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/ I~sh and Greek exhibit displayed at USO ALCALA PARK _ Tlfe~riLb_ . ~ibition re and and the Hellinic Tradition" will b~ on display through Dec. 1.5 at Copley Library on the University of San Dieg campus. -~-'----=~ o Sponsored by . Embassy of Ireland and the Gennad1us Library, the exhibit shows that the pr.-sent partnership between Grec?e and Ireland is parallel!'d b h1stoncal • intellectual and cultural links y ctmong the _rop_i~s illustrated are fri~h rrstran antrqu1t1cs, Greek myths in medieval Irish literature and I . h h' . storytelling. rrs

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captain. He was honorable mention All-WCAC, averaging 12.1 points and 3 assists per game as a point guard. He also led USD in 3-polnt shooting (43.6%) and free-throw accuracy (81%), prompting Egan to switch Means back to his more natural shooting guard position. Two years ago, Mean, teamed With Paul Leonard in the back court. This year. Means and senior Efrem Leonard (Paul's brother) will work together. Leonard (6-1 1 80 l started 9 games last year: averaging 10.7 points per game after transfering from Mt. San Anton_10 Community College. Junior Craig Cottrell (6-5, 200) is the only other upperclassman. Cottrell averaged 4.9 polnta and 2. 7 rebounds, starting nine games as a sophomore. In USD's 97.90 exhibi uon_ loss 2 weeks ago to Athletes In Acl10n, Cottrell started and led the Toreros with 20 points in 26 min- utes. Means scored 18 and Leonard 16. USD played well against AIA, showing tremendoUB quickness and havmg a 46-33 rebounding edge despite a size disadvantage. Freshman forward Kelvin Woods (6-5, 210) had 13 rebounds and 9 points in 24 minutes. Sopho- more forward Randy Thompson (6-6, 195) had 12 points, 7rebounda a nd some good passes among his 5 assists. Sophomore center Dondi Bell (6-9, 230) scored 8 points and blocked 3 shots. Freshman guard Wayman Strickland (6-2, 170) le

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/ usD's Egan sees o.pener - and schedule - as challenge By Kirk Kenney / Tribune Sportswriter /"f, 6'J

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••• USIU opens the season tonight at 7:30 against Air Force at Golden Hall. The Gulls defeated Air Force 57.54 when the teams first met in 1980, but have since lost seven straight times to the Falcons. USIU's starting lineup includes two local players, former Serra High star Steve Smith and former Monte Vista High star Demetrius Laffitte. Off-guard Raymond Dudley is the only returning starter for Air Force. Dudley averaged 17.8 points a gam~ last season. / ~J

guard Scott Layer, who averaged 6.3 points last season, is the only return- ing starter from last year's 21-10 team. New Mexico returns four starters from a team that was 22-14 and made an appearance in the NIT. Sen- ior forward Charlie Thomas is the player to watch. Last year's WAC newcomer of the year has scored 51 points and collected 17 rebounds in two games. The top eight players, in- cluding all five starters, return for Loyola. That could be good or bad. The Greyhounds were 8-22 last sea- son.

Thanksgiving is cut and dried as far as U,SD's Hank Egan is con- cerned. "Thanksgiving mean it's time for basketball season," said Egan, who begins his fifth season as men's bas- ketball coach at USD. "You eat tur- key, then go to war." The Toreros can be found in the trenches tonight when they open the season against Lehigh m the New Mexico Tournament. Tournament Lost New Mexico opens against Loy- ola (Md.}. Tonights winners meet to- morrow in the championship game. The losers play for third place. For USD, there's nowhere to go but up. Life begins in The Pit. Egan wouldn't have it any other way. "I always like to open on the road," said Egan, whose team plays five of its first eight games away from home. "It gives you a chance to come together earlier. You're in a hostile environment and have to rely on one another and work together. You also have to learn to perform better on the road. It's tougher." The same goes for USD's presea-

