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Show 6B ; . y-- . - DESERET NEWS, v 21, 1969 rJliller GflacEt i - Friday, March tiirmiiiiitiitintiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiniii,! Phi Stan ' rfe -i By FRED McMANE UPI Sports Writer Get The Nod! LOUISVILLE, KY. (UPI) -The end of UCLAs reipn as kingpin of college basketball may be no farther away than a Rick Mount jump shot. Coach John Wooden of UCLA knows it too. The mighty Bruins, who have dominated the game since giant Lew Alcindor set foot on the campus four years ago, came dose to having , I, Before we tuck away the basketball boots, the shirts and the socks, lets look back on the v past intercollegiate season. Phil Johnson of Weber deserves the No. 1 plaudit, of course, He took his men farther along the championship course than any others in our area. pet . Z. a 1 , their dynasty beneath them crumble Thursday night. A highly underrated Drake squad succumbed 2 after a gallant fight in the semifinals of the NCAA major college basketball tournament. That puts the Bruins into the finals for the third straight year, but this time they may not walk away with all the marbles. UCLA, gunning for an unprecedented Some will say his way was easier than the we will not guess at that. Weber got into the Far Western NCAA four-wafinals. That's glory itself. And the showing they made there, those Wild ;. cats, their pep club and marching maidens, gave the best account of themselves. Everyone was proud of them. In the WAC campaign Stan Watts of BYU . deserves the decoration. There have been people who would criticize Stan. Some say they don't like his system. Some say he cant get his team up for a road trip. Some say he has all the recruiting help anyone could wish for. 1 85-8- 2 others. But y third consecutive crown, will go against Purdue for the title Saturday in what promises to be a dandy. The Boilermakers were devastating in their semifinal encounter as they overwhelmed North Carolina, and it was their guards, Mount and Bill Keller, who did most of the damage. 92-6- facts remain that Stan Watts, in the past five years, has won one WAC title, tied for two WAC titles and on a fourth time won the National Invitational Tournament. The Stan Mount connected on shots, most of them from 20 feet or more, to score 36 points and Keller added 20 in addition to playing a fine floor game. It was UCLAs inability to handle Drakes never has programmed the the patsies, plucked daisies, as you might say. His schedules, outside the WAC grind, have been the tough-est. Hes played the best. Hes taken his share of the road games and worried least about; his overall record. V I ... Drake's Don Draper tried the impossible a layup over 1 j Lew of UCLA (33). Shot was stuffed by Alcindor, but Bruins got scare in winning Top Scorer In 70 Games it ; 85-8- As a result, his men have been tempered for tests when the conference courting has come. the Hes been criticized for taking his men on South American tours. Some have said this had given him an advantage. Yet the same opportunity is available to his if they will spend the time in organiza-- ! critics tion and planning that Stan has done. His basketball has been good, if scoring is any ' criteria. Hes scored more points in the past seven in 70 conferyears than any other WAC team ence games. Above that, Stans been active in national affairs. Hes come up through the ranks of the National Basketball Coaches Association and 'will be the associations president for the next year. Thats top position in his trade. : So it is with Stan Watts of Brigham Young U. No one else can match his mark! e train- As a testing area for the Cal in Tahoe Lake South team. our of Olympic ing ifornia laid out a superb track and field facility last summer. . . : And there it is, spread out in the forest and with no apparent use. I But there is an effort to make something of it. The city, according to City Manager John Wii- -; liams, is trying to get some federal help to make this area a permanent training site for American athletes who would be interested in future games both World and