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THE TRIBUNE

THE TRIBUNE

t(OV l 8 198!

NOV 1 9 198J

Aussies play it casually Basketball's still an amateur's game

Au s·es to continue cage tour at USD

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By Bud Shaw Tribune Sportswriter

b~t ~e said any boss who would sack an employee for m1~mg a day of work is a bum. That's not bad talk com1?g from a prime minister. The reaction over the Cup wasn t because of the event. It was the history involved." There is a lack of history and event-status in Australian basketba_ll. High schools consider the sport to be a part of the phys1ca\ education curriculum, nothing more. While basketball IS Au~trali~•~ _ largest participant Olympic sport, the country s fac1ht1es are nothing anyone would mistake for the Forum. 'Right now, we are a tired team. Tonight, we did not attend the game until seven minutes were played' - Lindsay Gaze Still, the Aussies finished seventh in Moscow and fifth a~ the Wo~ld Games. They_ also produced the 1980 Olym- pic Game~ leadm~ s~orer m6-6 Ian Davies, who present- ly IS workmg on his Jump shot in Switzerland but will be part of the 1984 team. And they hav~ a bead coach who has the proper sense of,?umor for their hopes in Los Angeles. Right now, we are a tired team," said Gaze. "Tonight, we did not attend _the game until seven minutes were played. I called a timeout and said, 'We at least have to Jog down the floor.' "The college rules are sometimes difficult to under- stand. Some aspects of the college game are just diaboli- ca!, We got a technical foul after (USO) scored a three- pomt play. So now it's a four-point play and they get the ball back? "I also don't understand why the referees have to han- dle the ball_ on the sidelines all the time. The international rules are different. The way it is here, the game is slowed do"'!n to the speed of the slowest referee. And taking turns on Jum~ ball situations is crazy." The bred Aussies will finally get a day off tomorrow after which l?ey'II play four more games and then board a_ day-long_ fl1g~t back home. The team will scatter in 12 different dJrecbons until Easter which is not exactly the way they do things in Moscow. ' "And I will resume my full-time job" Gaze said. "See coaches don't get paid in Australia Th~y get punished." '

Au trali~n.televJSion offers a weekly National Basket- ball Associat10n game. It is not exactly a craze yet not in the same class as Australian Rules Football, anyw~y. Rerently,. viewers s.aw Philadelphia vs. Los Angeles. In last seasons NBA finals. At this late day, Australia's netw~rks have also fmally confirmed a rumor that North C~:ohna State bas won the Final Four. Sometimes you get the games around midnight," Aus- tralian N~t10~al basketball coach Lindsay Gaze explained last everung. But kids have petitioned the TV stations to show th games at a>more appropriate time." . The team that will carry Australia's basketball hopes m the .1984 Olymp1c Games stopped by the University of San Diego last night as part of a 12-game, 14-day tour. This was one scnmmage that the networks back home are,only too glad not to be carrying. t: SD eased ou~ of its practice schedule by beating Aus- tra!1a 68--58 behind senior Mike Whitmarsh (27 points) Junior college transfer Mark Bostic (19) and freshma~ Anthony Reuss of El Cajon (13 pomts, 14 rebounds). USO head coach Jim Brov has another week to prepare his tram for a game that counts on its record - next Fri- days home opener agamst St. Thomas College (St Paul Mmn.) · , For Australia s part, this was just another one-night stand. The los.~ was the Aussies' sixth in eight games on the tour, therr only wms coming against Loyola Marym- ount and USC. They do not expect to compete with the Amencans and Russians at the Summer Games if only beca~e basketb~II in Australia JS something le~ than a rehg10~ or a cog an a sports/political machine. Gazes players started practicing together about five days before leaving for the States. One of them, center Ray Borner, works as a linesman for a telephone compa- ny. W_hen the Aussies return home, they will go back t.o their Jobs and reassemble for more practice around East- er. After another break, they will have two weeks of drills before the Olymp1cs. ' I'd h~ve.~o say we are the last bastion of amateurism," Gaze said. ~any of our players have to pay their way mto gymnasrnms. It 1s a joke compared to any other Olympic team. "If we won any kind of medal, 1t would be really some- thmg. But nothing can compare to Amenca's Cup over t~ere. The i:,ubl!c1ty over that was amazmg. But tell me \\ ho 1n therr nght mrnd would stay up until 4 a m t~ "atch a sail boat race? It must be the most boring e;ent one could ever watch. "There was a move on to claim national holiday when the Cup wa won Our pnme m1mster didn't go that far

