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Show I The Salt Lake Tribune Here Are The him? And Nevil Shed, David (Big Daddy D) Lattln, Bobby Joe Hill. Willie Cager and Willie Worsley? They were the 1966 Texas Western (now UTEP) national champs, the ones that took apart Kentucky in the finals. Black kids running, white kids chasing, and Adolph Rupp aging visibly on the bench. It was prob- r Newspapers PHILADELPHIA -- - Lets see There's UAB, UNLV, UTEP and LIU. But then there's VCU BYU SMU and UNR. ThJt s the NCAA tournament, of which true understanding is impossible without a Ph.D. It started Tuesday, resumes Thursday and doesnT end until April 2. Let s take it slow, Ijy the ABC's: is for Auburn, which is participating in its first postseason tournaof ment any kind. Nevertheless, athletic director (and football coach) Pat Dye was set to fire Sonny Smith unless he got the Tigers in the postseason this year. "Some coaches get a house; Smith said. "They gave me a double-wid- e mobile home." But Auburn went and Smith isn't going anywhere. B is for Bad Coach. That honor will befall the coach who gets to the Final Four and loses. Guy V. Lewis, Tom Young, Lee Rose, Dale Brown and, yes, even Dean Smith have qualified. The best way to avoid being knows as a Bad Coach is simple. Dont go to the Final Four. C is for Chippie, i.e. bad team in the lexicon of NBC's A1 McGuire. Sunday, he said "a lot of the Atlan- i I , "i ' v , ably the most socially influential NCAA final ever. V v;1 P is for Paint, as in In The Paint. It is also known as the box or the block. Or the rack. Once it was even known as "the lane." T ' A v ym Adolph Rupp A Tough Loss Al McGuire He Was Wrong Michael Jordan Player of Year - last year. But Lamar isn't 20-1- tic Coast Conference's 100 victims were "chippies. Since McGuire is too busy to do his homework, let's inform him that no ACC team lost to a team that fc not going to the NCAA or NIT. Arnong those who beat the Big East this year, you will find such powers as Rutgers, UMass, Jacksonville and Notre Dame. Chip that, Al. D is for Driesell, as in Charles G. (Lefty). He finally won the ACC tournament Sunday. More power to him; Q is for Quality Minutes. This is a great one. It's what the coach says to pacify the reserve who's only playing eight minutes a game: "Yeah, but they're quality minutes." v. chian and The Citadel please move out? I is for Intelligent Point Guard. No one will get to Seattle without an IPG. By the way, point guards used to "hit the open man, but now they make good decisions. Remember that. nothing that's ever been said about him diminishes the fact that he's great for the game. E is for ESPN, without which we could not hope to see the Richmond-Ride- r game five times. F is for friends in high places, which brings us to . . . G, for Gavitt, as in Dave. The Big East commissioner is in his last year as chairman of the tournament selection committee. He goes out in typical style, ushering in an impostor like St. Johns, which didn't play outside The City until Jan. 14 and had oaly one win of consequence. Maybe next year, Gavitt can concentrate on other things, like making Georgetown's players behave themselves. H is for Herd, the Marshall Thundering Herd, which plays Villanova in Milwaukee Friday. Will the real Herd the one that went 25-- or the one that got buffaloed by Appala- - J is for Jordan, as in Michael, the national Player of the Year for the top-seede- D15 15. 19H4 of the NCAA T our nament A-B-- Cs By Mark Whicker Knight-Ridde- March Thursday, d North Carolina Tar Heels. But now their national championship no longer seems inevitable. Duke showed what quick guards could do to them in the ACC tournan ment. And if its in Seattle, will Sam Perkins play as hard as hell have to? Carolina-George-tow- K is for Kick, as in kick it out. Big men used to "pass the ball back to the guards. Now they kick it out. L is for Lamar. Twenty-fiv- e wins, four losses, and a better team than the one that nearly beat Villanova in R is for Runnin Rebels, as in Vegas. They were 27-won the tough Pacific Coast Athletic Association, lost close to Georgetown and Oklahoma. However, the n NCAA did not give Coach Jerry & Co. the courtesy of a seeding among the Top 16 (Indiana and Wake Forest, both with eight losses, got one). No kidding. the NCAA. M is for