Olympics. The training base would make use of about 900,000 acres of public lands in the Lake Tahoe Basin. It would include athletic fields, fieldhouses, gymnasiums, running tracks, speed and figure skating facilities, swimming pools, rifle ranges, lecture halls, dorms, medical testing facilities. high-altitud- . ? : ; ' "It would be the home court for the United States national teams and a fine training pound for any who would aspire to that level, W illiams bald. Maybe this facility is what we need. But what we have had in the way of college facilities has certainly paid off in the summer games gold medal collections. WAC HOOP SUMMARY Offense Raffles Defense In NIT ALYESKA, ALASKA (UPI) Junior skiers !from the United States and Canada shove off over j a tough course 0 By VITO STELL1NO UPI Sports JVriter - NEW YORK (UPI) The defense rested its case in the semifinals of the National Invitation Tournament Thursday night. The verdict went against it. Army and Tennessee, in the nation in ranked team defense, were both beaten in the semifinals. Boston College chalked up its 19th straight victory by downing 1 while Temple Army 2 BC, a fastnormally breaking team, beat Army at its own game as the Eagles e followed Cousys plan and slowed the game down and also played a zone defense for one of the few times this season. 63-5- Temple, which won the first NIT in 1938 and hasnt been in the finals since, will now meet Boston College, trying to win for coach Bob Cousys farewell, in Saturday afternoons finals. The defensive match will be on the consolation game. Army-Tenness- BC and Temple, two teams loaded with slick and displaying a lot of school-yar- d savvy, should provide an interesting matchup in the finale. They showed their class the way they picked apart the Army and Tennessee defenses. Temple threw a press at Tennessee midway in the second half and ran up 10 straight points as the Vols, who pride themselves on their good forced ball away several times aud was trailing by seven points at one point but they stayed with their game plan and blew Army out of the game in the second half by hitting 16 of 20 shots from the field. who scored 28 points, said, Thats why were successful, we do what Cousy tells us to. We have confidence in him. Terry Driscoll, Cousy said, I dont like to use a zone because its much easier to get a kid to guard another player instead of a spot on the floor. But I was afraid wed get in foul trouble n with if we went them so we used the zone and tried to key on their two best shooters, Jim Oxley and Doug Simmons. numerous Margin shoot- 1 PECKY CEDAR jump. U Totals score: l 17-- Holftlmo 26 out: Total fouls: 16. Totals 16 Army 29, Boston Gyovai, Army OFT 3 6 Tempi 10 Baum 16 Cromer 3 24 Ma&t 5 Strunk 0 Brocch! 4 11 2 3 25 Simmons, 22, Boston Tennessee Johnsn 4 Cnglnd 2 Croft Justus $049 At It. AVAILABLE FREE ESTIMATES ON: Garages Addition! Patioi Carports Cabins Basements Bathroom Bedroom, etc. Wyoming Arizona t WON 2 1 1 1 1 0 A"' Collage FT 1 6 21 2 2 0 0 1 19 1321 63 Totals Totals 25 9 Halftime: Temple 79, Tennessee 26. Fouled out: Justus. Total fouls: Temple 7; Mennessee 51 Hann Woodall 0 Kinard 9 1 ? 72-6- 6 ( UCLA (15) I . ; par cant 75 Shackailord Rowe Alcindor Heltz Vallely Wicks Swiek Patterson Schofield It rak p p 3 ft a 6 5 6- - 2- - 2 13 21 6 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 14 3 2J 5 7 J 20 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 Totals 11 50 44 21 IS Field pools J6.0 par cant Foul Tries 65.9 per cent. UCLA 41, Drak 39 Halftime North Carolina (45) edge. We had five straight unmolested jump shots that did not fall for us, John said. Normally, those shots drop for us, and we needed them tonight. My kids were very disappointed. They have the feeling By NIT (91) to It Johnson Mount Keller Kaufman Weatherford Bedford Taylor Longfellow International press Purdu Faerber Summary United per cent 67 Giilaim NCAA , NIT Sffllinsls rak p p Ml 7 0 6 3 2 3 4 5 1 2- 4 - 3 3- - 3 Vo - t 0- - 0- - I 0 1 I 5 0 36 3 20 4 2 1 7 4 6 0 2 0 0. 