Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 22, 1990 TAG: 9003221735
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DOUG DOUGHTY
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Davidson has lacked affiliation since dropping out of the Southern Conference after the 1988-89 school year. It is an awkward situation because Davidson is Division I in basketball, but Division III in football.
The most likely scenario is that Davidson will join the Big South in basketball and the Old Dominion Athletic Conference in all other sports.
"The ODAC, in Division III, is obviously perfect for Davidson [because of] the schools involved and everything else," Holland said. "I think the Southern, the Colonial and the Big South are geographically the most rational choices [for Division I].
"The Southern . . . has shown some interest at this point in re-establishment. The Colonial has shown only lukewarm interest. The Big South is very interested."
Davidson won the Southern Conference basketball championship and played in the NCAA Tournament in 1986, but went 4-24 this season under first-year coach Bob McKillop.
"Basketball struggled this year," said Holland, who played and later coached at Davidson during its glory days in the 1960s and early '70s, "but I think we've got in place the coach who can push Davidson back to respectability in basketball."
When asked if he had been contacted by UVa, Boston University basketball coach Mike Jarvis said, "To be honest, it would do neither of us any good for me to comment at the present time. It would almost be a waste."
Translation: Jarvis, who has a 100-51 record in five years at BU, may have been contacted by one of the second parties used by Virginia athletic director Jim Copeland to gauge the interest of potential candidates. However, he apparently has not been interviewed or received a formal overture.
Virginia associate athletic director Jim West said Tuesday that Virginia's 1990-91 basketball schedule includes trips to Notre Dame and Marquette. Vanderbilt will visit University Hall. The field for UVa's Investors Classic includes New Orleans, Winthrop and Brown.
Wake Forest has received an oral commitment from Randolph Childress, a 6-foot-2 point guard from Flint Hill Prep, ranked ninth in the country after a 24-2 finish.
"He's developed into an outstanding point guard, one of the best in the country," said Flint Hill coach Stu Vetter, who said Childress had taken official visits to Wake and Seton Hall. Childress also considered Maryland.
Childress, who for the past two years has commuted to Flint Hill in Falls Church from Clinton, Md., averaged 20.8 points and 8.1 assists as a senior. He set a school record by shooting 58 percent on 3-pointers.
Vetter said Childress has been selected to play in the Capital Classic in Landover, Md. Mark Ward, who transferred to Flint Hill after his junior year at William Fleming in Roanoke, will play in the preliminary game. Ward, a 6-5 forward, averaged 14.9 points and 10.7 rebounds this season.
Radford is one of four schools under consideration by 6-8 Lamont Turner of Bartlett-Yancey High in Yanceyville, N.C. Turner, who averaged 13 points and 12 rebounds this season, hopes to announce next week his choice from among Radford, North Carolina-Asheville, North Carolina-Greensboro and Western Carolina.
Jamie Lee, a first-team All-Group AA selection from George Wythe High in Wytheville, was in Lexington on Wednesday for his official recruiting visit to VMI. Informed sources report that the Keydets also are looking at 6-6 Curtis Schultz of DeMatha High in Hyattsville, Md., 6-5 Larry Jeffries of George Washington-Danville and 5-10 Sean Spriggs of Maury High in Norfolk.
Georgia Tech would be pleased to know the history of basketball teams that have beaten Virginia in ACC championship games. North Carolina in 1982 and North Carolina State in 1983 won NCAA championships after beating UVa in the ACC final. Carolina reached the NCAA final in 1977 after beating the Cavaliers in the ACC title game. Georgia Tech defeated UVa in this year's tournament title game.
Virginia was 0-5 this year in games televised by CBS, NBC or ABC. UVa's football team appeared on CBS in its loss to Clemson (38-20) and on ABC in its Florida Citrus Bowl loss to Illinois (31-21). The basketball team appeared on NBC in its losses to Louisville (72-56) and Georgia Tech (70-61), and on CBS in its loss to Syracuse (63-61) in the NCAA Southeast Regional.
Basketball officials Paul Housman of Roanoke and Sam Croft of Daleville have been assigned to the Southeast Regional in New Orleans. The committee apparently put little stock in comments by Purdue coach Gene Keady, who blasted the officiating crew, of which Croft was a member, in the Boilermakers' 72-71 loss to Texas. This is the final NCAA Tournament for Housman, who has announced his retirement.
Georgia Tech forward Dennis Scott has become the first player in ACC history to go over 2,000 points as a junior. If he doesn't turn pro, Scott is virtually certain to break former Wake Forest star Dickie Hemric's ACC record of 2,583 points, a mark that has stood for 25 years. Scott ranks fourth on the school's all-time scoring list.
Toraino Walker, a freshman from Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, has played in 29 games for Connecticut's Big East championship basketball team. Walker, a 6-7 forward, is averaging 2.5 points and 2.8 rebounds. . . . Another Oak Hill product, 6-8, 270-pound Larry McCollum, started at center for Coppin State.
Bridgewater became the first track-and-field team to defeat Washington and Lee in head-to-head competition since 1983 when the Eagles prevailed Friday at W&L in a meet with the Generals and Eastern Mennonite. It snapped a 38-meet winning streak for W&L.
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