Mullin, as in Chris of St. John's, the man Temple's zone must stop Thursday. Coach John Chaney likes to talk of stopping the "known" and letting the "unknown" fall where it may. It will be an easy distinction this time. N is for North Carolina State, which won the NCAA last year but isn't here even though it beat Houston, Arkansas, Duke and Northeastern. It also won 10 years ago after in the beating Maryland, ACC tournament. Two things about that game: It was probably the best ever played, and it convinced everyone that Maryland was No. 2, at worst, in the nation. Thus, the NCAA began letting in conference runners-up- . And then third-plac- e teams. And mishthen it evolved to the mash of today, courtesy of Pandora. O is for Orsten Artis. Remember Tar-kania- for Stroke, as in "He's got a good stroke. That is the '84 version He can fill it of He can stick it, up, "He can shoot the J, or, back in the Dark Ages, "He's a good outside shooter. Consult Berlitz, or Dick Vitale, for the 85 phrase. T is for Tubbs, as in Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs, who's funny on the surface but bad news undertin neath. He likes to call meouts with five seconds left, and his Sooners like to salute hostile crowds with hand gestures. As all hoop junkies know, God gave us the S is 103-10- rub-it-i- index finger to signal We re No. 1." U is for Uwe, as in Indiana center Uwe Blab. Hes from West Germany, as are Washington big men Christian Welp and Detlef Schrempf. Watch out for Deutschland in L.A. this summer. V is for Voice, the nickname of Virginia Commonwealth's J D. Barnett. He got this nickname because he yells at his Rams for approximately 40 minutes a game. He also has them in the NCAA tournament for the fourth time in five years. "I've learned a lot from him," says Jacksonville Coach Bob Wenzel. "He shows that there's nothing wrong with insisting, loudly if necessary, that your players do certain things on the court." W is for Window, as in "He can really put it off the window. The window used to be known as the glass. Your grandfather called it the backboard. X is for X's good and O s, as in, "He's a Xs and Os coach," the most backhanded form of compliment. What it means is, "He can't recruit." This ain't you know. e, Y is for Yellow, which is what the NCAA committee is for scheduling Memphis State to play in Memphis, to play in Birmingham, Carolina to play in Charlotte, and. eventually, Kentucky to play in Lexington. Alabama-Birmingha- Z is for Zebra, which is what you call a referee these days. But the refs do a good job. And, in a way, they have a good job. All they have to worry about is "Blue or Red. They don't have to give a thought to UAB, UTEP, UNLV . . . Y. Opens NCAA At Birmingham Continued From Page 2 part of the reason for the shooting stems from the fact' "we slowed our game down n about and when that happened, we got too patient with everything including shooting. Our game is the running game and were back to it now. Thats how we won the conference tournament. Bartow, who has taken two different schools to the Final Four . . . Memphis State and UCLA, said he understood Singletons feelings. After our loss to VCU there and after ), we got slaughtered by DePaul I put on the brakes and we started staying close to teams. But when we came home for the conference tournament, I told the kids, Take the steals and go for it. Yes, were running more again. Thats playing to BYUs strength. The Cougars, average 78.7 points per gamp, compared to UABs 68.1. I think well be able to play the game, Andersen said. Look at them, theyre at home and the pressure will be more on them than us. Theyll want to run and thats what we're looking for. The Blazers, who are hardly in awe of BYU since UAB has played and beaten Kentucky, Indiana n and Virginia in play, know they have some problems of their own in shutting down Cougar forward Devin Durrant and his senior running mate, Brett Applegate. We hope to contain Durrant D-1- mid-seaso- (98-63- 19-1- post-seaso- 6-- 8 some, Singleton said, but we're not going to ignore the other four. And Bartow said, Weve played two or three junk defenses, but I figure weU be pretty regular with BYU. Durrant is going to get his points. Were going to mix our defenses and you might see three different players on him the first half. Shop Now I Sale