12/28/1948

Wildcat Cagers Bow To North Carolina, 60-49

FIFTH STRAIGHT DEFEAT; CRUM, MANN STAND OUT

LAFAYETTE, La., Dec. 29. (AP) — The North Carolina Tar Heels added the Camellia basketball crown to their laurels here last night with a hard-won 60 to 49 victory over the University of Arizona. The clash for the mythical title was the second half of a basketball doubleheader that opened this city's first annual Camellia Bowl sports festival.

Tied Three Times
The score was tied three times during the first half, with Arizona holding a 31-26 margin at one point.

It was in the second half that the Chapel Hill squad started to find the basket. Sometimes with almost monotonous regularity. The Tar Heels, holding Arizona scoreless while they, did it, averaged a point a minute for the first 11 minutes of the second half to take a lead that was never overcome.

Junior Crum and Bill Mann, Arizona forward and guard respectively, paced the Wildcat attack with 13 points each. Coy Carson, one of North Carolina's three returning letter men, was tops for them with 16 points.

Mann, a husky 200 pounder, and Crum easily dominated the Arizona play. Their work coupled with that of substitute Forward Ken Troutt, kept the wildcats threatening throughout.

Carson, who once scored 90 points in a high school game, played a steady, unspectacular game. It took a check of the box score to assess the damage he wrecked on Arizona's hopes. He teamed with Center Sherman Nearman and Freshman Guard Howard Deasey to keep the Crum-Mann attack in check.

Led At Half
Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Lafayette defeated Loyola university of New Orleans 43 to 33 in the opening game.

The title game was a hard one for the westerners to lose.

Starting slowly the Wildcats found the basket first, after about three minutes of play. From then, on they out-hustled the favored Carolinians throughout the first half, and managed to end the half with a 33-32 edge.