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.800 (294 wins in 367 games) enter-, ing this season. Another is that it could be described as a miniature Rose Bowl, stuck in a $&-foot-deep hole, with a lid. All of wblch means the noise from the 17,000-plus fans swirls tornado-fashion around the court, much as it does aroUJJd the Pasadena stadium's field, bat with- out blue sky as an exit. The first-year Torero who handled the cacophony best may have been Tom Iannacone, USD's new athletic director. Iannacone, who succeeded the Rev. Patrick Cahill on Sept. 1, pointed out a relatively new NCAA rule to Egan that prohibits pep bands from performing while the ball is in play. Egan passed the information on to the officials, who put a halt to it. Now, the Lobos fans hardly need help numbing eardrums, but taking the band out of the game was one of Egan's pregame objectives.

Somehow, facing Cai Lutheran on your home court can't compare with meeting the University of New Mexi- co in its howling hole of hoops known as The Pit. Which is exactly what has Hank Egan, the_USD coach, uneasy. The teen-agers who make up the better part of his roster surprised him by how they reacted in The Pit. It has him wondering now what will hap- pen in a completely opposite envi- ronment like tonight's 7:30 game against Cal Lutheran (4•2) in the USD Sports Center. "That's got me worried for very obvious reasons," Egan said. "We have to take this one very seriously. We've got a lot of things we've got to learn to do well and consistently. We're a long way from establishing ourselves as a really good basketball team."

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"We had three things we wanted to do," Egan said. "We felt we had to get back and stop their break. Sec- ond, we had to play good position de- fense to keep them off the boards, because they're so big. And third, we had to stop the band from playing. "(Iannacone) took care of one of our objectives." As for the freshman players, Egan said. "Maybe the fact that they're so young, maybe they didn't realize how bad it was. They've never been through it before, so what the beck do they have to compare it to? Maybe they thought, 'All college games are like this.' " Cai Lutheran, being an NAIA Divi- sion II school, presents a different problem from the Lobos. Instead of going into the game with a can't-lose stance, the Toreros are practically in a can't-win-big-enough situation. "You have to live through a lot to have a good team, and we haven't lived through it yet,'' Egan said. "That's still in front of us. That's what I'm concerned about. We haven't arrived."

But the Toreros are closer today than they were when they left last week for their season opener in Al- buquerque. Then they were simply like parts of the USD campus - re- building How good they could be wasn't certain. Few expected much more from their entourage of seven freshmen, five sophomores, one jun- ior and two seniors than steady im- prov ment - no matter ho that translated in wins and losses. Two victories and one weekend later, it matters. Beating the Lobos on their home court in the champion- ship final of their own tournament will do that. Beating them by 11 points (64-53), after spotting them a 13-0 lead, may have done too much. "We all went on the trip thinking, 'Well, this is going to get these guys baptized into basketball and the big time,' " Egan said. "Then you go there, and we end up having success, and you start worrying about, 'Well, they can't think it's this easy.' We're going to have some struggles, some ups and downs, before we ever come together."

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The coach can only guess ;vhy his youngsters responded with. such poise in the face of adversity. "Maybe, since they're so young, they didn't realize how bad it was," Egan said. "They've never been anywhere before, so what the heck did they have to compare it to? A gOOd percentage of them played

the talent at his disposal, mm~ you. He has been openly pleased _wi th th e quality of his recent recruitmg classes. But he did not expect results this impressive this soon. There are, after all, seven freshmen and five sophomores on his ballclub. And a lot of them play. That makes for a great deal of uncertainty at the Division I level. "There are three kinds of players," Egan proposed. "There are players who make things happen, players who have things happen to them and pl~yers who don't know what the hell is happening. With upperclassmen, you usualiy know what categ?rf a player is in. Afreshman IS m ., category four _ all of the above. Nonetheless, Egan's young club rallied from an eight-point second- half deficit to defeat Lehigh (68 -58 ) in its first appearance at t_he Lobo Classic. Lehigh competed in the NCAA Tournament last sprmg, one of seven clubs that made postseason appearances the Toreros will face before beginning West Coast Athletic Conference play. "They (the Engineers) played us awfully tough," Egan said. "We . r1;al!y had to struggle. I tho~ght it helped us the next night agamst New Mexico. We competed pretty well." So it would seem. The Toreros held Lehigh and New Mexico to a combined shooting percentage of .396 and out-rebounded those teams, 80-67 These are marks of a group not afraid to work hard. One of Egan's freshmen, guard Wayman Strickland, made the all- tournament team. Not bad for a young man who has playe~ all of two collegiate games. So did a sophomore, center J?ondi Bell, and a junior, forward Craig Cottre!l. "Cottrell finally ended up m the right position," said Egan. '_'I had too many guards, so I moved him to forward. Now he's playing well. It

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Monday sports section after a Sunday of the NFL. But you can bet almost every college basketball coach in the Uruted States noticed, many ofthem spilling their coffee in surprise. USD 64 New Mexico 53. Hey, Joe, did you see this one? Do yo believe it? The University of San Diego beat New MeXIco at The Pit? By 11 points? Out-rebounded the Lobos, too? After being down, 13-0? No matter how many times they - - --------- • Toreros play Cal Lutheran in home opener tonight-C-2 - - ------- blmked, the outcome refused to change. As a consequence, some perceptions may have to. Results such c1s this are difficult to ignore. The Lobos rarely lose in the always-filled 17,000-plus-seat arena they call home, no matter who the opposition may be. It was there that they defeated to~ranked Arizona last season. New Mexico certainly did not

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expect to lose to a rebuilding team whose record was 11-17 last year, whose leading scorer graduated and whose conference freshman player of the year tran ferred. The Lobos are good They were ranked 24th nationally by one pr eason publication The Lobos have two 7-footers, 7-0 Rob Loeffel and 7-2 Luc Longley, not to mention a 6-7 player, Charlie Thoma , whose leaping ability allows him to play well above the rim.

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