Show By MARCELLUS SNOW Chronicle Sports Editor Lack of depth this season is going to force the Utah basketball team to abandon its team style play and rely more and more heavily on center Billy McGill for In his first two McGill has scored a total of 56 points for an average 26 per LAST with depth to McGill averaged a scanty points per game and was the leading scorer on the But the scoring was so evenly distributed among the other players that the Redskins averaged points per a new offensive record for all indications are that McGill will emerge as an offensive rivaling the scoring records of past Utah basketball He was the highest scoring sophomore in the school's history during tanking This total also rates as the sixth best season point output in Utah's V With the offense patterns becoming more and more of the Hill conceivably could rival Art Bunte's all-time record of points in one which he set in This averages out at points per low indeed for an all-time record and indicating Utah's significant commitment to the rather than the style of The Experts Guess Wrong A significant portion of professional sportswriters are engaged in compiling weekly designed to indicate relative rankings of football and basketball THE PRE-SEASON cage polls this if the first few games of the season are any turned out to be woefully floating between sixth and ninth in the various will be lucky to be in the top twenty when the next listings are Mighty Kentucky lost on its home court last Saturday to Florida West without Jerry had to go into overtime to defeat William and Mary in a season This writer was delighted to see the guess in the same way most sportsmen get a kick out of seeing Sam Snead miss an Oscar Robertson miss a Mickey Mantle drop a fly Alf Engen fall in deep or Barry MacKay double fault TO sports depend on unpredictability for the great appeal that it If the pollsters were or nearly games wouldn't be worth going Fans The fickle Utah athletic fan receives a real test and Saturday nights this week when the Redskins play Evansville and Texas The somewhat less than spectacular performances on the West Coast may turn several students away from attending these home NO ATTEMPT to shame Utah students into our will be made but a matter of practical significance should be Poor turnouts at home basketball games this year would speak very poorly for arguments favoring construction of a new Fieldhouse on If the cannot keep the Fieldhouse crowded for all varieties of basketball not just those with season a new edifice an athletic program at for that is neither necessary nor |