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Save Your
Sympathy
by John Platzer
UCLA Picked Over Bulldogs By 13
Maury John, head basketball coach at Drake University,
is to be in the most enviable position of anyone on the face
the earth tonight.
There is no way the man can lose!
Regardless of the outcome of tonight’s NCAA semifinal
e between Drake and UCLA, John will come out of it the
winner.
UCLA, going after its third straight national champion-
ip and fifth in six years, has been established as a 13-point
ivorite over the 11 th ranked Bulldogs. In fact almost no
ne (except maybe Mrs. Maury John) gives Drake a chance to
ren stay close to the Bruins, who may or may not rule by
evine right.
This is what makes John’s position tonight so enviable.
! the Bruins race past the Bulldogs (regardless of the margin)
will be nothing more than what is expected. Actually the
•ger the defeat is, the more sympathy John can expect from
e masses.
On the other hand, if Drake could pull the impossible
night and slip past John Wooden’s perennial champs he
ould immediately be labeled a genius and replace steak as
e number one necessity at the post season banquets.
UCLA, which in recent years has made Perry Mason
3ok like a loser, are described by John as a “super team with
everal super stars.” The most towering of the Bruins is, of
ourse, a 7—1 giant who answers to the name Lew Alcindor.
Alcindor, over whom a million dollar bidding war is
xpected to be waged following the finals, is a pretty good
dlclub in himself but in UCLA’s case he is little more than a
tarting block.
Aside from the three-time All-America, the Bruins also
ait such name players as Lynn Shackleford, Ken Heitz, Steve
'atterson and Sidney Wick on the court.
Drake’s main asset has been speed and, yet, there have
leen times when it seems as if UCLA invented the word just
efensi'W they invented the zone press. Drake led the Missouri
ch in tli(|alley Conference in rebounding this season and, yet, they
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UCLA and the awesome Lew Al
cindor are lop-sided favorites to
win a record third consecutive
NCAA basketball championship
this weekend.
The Bruins are a 13-point
choice over surprising Drake in
the nightcap of Thursday’s semi
final round doubleheader. North
Carolina and Purdue are rated
about even in the opener at 7:40
p.m., EST.
The winners advance to the
title game at 4:15 p.m., EST,
Saturday. The format, playing
Thursday night and Saturday af
ternoon, is new this year. Previ
ously, the semifinals were played
Mexico Continues
In Soccer Lead
In the Third Annual Spring
Soccer Tournament Sunday, Mexi
co defeated Africa, 5-1, behind
the scoring of Carlos Garza.
Garza scored three goals to lead
Mexico with Rubin Curial and
H. Filsinger each adding one.
Africa’s lone score was made by
A. Zid.
The current standings are:
Mexico (2-0); Africa (2-1); Pink
Panthers (0-1); and Allen Acad
emy (0-2). Next Sunday’s game
will feature Mexico against the
Pink Panthers at 4 p.m. on the
South Gate soccer field. This
game will wrap up the first round
of the tournament with the Pink
Panthers still to play Allen
Academy.
ISS B
>urne!
Friday and the finals Saturday
night.
All games will be televised na
tionally by NBC-TV.
UCLA’s Bruins, dubbed by
Drake Coach Maury John “a
super team with several super
stars,” take the nation’s top rank
ing and a fantastic record of
success into the semifinals.
They’ve won four of the last
five national titles, including two
in a row. And, since the 7-foot-l
Alcindor appeared on the scene,
they've lost only two games in
three seasons.
Alcindor, possibly the most out
standing collegiate player in the
history of the game, has compiled
an equally outstanding personal
record — three times All-Ameri
can, twice Player of the Year.
They’re physically healthy and,
according to Coach John Wooden,
mentally and emotionally ready
to make their bid to become the
first team in history to win three
consecutive national titles.
“Our biggest problem is final
exams,” Wooden said Wednesday
after the team arrived from Los
Angeles. Drake, North Carolina
and Purdue also made late after
noon arrivals and each took a
one-hour workout.
“It’s our first practice since
before the regionals,” Wooden
said. “We’ve had final exams and
had to lay off. I don’t think it
will make too much difference.
We’ve reached a point that we
hadn’t attained in some time.”
The Bruins, 27-1, demonstrated
that their 90-52 rout on third-
ranked Santa Clara in the finals
of the West Regional last week
end, possibly their best perform
ance since a revenge victory over
Houston in last year’s national
semifinals.
UCLA and Drake, ranked No.
11 with a 25-4 mark, have no
injury problems. But it’s a differ
ent story for North Carolina,
No. 4 and 27-3, and Purdue, No.
6 and 22-4.
Tar Heel Coach Dean Smith
said Dick Grubar, a three-season
starter and quarterback of the
team, is out with a knee injury.
And Purdue’s George King said
7-foot Chuck Bavis, the team’s
top rebounder, underwent surgery
for a shoulder separation Monday
and definitely is out. Herman Gil
liam, the No. 2 scorer on the
team, is listed as a doubtful start
er because of an injury to his
Achilles tendon.
Ag Golfers Host
Ponies Monday
Coach Henry Ransom’s Aggie
Golf team will take to the links
Monday afternoon at 1 p.m. for
their first conference match of
the season when they meet South
ern Methodist on the A&M
course. March 29, the squad
hosts Texas Tech in a 1 p.m.
match on the A&M course.
After finishing second to the
Texas Longhorns in conference
play last year, the Aggies return
all of its lettermen. Reggie Maj
ors, a junior, will be the first
man on the team while Duke But
ler, a junior will take second po
sition. Richard Ellis will be the
third position on the squad while
either senior Bill Wade or fresh
man Tommy Shelton will be the
fourth man.
The Aggies have played in two
tournaments this spring finishing
second in the Fort Worth Recre
ational and sixth in the Border
Olympics.
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re up against perhaps the strongest rebounding team in the
ountry.
Drake has been a run-and-shoot ballclub all year and,
et, they are pitted against the most famous run-and-shoot
earn in collegiate history.
Overall the Bulldogs’ problems tonight seem to be
ndless but, since no one expects them to win anyway, their
wrries should be small.
Before deciding to flood Coach John with sympathy,
ti, three list think for a second of what Aggie Coach Shelby Metcalf
id third!! gj ve to stand i n his place tonight.
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