 | The Cavalier daily. Friday, February 28, 1969 |  |
Cagers Meet Deacs
In Last Home Game
By Bruce Franzel
Cavalier. Daily Staff Writer
Tony Kinn Sinks Layup (Left) While Mike Wilkes Battles Under Basket (Right)
In an attempt to gain their sixth
conference victory of the season, a
mark obtained only once by a
Virginia basketball team since the
formation of the Atlantic Coast
Conference in 1954, the Cavaliers
will take on the Wake Forest
Demon Deacons in University Hall
this Saturday night. It will be the
last home game and the last
regularly scheduled game of the
season and will leave only the ACC
Tournament for seniors Norm
Carmichael and John Gidding to
represent Virginia on the court.
The Cavaliers enter the game
with a 10-13 overall record and
5-8 conference mark.
Earlier this year the Deacons
defeated Virginia 90-66 in
Greensboro, North Carolina. Wake
is sporting a 16-8 overall mark and
a 7-6 conference record.
Virginia has been suffering from
a year end slump, having lost six of
its last seven contests. The last
defeat was an upset loss to a
previously unproductive Clemson
team 92-90. Only two victories over
the Maryland Terrapins separate the
Cavaliers from having lost their last
eight contests.
On Saturday night the Cavaliers
will once again be at full strength.
Mike Wilkes, the teams leading
scorer, returns to the lineup after
missing the Clemson game because
of an illness in the family. The
junior forward has scored 342
points in 22 games for a 15.6
average.
Despite ranking only sixth in the
conference, Virginia is second in
the ACC in both field goal percentage,
behind North Carolina and
rebounding, behind Duke. The
threesome of Wilkes, Gidding and
Carmichael rank two, three and
four in the conference in field goal
percentage and they hold the
eighth, fifth and tenth spots
respectively in rebounding.
Junior guard Tony Kinn has hit
a hot streak in the last two games,
pouring in 24 points against South
Coach Gibson Preps Forces During Time Out
to Clemson. Kinn ranks third on
the team with a scoring average of
12.6, despite having dropped from a
17.9 average last dropped as a
sophomore.
Wake Forest's winning record is
largely due to the presence of
sophomore Charlie Davis who has
been averaging 22 points a game,
good for the fourth spot in the ACC
in scoring.
On the Deacon's freshman squad
last season, Davis led the team with
a 28.1 average which won him the
starting berth on the varsity squad
this year. The 6-1 guard is also
currently the top free throw
shooter in the league with a 874
percentage. He has hit on 152 of
174 attempts.
Against American University on
February 15, Davis tossed in 51
points, the highest individual score
of any ACC player this season. It
also established a new Wake Forest
single game record, breaking the
previous mark set by All-American
Len Chappell of 50 set in 1962.
Davis has been the leading
Deacon scorer in 14 of their 24
games this season and he has been
over the 30 point mark in five
games.
The presence of Davis, the
return to the lineup of Mike Wilkes
and the last chance to see the
Cavaliers in Charlottesville this
season should be enough impetus to
bring out a large crowd to
University Hall this Saturday night.
| The Cavalier daily. Friday, February 28, 1969 | |