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Captain Mike Drummond and the Ducks have laid claim to “number
one” in Los Angeles for two years straight. This year there will be no
winning streaks to break, but wins over UCLA and USC this weekend
could have Oregon sitting pretty in the Pac-8 race.
World-reknowned Indiana coach
j to conduct swim clinic Saturday
(Indiana’s world-famous swim
I coach, Doc Counsilman, will con
duct a swim clinic Saturday even
ing at 7 p.m., following the
Oregon-Indiana Invitational swim
meet at Leighton Pool.
Counsilman, who coached the
1976 U.S. Men’s Olympic swim
team to 12 of 13 possible gold
medals, will lecture on swimming,
stroke mechanics and show films.
He will also comment on the latest
findings of muscle biopsy studies
and their relationship to sports
and swimming.
As head coach of the powerful
Hoosiers, Counsilman had won
17 consecutive NCAA titles
through 1973. His teams have not
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lost a dual meet in the last 11
years, compiling a string of 135
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In addition to the 1976 team,
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Once more, with feeling
The Ducks return to Pauley again
but this time USC bears watching, too
By MIKE MARINO
Emerald Sports Editor
It's UCLA time again.
Everyone talks of every confer
ence game being important, but
the fact is that a pretty hot rivalry
will renew itself this weekend as
Oregon travels to Los Angeles for
the second Pac-8 basketball
weekend.
It’s been three straight wins now
over UCLA for Dick Harter's
Ducks. With both teams 2-0 going
into Friday night’s contest at
Pauley Pavillion (KEZI, 8 p.m.), no
doubt things will be just as excit
ing.
Last year in L.A. the Ducks
opened the league season
against the Bruins, and two Greg
Ballard free throws with just one
second left iced a 61-60 Oregon
win. Then in front of a Mac Court
crowd and a regional TV audi
ence, the Ducks did it again in
February, 64-55.
This time around, though,
things will be different for both
teams. It’s common knowledge
the Ducks don t have the big name
this season, but in a manner of
speaking neither does UCLA.
“We re more of a five-man team
than in the past," said Bruin coach
Gary Cunningham. Cunningham
isn't so caught up in the Duck
Bruin rivalry having headed the
UCLA alumni association for the
past two years.
“But it’s still a very, very impor
tant game,” he conceded. “We
have immense respect for Dick
Harter and Oregon, but we feel
with four men in double figures
we’re more balanced than we
have been.”
Leading the Bruins in scoring
are the conference’s number two
and three point-getters, Roy
Hamilton and David Greenwood.
Hamilton, averaging 16.6 points a
game, is teamed with Raymond
Townsend (12.5), to give the
Bruins one of their most solid
backcourts in a while.
Greenwood, everybody’s pre
season pick as the top forward in
the conference, is third in re
bounding with just under 10 a
game to go with his 16.3 points.
A big UCLA question mark was
the strength of centers Gig Sims
and Darrell Allums, but the team
isn’t so center-oriented any more.
“Both of them are doing an ade
quate job together,” Cunningham
said. “Neither of them is a very
dominating center, but it hasn’t
been that important of a factor."
For Oregon, the play of the front
line could be a deciding factor in a
Duck win. Last weekend's pair of
wins against Cal and Stanford
showed the line was recovering
from its Far West Classic blahs,
and Kelvin Small, Dan
Hartshorrne, Phil Barnerand Mike
Clark will all have to be on top of
their games.
The backcourt might be the best
battle. “Our guards have come
along since the season began,”
said Harter. “Mike (Drummond)
showed some great court leader
ship last weekend, and Robby
(Closs) is starting to find his
range.”
But the Bruins aren’t the only
team in L.A. It used to be you
geared for UCLA and then cruised
past Southern Cal, but that's
changed.
A couple of freshmen have
made all the difference for the Tro
jans, namely Cliff Robinson and
Purvis Miller. Robinson, the 6-7
Oakland grad and cross-town rival
of Oregon’s Bamer, is fifth in the
Pac-8 in scoring (14.4) and
seventh in rebounding (7.6). Mil
ler , also 6-7 and Southern
California’s high school Player
of-the Year in 1977, is scoring 13 a
game and hauling down just under
seven boards an outing.
“There’s no way you can over
look them," Harter said. "We al
ways have been wary of USC, and
if we don't gear for them we ll
lose.”
Still, that’s Saturday. For now,
all thoughts are centered at
Pauley. And UCLA.
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