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through the basket and the final second
ticked off, N.C. State players leaped in-
to the air, while Houston players slum-
ped to the floor in disbelief. Players
from both sides cried openly.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -
Lorenzo Charles' dunk shot with one
second remaining fulfilled North
Carolina State's impossible dream last
night, giving the Wolfpack a 54-52 vic-
tory over top-ranked Houston for the
NCAA basketball championship.
Charles, a 6-7 sophomore, grabbed a
30-foot shot by Dereck Whittenburg
with four seconds remaining that fell
short, and stuffed it home.
THE WOLFPACK, champions of the
Atlantic Coast Conference, became the
first team to win the national title in a
season in which it lost 10 games. The old
mark was nine, by Indiana in 1981.
North Carolina State had taken time
out with 44 seconds remaining and went
into a stall in an effort to get the last
shot.
The Wolfpack won their 10th game in
a row to finish the season 26-10, with six
of those season-ending victories by four
points or less. Houston, known for its

Houston entered last night's game as
p a c seven-point favorites, and many said
that was being generous. The men of
Phi Slama Jama had put on an
awesome show of speed and slam dunks
shot-blocking and explosive dunking in demolishing No. 2 Louisville 94-81 in
ability, had its 26-game winning streak the semi-finals Saturday.
snapped. The Cougars finished with a But these looked like mere pledges to
31-3 record, suffering their first loss the fraternity in the championship, as
since Dec. 16 against Virginia. the Wolfpack controlled the tempo from
N.C. STATE is the second straight Thurl Bailey's opening basket -
ACC team to win the title, following ironically, on a dunk shot.
North Carolina last season. NORTH CAROLINA State led
It was against Virginia, an ACC foe, Houston by 10 points late in the first half
in the NCAA's West Regional cham- and was in front 33-25 at the inter-
pionship game that Charles' free mission. But in the second half, Houston
throws pulled out the triumph with 23 ripped off a 17-2 spurt behind Akeem
seconds left to upset the Cavaliers and Abdul Olajuwon's eight points and five
get North Carolina State into the Final by Benny Anders. That gave the
Four. Cougars a 42-35 lead, their biggest ad-
Once again it was a pulsating vantage.
comeback for the Wolfpack, something Then the Wolfpack's outside shooting
that has marked most of their games in game came alive, with Whittenburg,
post-season play. The 16th-ranked Gannon and Sidney Lowe all connecting
Wolfpack, coached by Jim Valvano, from more than 20 feet out.
came from behind in the Atlantic Coast Still, Clyde Drexier's two free throws
Conference to beat Wake Forest, with 3:19 remaining had the Cougars up
defending national champion North- 52-46. Then, Lowe hit a 22-footer.
Carolina in overtime and Virginia. Houston's Michael Young missed the
THEY DID the same in the NCAA front end of a one-and-one with 2:55 to
playoffs. They rallied to beat Pepper- go.
dine in overtime, came from behind to "WE TALKED all year about being
defeat Nevada-Las Vegas, Utah and in a position to win," said Valvano, a
Virginia and then held on to knock off national champ in his third season as
Georgia. the Wolfpack's coach. "If you're in a
"He, Whittenburg, took a prayer position to win, you can win by putting
shot. He had not played up to his poten- them on the foul line." That was the key
tial, but he made the biggest shot of his in the late stages. Houston couldn't
life," Valvano said, make its foul shots and N.C. State
Said Whittenburg: "That play was capitalized.
designed for Lorenzo Charles, and I told Whittenburg, a 6-1 senior who missed
him to be ready for it." 14 games during the season with a foot
AS CHARLES stuffed the ball injury, drilled in two straight jumpers

from long range to finally tie the score
52-52 with 1:59 remaining.
Houston, bidding to become the first
Southwest Conference team ever to win
the national title, had an opportunity to
go ahead, but freshman guard Alvin
Franklin missed the first of a one-and-
one and North Carolina State's Cozell
McQueen tipped the ball to Lowe before
he fell out of bounds.
VALVANO then called a timeout with
44 second remaining, setting the stage
for one of the greatest upsets in college
basketball history.
Benny Anders, a hero off the bench in
the Cougars' semifinal victory, barely
missed a steal with less than 10 seconds
remaining. Whittenburg controlled the
ball, spun around and let fly the shot
which led toCharles' winning stuff.
The triumph denied the national
championship for Houston coach Guy
Lewis, who had his team in the Final
Four for the fourth time in his 27 years
at the Texas school.
HOUSTON, WHICH lived by the
dunk, died from a lack of it last night.
The Cougars had only one dunk, that
came in the first half by Olajuwon, the
big Nigerian center who paced the
Cougars with 20 points, 18 rebounds and
seven blocked shots. He finished with 82
points,59 rebounds and 28 blocked shots
for the tournament, and was named
MostValuable Player in the Final Four.
Anders, a 6-5 sophomore reserve, was
the only Cougar other than Olajuwon in
double figures, with 10 points.
Whittenburg hit only one of six shots
in the first half, but wound up 6-of-17 for
14 points, the only other N.C. State
player in double figures.
North Carolina State jumped to a 6-0
lead. The Cougars came right back to
take a 7-6 advantage, but two free
throws by Alvin Battle and a long jum-
per by McQueen put the Wolfpack in
front to stay in the first half as Bailey
hit from the outside and N.C. State used
mostly a three-guard offense.

