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'Today Show' to attend Oreeon-Boise State dual
By Ron Gullberg
Of the Kmerald
The Oregon wrestling team
will be looking to rebound from
a devastating week, while
former Duck wrestler and
famous author Ken Kesey will
be interviewed by the “Today
Show" at tonight s 7:30 p.m.
dual meet with Boise State
University at McArthur Court.
The Ducks, who have lost
three straight and eight of their
last nine dual matches, hope to
upend the 2-2 Broncos with a
re-arranged lineup.
The Broncos’ 134-pound
Tracy Yeates is ranked national
ly. so Oregon coach Ron Finley
will counter by moving
nationally-ranked Shon Lewis
up to face Yeates.
Lewis is Oregon’s most suc
cessful wrestler this season with
20 wins and only three losses.
Chuck Kearney, the Ducks'
other nationally-ranked
wrestler, will move hack to the
177-pound class for the meet,
facing Scott Cook.
“Those (Yeates and Cook) art;
two of their lw;st wrestlers,”
Finley said. ”1 think Shon and
Chuck can heat them. If Shon
beats Yeates. I think we’ll beat
Boise State."
Roberto Pelayo. who went
undefeated in three meets last
weekend, will compete for the
Ducks at 11H pounds, while Dan
Martin intends to increase his
impressive 12-8-1 record at 187
pounds.
Lewis. Kearney. Pelayo and
Martin account for 40 percent of
Oregon’s wins this season,
while the team tries to over
come a rash of season-ending
injuries.
In addition to an already ex
citing evening. Pleasant Mill
author Ken Kesey will be inter
viewed during the meet for a
feature to be aired on NBC’s
“Today Show.”
Kesey. who competed for
Oregon from 1955-57 and wrote
the novel-turned-movie “One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
is a regular attender of Ducks
Three-point shot: Will it
change college basketball?
By Gary Henley
Of the Knit-raid
It’s been called “silly” and
“ridiculous,” while others say
it adds excitement and opens up
the game. Don Monson doesn’t
like it, Ralph Miller doesn’t like
it, and neither do 65 percent of
other Division I coaches.
It’s the NCAA basketball's
three-point shot, and whether
you’re for it or against it. the
shot is changing the game of
college basketball.
The rule was put into effect
April 2, 1986, by the NCAA
Rules Committee, headed by
Springfield (Mass.) College pro
fessor and athletic director Fid
ward Steitz.
“It’s an integral part of the
entire game,” Steitz said. “It
will open up the game and put
more excitement into it. It’s
what the fans want to see.
“During the last 12 years,
field goals were down six, field
goal attempts down 13 and
points down 17. We expect the
three-point shot to put more of
fense into the game and change
all that.”
Since the 1983-84 season, the
rules committee also has added
the 45-second shot clock and
the “infamous Valvano Rule.”
to eliminate time-consuming
possessions, Steitz said.
A big complaint by college
coaches around the country was
that the rule was instituted too
quickly, without warning.
“We've researched this for at
least five years,” Steitz said.
“How long did they want us to
study it anyway? Did we have to
look at it for 26 years like we did
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Steitz was speaking of
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The rules committee’s survey
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that only 35 percent favored the
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‘‘The problem with the
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they're telling us to get lost, we
don’t need you. the game is fine
without you,’ The game doesn’t
belong to the coaches. It’s for
the spectators, the players and
the news media.”
Much of the controversy sur
rounding the new rule is the
distance of the shot itself. The
three-point line is a mere 19 feet
9 inches from the basket.
Even Steitz admits that after
this season, the rules committee
"may push the line back a foot,
or to the international three
point line (20 feet 0 inches).”
Oregon guard David Girley
said, "the shot is nothing new
to me. That’s where 1 take most
of my shots anyway."
Junior guard Anthony Taylor
adds, "it is real close, so it’s a
pretty easy shot. I don’t mind
though. I like it."
Sports Illustrated called it a
“win-a-teddy-bear-at-the
carnival shot." and quoted Reg
gie Miller, UCLA's high-scoring
forward, as saying, "I can
almost throw it in underhand
from 19-9." It was estimated
that BO of Miller’s 274 baskets
last season were made from
three-point range.
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Understandably. UCLA coach
Walt Hazzard is one of only two
Pacific-10 Uonference coaches
who like the shot. In a
November 20. 1086. article from
the Los Angeles Times, Hazzard
said, “I know that none of us
(coaches) were really consulted,
but the decision was that this
was the time for it. So I like it.”
The other coach in favor of
the shot is Arizona's Lute
Olsen, who voted for the shot,
but not the distance.
Oregon coach Don Monson
has been against the three-point
shot from the very beginning,
and feels "there should be no
line at all.” no matter what
distance tin; shot is taken from.
"They're rewarding players
for taking non-percentage
shots." he said. The three-point
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wrestling meets. Mis son Jed
competed from 1982-84 before
he was tragically killed in the
Jan. 21. 1984 wrestling van ac
cident in eastern Washington.
Finley expects Kesey to talk
about wrestling, his ac
complishments and safety in
travel.
“We’re looking to get as
many students as we can
possibly get to attend the
meet,” Finley said. “It is a great
chance to get some free national
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