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Show Runnin Redskins Set 66-67 Hoop Schedule, Add 4 New Opponents University of Utah Athletic Director Di-rector Bud Jack and Head Basketball Basket-ball Coach Jack Gardner have just recently confirmed the 1966-67 basketball schedule. The upcoming season will pit the Utes against four teams that have not been previously pre-viously scheduled. Thursday, Dec. 1, the Utes will play Pepperdine College of Los Angeles in Einar Nielsen Field-house. Field-house. On Tuesday, Dec. 27, the team will travel to Lubbock, Texas to tangle with Texas Tech. On that same road trip, Utah will meet two teams for the first time in the Sugar Bowl Tournament at New Orleans on Dec. 29 and 30, Boston College and the University of Tennessee. PEPPERDINE College has not played in Utah since the NCAA Far West Regionals at BYU several years ago, and should provide the Redskins with plenty of competition competi-tion for their opening game. Texas Tech has always boasted a tough season schedule, and have been the perennial power of the Southwest Conference. According to Coach Gardner, Texas Tech is one of the toughest teams to beat on their own floor, and should provide more than a warm-up for the Sugar Bowl Tournament that same week. " Boston College for the past several sev-eral years has been one of the leading offensive teams in the nation. na-tion. Last season they averaged over 91 points per game, and with Bob Cousev as their head coach, they should be in the thick of it again this year. Tennessee has been rated in the top ten for a good share of the past two years. BEFORE the NCAA Tournament last season, they were the only team to have beaten Kentucky who finished the NCAA Tournament Tourna-ment second only to Texas Western. West-ern. Last season they were ranked number seven and averaged a scoring scor-ing margin with their opponents of 16.2 points per game. Thev allowed their opponents only 57.7 points per game to be second in the nation na-tion in defense. The other team in the Sugar Bowl Tournament is highly rated Bradley. Bradley has long been a power in the Missouri Valley Conference, and usually starts the season as a favorite to end up in the top ten teams across the nation. This is the second time that Utah has been invited to nlav in the Sup-ar Bowl Tournament. The first time was in 1955 when the Redskins Red-skins went to the finals against Notre Dame. THIS YEAR'S basketball schedule sched-ule will also see the resumption of competition with Colorado State University at Fort Collins on January Janu-ary 30. The Rams will return to Salt Lake City with the Utes to clay in Einar Nielsen Fieldhouse February 2. Last year, Utah was probably the most traveled team in the nation bv logging over 22,500 miles in regular season play, and the trend seems to be continuing, as exactly half of their twenty six game schedule will be played out of town. Following is the complete 1966-67 1966-67 schedule: IJNIVERSITY OF UTAH BASKETBALL SCHEDULE 1966-67 Tuesday Nov. 29 Varsity-Frosh at Salt Lake Thursday Dec. 1 Pepperdine College at Salt Lake Saturday Dec. 3 New Mexico State at Salt Lake Monday Dec. 5 Colorado at Boulder Saturday Dec. 10 Loyola (L.A.) at Salt Lake Saturday Dec. 17 Stanford at Palo Alto Monday Dec. 19 California at Berkeley Wednesday Dec. 21 North Carolina State at Salt Lake Friday Dec. 23 San Jose State at Salt Lake Tuesday Dec. 27 SUGAR BOWL TOURNAMENT Thurs.-Fri. Dec. 29-30 at New Orleans Texas Tech at Lubbock (Boston College, Bradley, Tenn., Utah) Saturday Jan. 7 Utah State at Salt Lake Friday Jan. 13 Arizona State at Tempe 'Saturday Jan. 14 Arizona .' at Tucsson Friday Jan. 20 New Mexico at Salt Lake 'Saturday Jan. 21 Wyoming at Salt Lake Saturday Jan. 28 Utah State at Logan Monday Jan. 30 Colorado State at Fort Collins Thursday Feb. 2 Colorado State at Salt Lake Saturday Feb. 11 Brigham Young at Provo Friday Feb. 17 Brigham Young at Salt Lake Saturday Feb. 18 Air Force Academy at Salt Lake Thursday Feb. 23 Wyoming at Laramie Saturday Feb. 25 New Mexico at Albuquerque Friday Mar. 3 Arizona at Salt Lake Saturday Mar. 4 Arizona State at Salt Lake Conference Games. |
