Wednesday, December 08, 1999
North Carolina struggles with Buffalo
AMHERST, N.Y. — North Carolina may not have fresh legs for its battle with No. 1 Cincinnati tonight after struggling to put away Buffalo 91-67 Tuesday night.
The Tar Heels missed their first six shots and 12 of their first 13 as Buffalo opened a 15-5 lead. North Carolina trailed by five at halftime.
“Hopefully, we'll be ready to play,” said North Carolina guard Ed Cota about tonight's game in the Great Eight Basketball Challenge in Chicago.
“We were experimenting with the lineup and it didn't work out,” coach Bill Guthridge said. Asked why he tinkered with the lineup, he said: “Because I'm the head coach and I just decided to do that.”
“I'm proud of the way our kids came back in the second half,” Guthridge said. “We executed the way we had to.”
Joseph Forte, who hit three 3-pointers, led the Tar Heels with 19 points. Jason Capel, who had 13 points and 12 rebounds, gave North Carolina a 48-47 lead early in the second half. The Tar Heels pulled away from there, outscoring Buffalo 43-20.
NORTH CAROLINA (91)
fg ft rb
min m-a m-a o-t a pf tp
Owens 21 8-14 0-1 1-3 3 1 16
Capel 28 3-5 6-6 2-12 2 1 13
Lang 11 1-5 0-0 1-4 0 1 2
Cota 30 2-8 0-0 0-2 7 0 4
Brooker 11 0-3 1-2 0-1 0 0 1
Haywood 23 4-6 4-9 2-8 0 3 12
Holmes 4 0-1 0-0 0-1 2 1 0
White 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 1 0
Newby 9 3-4 1-1 0-2 1 1 7
Melendez 11 2-7 1-2 3-3 0 1 5
Everett 4 1-2 2-2 1-3 0 1 4
Forte 22 8-13 0-0 3-6 4 3 19
Laczkowski 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Johnson 19 1-2 0-0 2-3 1 3 2
Peppers 5 3-5 0-0 2-2 0 1 6
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TOTALS 200 36-75 15-23 17-50 21 18 91
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Percentages: FG-.480, FT-.652. 3-Point Goals:
4-13, .308 (Owens 0-1, Capel 1-2, Cota 0-1,
Brooker 0-3, Newby 0-1, Melendez 0-1, Forte 3-4).
Team rebounds: 6. Blocked shots: 8 (Lang 2,
Melendez 2, Owens, Haywood, Newby, Capel).
Turnovers: 12 (Capel 4, Forte 2, Newby 2,
Brooker, Everett, Johnson, Owens). Steals: 5
(Owens 2, Capel, Forte, Johnson).
BUFFALO (67)
fg ft rb
min m-a m-a o-t a pf tp
Mckie 17 3-5 3-9 2-3 0 4 9
Foster 24 1-8 0-0 0-4 2 0 2
Alexeev 32 1-11 1-4 1-7 0 2 3
Vasiliev 32 6-11 1-3 1-3 3 1 15
Campbell 37 9-12 3-4 1-7 8 3 25
Richardson 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Keenan 8 2-5 0-0 0-0 0 0 5
Smith 5 1-2 0-0 1-2 1 1 2
Kleidon 7 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0
Chaffe 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Lawrence 15 1-6 0-0 1-3 0 1 2
Fox 19 1-8 2-2 0-4 1 4 4
Sinclair 1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 1 0
Cook 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
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TOTALS 200 25-68 10-22 7-34 16 17 67
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Percentages: FG-.368, FT-.455. 3-Point Goals:
7-22, .318 (Foster 0-3, Alexeev 0-1, Vasiliev
2-4, Campbell 4-6, Keenan 1-3, Lawrence 0-1, Fox
0-4). Team rebounds: 4. Blocked shots: 5 (Mckie
2, Alexeev, Campbell, Foster). Turnovers: 11
(Vasiliev 4, Mckie 2, Smith 2, Alexeev, Keenan,
Richardson). Steals: 7 (Campbell 3, Foster,
Kleidon, Mckie, Vasiliev).
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North Carolina 35 56 - 91
Buffalo 40 27 - 67
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Technical fouls: None. A: 8,926. Officials: Mark
Masariu, Tim Fogarty, Kyle Ingram.
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