Evening star., 1953-03-06
Players Aware
They re Facing
Powerful Team
NC. State Continues
Title Quest in Game
With West Virginia
By MerreII WhittIesey
Star Stoff CORRESPONDENT

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Maryland will spot Wake Forest
height, shooting power and speed
tonight in the first semifinal
game of the Southern Confer
ence basketball tournament, but
don't give up on the Terps.
Coach Bud Millikan saw the
Deacons for the first time this
season in their 85-70 triumph last
night over Richmond and was
impressed.
They're as good or better than
any team we've played this sea-
son." Millikan said.
However, Maryland has a habit
of cutting down favored oppo-
nents to its size. The Terps sat-
iSf1ed all their rooters except
their coach in methodically beat
ing Duke. IA to IS. yesterday aft
ernoon to reach the semifinals
for the second time in Millikan's
three years at Maryland.
N. C. State Game Follows.
The Terps and Deacons meet
at 1880 o'clock, with North Caro-
lima State continuing it's bid for
a seventh straight title two
hours later against West Vir-
ginia.
The first-round games fell
something short of the expected
pace for a tournament supposed
to be made up of the most evenly
matched teams in years. After
West Virginia and Furman over
came opening filters they fur
niShed most Of the excitement
before the Mountaineers won,
81 to 81.
At one point Maryland piled
up a 15-point lead over Duke,
with the score 1923, and at that
time Gene Shue's % points. all
scored in the first half. matched
the Duke team total. Shue ac-
counted for 80 before it was over,
three under the old record but
still only third high Of the day.
Duke pulled within five points
once, but never looked like a
team that would catch up.
Wake Forest trailed Richmond.
44-40. before the Spiders hit a
cold streak and went eight min
utes without a field goal. In
that interval the Deacons out
scored them, % to 4, and it was
all over.
Wolfpack WallOps Tar Heels.
North Carolina State teased
North Carolina for few minutes
and led only 20-19 early in the
second half before the classy
Wolfpack started to roll and
won, 1854. With due credit to
West Virginia and either Mary
land or Wake Forest, State has
too much personnel for it's rivals
in this tournament.
Maryland will lack one ad-
vantage tonight that it had
against Duke. The Blue Devils
wanted no part of Maryland's
possession of play style and
showed it. Coach Hal Bradley
has been turning deaf ears to
Maryland's request for regular
season games. And yesterday
he admitted his players lost
their heads and did not work
together. Duke didn't score a
field goal until a shot simul-
taneous with the first-quarter
buzzer dropped in.
But Wake Forest plays a game
somewhat similar to the Terps.
The Deacons have learned the
finer points from Bones Nc
Kinney, former Washington Caps
coach who, is studying for the
Baptist ministry at Wake Forest
and helping Murray Greason
with the coaching.
DeacOns Try Fast Break.
Wake Forest, like Maryland,
waits for its shots, although the
Deacons were using the fast
break last night because Rich
mond was too tired to combat it.
The Deacons put 6-foot-6
Dickie Hemric under the basket
and try to reach him. They did
to the extent of 20 points against
Richmond. But Jack Williams
is better all-round player than
Hemric, and Billy Lyles can
score.
Maryland will have a slight
edge in depth because the Dea-
cons used three players all the
way and a fourth rested only
four minutes.
Millikan did not think the tri-
umph over Duke was one of
Maryland's real good games. but
the feeling was he was pulling
the legs of the Carolina sports
writer's. Maryland held Duke to
16 field goals, their low score of
the year. and the Terps hit on
Al per cent of their shots.
Shue Key Player.
Shue was brilliant and there
were many red faces among those
who did not name him all-con-
ference. He not only scored 33
points, including 9 field goals
in 10 tried in the first half, but
was a key ball handler and &C
counted for eight rebounds.
Maryland's big trouble was in
fouling. Don Moran fouled out
and Shue and four others had
four fouls. Millikan didn't COM
plain, other than to say, "It
seems we were called for charg-
ing an awful lot"
But in resting his players with
a dangerous number of fouls,
Millikan found help on the
bench. Bob Dilworth, Ronnie
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