• Staff wnter Mark Ze gler picks Loyola Mary!l'ount, St Mary's to rule the league-D-8 ~------ have a mce basketball team with ky's-the-limit potential. nother reason Egan can say - with confidence, too things hke "We're turnmg this thmg around," or We've got the skids put on things.' 1s his team' work ethic which 1s considerable After all pracllce 1s at 6 30 a.m. daily, be- raus of a team vote At a preseason banquet, Egan compared 1t to Mch l,mgelo and how the SIS tine Chapel wasn't just another paint J0b. ' I hke the work ethic of this ball- club more than I did last year ' he aid. I go to practice now and I e a good, sohd effort given. I see 1t tarting to grow ·It makes me feel better about how things are comrng along ' Moving along 1s how you'll see the Toreros play. No longer will thev wait for the center to trudge downcourt and join the offense. They will, m basketball Jargon, push It That 1s a function of the team' makeup It 1s athletic. It 1s als short Past USO teams, especially when 7-foot Scott Thompson roamed the pamt, were so tall that defensive reboundmg wasn't a problem ow the Toreros w1Il keep the oppos1t1on off the boards by keeping them on their heels. Another change will be the of- fen c, in which all three frontlme pos1t1ons are virtually inter- changeable Agam, that ts a bypro- See USO on Pa D-6

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The leadership of guard Danny Means (above) and the shot- blocking ability of sophomore center Dondi Bell should help the ·roreros improve on their 11- 17 record of last seaso.~n~·---- - oam1en High) plays bigger than his 6-5, thanks to a 210-pound body Carlos Carrillo (Southgate Bosco Tech) is a fine shooter for 6-6 who should see more time agarnst zone than man defenses CENTERS JimPelton graduated, leaving the pivot 10 sophomores Dondi Bell and Keith Colvin. Bell didn't begin playing b ketbalt un!U late rn his high-school career, and last season you could see 1s improvement daily. He 1s 6-9, 230 pounds. with long arms and a quick jump. which should translate into a shot- blocking terror Colvin (6-8, 220), who started frve games lasl season. bulked up over the summer and developed a midrange jumper Egan w Iput Bell and Colv non the floor together when the Toreros run up against a lofty opponent THECOA.YC~H______ Hank Egan 218-228 1n 17 seasons at the college I v I 70-43 In four seasons at USO, 46- 1the USO Sports Center . . WCAC coa of the year in '86-87, an honor he sMred the previous season wilh Pepperdine·s Jim Harnck . Cons dered among the coun1ry·s prem er teachers of defense. In 1986-87 the Toreros led lhe nation in field-goal perc ntage allowed (.401} . . Rarely does a player leave Egan's tutelage not well-schooled rn basketball fundamentals Spent 13 seasons before USO at the Air Force Academy .. Three-llme basketball letterman at Navy, where he earned a B.S. rn engineering . Married, w1lh two children A fine golfer (in he oll- season). were f reed to do. We didn't have the luxu y to play them anywhere else because of our personnel. W solved that problem by going out and recruiting what we needed." We had some spots to till, but those are being filled now. Most every preseason poll picks the Toreros to fimsh seventh agam It's hard to disagree when the WCAC is lilled with teams whose starters shave. those other club will graduate soon. And Egan's freshmen and sophomores will grow up. And when everyone else is re- building, Egan won't be. But those veterans ,on

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P. C. 8 --- r ·-·· ,,,,.USD faces Lehigh . . ill NewMexico's Pit c< ening on the road because Y?u de- By Hank Wesch I') ] .J ~~lop that siege mentality - it's us Starr Writer U against the world." . ld Visiting college basketb_all ~earns The Toreros against Lehigh wou generally don't relish playmg mUTh~ appear to be fairly even. p·t New Mexico's 17,126-seat m· "People ask me 'What's your v~~ity Arena in Albuquerque. h schedule like?' We have seven teams But Universit of San Die o _coac that went to postseason play befo:: Hank gan contends The it is T~e we et to the league," Egan_ sa1 . Place for his Toreros to start their ·"Th;y're not the most reco~mzable teams in the world, but they re good, Est. 1888

GUARDS About the only place the Tore os boast both deplh and experience Is off- • guard Senior Danny Means. the leading returning scorer (12 1ppg), returns to off-guard, at which he started on t e 24- 6 team of '86-87. He s a fin~ sho • r and defender, and now he can concentrate more on those a~d le s on running the offense AISo t 110011 g guard IS the team's only other sen or Efrem Leonard ( 10.7 ppg) He 1s Mr Instant Offense. The point will be occupied by two freshmen and a sophomore. Fans will see an all-Means batkcourl when sophomore Kelvin, Danny's broJher, runs the show. Freshman Gylan L>ot11n (Santa Ana Saddleback High) played forward In high school: he ofter all £ loot-5. But USO ass,stant c ch Mike Legarza. the recruiting guru recognized a polnl-guard mentality In Dot11n. and Dottinhas made the transition smoothly Anolher freshman point Is Wayman Strickland, the San Francisco player of the year lrom Riordan H"'-1gh ___ .____ FORWARDS Junror Craig Cottrell (4.9 ppg) returns to small forward after a season at oft• guard (because Means was at the point). In Egan s retooled offense, !hrs posrt1oq wtll have more forward and fewer guard responsrb\\1t1es unlike last season. Sophomore Randy Thompson, who has grown to 6-7, is perhaps lhe team's mosl underrated player and can play both forward spots Egan raves about Thompson's knowledge and execution of 'the nuances of lhe game. ' Two freshmen also could be faclors al forw•r1 Kelvin Wood• (Pomona

