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TV Game Closes Home Season

Cavs To Face 'Heels

By John Markson
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Photo By Howard Weinberg

Cavaliers' Star Sophomore Barry Parkhill Attempts Two-Pointer In Action Against N. C. State

Return To Form By Parkhill And Others Will Be Necessary To Defeat North Carolina At U Hall

Both a sellout University Hall
crowd and a regional television
audience will be watching as Bill
Gibson's road-weary Cavaliers take
their home court for the final time
this season on Saturday afternoon
when they tangle with the
University of North Carolina's
title-minded Tar Heels at 2 p.m.

The importance of the game to
both teams cannot be minimized. A
win for Carolina would clinch
them a share of the conference
crown that they have been eyeing
ever since they moved ahead of the
pack back in January while a win
for Virginia would snap the
Wahoo's current string of lopsided
losses and get them back, perhaps,
on form for the ACC Tournament.

With the disasters of Durham
and Raleigh still fresh in their
minds it seems inconceivable that
the Cavaliers won't be primed for a
superior effort tomorrow. In the
earlier meeting between the two
teams, a fight and foul plagued
contest in Chapel Hill won by
Carolina 80-75, Virginia led all the
way until a surge by UNC with five
minutes remaining brought the Tar
Heels from well behind to win.

Coincident with the Carolina
rally in that game was the early
departure on fouls of Barry Parkhill
and, with Parkhill's early fouling
troubles evidently in the past, a full
game from Barry could seemingly
make a big difference. The Cavaliers
were also hampered in that game by
the ejection of Bill Gerry and
UNC's Bill Chamberlain for
fighting, an exchange hardly
beneficial to Virginia.

The Cavs' slumping giants, Gerry
and Scott McCandlish, will again
face a stiff boards challenge, this
one mounted by 19 points per
game forward Dennis Wuycik and
6-11 Lee Dedmon. Chamberlain,
now averaging 13 points per game,
rounds out the Tar Heel
front court with substitutes Dave
Chadwick, a shooter with
game-breaking potential, Donn
Johnston and Craig Corson in
reserve.

At guard the 'Heels open with
dependable Steve Previs and
exciting George Karl, now scoring
almost 13 points per game and a
kamikaze on defense. The defensive
abilities of these men make the
North Carolina press the most
feared in a hard-pressing
conference.

The backcourt reserves are Dale
Gipple and Kim Huband, both most
often described as having "shots."
Like the front court subs neither has
ever been accused of playing much
defense but both are deadly with
their favorite shots and are within
range when inside thirty feet.

The game may hinge on the
ability of Virginia's guards, Parkhill,
Tim Rash and Chip Miller, to cope
with Carolina's tough defense and
the general ability of the team, a
tired-looking one recently, to stay
in step with the rested waves of
players UNC Coach Dean Smith
seems always to have at his
disposal.

In the freshman game, to be
played at 4 p.m., UNC's 10-3 Tar
Babies, led by the fifty points per
game combination of John
O'Donnell and Bobby Jones, take
on Virginia's 9-5 Cavayearlings.

Bill Chamberlain (left) And Dennis Wuycik (right) Lead UNC

Cavaliers Must Contain Star Tar Heel Tandem To Win Tomorrow