From: Curt.Hill@launchpad.unc.edu (Curt Hill)
Subject: UNC defeats Maryland
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:24:28 GMT

UNC vs Maryland
Saturday, January 9, 1993
Dean E. Smith Center
Chapel Hill, NC

Adjectives to describe the Maryland Terrapins basketball team this year...
talented, quick, short, thin, and young.  Folks should focus on that last one.
This Maryland team is stocked with talented freshmen like Johnny Rhodes,
Exree Hipp, and Duane Simpkins.  However, with only Evers Burns and Kevin
McLinton to provide quality leadership, this team suffers from being too
young against experienced competition.

There's also not a lot of height or bulk on the Maryland team and thus it
was the Eric Montross show in the first half.  15 points, 10 rebounds, a
block, some intimidation, and a lot of fouls against Maryland inside players
were the result of Eric's first half work.  Not to mention only 2 points
for Maryland's excellent inside player Evers Burns (none while Eric was in
the game).

Phelps, Lynch, Reese, and the rest of the Carolina defense were also very
active in the first half, trapping Maryland relentlessly and causing many
turnovers.  Also, tough half court defense contributed to many poor Maryland
shots which the taller Heels cheerfully rebounded.

Some nice work at the end of the half by Donald Williams and Kevin Salvadori
helped get the Carolina lead up to 22 points, 53-31.


Maryland made a bit of a run early in the second half.  Carolina was a bit
flat, Maryland was fired up, and Maryland's press was being much more
successful.  Carolina did a poor job of breaking the press in the early
stages of the second half. Except for a nice dunk by Reese and a few other
turn the ball over or having to work really hard to get the ball across the
half court line.

After a tv timeout, though, Carolina began to operate against the Maryland
press more effectively.  Carolina pushed the lead back to over 20 and
Coach Gary Williams called Maryland's last timeout (one being wasted to
avoid a 5 second closely guarded call earlier in the game).  It was time
for Donald Williams.

Donald Williams, at this point, drove a stake through the heart of Maryland.
Maryland went to a 3-2 zone and Donald drilled 2 three-pointers. Thud. Thud.
Maryland went out of the zone, but in transition a short time later, Derrick
Phelps passed the ball to Williams while setting a nice screen.  Donald
drilled another 3 (thud) and as the lead went to 31, all Gary Williams could
do was exhort his team to try and play better, for there were no timeouts
available to stop the Maryland bleeding.  Dean put the bench in with about 3
minutes left and they finished up the 101-73 victory.

Phelps, after recovering from a concussion received at the NC State game
two days earlier, led the Tarheels in minutes.  He also took a charge from
Evers Burns (260+) as Evers was going full speed down the lane.  There was
about 7 minutes left.  Dean wisely yanked Derrick from the rest of the game
before he got himself hurt again.  This game was another excellent performance
by Phelps.

Maryland will get better and the return match at College Park will be
closer.  However, Carolina had a another near 30 point victory and scored
100 points again in a workmanlike performance.


Boxscore (courtesy Andrew Markham - thanks)

UNC        Min FGM FGA  3M  3A  FTM FTA   R   A  F Pts
---------- --- --- ---  --  --  --- ---  --  --  - ---
Williams    21   7  13   5   8    1   2   3   4  1  20
Montross    27   6   9   0   0    5   8  13   1  3  17
Lynch       25   7  11   0   0    2   4   8   4  2  16
Reese       21   3   6   0   1    0   2   3   2  1   6
Phelps      28   3  12   0   2    4   5   7   6  3  10
Rodl        16   1   2   1   2    0   0   0   4  0   3
Salvadori   17   3   4   0   0    2   2   5   0  3   8
Sullivan    21   4   5   0   1    0   0   6   3  0   8
Calabria    10   1   1   1   1    2   2   1   1  1   5
Wenstrom     4   1   2   0   0    0   0   2   0  0   2
Cherry       3   1   1   0   0    0   2   0   0  0   2
Geth         2   1   1   0   0    0   0   1   0  0   2
Davis        3   1   2   0   0    0   0   0   0  0   2
Stephenson   2   0   1   0   0    0   0   0   0  0   0
---------- --- --- ---  --  --  --- ---  --  --  - ---
Totals          39  70   7  15   16  27  49  25 14 101
                 0.557   0.467    0.593

Maryland   Min FGM FGA  3M  3A  FTM FTA   R   A  F Pts
---------- --- --- ---  --  --  --- ---  --  --  - ---
Hipp        21   2   5   1   2    1   2   1   2  4   6
Burns       35   7  17   0   0    0   0   7   2  3  14
Kerwin      18   3   5   0   0    0   2   2   0  3   6
Rhodes      31   6  15   1   8    0   0   3   2  3  13
McLinton    34   8  15   0   1    5   5   5   6  1  21
Walsh       16   0   2   0   1    2   2   1   1  3   2
Simpkins    18   2   5   0   1    0   0   3   2  1   4
Lucas       13   1   4   0   0    2   2   1   1  0   4
Bristol      4   0   0   0   0    0   0   0   0  0   0
Petrovic     4   0   0   0   0    0   0   0   0  1   0
Shultz       3   0   1   0   0    0   0   2   0  0   0
Thibeault    3   1   3   1   2    0   0   3   0  0   3
---------- --- --- ---  --  --  --- ---  --  --  - ---
Maryland        30  72   3  15   10  13  30  16 19  73
                 0.417   0.200    0.769

Turnovers:  UNC - 23, Maryland - 23


Next game:  UNC vs Georgia Tech in Chapel Hill, 7:30pm.(Raycom)




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