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5 USD faces Lehigh today at (PST) in the opener of the New Mex1- co tournament. New Mexico ~eets Loyola College of Baltimore m the second game at 7. Losers play tomor- P·~ · "I really believe The Pit is the best place in the world to_odpe?.~~ua ~:: 11.ke us" Egan sa1 . there 's g' oing to be a crowd, a~ going to be enthusiastic. s g_ be a good introduction to b1g-t1me basketball for our underclassmen~ especially the freshmen . . . I lov r----•'"'""'""'~!l!lfflrr"t'm'-:'::.. 11 xows p ca ::a scormg (lo 12 1) and rebounding (to 2.8) last year b~t was less than pleased with the . , t s d t It' omg to . t 1 "I set a lot of goals for myself last year, and I reached about three of them," Means said. "It was a let- down. I think I put too much of a burden on myself. Trying to do too many things, I kind of got away from the things I did as a sophomore - play defense and hit the open shot." Means and guard Efrem Leonard, the Toreros' other senior, will be looked upon for leadership. "I hope to (lead} through things the younger players can see, said. "I'm not the rah-rah type, that's just not me ... This is a young team, but we have some experience, some seasoned sophomores. Their situation is different from mine when I was a eans row at"S, winners at 7. . . season. ,, M

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Coach David Duke's Engi~eers are reconstructing after Jos1~g 2110~~ starters from last seasons - s uad that lost in the first round of t~e NCAA Tournament to Temple, 87-73. Top returnees are 5•f?ont:1lolr i·unior guard Scott Layer, 6-7 JU . M rti·n and 6-5 semor center Tom a

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O re ts was 7-for-8 on field-goal attemp and 7-for-8 on foul shots. "We tried putting him at guard for two y.;ar5 but moved him to for.van!," Egan said. "We gave him the ball inside in this game, and it made a big differ- ence." Dottin scored 12, Dondi Bell !O. When the Toreros were making their run, it was Dottin and Kelvin Woods who led the charge. "Kelvin will be starting for us," Egan said. "He play~ wen in ,our game against Athletes m Action. USD is in a familiar position in th1S tournament. In 1985, it beat Long Beach State in the first round and \ lost in the championship game to New Mexico, 61-46. Though there were fewer than 1,000 in the arena when the Toreros tipped off against Lehigh yesterday, there were more B than 17,000 for the UNM-Loyola game. And that many should be on hand tonight. t J .

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ALBUQUERQUE - The Universi- ty Qf_San Die20 struggled a httle last night, which was expected. The l Toreros took some bad shots, had a few problems with ball-handling and had letdowns in defense, all of which also were expected. But USD won, which was all it had hoped for. The Toreros beat Lehigh, 68-58, in the opening game of the Lobo Clas- sic. They play host New Mexico, which beat Loyola of Maryland, 96- 71, for the championship tonight at 7 (PST) in University Arena. USD coach Hank Egan was satis- fied with the play of his young, inex- perienced team in its season opener. "The first one is really hard be- cause you have no idea of what to expect when you're playing a lot of new guys," he said. "You're dealing See USO on Page H-15 \ '

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Means said the 1988-89 oreros are potentially more explosive offensive- ly than last year (68-point average} and potentially stingy on defense. Undoubtedly that would please Egan, but he'll be looking for a few other things in the preleague sched- "You look for growth, for tnem learn how to compete, and for some b 11 1 b " E coming together as a a c u , gan said. "You hope they learn to play under pressure at somebody else s place. That's why 1 ~h!?k it's good to ule as well. to

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duct of the teams contents: Only three players are 6-8 or taller, and none 1s more than a sophomore. The leadership will come from the team·s three elder statesmen: jumor Craig Cottrell, and seniors Danny Means and Efrem Leonard. Means and Cottrell will play posi- tions thal arc at once old and new Means moves back to off-guard after a year at the point. Cottrell, 6-5, returns to small forward after a year at off-~uard. "They were both victims of coaching decisions," Egan ex- plained ''It was somethmg we

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