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• San Diego State men's and women's basketball previews will appear in next Friday's pa- per. Sports Center, no showdowns for the conference championship, and not very many headlines. San Diego State, which won the Western Athletic Conference Tournament and advanced to the NCAA Tournament, received most of the attention. USD, under first- year coach Hank Egan, lost four of its first five conference games and went to finish fourth in the WCAC. Considering the fact that the team had to adjust to a new coach-Jim Brovelli, who led the Toreros to their NCAA berth, left to re-start the basketball program at USF-it wasn't a bad year. USD beat one NCAA Tournament team, Nevada Reno, and another that advanced to the National Invitation Tournament, Santa Clara. Pepperdine, which ran away with the WCAC championship, beat the •rorero. by only three pomts at home But, still, the magic was gone. Now, m his second season, E an Please see USD, P e 8

SAN DIEGO-Two years ago, University of San Diego Torero bas1'i'!tball feV"1'"swep~~r Alcala Park and beyond. Local fans, tired of putting up with Donald Ster- ling's floundering Cltppe s and Smokey Games' struggling .Aztecs, started to follow a loveable little team that began to challenge for an NCAA Tournament berth. When USD played host to St. Mary's for the West Coast Athletic Conference championship m the regular-season finale, the fever began to reach a bo1lmg point. Fans were turned away from USD's cozy Sports Center. School officials were forced to handle an overabundance of local media coverage. Torero basketball stories were making the front page. And, to top off all of the excite- ment, the Toreros beat the Gaels to advance to the NCAA Tournament. Sure, USD lost Its first-round game to Princeton, but it was still a storybook season. For the first time in recent memory, the team on the hill grabbed mo t of the maJor basketball headlines. A year later, however, de pite a 16 11 record, the magic faded. There were no sellouts at the

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gan said. "The only reason I do it, because the conference makes p do 1t I kind of think all of the cams ought to pick what kind of ¥Mr the press people are going to have. That would be different." What won't be different this year s the way USD will try to win. Two years ago, the Toreros won with a ~tmgy defense and rock-solid of- fen e that didn't make many mis- akes. Another thing that would help is big sea~on from Thompson, who veraged 11.1 points per game a car ago. • What's a big season?" Egan ~sked? "I think the media was bnfair to him last year. They said ne wa n't playing well when he was. They decided the kind of humbers he should get. All I know t he fit in well with our team last ear and he's only going to get ,>tter this year," Meanwhile, things appear to be coking good elsewhere. Egan said hal Bostic has fully recovered rom h1• ankle injury and that sixth 1an Pete Murphy has been excel- cnt. He also mentioned that new- omer Mark Manor has been im- >ressive in practice. "Last year, we had a real fine ower team," Egan said. "This year e still have some power but we l o have some better athletes. We're still going to play aggres- ive, but now we're hoping we'll be ~hie to play even more aggressive- 1Y because we have better players." Egan hopes all of it will add up to b nging the magic back to Alcala ark

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/ For openers, Toreros will take on 49ers tonight T.R. Remman ~O{j) bune portswrit,•r ;--'l LBUQ ERQUE - This is the night Steve should be playing New Mexico then for the big trophy. a former reserve as starters. Four of them are . sophomores, the other a junior.

"I'm very happy to have that first year under my belt," Egan said. "IL may sound like an excuse, but it's not I think that, in general, changes are very hard But the fact that we made 1t through last year makes thmgs a lot better going into this season." The Toreros lost two starters from last year's team that finished 5-7 m conference play Leading scorer Anthony Reuss (12.6 pomt per game) and point guard Chris Carr (9.3) are gone, but there ppears to be ample replacements. :\fark Bostic, a starter on USD's championship team, Is back after m1ssmg all of last season with an ankle injury. To replace Carr, Egan is hopmg he has found the answer in 6-foot 1-inch junior college transfer Paul Leonard. A first team All-South Coast Conference player at Pomona's Mt. San Anto mo College last year, Leonard averaged 6.0 assists per game. Since the Toreros return the conference's most reliable big man in 7-foot center Scott Thompson, along with bulky forward Nils Madden and hot-sh90ting off guard Kiki Jackson, many believe that USD could push Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount for the WCAC title. Egan, however, isn't on~ to make any predictions. "I think it's silly r; make presea- son picks because all 1t does is put the monkey on omebody's back,"

