Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 16, 1995                   TAG: 9505160099
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: DOUG DOUGHTY STAFF WRITER
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CAVS WON'T PULL TV PLUG ON HOLLAND

``That's something we'll have to work through,'' said Holland, introduced Friday as UVa's athletic director, ``but that's something that's mutually beneficial. I certainly don't do it for the money.''

Holland, the men's basketball coach at UVa from 1974-90, began doing television analysis shortly after he became the athletic director at Davidson College in 1990.

``We felt that Terry's prominence in the national dialogue about athletics was enhanced by that work,'' said UVa President John Casteen. ``The issues we have to work out have to do with whether there's some sort of conflict of interest.

``It's a mechanical and simple process, and my own hope is that it will continue.''

ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys said Monday that Holland customarily works 10 to 12 games a year for the cable network.

``It shouldn't affect his schedule with us,'' Soltys said. ``I don't think we would assign him an ACC game, but that was rare anyway.''

More problematical are the five to seven games involving ACC teams that Holland has worked for Raycom/Jefferson-Pilot Sports.

``I've been thinking about it,'' said JP executive producer Jimmy Rayburn, ``and I don't think circumstances are going to allow it. We'd love to use him, but I don't think it's going to happen.

``It's a bridge we haven't crossed yet, but I think it would be perceived as a conflict of interest and, in our business, perception is viewed as 90 percent of reality. Frankly, I was surprised that nothing was said when he went on the NCAA basketball committee.''

Holland, in the second year of a three-year term on the committee, will be allowed to retain those duties because there is no other ACC representative. He also serves on the USA Basketball committee that will pick the team that represents the United States in the 1996 Olympics.

ON HOLLAND: Emil Parker, whose tenure as Davidson's sports information director has spanned Holland's coaching and administrative careers, said he would give Holland a grade of no worse than eight in any area on a 10-point scale.

``He is willing to let people do their thing and, as long as there's a degree of success or it's obvious it's the right thing, he's basically hands-off,'' Parker said. ``He's willing to let people be creative and he wants that, but if it's less than a good idea, he'll tell you.''

DIAMOND TURNAROUND: Virginia heads into the ACC baseball tournament Wednesday with a record of 25-26 overall and 8-15 in the conference, but the Cavaliers have won nine of their past 10 games, including seven in a row. That includes UVa's first sweep of an ACC team (Duke) since 1991.

Last year, UVa was 20-34 overall and 2-22 in the ACC despite the presence of Brian Buchanan, who hit 22 home runs and was a first-round draft pick of the New York Yankees, and Yates Hall, second in NCAA Division I in strikeouts and a fourth-round pick of the St.Louis Cardinals. Both had eligibility remaining when they signed.

UVa has three seniors on its 33-player roster and has had uncommon starting pitching from freshman Pat Daneker and sophomore Seth Greisinger, who have seven and five complete games, respectively. Junior utilityman Craig Zaikov has been a late-season pitching find, with four victories - the first four decisions of his college career - in April.

nThree of UVa's four spring baseball signees are pitchers, all with impressive strikeout credentials. Left-hander Andy Lee had 131 strikeouts in 65 innings for Kecoughtan High School in Hampton; left-hander Javier Lopez struck out 60 in 38 innings for Robinson High School in Fairfax; and right-hander Brad Nuckolls had 87 strikeouts (and two walks) in 44 innings for Goochland High School.

MORE RECRUITING: J.J. McQueen, the lone UVa football signee who has not met NCAA eligibility standards, scored 780 on the Scholastic Assessment Test in early April but was premature with any celebration.

The system for scoring the test has been changed and the minimum required by the NCAA has risen from 700 to 820. McQueen, a tight end and linebacker from High Point, N.C., reportedly will attend Fork Union Military Academy if he does not qualify.