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Show ,, '?'. THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1997 I Evans unveils cage slate Southern Utah Un iversity's m en's basketball "Valpo has a lot coming back, but J expect Oral Roberts, Northeastern Illinois, Missouriteam wi ll not waste any time getting things started in Mid-Continent Con1erencc play, SUU Kansas City and Buffalo to be right in there, " will open the 1997-98 season and the school's says Evans. "We're going to have a lot of ne w first season of play in the Mid-Con against guys and I think we'll be very competitive. league foe Buffalo, Nov. 15 in the Centrum . That's the great thing about being in a league The early league game is the result of the Midyou never know what's going to happen." Evan s has one returning starter in junior Con having. an uneven number of teams. Buffa lo Tarvish Felton, a 6-6, .180-pound swingman, but does not have a travel partner in the league so scheduling the New York school was on a datehad a very su ccessful signing year with eight available basis. new players inked. "I don't think anybody wants to open the They include: season with a league gam e," said SUU Head Wes Bunn, a freshman guard from Anaheim, Coach Bi ll Evans. "But Calif, who was first-team AllBuffa lo has it much worse Orange County and All-CIF; than us - they open with a Kenyatta Clyde, a junior league game on the road." forward from Las Vegas, Nev., by way of Dixie SUU's non-conference slate includes home contests with College. T he 6-7, 2 15Tdaho State, Montana and the pounder played freshman University of Alaskayear at Baylor. He averaged Anchorage and road dates a t 13. l ppg and 6.9 rpg at Dixie; Uta h, Okla homa State, Tyrone Ellis, a 6-1, 180Wyoming, UTEP and Loyola pound junior guard from Marymoun t. Queens, N .Y. At McCook (Nebraska) JC, he racked up "We've put together another cha I lenging non 2 12 assists, 47 turnovers as a conference schedule," says sophomore and led his region Evans. " I think it's a lot in assists; A.J. Mexican, a more bal an ced than last frosh forward from San Juan season and shou ld be great High in Blanding, Utah, who's 6-7, 200 pounds. He preparation for conference play." was fi rst -team Utah all-state The Mid-Con plays a (2A); Brian McKee, a junior T hursday-Saturday set -up forward, who's 6-7,205, from with games against t ravel Bill Evan s Corona, Calif., and Riverside partners scheduled at the - -- - - - - - - -- - - - City Coll.ege. He scored 11.4 convenience of both schools. SUU's travel pts, 6.3 rebs. per game last year and served a partner is Oral Roberts, who will also be waging two-year church mission between TC seasons; its first campaign in the Mid-Con. SUU and Jeff Monaco, a 6-0, 170-pound guard from ORU will meet Dec. 6 in Cedar City and in the Scottsdale's Chaparral High, where he was regular season finale, Feb. 23, in Tulsa. Arizona's Gatorade Player of the Year and scored 2,024 career points with 836 career assists; Valparaiso, the three-time defending Mid-Con champion, will visit Cedar City Jan. 8. For Leland Osborne, a junior guard from Las Vegas, Valpo, the January visit will be its first trip back Nev., and Utah Valley JC. He's 6-3, 190 pounds to the Beehive State since faci ng Boston College and played his freshman season at South in the NCAA T ournament in Salt Lake City last Alabama. He averaged 10.7 ppg, 4.2 apg at March. UVSC; Dusty Walker, a 6-10, 240-pounder from Evans predicts Valpo will again be the team to Vega, Texas and Central (Kansas) CC. The junior beat, but isn't counting out a handful of other center is the tallest player SUU has signed since teams, including his own. 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