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The Michigan Daily
Sunday, March 28, 1982
Page 7
Tar Hee
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Sam Perkins
and James Worthy carried North
Carolina down the stretch, and Coach
Dean Smith's four-corner offense
nailed down a 68-63 victory for the .
top-rated Tar Heels over Houston
" esterday in the semifinals of the
NCAA Basketball Championship Tour-
nament.
Worthy and Perkins combined for
nine points in the final 9:33, while
Houston struggled to cope with North
Carolina's spread offense.
LEADING 52-48, the Tar Heels went
into their slowdown, which has drawn
so much criticism in recent weeks. It
almost cost the Tar Heels the Atlantic
Coast Conference title against Virginia,
but yesterday it became a potent offen-
sive weapon.
Worthy, who had scored North
Carolina's previous two baskets, was
the first to score from the four-corners
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with a slam dunk that put North
Carolina ahead 54-48 with 6:46 left.
Then Perkins took over. He drove to
the basket and was fouled for a three-
point play, and one minute later he hit
another layup that gave the Tar Heels a
59-53 lead with 3:33 left.
The Cougars pulled within four, 59-55,
on a basket by a Clyde Drexler with
2:54 remaining. But North Carolina
scored the next six points, all from the
foul line, to open a 10-point lead, 65-55,
with 2:14 to go.
THAT WAS it for Houston, and the
victory sent North Carolina into the
championship game for the second
straight year.
The Tar Heels, top-ranked in the coun-
try and with a 31-2 record will meet the
winner of last night's second semifinal
between Georgetown and Louisville
tomorrow night at the Superdome.
The victory also gave Smith still
Houston,
another chance at the national title,
which has eluded him in six previous
Final Four appearances. Last year
North Carolina lost to Indianasin the
title game.
THE LOSS prevented Houston coach
Guy Lewis from registering the 500th
victory of his 26-year career as the
Cougars' mentor. Houston ended the
season with a 25-8 record.
The game was played before an
estimated ciowd of 61,000 at the Super-
dome, setting an NCAA record. The
previous record for any game indoors
was 52,693, set in 1968 at the Astrodome
f68-63
for UCLA-Houston.
A crowd of 31,248 for the champion-
ship game in 1971, also at the
Astrodome, was -the former NCAA
tournament record.
Perkins scored 25 points and Worthy
added 14 for North Carolina. Fresh-
man Michael Jordan scored 18 for the
winners. Lynden Rose led Houston with
20, and Larry Micheaux had 18.
Rob Williams, whose average of 21.8
points a game was the best of any
player in the Final Four, was held to
just two points for Houston, both from
the free throw line.
Georgetown sneaks
by Lousil,50-46,
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Georgetown
parlayed the finesse of Eric Smith and
the power of Patrick Ewing into a 50-46
victory over Louisville in the semifinals
of the NCAA Basketball Championships
yesterday, giving the Hoyas their first
chance at a national title since 1943.
Smith, carrying much of the offensive
load for foul-troubled Eric "Sleepy"
Floyd, scored eight straight
Georgetown points in a 14-4 run that
erased a one-point deficit and produced
a nine-point lead.
SMITH, WHO averaged only 9.3 poin-
ts a game in the regular season, scored
14, including an assortment of twisting
layups, back-door plays and jump shots
to help the Hoyas end Louisville's title
hopes.
The victory earned Georgetown the
right to meet top-ranked North
Carolina tomorrow night for the
national championship. In their only
other appearance in the Final Four,
Georgetown lost to Wyoming 51-43 in
the 1943 title game.
The Hoyas made that trip ancient
history yesterday. Battling Louisville
all the way, they intimidated the Car-
dinals inside, with the 7-foot freshman
Ewing blocking shots, causing tur-
novers and harrying shooters.
EVEN HIS absence was intimidating.
At one point in the second half,
Louisville's Derek Smith went up for a
short baseline jumper - when he saw
Ewing had moved out into the key,
Smith threw his jump shot well over the
basket without touching the rim.
It was that kind of day-for Louisville.
The Cardinals, national champions in
1980, trailed by only 24-22 at the half.
They outscored Georgetown 8-5 in the
first 4:03 of the second half, twice
taking one-point leads, the final time on
a 15-foot baseline shot by Wiley Brown
that made it 30-29 with 15:37 to play.
That's when Georgetown exploded.
Floyd, Georgetown's All-American
guard, started it with a pair of free
throws and Ewing added a layup on a
feed from Fred Brown.
Then Smith took over. He scored two
baskets before Floyd picked up his four-
th personal foul, forcing him to the ben-
ch. Smith then hit another basket and
pair of foul shots and Ewing capped the
run with two free throws that made it
43-34 with 8:50 left.
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NORTH CAROLINA'S Sam Perkins (41) goes for a basket as the Cougar's
Mike Young and Abdul Akeem (35) attempt to stop him in the first half
of yesterday's semifinal game in New Orleans. The Tar Heels went on to
down Houston, 68-63.
SCORES
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Exhibition Baseball
Detroit 4, Chicago (AL) 3
Philadelphia 4, Los Angeles 2
Houston 2, St. Louis 1
Montreal 6, New York (NL) 5, i innings
Pittsburgh 11, Toronto 5
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