press was due to
the large numbers of men he
had in foul trouble.

Forward Bill Suk was the
only Devil to foul out while
center Gus Gerard was the sole
Wahoo to draw five personals.
Gerard caught three of those
fouls in the first four minutes
and reserve pivotman Lanny
Stahurski did a good job filling
in for him for the next ten
minutes.

Stahurski drew his third
foul with four minutes
remaining in the first half and
Duke was able to exploit his
absence by running the score
up from 29-27 to their
eventual 40-29 halftime lead.

When asked what
inspirational remarks he may
or may not have addressed to
his squad at halftime, Cavalier
coach Bill Gibson remarked
"Let's just say that I didn't
recite poetry."