Show Utes-Cougars Resume Cage War Saturday k K B Hi B If J UTAH'S ALL-AMERICAN Bill shows the form which has netted him first place in scoring this He is currently leading the nation with an average of points per His high for the year is 51 points against West Texas State and his low is 29 against the UCLA By JOE Chronicle Sports Editor Throw away the record books and don't pick a favorite team for Saturday night's Utah-BYU basketball clash which begins at 8 p.m. in Einar Nielsen IP ANYONE DOUBTS this they need only to remember last when the faced with equally heavy handed the Utes one of only two league defeats in a shocker at Saturday's game marks the meeting between holding a slim edge with 50 In that game a year ago Billy got his quota of 32 on 14 field goals and four free But BYU center Dave Eastis pushed with the Utah star to tie him for high point With Eastis matching guard Gary Earnest tanked 26 points to provide the Cougars with the extra scoring boost they needed to w in the Eastis and Earnest are gone for this game and Coach Stan Watts is finding it difficult to come up with an objective reason for believing the Cougars have much of a And so Watts and com-pany also look back at last year's game fora little Like most schools confronted with the prospects of meeting the the Cougars are ing to build their around the McGill's scoring average of points a game nearly tops the combined total of the Y's top three scorers Bob Bruce Burton and Ron THE TASK of Mc-i Gill will mainly to center Bruce Burton with others sharing the perhaps the smallest post man in the will give away five inches to the Ute Offensively the Cougars have been strengthened considerably by the switching of Burton the post Burton has scored I 25 points in each of the Cougars last two BYU SEEMS to have found itself after a disappointing preseason campaign and is lodged in second place in conference play with a The Cougars lost a overtime struggle to Colorado State last week for their only In addition to Burton at Bob and Jim Kelson will team at forward with Ron and Gary Batchelor on the guard Utah coach Jack Gardner will probably stay with his usual starting five of and IN OTHER action around the Skyline Wyoming steps out of the conference for a game with the Air Force Colorado State hosts News Mexico and Utah State travels to |