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Levine said, he can_ claim "Feel" has earned - the San Diego firm of nalpractice and the filing of/ ·tm'g stan- At 44, he is a P8toePasquale, a lecturer on . Fellmeth said high~y ~ad from a Levine Steinberg e of the more popu- ards would not neces the triltl bar circuit andJ!~ University of San onsumer standpoint. . - standards lar law professors at ght1ortand contracts "If you have higher und~ting " he said: Djego,_y.,here he has tau • or ~upled with mandatory lllS~cerisks won't for 17 Y~- d Levine also has wn:ttll people who are super, super high The multifacef:e rtant books on ba_ · 81 -a e practicing." Levine a long way. .

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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 56-foot-deep hole, with a lid. All of which means the noise from the 17,000-plus fans swirls tornado-fashion around the court, much as it does around the Pasadena stadium's field, but 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. "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."

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Somehow, facing Cal 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_USO coac~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 USO 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 weU and consistently. We're a long way from establishing ourselves as a really good basketball team."

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 USO 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- provement - no matter ho tha 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." Winning against the Lobos in The

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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'v never been through it before, so what the heck do they have to compare it to? Maybe they thought, 'All college games are like this.' " Cal 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."

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with an awful lot of poise." As a result, Egan could sense heads snapping up all over the West. "I told our players that I think the thing that happened most is that we woke up everybody about us," he said. "I think we alerted a lot of people in our league. We'll have more scouting passes requested than we have in the past." The Toreros have become a curiosity, at least. It's a start.

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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

this impressive this soon. There are, after all, seven freshmen and five sophomores on his ballclub. And a lot of th em 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. A freshman 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 the Lobo Classic. Lehigh competed in the NCAA Tournament last spring, one of seven clubs that made postseason appearances the Toreros wiIJ face before beginning West Coast Athletic Conference play. "They (the Engineers) played us awfully tough," Egan said. "We . rtally had to struggle. I tho~ght 1t helped us the next night against 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 Strickklnd, made the all- tournament team. Not bad for a young man who has play~ all of two collegiate games. So did a sophomore, center Dondi Bell, and a junior, forward Craig Cottre!L "Cottrell finally ended up m the right position," said Egan. '_'I had too

S ome people may have missed 1 t in the blizzard of information that makes up a Monday sports section after a Sunday of the NFL. But you can bet almost every college basketball coach in the Umted States noticed, many of-them spilling their coffee in surprise. USO 64, New Mexico 53. Hey, Joe, did you see this one? Do you 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 -- -------- blinked the outcome refused to change. As a consequence, some perceptions may have to. Results such as this are difficult to ignore. The Lobos rarely lose in the alway •filled 17,000-plus-seat arena they call home, no matter who the oppo'ition may be. It was there that they defeated top-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 corer graduated and whose conference freshman player of the year transferred The Lobos are gOOd. They were ranked 24th nationally by one preseason publication. The Lobos have two 7-footers, 7-0 Rob Loeffel nd 7-2 Luc Longley, not to mention a 6-7 player, Charlie Thomas, whose leaping ability allows him to play well above the

many guards, so I mov~d him to forward. Now he's playmg well. It See Lockwood on Page C-2