Show Just Us Rips Bye for Basketball Title by Kevin Riley Assistant to Director of Sports Just Us The Us The The highest scoring team this league has eVer seen used seen used their height advantage and a big discrepancy discrepancy discrepancy dis dis- dis- dis in foul shots to win the 1983 Intramural Basketball Championship It was the foul shots with Just Us hitting hitting hitting hit hit- ting on 14 of 21 and Bye connecting on 6 of 8 which proved to be the margin of vic vic- tory B Both th teams connected on 21 field goals but Bye had only five players show up and everyone of them were in some sort of foul trouble Just Us had seven players so they were able to substitute keeping the pressure on throughout hout the game These two teams reached the finals with semi-final semi wins over the Bruins and Trouble Shooters Just Us breezed into the finals by d demolishing the Trouble TroubleShooters TroubleShooters TroubleShooters Shooters 86 Us placed four men in double figures and were led by JT Spillman Spillman Iman with 22 In the other semi-final semi game Bye By came back late in the first half and rode the shooting of league Bernie Graziano to post a 65 53 win over the defending champion Bruins Mark Bray led the Bruins with 15 points With everybody else gone it was now down to these two teams to battle it it- out The first half was probably one of the worst offensive performances by two teams Bye hit on only 7 of 25 shots from the court ourt for 28 while Just Us was even worse hitting on only 7 of 30 for The difference once again was the foul shooting While Us was hitting on 11 of 17 Bye shot not one free try the entire half In the other game our faculty defeated the Downtown Team 40 37 for the faculty plaque Guts was led by Duanne Robinson with 16 points while Dick Wade gathered 14 and Dennis all world McGarvey made 12 |