ANTHO'.IIY REUSS

THE TRIBUNE

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' 1:J83 Once again, they say Brovelli doesn't have the horses, but ... By Bud h w

'I know that the conference will be ... tougher than it was a year ago, but I feel like we've reached a point where we're two deep at everJ po ·ition' - Jim Brovelli

USD defeats Aussie -tea By Rick Hazeltine, Special tone Union _The University of San Diego opened its 1983-8~ season with a 68-58 exhibition game victory over a tired Austra- lian National Boomers team before a crowd of 625 at the Sports Center last night. The Roomers were playing their eighth game in as ~any d_ays, and the wear and tear of the trip was evident m the fll'St seven minutes as the Toreros jum~ to an 11· 4 lead. After waking up, the AUMies came back to tie the game at 16 on a layup by guard Philip Smyth with 9:39 left in the first half. From then it was a very aggressive, physical game that saw 45 personal fouls by the two squads, including 29 by the Boomers. The game remained close until late in the second half when USO pulled away with an eight-point flurry. ' Guard John Prunty hit two free throws at the 2:29 mark to give t_he Toreros a 60-56 lead. After a missed shot by the Aussies, USO scored si1 points in three seconds to put the game away. Mike Whitmarsh, who led all scorers with 27 po_ints, scored on a chargin1 layup over two Aussies, drawmg a foul m the process. Boomer Larry Sengstock was then called for a technical foul. Whitmarsh made both shots, and Mark Bostic took the inbounds pass and drove to the basket for a slam dunk to give the Toreros a 66-56 lead with 1:50 remaining. The Australians had trouble getting the ball inside be- cause 7-2 cente: :'"drew Campbell was unable to play due to a back mJury. The Aussies had to rely on 6-10 center Ray Borner, who got into foul trouble with three in the first half. After Borner left the lineup the Toreros scored at will under the basket. ' "We ~ere dwarfers after Borner left," Boomers bead coach Lmdsay Gaze said. "Campbell was 50-50 t.o even ma~e the tour wit~ us, because of a back injury " . With Campbell m the game it undoubtedly would have given Australia an inside game. Also missing was Ian Davies, who led the Boomers to a fifth-place finish in last year's world championships. "The purpose of the trip was to give our team a work- out," Gaze said. "We have four or five guys who are on trial on this tour." In Australia, basketball is not a major sport. Most of the players on this tour are teachers or students. "Our players spend about one-third to one-half the time on. ba 1 ~ketball that American college players do," Gaze S3ld. In fact they pay to play. In Australia our players pay about 40 cents to use a gym."

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lJ D's making the Fmal Four m Seattle. Santa Clara has 7-1 center

1ck Vanos, guard Harold

HIGH-FL YING TORERO - Mike Whitmarsh, a first-team all-WCAC forward a year ago, goes high to try to block a shot against Pepperdine last year. Whitmarsh returns for coach Jim Brovelll (below left). For Smokey Gaines' (lower right) Aztecs, meanwhile, the big question is whether State can fill the guard positions.