Prices Ena Saturday. No Trade Needed, Durrant, averaging 28.1 points per game, seemed by it all. I like the challenge of playing against gooddefense. I enjoy being a marked man, he said, in reply to a question regarding the different defenses he sees. "We think we are on an upswing. We had a tough time last week in our conference tournament (the loss to New Mexico), but we think were peaking. Applegate, who the Cougars must have not only in rebounding (11.3 per game), but also in scoring (14.8) Thursday night, fell back on an old bromide, albeit a precise one. Everyone is 0 now. We may be lucky to be here in view of losing last week, but the NCAA has given us a new life and we want to show our appreciation with a win. non-pluss- . SAVE ON STEEL BELTED RADIALS Custom Polysteel SAVE ON ARRIVA RADIALS For Imports m mb 80H13 Buck A dll I'aflt needed Ny 0-- No trade needed. For U.S. Cars GAME NOTES: BYU hasn't seen the NCAA since 1W1, when It beat UCLA and Notre Dame, followed by the loss to Virginia In the Cost Reolon finals, 74-6- 0 . . . UAB Isn't Infallible on Its home floor, os evidenced bv that debacle ogalnst South Florida this year and olso the 1982 loss of 75-6- 8 to Louisville In the NCAA Mid-Eafinals . . . One national bookmaker's odds have 250-1 both BYLUond UAB os shots to win the NCAA. Some say thats obout what North-CarollState was a yeor ago . . . UAB, otter being by Its opponents most of the yeor, won the board bottle oil In three games of the Sun Belt tournament . o. h SAVE ONPERFORMANCE RADIALS ST Radial No trade needed. 58 74 79 p0( Rt H'j Dayton, Las Vegas, 8 AVELEVERYiLlGHTi LSU, Tigers Open Continued From Page. 2 0 loss to eventual national champion North Carolina State in the Rebels NCAA opener last year. I dont care what the score is as long as we score more than they do. I dont think we could force Princeton or any good team into running. Those days are gone. Weve had to be patient and play a halfcourt game several times this season. When it comes to tempo, rhythm and pace for LSU Dayton D-1- 71-7- (18-10a- in Thursdays 9:4D p.m. nightcap, the Bayou Bengals will turn to (18-10- ) maestro Jerry Reynolds and the Flyers will rely on senior virtuoso Roosevelt Chapman. And while Day-to- n and LSU have never met in basketball. this NCAA concert wont be a Strangers in The Night situation for Reynolds and Chapman. You see, Ice and Velvet, as they are known by their peers, both hail from Brooklyn and crossed each other's paths in the New York Public School playoofs a few jtars ago. Dayton's Chapman popped in a measly 49 points in that one to guide Westinghouse High to a resounding triumph over Reynold's Alexander Hamilton High. It remains the highest scoring game in New York Public High School tournament history. 6-- 8 109-10- 0 Yeah, I remember playing against him," admitted LSlTs Reynolds, who was in his junior year in high school when the matejiup unHe (Chapman) scored 49 folded. points and almost fouled everybody out trying to guard him. We played in some summer league games together after that, but ! haven't seen him for a long time until today (Wednesday). I think I owe him one. He ended my junior year on kind of a bad note. remember Jerry was a real good athlete, recalled Chapman, who will'leave Dayton as the Flyers e leading scorer and the only Dayton player in history to eclipse the 2,000point plateau. I remember scoring 49 points in that game, and Jerry was guarding ms for awhile. He fouled out and I took advantage of it Later, I fouled out, too. It was a great game. Both LSU and Dayton were worried about tempo, rhythm and pace on the eve of Thursdays NCAA encounter because neither has seen much of the other. But LSUs Brown, whose coaching career began as an assistant to Ladell Andersen at Utah State, is concerned with a potential Dayton slowdown. "Weve been able to do something that surprised me a little bit this year we were able to lead the SEC in steals," said Brown, who took the Tigers to the Final Four when they last qualified for the NCAAs in 1980-8"That has helped us control the tempo. When we control the tempo, we're capable of beating anyone in the country. Our lack of patience cost us a game against North Carolina. Wfe started hurrying our shots and let a victory get away from us. 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