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Show Vzezvpoint... WAC Tournament brings out contradictions NCAA Tournament Committee chairman is a University of Utah graduate. Yes, BYU goes to Georgia tomorrow! BYU has compiled a terrific 25-5 record, one of the best in the school's history. Unfortunately, the losses have come in the last part of the season and everyone has a theory as to why. I think the team is tired. Not so much from the game schedule, but from the practice schedule. Practice sessions during the last half of the year have been too long and too frequent. Example. On Thursday, the opening day of the WAC Tournament Tour-nament for 7 of the 9 teams, four of those teams scheduled practice time in the Smith Fieldhouse. Three of those teams cancelled the workout and gave the players the time off. BYU practice the full hour and struggled to beat Hawaii six hours later. Long and frequent practice sessions are needed in October through December but not in February and March. Hopefully the Cougars will be fresh and hungry tomorrow night against the University of North Carolina Charlotte, a team that soundly defeated Alabama-Birminham, Alabama-Birminham, the team that ended the Cougars win streak at 17 a few weeks ago. By JACK HILL Lust week's WAC Tournament produced these observations. Don "The Bear" Haskins did one masterful coaching job in guiding his wounded Texas El Paso Miners to tiie final game before losing to a lull strength Wyoming team 66-63. Haskins lost his star, Chris 1 '.locker, to academic ineligibility one week before the tourney. In the first game against New Mexico, Antonio Davis, starting Miner center broke an ankle leaving Haskins with eight players. "The Hear" took those eight players, beat BYU and then had a real chance to upset Wyoming the final night. The El Paso learn and bench was a disciplined, yet intense group. Haskins and his assistant, Norm Hllenherger. did some hollering and official chasing but the players played ball and the coaches mostly coached. BYU's bench behavior was at the oilier end of the spectrum. Chaos! Conches, players, sons of coaches, trainers, etc., all yelling, milling, jumping on the floor and complaining com-plaining at nearly every call. The other teams were somewhere between those two extremes with Wyoming close to the BYU end and Air Force closer to El Paso's. The next best coaching job was done by Colorado State's Boyd '"rant His team put on a man-to man defensive clinic. Even during the 30 minute pre-game warm-up when most teams practice shooting, the Rams went through footwork and drills related to defense. In the opening game Colorado State did not allow Utah to run any kind of offense. They denied the Utes nearly every pass and if you like deliberate offense and great defense, the Rams were the team to watch. A potential problem was averted when BYU lost to El Paso on Friday night. The Marriott Center ticket office had placed the BYU and Wyoming rooting sections next to each other and both groups contain more than the average number of trouble makers. Add alcohol to the Wyoming side of the equation and a very explosive situation could have resulted had BYU and the Cowboys played Saturday night. In visiting with Glen Tuckett prior to Friday's games, he indicated that BYU wanted to go to North Carolina for the first round of the NCAA Tournament. He said that the coaches and players both felt better playing there rather than in Georgia and that the NCAA Tournament Committee had assured him that North Carolina was the destination for BYU. Someone forgot to tell Director Tuckett that Arnie Ferrin, the |