K ling and forward Scott Lamson back from a team that w nt 21-7 a year ago. Defending champion Pepperdine, which nearly beat North Carolina State m the NCAA tournam nt I t . e son, is trong once again Sl Mary's ha hooter Paul Pickett, and Loyola, though thin in re- bound rs, offers forward Forrest McKenzie (20 points and sev n rebound a game last sea on.) The list g on: Portland has good size . . . Gonzaga has hv starters returning, mduding small forward Bryce McPhce (17 points per game la t year.) Brovelli knows all that. too. And he also kllows the flip side. Pepperdme ha. lo t 1t top three scorers from a year ago Santa Clara graduated four eniors. St. Mary's will miss forward Peter Thibeaux. Greg GoorJian (26.5 pomts gam ) 1s no longer at Loyola. That list probably doesn·t go far enough for Brovelli's liking. ''I know that the conference will be as tough or tougher than it was a year ago,'' Brovelli ays. ''But I feel rke we've reached a point where we're two deep at every pos1llon. Our teams here have been sort of slow over the years but this one has better quickness" College recruiting, at any level, is something of a war. Maybe more so in the WCAC, which annually watches Plea e see TOREROS, C-6 rome of the best high school players on the West Coast sign letters of intent with Pac-10 schools. Brovelli seems pleased with this year's crop and even happier that rival recruiters appear to be runnmg out of anll-USD mono- logues. "If a kid said he was considering USO before," Brovelli say • "other recnuters would say, 'Who are they?' We were the new kids on the block in the conference. Then we beat some pretty good team and established some credi- bility "Every year, I think we've given them less bad things to sar about ,us. Now, they bad-:nouth our facility to r . ruits. Th~t s p~obably the last thing. But I have had kid ask me m their homes if I'd be leaving USO to coach at USF Recruiting can get vicious." Brovelh fmally recruited a bona fide big man in 6-11 fr hman Scott Thomp on of Mesa Verde High m Sacra- mento. Thompson played m the same high school league that produced Bill Cartwright, and averaged 29 points and 18 rebounds a game hi senior year. Brovelli also brought in 6-8 forward Steve Krallman (Anaheim's Servile High). 6-7 forward Nils Madden (El Mohno High), 5 10 guard Eric Musselman (Brecksville High in Ohio, and the son of ex-San Diego Sails coach Bill M~lman) and transfers - 6-5 Mark Bostic (Central Arizona JC), 6-4 Chris Carr (Santa Monica City College) and 6-2 Al Moscatel (Mesa College). all guards. Bostic started the exhibition game against the Austra- lians, along with 6-0 senior guard John Prunty, 6-7 senior forward Mike Whitmarsh (first-team all-WCAC a year ago), 6-7 junior forward Antho.oy Reuss and 6-9 sopho- mor cent r Mano Coronado. Additional help is expected om 6-5 01or forward Rand Brickley, 6-5 senior guard

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Bill Penfold and 6-8 senior forward Dave Mciver. "Mike (Whitmarsh) is as fine an all-around player as we've had here," says Brovelli. "He averaged something like 26 or 27 over our last six games a year ago. He played with the Clippers during the summer and they were im- pressed. If he's good enough, he'll get drafted but there's no sense looking past the present." Presently, Jim Brovelli's team is good enough to have beaten the Aussies 68-58 last Friday night. The regular- season home opener is Friday against St. Thomas College, after which the WCAC is expected to produce the usual test to USD's hopes. NOVEMBER (3 home O away) - 25: vs St. Thom- as College, 26: vs. Army, 28· vs. Long Beach State. DECE BER (3 home, 5 away) - 1: at Texas Tech 3 at Northern Arizona 15: vs Spring Arbor College 17 vs Cal-Irvine, 19: at Cal-Santa Barbara, 22· vs. Idaho State, 28-29 Wolfpack Classic in Reno, Nev. JANUARY (6 borne, 1 away) 2: vs. Idaho, 5: vs San Diego State at Sports Arena, 7 vs Western I111- no 9 vs. ML Marty, 19 vs Gonzaga, 21 vs. Port- land, 28. vs. Santa Clara FEBRUARY (2 home. 4 away) 3: at Loyola rymount, 4 at Peppe dine 11. at St. Mary's, 16: P pperdmc, 18 vs Loyola Marymount, 23 at anta Clara MARCH (1 borne, 2 away) l; at Portland, 3: at Gonzaga, 8: vs St. Mary's. OTE. All Torero home games begin at 7.30 p.m and are played m the USO Sports C ter.

The San Diego Union/Don Bartletti

1 ---------~----r......---~-..._~~---~~...:. Torero Mark Bostic races past Australia's Andrew Gaze. SAN DIEGO UNION NOV 1 8 198l USD quintet hosts Aussies

The University of San Diego will offer a sneak preview of its basketball team to- niiht when the Toreros host the Australian National team at 7:30 in the USO Sports Center. The Australians are 2-4 thus far on their American tour, but they have beaten USC and lost by only seven points to UCLA and three to UC Irvine. USO, which opens its season at home next weekend with games against St. Thomas College and Army, will feature all- West Coast Athletic Conference forward Mike Whitmarsh. He averaged 26 points a game over the last six contests last season and finished with per-game averages of 15.3 points and 5.3 rebounds. The 6-foot-6 Whitmarsh will be joined in the starting lineup tonight by returning for-

ward Anthony Reuss (4.5 points, 3.7 re- bounds per game), 6-9 center Mario Coro- nado, 6-4 wing guard Mark Bostic (a new- comer from Central Arizona College) and 6-foot point guard John Prunty. The Australians are led by 7-2 center Andrew Campbell.

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