The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C. 5B Friday. October 27. 1995 Area National Sports Beat the Index-Journal Experts Don Robinson Brant Long Dean Lollis Bill Bengtson I v4 Stacy White Andy Borgert Amy Loftis Carroll Sexton Index-Journal Index-Journal Index Journal Index-Journal Index-Journal Rice Video Design Editor Staff writer Staff writer Sports writer Graphics Dept. Video technician 13-7, 108-52 (.663) 1 6-4, 1 05-55 (.656) 12-8, 103-57 (.644) 12-8, 95-65 (.594) 9-11, 86-74 (.538) Abbeville Abbeville Abbeville Abbeville Abbeville Abbeville Calhoun Falls Calhoun Falls Calhoun Falls Calhoun Falls Calhoun Falls Calhoun Falls Ware Shoals Ware Shoals Ware Shoals Ware Shoals Christ Church Christ Church Lamar Lamar Lamar Lamar Lamar Lamar Hillcrest Greenwood Greenwood Hillcrest Greenwood Greenwood McCormick Landrum Landrum McCormick Landrum McCormick Ninety Six Ninety Six Ninety Six Ninety Six Chapin Chapin Batesburg Saluda Batesburg Batesburg Batesburg Batesburg Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee South Carolina Tennessee Clemson Clemson Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Clemson Liberty Liberty Liberty Liberty Chas.
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State Marshall Catawba Presbyterian Kansas Maryland Nebraska Northwestern Southern Cal High schools Mid-Carolina at Abbeville Calhoun Falls at Dixie Christ Church at Ware Shoals Emerald at Lamar Hillcrest at Greenwood Landrum at McCormick Ninety Six at Chapin Batesburg at Saluda State colleges South Carolina at Tennessee Clemson at Georgia Tech Liberty at Charletson Southern Deleware St. at S.C. State Marshall at The Citadel Newberry at Catawba Presbyterian at Wingate National colleges Kansas at Kansas State Maryland at Louisville Nebraska at Colorado Northwestern at Illinois Southern Cal at Washington Wofford basketball, new to NCAA Division faces tough schedule (through 11495) Locally owned and operated for 23 years by Susan and Bob McLaughlin give Johnson his 10th winning season in 1 1 years. The thing that worries Johnson most this year is that constant beatings could dull Wofford's ability to pull out close games. Wofford may not have winning prospects, but at least the Terriers will use snazzy equipment.
Their cyberspace locker room includes drop-down projection screens hooked to satellite feeds from all over the country. Johnson said he plans to plug his laptop computer into Wofford's system to devise match-ups and game plans this season. "There are a lot of buzzers and whistles not connected with the game that we're going to take advantage of," he said. currently as the summer home of the NFL's Carolina Panthers. That didn't stop teams from lining up when Wofford first went Division licking their chops at what they saw as an easy victory.
Johnson said everyone wanted a piece of Wofford this year. "Tnat's OK," the coach said. "They don't know us and don't know what we're capable of. We just have to show them first hand." Underestimating Wofford has not been a good thing, at least in Division II. The Terriers were 10-17 in 1987 and were expecting a similarly awful season the next year.
But they rebounded to 17-11, winning five of their last seven games to do it. Two seasons ago, Wofford South a year ago, now opens at Missouri, Vanderbill and.Nortfc Carolina State. wanted to mijke jJftyj have a chance to gef a miplerftf easy wins at the start of deadpanned Johnson. He'd better laugh now, because Wofford' season also includes Auburn, South Carolina, Clemson and the College of Charleston. "There isn't a day that goes by when we're not thinking about our schedule and saying 'Oh, man.
What are we said center Chris Arp, who at 6-8 will begin his Division I career against twin 7-footers Sammie and Simeon Haley df Missouri. Johnson has won nearly 62 percent of his games since arriving in 1985, but Wofford never had much of a basketball tradition. The school is probably best known for small-college football star Shawn Graves in the early 1990s and SPARTANBURG (AP) Wofford basketball coach Richard Johnson knows why the experts picked his team as the worst in NCAA Division I. He may not agree with it, but he understands it. Wofford is about to start its first season in the NCAA's top division after years in NAIA and Division II.
Now, on top of increased recruiting and a monster schedule, the Terriers were tabbed as the worst of 305 Division I teams by The Sporting News. "Our first reaction was to get a little defensive," Johnson said. "But somebody's got to be last, so why shouldn't it be us." Who can argue? Wofford, with about 1,100 students, is Division I's smallest basketball-playing school. The Terriers have no player taller than 6-foot-8. And their schedule, which began with Rollins, Carson-Newman and University of the mm TIRE SALE 15580x13 Ms 49.99 29.99 2b.99 73.99 77.99 82.99 50.99 52.99 54.99 32.99 33.99 35.99 18575x14 19575x14 20575x14 dumped I-A Furman on the way to 85.99 89.99 93.99 57.99 61.99 63.99 36.99 38.99 41.99 20575x15 21575x15 22575x15 Mi USC: Hoping for upset the Division II playoffs.
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Tennessee leads the overall series 9-2-2, and is 7-0 against South Carolina in Knoxville. Game time is 12:40 p.m. EDT, and it will be televised on the Jefferson-Pilot network.3 Continued from page 3D Gameco*cks) at 121 yards a game. "Tennessee's running game is as good as they want it to be," Gameco*ck coach Brad Scott said. "They chose to throw the ball a lot, but Jay Graham is having a year.
He looks as good as any of the backs we've seen, and we've made some backs look real good this year." South Carolina's leading rusher is Duce Staley at 70 yards a game. While the numbers aren't great, the Gameco*cks like to throw to their running backs a lot in Scott's wide-open, no-huddle attack. "We're not running the ball as much as we'd like to, but we're just going with the things we're doing best," Scott said. And what the Gameco*cks are doing best, among the best in the country, is throwing the ball. Against questionable defenses the past three weeks, Taneyhill has completed 89 of 108 passes for ROTATE 1 1 FREE BALANCE brake if I till mlImm (5)95 INSPECTION! I ll-r W'irrs ll-A-'ft TRACTOR FOR EVERY SEASON OfJerKxtin-s II -) VS iaaanDanHMaRm 1 OIL, LUBE FILTER 9 riraflvTpTg CO I I A-sk or lis By Name MO OFF I I DRAW TTTF TRAILER HITCHES I Complcte Service Up To Qts.
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