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Show Conference Title Rests With Arizona Trip ' ' - -'' . . ' -'". ' . . By REECE STEIN It took Texas Western's undefeated unde-feated Miners an overtime to overcome a rapidly improving Arizona University squad, and Utah's league leading Redskins will have its work cut out Fridav night when they attempt to pull off the same feat in Tucson. ARIZONA is 12-9 for the season sea-son with an impressive 40-point victory over Stanford two weeks ago, and are in the four-wav tie for third place' with a 2-3 conference mark. They have fallen fal-len to BYU and Utah on the road and Arizona State at home, then surprised both New Mexico and Wyoming in Bear Down Gym two weeks apo to tie for the WAC cellar. Arizona plavs a form of the ball Utah fans saw Hawaii exhibit, ex-hibit, but the hot-shootine Wildcats Wild-cats don't go to great lengths to sit on th-.' pineanpK Ted Pickett is the leading Cat scorer and is averaging 16.5 points ner game. The quick Arizona puari is shooting better than 50 per cent from the field and has hit 79 ner cent of his foul shots. BOB SPAHN will ioin Pickett in ' the b'ackcourt and Coach Bruce Larson has relied heavilv Richard McGeagh . . . backstroke champion on his two guards for the bulk of the team's scoring punch Spahn is hitting 14.2 points per game throueh a deadly eve from the line and a noor one from the field. He leads the WAC i charity scoring with 89 per cent but from the field he has hit a miserable 39 per cent. On the Arizona front line is the veteran Harvev Fox, a 6-1 forward averaging 13.8 pDr. Bob Hansen, the 6-6 center will et the call in the post and iunior 6-5 forward Mike Aboud will cilso stfirt THEY WILL face Utah's regular regu-lar crop, which includes threo seniors and two sophs. Jerr" Chambers, the WAC's second leading scorer will play the post and 6-6 forward George Fisher will start and jump center. Lyndon Lyn-don Mackay, 6-7 soph, will form the other forward and Rich Tate and Merv Jackson will start in the Skin backcourt. Utah has a one-game lead in the conference over BYU and could strengthen that with the squad's third WAC road victory and BYU loss to Arizona State tonieht. |