Show Utes Gird for Cougar Tussle Friday The University of Utah basketball sporting a mark in league play and tied with Colorado State for the Skyline faces one of its toughest chores of the campaign this Friday when they meet arch rival Brigham Young University at Provo and then take on Montana U Saturday in the Redskins' Einar Nielsen Game time for both contests is 8 p.m. COACH Jack pleased of course with his club's fine start in the Skyline points out that BYU is always tough for the Utes and that the Cougars are always ready for battle when the Redskins trot on the Cats' home Says of previous records we can count on the Cougars being ready for us Friday night They are a young ball club and can blow hot or cold but we expect them to be plenty hot against They have shown great talent on occasions this vear and proof of this is the way they knocked off mighty Kansas at Provo earlier in the If they can beat Kansas they can beat On the Ute side of the ledger is the sensational play of Billy Bill is averaging for the season and in league play which is far above the average of any Ute player in IF HE continues at his present pace will eclipse all existing Ute individual scoring marks and actually McGill seems to be getting tougher as the season The most points ever scored in one season by a Redskin was by Art in and Billy has in 14 games this If McGill continues at his present rate he will amass approximately counters for season which would be well above Bunte's The highest average by a Ute performer is the a game by Bunte in and of course Bill's present is far above ANOTHER mark that McGill is threatening is the rebound total for one season which Gary Bergen holds at and a average per McGill presently has takedowns and average of a game which is also well above the existing A third category in which McGill is ahead of the present school record is in field goal percentages which is held by Joe Morton at set just last is shooting now at a From a team standpoint the Utes are also gaining In conference games they have averaged 97 points a game to their opponents for a point spread of a In the three league battles Utah has shot a fine from the field and to show this is no flash in the pan their season percentage from the field is which ranks them as the fifth best shooting team in the Coach Gardner attributes a great deal of Utah's success this year and their record to their Says have not done as well as I hoped for in ball handling and are still making mistakes on our shooting has held If we have a cold night at the hoop and are passing someone will clobber Against Denver I was disappointed in our give the Pioneers credit they shot well and handled the ball extremely well for a sophomore Hoyt Brawner has done a fine job with his team and they'll be giving someone some trouble before the season is I can see now how they won the Evansville |