51 20 92 Totals Field ooe s 481 per cent Foul tries 72.7 per cent $ Halttime Purdue 37, North Carolina Boston College 73, Army 61. Temple 63. Tennessee 51. NCAA Semifinals Purdue 92, North Carolina 65. UCLA 15, Drake 2. 35 t Dan Cutter, Hanover, N.H., had two flawless jumps of 139 feet to win the jumping competition with a total score of 208.5. He was followed by Kim BUILDING CENTER 127 East 6400 South Day Phong JSI-797- Niqht Phono 27S-07S- 7 4. Cordon 193.4. Colo. Wren, Steamboat Springy , 5. Stove Brltson, Minneapolis, H5. 4. Jo Lamb, Lika Placid, K.Y. 111.. 7. Richard Gllberaon, Rumfo'd, Me. I 179.6. Maxlco, ' Me. 179 A. 9. 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NO DOWN PAYMINT GOOD TERMS ... 73 0 1 ALL TYPES FENCING Shared - Coach Maurice John of Drake felt the turning point in the game came with about five minutes to play with the Bruins holding a slight Col-I- The strategy worked as Simmons scored only nine and Oxley had just four. Also, Simmons and Mike Gyovai fouled out for Army at 11:14 and 9:36 respectively of the second half. Doug Clevenger bad 25 for Army and was the 4 PLY UYL0I1 $185 . GRAPE STAKE Outright t added.- Drake man-to-ma- mis-take- s. t. Initdltl Team Brieham Young New Mexico Arizona Slatt Three boys from far away New England topped the field at the ML Alyeska layout about 45 miles south of Anchorage here Thursday in the country. FENCING 6-f- CHAMPIONSHIPS added Wooden. complacent, John Vallely, who scored 29 rnd Alcindor, who points, added 25 and picked off 21 rebounds, were the main cogs in the Bruins machine. But Wooden did not feel the Alcindor was at his best. It certainly wasnt one of Alcindor's better games. 1 thought he could have gotten open better. Im not sure but that part of the problem was our inability to get Lew the ball, Wooden said. If John Vallely hadnt shot well and had missed on the in the second half, we probably would have lost the ball game, Wooden FRONT-EN- D Installed WAC here today to determine the combined jumping and cross country title in the, U.S. Junior Alpine and Noridic Skiing Championships. You cant say enough about our two guards, Bill Evans and Jim OBrien, said I think theyre the Cousy. finest backcourt combo in the BC had its problems in the first half when it threw the were into Cadets only consistent ers. pre-gam- 73-6- turned back Tennessee 6-f- CmwI in good shape physical- ly end we should be ready. And certainly a tough ball game like this one tonight should help us. There should be no chance of our being too Junior Skiers Keep Busy ' SCORING Conference were 0 records: (7 2. I dont think we can guard but I think Mount p Tiie Western Athletic Conference is seven years old. . Here is the seven-yea- r summary of the basketball successes and failures of the six member teams as prepared from offical SEVEN-YEA- Al-cin- said. they had outplayed UCLA. They feel theyve been overlooked by the press all season," John said. Actually, Drake could have won if it had shot the way it did most of the season. The Bulldogs from Des Moines, Iowa, made only eight ball control errors, but shot only 38.6 per cent from the field far below its season norm of 47.1. UCLA, on the other hand, made 56 per cent of its shots. Purdue showed the most of any team on the floor, howev-e- r. The Boilermakers completely destroyed a team they were supposed to have trouble handling by using a style to perfection. ------ bas-Jcetb- all Testing Area To Be Saved 7-- quickness, especially in the backcourt, that caused the Bruins trouble Thursday night. Purdue may be even quicker, and their guards certainly shoot better. I feel like I just had a reWooden said folprieve, lowing the Bruins exciting triumph. Either Drake played very well or we did not, because we had more turnovers (22) tonight than we had all year. I think a quick team bothers us. Well have to play a lot better than we did tonight against Purdue. Purdue demoralized a fine basketball team tonight. I am just hopping theyre not es as good on Saturday, Wooden Qtr TIRE CO. 521-612- 3 p.m, p.r tire. 1225 Between Main 49 last 9th South Optn Man, thru Sat. 8 a.m. to 6 Tf,SW' Bt.ly $1.00 more ! A The Straight-Tull- e Tire People A 4 I State |