The Toreros, 16-11 a year ago, plan to start Paul Leonard and Kiki Jackson at guard, Nils Madden and Mark Bostic at forward and Thompson in the USD basketball middle. Leonard, a junior transfer from Mount San Antonio College, adds quickness the team has lacked Thompson, an all-league player last year, plus Jackson and Madden are returning starters. Bostic was a starter two years ago but sat out last season with a broken ankle suffered in preseason. ''We've got size, maturity and quickness," said Egan, who is optimistic about the year, because he had less of each last season when USO finished fourth in the WCAC. The same can be said for the Long Beach State 49ers, although they're still green. But that's an improvement. Last year, they were a black-and- blue 4-23. Second-year coach Ron Palmer will send oHt two transfers, two returning starters and

As a whole, the 49ers have four freshmen, seven sophomores, four juniors and one senior on a team still rebuilding from the disastrous 1983-84 season under Dave Buss. UNM has 13,000 season-ticket holders, and with the Lobos picked among the contenders for the WAC championship, the Toreros could be playmg in front of the largest crowds they've ever seen. • • • USO believes it has a blue-chipper in Craig Cot- trell, a 6-5 swingman from Tempe. Ariz., who signed a letter of intent yesterda r.ot trell still has his senior season left at Marco,, de iza High, where he averaged 14 points and 10 r •bounds a game last year. He shot 58 percent fl om the floor and 85 percent from the free-throw hne. Arizona Prep Sports, a prep sports publication named Cot- trell one of the iOtop players in the state. Egan described Cottrell "as a good student, a good shO?ter and a good athlete."

r llman ha· been waiting for. He is, at 6-foot-8, pound· tht' backup center at USO. Sipce prac- t e began a little more than five wee s ago, he's n h, ngmg and banging around with Scott Thomp n, the Toreros starting center. Thompson 1 7-0 255 Tomght. for a change, Krallman will to p;ck on omeone his own size. •We're ready," said Krallman. "After awhile, presea on routme gel~ pretty stale." Hank Egan agrees. He's ready to open his sec- ond season as the USO coach tonight against Long ach ta te in the fi rst game of the inaugural ribun Tipoff Tou rn ment at ew Mexico. The Lobos ho t Bucknell in the second game ight, wh n a crowd of more than 16,000 is ex- ted to fill The Pit, site of the 1983 Final Four. avoid a conflict with the Albuquerque televi- on broadcast of tomorrow night's UNM-San 1ego State football game, the consolation and mpionship games won't be played until Sunday ening. Crazier thmgs have happened, but USO

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USD's Women Lose B~sk~!..bJlll. Opener as etball team ost its season opener, 62-45, to Cal Poly Pomona Friday in a nonconference game. Pomona was led by Vickie Mitchell, who had 12 points and a game-high 11 rebounds. ~ ~ 5?-The University of S~n Diego women's

28freethrows,mostofthemlatem the game when Long Beach Sta_te was forced _to fou~. Forwa_rd Nils Madden chipped m 11 pomts for Semor forwa~d Jo_hnny Br?wn paced New Menco with 20 pomts, but it was Scarborough's 16 second half points that enabled the Lobos to break open what had been a close game. New Mexico outscored Bucknell 13-2 over a four-minute stretch midway through the second half to open up a 46-36 lead. Scarborough./ scored five points in the run. _J _ the T~reros.

ALBUQUERQUE _ Mark Bostic and Pete Murphy each scored 14 points to lead the Uni- versity of San Diego to a 70-63 col- lege basketball victory over Long Beach State in Friday night's opening round of the Tipoff Tour- College basketball Host New Mexico beat Bucknell 71-57 in the nightcap as guard Kel- vin Scarborough scored 19 points and led a second-half assault. New Mexico, 1-0, and San Die- go, 1-0, will meet for the tourna- ment title Sunday night. San Diego, behind a patient of- fense that produced a 50 percent shooting effort from the field, opened up a 35-29 halftime lead and never trailed in the second half. Long Beach State, led by reserve junior forward Vince Jefferson's 16 points, was within two points sev- eral times in the second half, the last time at 54-52 with 5:25 left on a free throw by forward Jeff Nolan. San Diego, however, prot ·cted its lead with the scoring of the se- nior Murphy, who got 12 of his points in the final 20 minutes. San Diego also converted 22 of nament ' ·

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TOREROS TAMED - The Uniyersity~ San Diego women's volleyball team fell to Loy~rymount 8-15, 15-8, 15-7, 15-10 in action last night at !!!I:. US~ports Center. ~ - /