The Cavalier daily :: Friday, January 7, 1972 :: University of Virginia Library

The unbeaten Cavaliers,
unwilling to part with their
ninth ranking in this week's AP
poll, face three tough games,
including battles with ACC
foes N.C. State and North
Carolina, in the final week
before the semester break.

Indicted drug suspects Paul
Coder and Bob Heuts are just
two of the problems facing
Wolfpack Coach Norman Sloan
as he prepares N.C. State to
meet the Cavaliers tomorrow
night at Raleigh's Reynolds
Coliseum. Coder and Heuts,
exonerated during preliminary
hearings in early December,
were indicted by grand jury
Wednesday but still suited up
as the Wolfpack squandered
early first half leads to fall to
Maryland, 83-70.

Chosen third in pre-season
ACC polls and picked in some
Top Twenty listings, N.C. State
may have faced the hardest
schedule in the league so far,
but when you start three
sophomores and a junior
college transfer it is not
surprising that there are
adjustment problems at the
start of the year. State has
finished third in both the Big
Four and Gator Bowl
Tournaments but they have
felled Georgia, Purdue and
Duke on the way to a 6-4
record.

Tommy Burleson, billed as
the nation's tallest starting
collegiate player at 7-4, has
faced brutal defensive
formations and taunting fans
wherever he plays.
Nevertheless, Burleson has
fared admirably while facing
this pressure. First in the
league in rebounding and third
in scoring with a 20.2 average,
Burleson is up among the
leaders in both field goal and
free throw percentage and,
although he accumulated
considerable bench time due to
fouls, his meeting with
Maryland's Tom McMillen,
Wednesday night, wound up as
little more than a draw.

Steve Nuce, just one of
three Wolfpack stars from
Maryland's Montgomery
County, starts at one forward
and carries the third best
scoring average on the club.
Joining Nuce, a 6-8
sophomore, on the front line
will be either Coder or 6-7
Steve Graham, the brother of
Cavayearling Spence Graham.
Coder has been starting
recently and he has the
credentials, all-ACC second
team last year, but he may step
down in anticipation of
impending criminal
proceedings.

There is no suspense as to
the starting guard combination.
Joe Cafferky garnered
all-American honors last year
at Brandywine Junior College
and he guides the attack while
scoring at a 15.3 clip. Rick
Holdt, an anomaly for a college
guard, is 6-6, slow and the
possessor of a less than
spectacular shooting. One of
seven sophomores on the State
roster, Steve Smoral is the top
reserve at the guard position.

If the Cavaliers get by N.C.
State, they will try to stretch
their winning streak against
George Washington next
Wednesday at home. The
Colonials are only 1-5 but
more will be known after this
weekend's Presidential Classic.
Texas A&M, American
University and Virginia Tech
compose the field for the
Classic, to be held in
Arlington's quaint old car barn,
Fort Myer.

Long on talent, the
Colonials have been plagued
frequently by inconsistency.
Mike Battle and Lenny
Baltimore lead the team in
scoring and rebounding from
their front court positions.
Who plays up front with them
all depends on who is doing the
least poorly from a group of
about four or five fellows.

North Carolina is so
talent-laden that when last
year's NIT Most Valuable Bill
Chamberlain was suspended for
a couple of days early in the
season he lost his starting
position also, never to win it
back. Pan-American Games star
Bobby McAdoo, at 6-9 and
210 pounds, and Bobby Jones,
6-8 and 205 pounds, combine
for 19 rebounds a game and
McAdoo is second in the
conference in scoring while
Jones leads in field goal
percentage.

Lest you might have
forgotten, there is still
at North Carolina named
Dennis Wuycik. You can't run
out of things to say about him.
Leading Tar Heel scorer at 18.4
last year, Wuycik punished the
Cavaliers with 30 points in the
'75-74 cliffhanger at UHall late
last winter.

Cavalier Center Scott McCandlish Drives Against Maryland

Inside Strength A Must Against A Very Tall State Squad

Playmates for these four are
George Karl and Steve Previs
and in case you don't like them
Kim Huband, John O'Donnell,
Ray Hite and several others are
capable of coming in and
making sweet music just like
the others. All in all it shapes
up as a classic struggle when
the Cavaliers meet UNC for the
first time this year, Saturday
night, January 15, at
University Hall.