From: Curt.Hill@launchpad.unc.edu (Curt Hill)
Subject: UNC scratched by, but defeats Cougars
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:50:59 GMT


UNC vs Houston
Sunday, December 13, 1992
Dean E. Smith Center
Chapel Hill, NC


UNC declawed the Houston Cougars by a final score of 84-78, but received
some scratches in the process.

The good news --

Donald "The Donald" Williams is back.  Donald scored 21 points in 19 minutes
including 4-8 from three point range.  Several of his 2 point shots were
in the "very difficult" category.

Montross played another solid game.

Pat Sullivan played a solid second half and had a solid game overall.

Henrik Rodl played a very solid first 30 minutes, with some excellent passing.

Derrick Phelps is rounding back into form, scoring 9 points and handing
out 12 assists.


The bad news --

Brian Reese did not play.  Some swelling Saturday resulting from Friday
practice prompted trainer Mark Davis to advise Coach Smith to hold Reese out.

Carolina let a 23 point second half led get whittled down to 8 points with
some really inept offense versus the Houston press.

Derrick didn't shoot well from the outside.

The Carolina half court offense was very inconsistent during the game.

The fast break did not work too well, either.

The ugly news --

The Southwest Conference refereees that worked the game were lame.  Sad.
Very bad.  One guy with Bill Clinton hair was just plain horrible.

Eric Montross reverted to last season's free throw shooting form, going 3-9
for the game.



Houston is a very solid team.  They should improve during the year, especially
once they get in sync with their junior college transfer point guard Anthony
Goldwire.  Goldwire is very quick and can score.  Houston has lots of tall,
athletic players with reasonable shooting skills.  Fairly solid on interior
defense and their press is very good.  They did have trouble defending the
outside shot versus Carolina, which could cause them trouble versus Texas in
the Southwest Conference race.


Boxscore


Houston (76)

                     MP       FG      FT      R     A     F       Pts
Smith                25      4-9     1-2      2     0     1        10
Drain                25      2-7     0-0      1     2     3         6
Outlaw               32      3-3     3-6      8     1     3         9
Diaz                 31      4-12    8-9      5     0     4        17
Goldwire             35      9-14    3-5      0     5     2        22
Karrasco             22      0-2     0-0      5     0     1         0
Evans                23      4-8     0-0      1     2     3        12
Wiles                 7      0-1     0-0      0     0     0         0
                    200     22-56   14-22    23    10    17        76



UNC (84)

                     MP       FG      FT      R     A     F       Pts
Sullivan             30      6-7     0-0      1     1     3        13
Lynch                35      6-12    1-2      8     3     2        13
Montross             28      6-6     3-9      7     0     3        15
Rodl                 29      2-4     0-0      4     8     2         5
Phelps               32      3-5     3-4      7     12     3         9
Calabria              9      1-2     0-0      0     0     1         2
Williams             19      7-12    3-4      0     0     3        21
Wenstrom              1      1-1     0-0      0     0     0         2
Salvadori            17      2-6     0-0      4     1     3         4
                    200     34-55   10-19    34    25    20        84




Houston                   36     40     76
North Carolina            42     42     84


Three point goals:  Houston 9-23 (Evans 4-7, Diaz 1-7, Drain 2-5, Smith 1-2,
Goldwire 1-2); North Carolina 6-13 (Williams 4-8, Rodl 1-2, Sullivan 1-1,
Phelps 0-1, Calabria 0-1).  Turnovers: Houston 23, North Carolina 25.
Officials - McDaniel, Shortnacy, Armstrong.  A - 20,605.





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