Show f 4 t i iI i I Clayton Cruse Cruse plays B Bruin ru i n ball b-ball Robyn Hansen Contributing Writer Back for his third season with the mens basketball basketball basketball bas bas- team Clayton Cruse is ready for the spotlight Cruse has waited patiently through an injury and playing playing playing play play- ing behind two all Americans This year Cruse is ready to prove himself Cruse was born in in Arizona and was raised in Colorado With a glance at him he looks like any other young man from the sub sub- That is until he stands up Standing 6 11 and Ibs lbs Cruse is the biggest man mens men's basketball team te Marquette Marque I ogner University Head Coach Al a Maguire compared Cruse to toan toan toan an aircraft fi carrier camer because of his power under the rim Cruse spent his summer working out and attending basketball camps He attended Mullens Mullen's camp in Tulsa and Pete Newell's Big BigMan BigMan BigMan Man Camp in Las Vegas I got a lot out of the camps it was hard work and I 1 hope I can use what I 1 learned this season Cruse said When Cruse is not playing playing playing play play- ing basketball you can find him driving around in his new Wolfsburg edition Jetta listening to heavy metal music hanging out I with his longtime girlfriend l and playing play station games I like being different than the other guys on the te team m Cruse says I wear tighter clothes and I 1 dont don't like rap sometimes the guys on the team will pick on my style but I 1 like it and that's all that matters Cruse is not sure what will come in the future for his basketball career He knows right now that he is being looked at by mid major schools He is taking his coaches advice to wait it out and see who wants him at t toward the end of the th sea sea- son Right now Cruse is really focusing ing on this season season sea sea- son and trying to get better I I want to work on my hands on the outside but if I 1 get the ball under the hoop its it's going in m Cruse said Cruse has the size and the rest of his game is coming together He actually has a pretty good touch and works hard and hes he's Coach Parrish very strong told JUCO Junction He needs work on just to then his endurance ance and d hands They're horrible not If you look at him Cruse Page 1 10 10 I T kC r Cruse fl Cont f. from Page 8 j and he lie knows where the pass is coming from hell he'll catch it What he wont won't catch is a no- no look pass when hes he's four feet from the guy Practice has been different this year for Cruse Coach Parrish has been working the Bruin men harder than ever This season may be deciding Cruses Cruse's future in basketball I know I will go somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where Im I'm not too worried Cruse said All I know is that right now I need to give my whole self to basketball and hope that it all works out Cruse says one day he would like to play professionally professionally professionally in Europe and maybe in the |