Show “ by Wednesday February 23 Jhe opera ain't oveTui the fat lady sings fe Can an opera house be as important to a winning baskethall a forward? In evaluating the blue chip center or ers"y of tl an opera house Pacific the Stockton Civic Auditorium turnearena the Pr0 factor in Tigers’ success as the ed as much of a scoring Ron Cornelius The USU forward basketball basketball their star ac at the opera the Tigers tomorrow night the Civic have won at an 86 Tigers In 18 years at the I from 1969 until January 7 1973 they percent din 189 of 220 home games a put together streak Contrast these marks with a tlism home winning IJi road record UniT"1 eamTJf : of Pu 1981 6 We always feel confident we can win and we always play current Pacific Coach Dick Fichtner about the Civic hard there ” said praise the building in the same manner At news conferences Dutch Belnap would say “This league has former Aggie Coach some MHir but wait unttl you sec that opera house in basketball places to play Stockton Initial visits to the Civic bring nearly the same comments The Civic was built for the opera m 1925 and has hosted everything from wrestling and boxing matches to Billy Joel concerts Still the building ws Ver intend- rcnce guard John Errecart King to the jW°fuld a SCP" said Grosse “The ball would rn for an was open of running up wiih rigtST The floor 7 jumper” Here’ hill0"6 'l ° the corncr “The flo°r “ covered McDonald "°Wd added rules unique to draws "ght up to “ainK Wtb bls’ be lines are not ?r u 'theS’ C “SCU!T g Visitors rarely tag-tea- ed to host basketball The oddities of the building are numerous if not unlx-livable hen enter-nie- s the stage on the opMsite end into ie-gfrom the west entrance Because of the stage the basketball court is a few feet short of regulation size lx- higher but an underground creek has caused it to Mtk The stage used to fioor the with along r ditch in the one corner” said funner “There must be a two-foAggie Keith McDonald “That stage makes it tough to do lasups ” Ken director Crosse indicated the sunken east Pacific’s sports information side creates other entertainment A ball placed on the east end n the court will toll itself to the stage 'W can like he and get his man to lo Errccart and he’d pull up hlrI!’ addcd an opposing coach “you get tired ik?fCtlV° size and the Droximit basketball and the Civic Team h hc black lines To necessarily the lines for ink a P'n ’ gCt M ”1 - — Tger defense- on the side! ne H r nson “and have a seven-o- n Coach Stan MorTger situation two of our"T ons ’ ' players and five of double-tea- :r gir "SSXSSSSX T Tf “ wo" S'Ud‘ n'S for fessional Ai- -" ific ’ —l nih“ ' PW in r — 11 "' b'""- - T1V lld duphUm ihiKvS-Ca"away rr0m h‘ n'SlU 2766 tators the sunken not Pa! - a sha Same the crowds are near pro-- " t n our 8Uge’ and fa’ lady : -- ' hcS h huse wih 9178 win They la" overcome Cornelius the he “per house If |