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North Carolina State's Thurl Bailey proves that Houston's men of Phi Slama
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SPORTS OF THE DAILY:
Golfers surprise. in rain

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By GARY EFFMAN
When the men's golf team left last
weekend for the Colonel Classic in
Richmond, Ky., they hoped they'd be
leaving this "springtime in Ann Arbor"
for bluer skies and warmer breezes.
What they didn't figure on was
springtime in Richmond.
The tournament was scheduled for 54
holes with 36 being played on Saturday
and the final round being held on Sun-
day. But after playing the first round
under gray skies a pounding rain
pushed along by 35 miles per hour win-
ds and lightning, finally had the golfers
grabbing their clubs and heading for
shelter.
THE WOLVERINES finally
managed a two-round score of 618, good
enough to earn them a fifth-place finish
out of a field of 20. Top honors at the
classic went to the host school, Eastern
Kentucky, with a final tally of 595.
The weather refused to subside until
Sunday, forcing tournament officials to
cancel the second roundup. When the
tournament resumed, with the weather
only a little more cooperative,
Michigan found itself in a surprisingly

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strong eighth-place tie with Bowling
Green.
Surprising because the team is inex-
perienced by any standard. Three of the
five starting golfers were playing their
first collegiate tournament.
THE TEAM was paced throughout
the tournament by first-year man John
Nolan's sixth-place finish (75-74-149),
and Dan Roberts' (77-76-153).
"Great scores under the conditions,"
said coach Jim Carras.
Nolan's brother David, another new
man, strung together consecutive
rounds of 80, and Mark DeWitt
managed to cut four strokes off his first
day's tally (80-76-156) to round out
Michigan's four qualifying scores.
Iowa gets Raveling
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Washington
State University basketball Coach
George Raveling said yesterday he will
accept the head coaching job at the
University of Iowa.
Raveling told the Spokesman-Review
newspaper in Spokane, Wash., as he
boarded a plane for Iowa City that he
will take over for former Hawkeye
coach Lute Olson.
A formal announcement was expec-
ted Tuesday morning at a 3 a.m. PST
news conference at Iowa City.
The 45-year-old coach returned here
from Albuquerque, N.M., saying, "I
just need. some time by myself to
think."
IN ALBUQUERQUE, where he had
planned to attend last night's NCAA
championship game, "people were
harassing me -all the time" with
question about reports that he had
been offered the vacant Hawkeye
coaching post.

The former Iowa coach, Lute Olson
accepted a similar position lasO
Tuesday at the Univeristy of Arizona.
"I would get back to my room at one
in the morning and the phone would be
ringing and it would start up again at 6
a.m. It was just a constant
harassment," Raveling said.
Wadkins wins
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Lanny
Wadkins turned back any would-be
challengers with a late string of thre
consecutive birdies that propelled him
to a 5-under-par 67 and a comfortable,
five-stroke victory yesterday in the
rain-delayed windup of the Greater
Greensboro Open Golf Tournament.
Wadkins, a former PGA champion,
claimed his first victory of the year and
the 11th of his career with a 275 total, 13
strokes under par on the Forest Oaks
Country Club course.
THE TRIUMPH was worth $.72,000
from the total purse of $400,000 and sent
Wadkins to Augusta, Ga. as the No. 3
money-winner of the season with
$136,773 and a prime candidate for the
prestigious Masters title.
The schedule for the Greensboro
event was thrown a day late by heavy
rains that washed out Saturday's play.
Wadkins started the final round in
three-way tie for the lead with Crai
Stadler, who will defend his Masters
title later this week, and Denis Watson,
a native of Rhodesia now living in South
Africa.
Wadkins moved in front with a birdie-
4 on the second hole and held the lead
the rest of the way.

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