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Show on Utah Cfags to-WAC Tofife H&af BYU loses, the teams will be tied going into the following Saturday's Satur-day's games Utah vs. New t Mexico and BYU vs. Wyoming. Utah's hope then will be a Ute win and a Cougar loss a very good possibility because Utah ISy Mac Euckraan Staff Writer Whatta weekend ; ; ; First of all, the Chronicle all stars made up of Mac Backman, Bruce Roberts, Steve Gunn, Charlie Zito, Stove Coulam, and Greg Fowler loses to the BYU Daily Universe staff 46-45 in three overtimes, and then that two point squeaker .... But BYU, winners of Saturday's Satur-day's 64-62 heartstopper, must now come to Salt Lake City Friday Fri-day to play Utah's Redskins. And make no bones about it Utah MUST win if they are to remain in the running for the WAC championship. Two Big Games BYU is sitting on "Temple I Nine" with a 5-0 record. Utah is second with a 3-2 record and two big games out. With only five games left to go, a win in Einar Nielson Fieldhouse would put the .Utes one game behind. After Friday's action, the Utes and Cougars have the same opponents. op-ponents. They must play Wyoming Wyom-ing and New Mexico on the road and then Arizona and Arizona State at home. But nobody in the Ute or Cougar camp will be looking ahead. Friday's game is the one that matters. Homecourt Wins But nothing can take away the stigma of being two games behind. be-hind. Even if the Utes win Friday, Fri-day, Coach Gardner's men will have to anticipate BYU home court wins over the two Arizona teams in two weeks just as Utah can expect two wins over the same teams in Einar Nielson Fieldhouse that same weekend. The key will be next weeks' Albuquerque-Laramie swing. BYU plays New Mexico while Utah faces Wyoming a week from Thursday. UNM, always tough at home, will be favored over BYU. Utah will probably be favored over Wyoming who has lost center Kim Collins as well as their last eight games. Ute Win, Cougar Loss Assuming that Utah wins and tends to play good in Albuquerque Albuquer-que while BYU has hit rocky roads in Laramie. But if BYU wins at Laramie and Utah loses at New Mexico, then Utah fans can kiss their WAC championship hopes goodbye. good-bye. BYU, winners of games in Tempe and Tucson four weeks ago, will probably toy with the two Arizonas. So will Utah. . Tantalizing Possibilities So there are all sorts of tantalizing tanta-lizing possibilities. And for them all to fall in favor of Utah, the Utes must shake off that last 64-62 loss to BYU, and rub the Cougar's noses into the Utah Fieldhouse floor. The Provo game could have gone either Way' bt Lady,. S1Xth thu -ile on the Ut3h is no m''. Sood measure f 7 th appoints ap-points or California by 0 Utah Statebv'' four, and Bll; p bSes t0 Color, . Einr Nielson Fy, the Utes been sc, ' A victory of BYU f,T Papally atone (rft; - if exciting - |
