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ACC
Awards

With Doug Doughty

N.C. STATE AND STAR CENTER TOM BURLESON
were the championship team and most valuable player at this
weekend's ACC Tournament, Maryland was the runnerup team
and each of the players on the two top teams took home little
trophies for their efforts. There was also an All-Tournament
team. It's a shame they didn't give out more awards. There are
some good nominations:

WORST TEAM: The Clemson Tigers came to Greensboro
with high hopes of an upset over highly-ranked but
upset-prone Maryland. They said Maryland looked like the
Philadelphia 76ers (9-65) in this Thursday game, but they still
beat Clemson by 16, 77-61. Clemson shot a marvelous 33.8
per cent and committed 20 turnovers, paced by Dave Angel's
tourney-leading seven.

LEAST VALUABLE PLAYER: Clemson's Bud Martin who
at six feet even chose to take all of his six shots inside, an area
very susceptible to blocks. Martin went 1-6 and his coach was
to say afterward "Buddy was scared to shoot." Whenever
Martin was liable to come out, Coach Tates Locke had to
substitute Jive Brown, a 1-9 shooter. It made for quite a
predicament: Pat Kelly, the 6-9 center for Wake Forest, was a
leading contender for LVP until he made an important layup
late in the Wake-Maryland game. True to form, however, he
missed a chance to turn it into a three-point play.

MOST POPULAR PLAYER: Had to be the 'Hoos' Barry
Parkhill, who received what they said to have been the biggest
standing ovation ever given at Greensboro.

LEAST POPULAR PLAYER: Close vote between
Maryland's Rich Porac and Billy Hahn with Porac getting the
edge on experience. Porac and Hahn leap off the bench with
each Maryland bucket and reach the height of inanity when
they slap hands with teammates as they pass the bench.

UGLIEST PLAYER: It's been quite a career for the
Maryland redhead. It culminated the last two weeks of the
year when caricatures of him and his coach were distributed
through crowds at Charlottesville and Greensboro.

MOST LACKADAISICAL PLAYER: Owen Brown chews
gum while out on the court and outdid himself by blowing
bubbles into the hair of State's Rick Holdt in the final game.

MOST VIOLENT PLAYER: The player who was so upset
by his lack of playing time that he threw his bed through the
wall at the hotel at which his team was staying, creating a
passageway to the adjoining room

MOST NOTABLE ABSENCE: Clemson's Ron DiPasquale.
DiPasquale was caught drinking Jose Cuervo (the brand name
for a prominent Mexican thirst-quencher) during one of the
Tigers' late-season road trips and has been irrevocably
dismissed from the Clemson basketball team and athletic
dorm. Word is he'd like to transfer to Virginia.

BEST QUOTE: Lefty Driesell (talking of his half-hour
press ban after each Terrapin game), "Unless you all want to
go in there and look at naked bodies, I can't see why you can't
wait."

WORST QUOTE: Duke's Bucky Waters after his team lost
to Virginia Thursday night, "Virginia has a real good chance to
beat State."

BEST SERIES OF QUOTES: After Thursday's game Lefty
Driesell was asked, "What will be the psychological effects of
the win over Clemson?" Lefty (a holder of a master's degree in
English) replied, "Hell, I don't even know how to spell words
like that." As he left the podium Friday night the lefthander
was asked, "Do you know to spell psychological yet?"
Answer: "No. But I bet I make more money than you do."
Finally, after the press conference after his team's loss to
State, "Oh, yea. I know how to spell that word now,
p-h-y-s-o-l-o-g-i-c-a-l."

BEST CHEERLEADERS: I think Virginia. The Cavaliers
had the best cheering section at the tournament and the girl
cheerleaders were prettier than any other cheerleading squad
in the conference. Our representatives were Dickie McMullan,
Gloria Kasey, Barbie Patterson and Ginger Griffin. Seniority
restricted some of the other schools.

WORST CHEERLEADERS: Each team was allotted five
cheerleaders. Wake deserves boos for filling its quota with four
boys and one girl. Definitely bush.

BEST FOOD: The 40 cent slice of pizza adorned with two
pepperonis won the award for the second year in a row. Both
quantity and quality were at a premium in this tasty delight.

WORST FOOD: The size and taste of the 40 cent
Greensboro Coliseum hot dog brought uncomplimentary and
downright obscene comments from disgruntled eaters who had
made the mistake to buy it.

BEST SIGN: "Remember the last regionals you were in
Drizzle."

BIGGEST RIP–OFF: The all-you-can-drink-for-two dollars
after game party put on by members of the Virginia Basketball
Club at the Ramada Inn-Burlington. Well-publicized and
much-anticipated the party flopped when the liquor ran out
after and hour and a half Thursday night and an hour Friday
night.