Show Sports thought The old belief of oC winning a ahome at home and losing on the road is is beginning to fade Cade Pot FOI years ii it was expected by sports fans C ns that the home team would win e a basketball contest because the home teams team's noisy fans would unnerve the visiting team HOWEVER TilE THE reverse is happening this year More teams are winning contests on the road The visitors dont don't seem to let the fans Cans upset them An example of oC this was the recent UCLA loss to Oregon University at all places Los Angeles The Oregon Ducks handed the Bruins Bruin's their first loss at home In six years The contest wasn't one of those games that went down to the wire and had the Ducks Duck's lucking out for the win The Ducks blasted UCLA 65 This is not the way visiting teams are supposed to act Most of the time at UCLA's home hom court the Bruins have been the team that has been blasting and not the team getting blasted THE TILE DUCKS dropping UCLA at Los Angeles caused a 98 game Bruin winning streak to be broken UCLA's last home loss was to the University of Southern California 87 86 on March 6 1970 Another example of the home court team not having much of an advantage this year is shown in the two Utah-BYU Utah basketball basketball basketball basket basket- ball battles this year The University of Utah traveled to Provo and downed th the BYU Cougars in the Marriott Center The Utes Utes' dropped the Cougars by two points in ina a game in which the advantage had no influence THEN A MONTH l later it was the Brigham Young Cougars' Cougars chance to strike d down wn the advantage The Cougars led throughout most of the contest and then held on to nip the Utes for a one point win at the University of Utah Special Events Center In the Western Athletic on wins i at home were t the rule and wins wms on t the road Were vere something something th thaT L napp Happened ned once on e in a great while The University of of- Utah was expected to beat New ew Mexico and University of Texas at El Paso ElPaso Paso at Salt L Lake City but were figured t to lose at New Mexico and THIS LOGIC has changed greatly with the winning of fiver five r road ad games by the University of Utah this year The Utes started the he season off with a win over Arizona State at Tempe Brigham Young University at Provo Provo was Utah's next road victim The Utes added two road oad victories victories-as as they downed Wyoming at Laramie a and d Colorado State at Ft Collins Utah picked up its it's final road win vin at Albuquerque in a battle with New Mexico Utah showed that the h is not such an adv advantage advantage ad ad- v vantage nt ge as s it it once was when tl they hey e lost to Arizona Brigham Young foung University and Wyoming in n Salt Lake City JN IN OTHER basketball notes fo former ormer mer Unive University sit of Utah Coach Bill Foster who is cOaching at at- Duke University clipped lipped Maryland 69 67 in one one or the big upsets a few weeks ago go One of Fosters Foster's key weapons capons in the upset over l I Maryland ryland was Blue Devil junior guard yard Tate Armstro Armstrong g. g Armstrong Arm Arm- strong rong has been averaging bout about 30 points a game during tile the lie last s several veral games lI however wever the Blue Devils are still till buried deeply in the second division of the Atlantic Con- Con ference ference The The front runners r- r North orth rth Carolina and North C Carolina arolina State are many light years ears in front of Duke CENTENARY Marquette Las Nevada Vegas Rutgers St. St Johns John's Johns John's NY Virginia Tech and nd Notre Dame are the top independents These seven teams ams have garnered 20 b wins for this ball season ason The Centenary team IS led lot by seven-footer seven Robert Parrish arrish A few years back he heas was as offered a professional Ih basketball contract by the now defunct Utah Stars of the American merican Basketball Association Parrish turned dawn wn the contract offer Maybe P arrish Parrish knew something about the ie Stars that nobody else knew lew forti I n II I i m nt Kt 13 r rn 11 ak lInI n II 1716 i 2 11 n nta ta lOP Jl in la vo voi t m I i joo m tn r. r 4 6 10 M J WS IH W CrUn e I 0 1 II U 16 t 3 in W We e m HO HOmon o Fens mon M tl l CUM u A Urt 1 10 4 11 5 |