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Show Thursday. November Beavers Given Nod In Pacific-1- - Oregon mum State in the although on San Francisco, suspension, in the West Coast Athletic Conference and Pacific in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association Those look like the conference champions this year in West Coast college basketball None, however, is a solid pick bv anv stretch of the imagination Oregon State, for instance, has the experience, one of the most successful coaches in Ralph Miller and probably the top player on the West Coast in center Steve Johnson But to concede the Pac-1title to the Beavers vou have to ignore five other teams, including UCLa. and no one is quite ready for that The Bruins, winners of 13 straight conference titles have a this year in volatile Larry Brown and a bunch of kids, but in a tight, race, anyone, even UCLA, could wind up the champion. The other teams given a chance are Arizona. Southern California, Washington State and Arizona 0 NCAA Utah-Pa- -- And 4th Annual r7 6' By JOE SARGIS LPI Soorts Writer .fpl. Conference THF. HKRAl.D. Provo. 13 ge Shop For Christmas PAC-1- 0 SAN FRANCISCO 15 SAVE! 3r MMQo Fri. 10 Si.,, 0 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 11 I. 5 p.m. stAuslote, new-coac- six-tea- mini State. For the first time in as long as anyone can remember there is great balance this year in the Pac-1with all of the contenders except Oregon State being on the young side. So, the Beavers get the nod but only because someone has to be the favorite. Last season Miller and the Beavers finished at but lost in the first round of the playoffs to Nevada-RenComing back from that team arc nine players, chief among them Johnson. The othet , key Beavers are guards Ray Blume and Mark forwards Dwayne Allen and Jeff Stout and Tony Martin, who plays both forward and center That's a solid nucleus. Arizona was 1 last season and could do better this time around. Guard Joe Nehls is the Wildcats' only senior, but he is one of the best players in the Pac-1Last year he averaged more than 19 points a game and is considered a candidate for the 1980 rzrmrz wT-- -- C- (irtlTMttr.i T. I ? 1TV Oritur "5 0 18-1- o. , Red-ford- 16-1- Olympic team. The big news at Southern California this year is Coach Stan Morrison., who led Pacific to the PCAA championship last year. He replaces Bob Boyd, who quit, and he inherits maybe the smallest team in the Pac-1But Morrison has one of the nation's better players in forward Purvis Miller. George Raveling's Washington State team is similar in ways to the Trojans no big man at center but a lot of smaller people all around who can play well enough to give a coach hope. They are 6 forward Don Collins, 1 guard Terry Kelly and guard Bryan Rison. Collins, like Arizona's Nehls, is a potential Olympian. ASU went 4 last season and Coach Ned Wulk is talking about a better year this time for the Sun Devils. It' hard to accept the coach's optimism in view of the fact ASU has lost its three top players of last season, but Wulk has been around long enough to now what he is talking about. A pair of 1 centers Kurt Nimphius and Alton Lister gives the Sun Devils height and scoring punch. Brown says he doesn't plan to change UCLA's style but he will rely on his entire squad rather than the first six or seven players. He'll have to the Bruins are young and a little short on experience. Darren Daye, Cliff Pruitt, Rod Foster and Mike Holton are Brown's best players. That leaves Oregon, Califoria, Stanford and also-ran- s k Washington lumped in a bunch of in a league some think may be the most competitive in the collegiate ranks. The Ducks, Bears, Cardinals and Huskies all have several better than average players but not nearly enough others tc make them title contenders. USF was put on probabtion a month before the 1979 season started. That means the Dons won't be able to compete on television and the playoffs and cannot be included among the ranked teams. Still, they are the team to beat in the WCAC. Bill Cartwright and Doug Jemison are gone from last year's championship squad, but Dan still has a solid team anchored by holdovers Billy Reid, Ken McAlister and David Cornelius plus super freshmen Raymond McCoy of Chicago and Quintin Dailey of Baltimore. Santa Clara, Pepperdine and Portland are the teams given a chance to beat out San Francisco. Londale Theus and Kurt Rambis are the Broncos' best players; Ricardo Brown and Tony Fuller give the Waves hope and Rick Raivio and Darwin Cook will lead the Pilots. Seattle, St. Mary's, Loyola, Gonzaga and San Diego are quite a bit behind. Morrison jumped dt the chance to take over at USC, but he left replacement Dick Fichtner a solid team at Pacific. Last year's MVP. 9 forward Ron Cornelius, plus Matt Waldron, Scott McLaughlin, Matt McGuire and Rick Paulsen could play for any team on the West Coast. Tex Winter always fields a contender, and there is no reason to believe he won't again this year at Long Beach State. Senior forwards Michael Wiley and Francois Wise are his best players. None of the other PCAA teams is given much of a chance although all have at least two or three quality players. Fri. Sat. and Sun. Only Off m iiit: Lease a Junior Ski Outfit ""V-VY- D V 0. 6-- Jin ! &m 6-- For The dump rrrttrrra- 3 oifiHJW Ski Season S50 Deposit Required II All Brand New Equipment Expertly Fitted f?GM'CA Boots FISCHER far-bac- New 1980 Nordica perfor-Foam-Padd- Vel- - Polds TYROLiA Bindings MP II I Tyrolia '50' Junior Step-iings for ease of entry. Aluminum Ski Poles with molded grip and straps. Bind- - n in 80 thrul50cm. luntina lined for warmth. 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