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By 1.ARRV KURTZ
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N'd doubt about it. 'I his year's Pacific Coast Conference
basketball race is going to go right down to the wire, and
nearly every team, with the possible exception of one or
two, is still in the thick of the battle.
A quick look at the standings reveals that the UCLA
Bruins are currently in the driver's seat, having won five
and lost two,-while California and Stanford are in hot pursuit.
PCC race tight
Lven the next five teams are no more than three games
out of first place. CSC, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and
(iregon State are all within striking distance, while the
W aslongton State Cougars appear to be the only squad “out
of it" with a 1-5 mark to date.
In total, each team has 16 games, playing a home-and
home -series with every squad in the league. UCLA is al
most halfway through its slate, and appears to be the best
bet so far, but the Bruins still have to come up north to
meet the Ducks and the Beavers.
Perhaps this tightly-knotted race is only fitting, since
this is the last time the PCC will operate as a basketball
•league. Someone, at least, will be able to say that they were
“the last PCC basketball champions," but who it will be
remains to be seen.
Although the coast has often been criticized as a “weak
sister to some of the other conferences across the nation,
a look at the rosters of a few squads would indicate other
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Smart, Boin colorful
C ertainly no one can dispute that Doug Smart and Bruno
Boin, Washington’s famed "tree-top twins” are a pair of
the mo>t colorful cagt-rs in the nation, and comprise one of
the most fearsome scoring combinations anywhere.
I hen, too, there’s UC BA’s \\ alt I orrence, who has placed
against some of the country's best since he was a sophomore,
and lias come out quite well. Add to the Bruin guard another
fancy-dan with the ball, Lee Harman of Oregon State, and
you have a pair of sure-fingered, capable backcourt men
in the fold.
Oregon’s hall hawking Chuck Kask, and Stanford's high-,
scoring 1’aul Neumann take a hack seat to no one when it
comes to cage ability, either.
Others who must rate some mention include USC’s burly
Jim Hanna, Idaho’s twin forward threats, John Liveious
and \\ hay Ion Coleman, and California’s fine trio of Dennv
1 it/patrick, Darrell imhotf and A1 Buch, the man with the
long overhead two-hander.
Conference not weak
When it all boils down, the closeness of the I’CC race
does not indicate a general conference weakness. In fact, in
this case, it’s the exact opposite. Washington’s pre-season
favorites, who dished out plenty in non-league affairs, have
suddenly found themselves pushed into the background just
a little hit by the likes of the California Bears, two-time
defending I’CC champ, who knocked off Tippy Dye’s five
in a pair of encounters, both times by more than ten points.
The Bears, too, have had it rough in turn, as Oregon and
Stanford both registered upset victories and relegated the
Berkeley quintet to a second-place standing behind UCLA.
Even the conference-leading Bruins have run into unfore
seen opposition, dropping a humiliating 71-54 decision to
lowly WSC, and thereby giving the Cougars their only con
ference win to date.
To *um up, the whole conference is well-balanced and
every team is capable of upsetting the other on any given
night. That's more than could he said a few years ago. Only
time will tell who is going to cop the trophy, but UCC fans
can he assured that their last representative to the NCAA
tourney will be a good one.
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Betas, Phi Delts, SN win
Tuesday intramural basketball
action in “B” league play, saw a
full slate of six games go by the
boards, most of them well-played
affairs.
Kappa Sigma dumped Tail Kap
Pa Kpsilon 22-16; Phi Delta Theta
tripped Theta Chi 31-29; Delta
Upsilon trounced Sigma Alpha
Mu 39-8; Beta Theta Pi rolled
Delta Tau Delta 40-13; Phi Gam
ma Delta tripped Chi Psi 28-11;
and Sigma Nu defeated Sigma
Alpha Kpsilon 25-17.
Kappa Sigs win
Brooks Crosier tanked 10 points
to top Kappa Sigma's win over
Tau Kappa Kpsilon, as the win
ners Jumped to a 16-2 lead at
halftime and coasted in for the
victory.
Keith Gubrud pumped nine
points in a losing effort for the
Tekes, who couldn't get going
after the bad first half.
Kappa Sigs (22)
Heine (6) F
Arms (2) K
Crosier (10) C
Mitchell (0) G
Kills (4) G
Hubs: Tekes —
(16) Tekes
(1) Wooly
(0) Kesterson
(4) Walters
(0) Parker
(2) Bright
- Gubrud (9).
SAE bounced
In the afternoon's only other
game, Sigma Nu topped Sigma
Alpha Epsilon 25-17, with O'Con
nor showing the way with eight
points. Dale Stillwell, SAE sub,
led all point-getters with nine.
Sigma Nu took a 15-11 half
time advantage and doubled their
margin of victory in the final two
periods for their first win in "B”
action.
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Sigma Nu (25) (17) SAE
linger (3) F (2) Anderson
Tourvllle (0) F (0) Ritter
O’Connor (8) C (4) Horton
Davidson (6) O (2) Carroll
Roth (6) G (9) Stillwell.
T. C. edged .
Phi Delta Theta topped Theta
Chi in the day's hardest-fought
affair, winning 31-29 after hold
ing a four-point advantage at
halftime.
Gene Cost! pushed in nine points
to lead the victors, who had to go
right down to the wire before
edging the spirited Hilltoppers,
who«w Ron Anderson tied for high
point honors for the contest.
Phi Delta (81) (29) Theta Chi
Hartatrom (5) F (2) Bocken
Erickson (2) F (6) Edstrom
Dennard (6) C (9) Anderson
Creager (7) G (2) Blue
Cost! (9) G (2) Olsqn
Subs: Theta Chi—Stover (6),
Wemsing (1).
-DU victorious
Delta . Upsilon had no trouble
at all in bombing an outmanned
Sigma Alpha Nu quintet 39-8, in
the most one-sided affair of the
afternoon.
High point man for the game
was DU Siver, who racked up 12
tallies, while teammate Metz-fol
lowed v/ith 8. DU held a 13-3 half
time lead.
SAM (8)
Katz (0)
Miller (2)
Lift (3)
Lesoh (0)
Hasson (3)
F
F
C
G
(39) DU
(4) Par quin
(4) McKrola
(12) Siver
(8) Metz
G (7) McCormk
Subs: Dl'—Barlow (4).
Betas roll
Beta Theta Pi rambled to a 21
point halftime margin and added
six more markers difference to
it in the final two periods to
stomp Delta Tau Delta 40-13.
Dodge was high man for the
game with 13 points, followed by
A1 Mills with 10. Jim Baker re
corded six points for the Delts.
Belts (13)
Welland (2) F
McCormk (0) F
Baker (6) C
Whitney (1) G
Kisinger (2) G
(40) Betas)
(2) Estes
(10) Mills
(0) Cochran
(7) Bashor
(8) Sogge
Hubs: Delts—Wirth (2). Betas
—Dodge (IS).
Fijis score win
Phi Gamma Delta led all the
way in upending Chi Psi 28-11,
after holding only a 13-8 half
time advantage.
The losers could get only three
points In the entire last half, all
by Dick McKinney, who was high
for his team with six, while Steve
Schell's eight markers topped the
Fijis and the game.
CM Psi (11)
McKinney (6) F
Wei Men (1) F
Bellanger (2) C
Dohn (2) G
Mullin (0) G
(28) Fiji
(6) Phillips
(2) Thies
(8) Schell
(2) Grebe
(6) McGinnis
Subs: Fiji—Debenedeti (2),
Sherwood (2).
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