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MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2005
THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
Women roll to ACC final with Carolina by
Michael Mueller THE CHRONICLE
GREENSBORO Smarting from a regular season-ending loss to North Carolina, the Blue Devils MARYLAND entered DUKE 74 the ACC Tournament in an unfamiliar position. Despite having won 15 consecutive tournament games and having never lost in the Greensboro Coliseum, second-seeded Duke
Monique Currie and Wanisha Smith celebrate as Duke cruises past Wake Forest.
ing up at UNC for the time since 1997. But after a recordsetting first two rounds, Duke’s women will come face-to-face with their arch nemeses in tonight’s final. The No. 6 Blue Devils hit an all-time tournament scoring high Saturday and blew past Wake Forest, 107-50. Then Sunday, Duke did it with defense, holding No. 25 Maryland to just 11 points in the first half—another tournament record —en route to a commanding 74-44 victory. “I think our defense set the tone for the game,” head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “Our defense in particular in the first half was some of the best defense we’ve played all year.” That might have been the understatement of a season blemished by a sweep at the hands of the Tar Heels. At one point Sunday, Duke held Maryland without a field goal for more than 13 minutes. The Blue Devils used superior size inside—three of Duke’s eight players are taller than Maryland
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Fuqua admissions safe from hacking Emily Almas THE CHRONICLE
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An
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attempt to gain access to admissions decisions from the country’s top business schools Wednesday, including the Fuqua School of Business. But while some applicants at other schools were successful in viewdecision information, ing Fuqua’s separate database and firewall systems thwarted such access at Duke. The hacker, using the pseudonym “brookbond,” posted hacking instructions on an online forum at Business Week’s website early Wednesday. The post, which told applicants how to access confidential admissions de-
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cisions weeks ahead of schedule, affected several dozen business schools, including Fuqua and those at Harvard University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University and Dartmouth College. All of the affected schools use ApplyYourself, a Fairfax, Va.-based company that specializes in online admissions application systems. “When it was decided to use Apply Yourself, Duke decided that [admissions decisions] would be kept separate from the ApplyYourself website,” said Chris Cramer, information technology security officer. “All of the information is kept locally SEE HACKING ON PAGE 5
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Shelden Williams struggled to keep UNC forward Sean May, who scored 26 points and grabbed 24 rebounds, out of the paint.
UNC RALLIES IN FRENZIED FINISH by
Mike Van Pelt
THE CHRONICLE
CHAPEL HILL When Duke inbounded the ball clinging to a two-point lead with 36.8 seconds DUKE 73 left Sunday, North UNC Carolina head coach Roy Williams had already instructed his players to foul. They didn’t have to. Daniel Ewing broke the Tar Heel press, but he lost control of the ball near center court, letting loose a chaotic scrum that North Carolina emerged from with the ball. Rather than having the chance to run out the clock, the Blue Devils, who had witnessed a nine-point lead vanish in just three minutes, were back on their heels, desperately trying to hold off North Carolina. After being fouled on the next play, UNC point guard Raymond Felton sank his first free throw, but then his game-
JJ. Redick scored 17 in the first half but was silenced after thebreak.
tying attempt ricocheted off the back iron. Another frenzied battle for the ball left it in the hands of Tar Heel freshman Marvin Williams, who banked in
the putback and was fouled, sending UNC back to the line to complete a four-point possession. JJ. Redick’s final three raided in and out and a Ewing jumper fell short, sending the Dean Dome into pandemonium as North Carolina (26-3, 14-2 in the ACC) celebrated its first outright ACC regular season championship in 12 years with a 75-73 win. “Somebody told me one time that every game somebody gives in,” Williams said. “But I don’t think either of these teams gave in today. I asked my team to not bring anything back to the locker room, and those last three minutes I promised them we would have a chance.” The Blue Devils (22-5, 11-5) led 73-64 with 3:07 remaining, but the Tar Heels closed the game on an 11-0 run, during which Ewing turned the ball over twice. ‘You’ve got to have the mentality to bear down,” junior Lee MelSEE UNC ON SW PAGE 6