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Show Utes Are Best Balanced Squad in League per cent. He has shot more than anyone in the league except Nemelka who has cast off 105 times and come up with 54 of them. Tate is named in the WAC's best charity tossers. He is hitting 76 per cent and has made 22 of 29. board men. BYU's Craig Raymond Ray-mond is averaging 13.6 after his 21 rebounds against the Utes. FROM THE FIELD it's the magician. Merv Jackson has hit 25 of 43 goals, for 58 per cent. Chambers is listed among the top ten hitting 45 of 92 for 49 has the best overall mark of 12-3 for 80 per cent. But Utah tied that with two wins early this week and now stands at 16-4 for 80 per cent. The overall mark, as well as conference standing is important in determining deter-mining the NIT representative. New Mexico's overall mark of 12-4 is a close third at 75 per cent. INDIVIDUALLY it is a battle of the guards with Freddie Lewis of ASU, Dick Nemelka of BYU and Mike Egerle of Wyoming leading the WAC scoring race. Lewis, second in field goal ac curacy with 56 per cent, is leading lead-ing the conference with a 26.2 point per game average. Nemel-ka's Nemel-ka's 34 points against Utah boosted his average to an even 26. Eberle is hitting 19 ppg and Utah's highest man is Chambers hitting 17 points for the five conference games. He is seventh in scoring. Rich Tate, Jackson and George Fisher are ranked 16th, 17, and 20th with 13.6, 11.4 and 11.0 averages. Utah may be the WAC's leading lead-ing rebounding team, but individually indi-vidually Chambers ranks only fourth in the conference. He is the only 'Skin in the top 10 By REECE STEIN U t a h's conference leading hoopsters are the best balanced squad in the WAC according tc latest statistics released by Commissioner Com-missioner Paul W. Brechler's office. of-fice. THE REDSKINS are the conference's con-ference's number two offensive unit and number three on defense. de-fense. The leaders of both cata-gories cata-gories are in the cellar of the other one. BYU is the WAC's top offensive squad but last in defense. New Mexico, likewise, is number one in defense and last in offense. UTAH IS averaging 86.4 points per game in five conference outings out-ings while the leading Cougars are hitting at a 91.0 ppg clip. The Skins are third in defense behind New Mexico (69.8) and Merv the Magician . . . WAC's top shooter Arizona (77.8) with an 80.2 average. aver-age. The Utes are also the strongest strong-est rebounding unit pulling down 51.2 take downs per evening for over 50 per cent of all rebounds in each game. UTAH RANKS first in free throw percentage and third in field goal percentage. Merv Jackson's Jack-son's 58 per cent from the field and Jerry Chamber's 81 per cent from the line have carried Utah to the pace setter posts. According to the statistics dated Feb. 5, Brigham Young |