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. 'Nervous' Toreros now 3-0 T 6ifg}(Kingsmen are no breather By Ric Bucher, StaffWrim • Vanderbilt upsets 13th-ranked Louisville with a 45-foot·shot at the buzzer-D-6 four days earlier. said, "and we thought we needed a breather in between two teams like New Mexico and Santa Barbara." Sophomore center Dondi Bell came off the bench to turn in a USD-high 17 points and game-high 10 rebounds.

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• In the tin.1 1 • H.i'lk Egan and hi.· \oung team p,1'ted one of the ~ea- snn rl\ up,ct in defca11ng the ho I ot,,,s M-53 tor the champion- sh p m lront of I ,9!17 spectator,. \nd l Sil tipped \ir F orcc 82- 78 at Golden flail 111ith junior guard StC\C Srrtth ~coring 20 pomt -; .,tc cntcnam I r\1nc tomono111 n, h t the \rcna. while powerful C l -1 ullerton ol the Big We,t Con- ler n e ,.,,Jdt-s the l SD Spam Ce r D · !>er t,..______..

Then again, USO coach Hank Egan didn't expect his team to give him one. Neither, ap- parently, did the Toreros fans, who numbered 1,744 at the USD Spotts Center. "We're not going to be able to just throw the ball on the floor and get it done," Egan said. "We've got a lot of freshmen, and they're going to make freshman mistakes." Thus, the appearance of Cal Lutheran ( 4-3) on the schedule. A good indication of the Kingsmen's caliber is that their victory over Cal State Los Angeles on Thanksgiving marked the first time they've won two straight against NCAA Division II schools. (Cal State Hayward was their first victim.) "We knew we had a young ballclub," Egan

The Toreros once again struggled early. Against New Mexico, they were down, 13-0, and the game was 4½ minutes old before they scored their first basket. It wasn't quite that bad against CLU. All seemed fine as USD opened a 4-0 lead, senior guard Danny Means (14 points) scoring with a jumper from the right wing and sopho- more center Keith Colvin laying in his first of three baskets on three shots. That didn't last more than one trip to the other end of the court, however, with CLU junior center Mike Demeter converting a three-point play after See Toreros on Page D-6

A reminder of what the preseason expecta- tions were for the USD men's basketball team arrived last night in the form of the Cal Lu- the1 an Kingsmen. Cal Lutheran is an NAIA Division II school. After beating the University of New Mexico, a highly regarded NCAA Division l school, USD was supposed to dominate the Kingsmen even more thoroughly than was predicted before the Toreros scheduled them. USD eventually pulled away to win its home opener, 90-64, and remain undefeated (3-0), but it was not a performance worthy of the team that stunned New Mexico on its home court

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By D_ropping Team Right Into The Pit, Egan Gave USD a Lift K, ~ O

I>> M1ch,1cl Brunker S,lll Diego' three '\( /\/\ DI\,. \llll I UIII\Cl\\l\e, gr,11>1,cd \ICton 111 their 191(8-89 ,c,"on op n r, SllSl rcccl\cd 21 pc>111h Jnd 9 ch unds !rum 6 I I" center \111ch Mc:\.1ulhn 111 d ·tei1trng Del,1111,ire 1-61 t, lore a crtmd of 2,516 at th Sp ,rts re na I he I orcro, of l ~,clcd to the l n1\cr II\ ~f III Mc 1cn Iou111amcnt to defeat I ch1gh 6X- I( ,n the opening round rn lbu- uerquc with Junior guard ( rarg otlrcll leading the way 1111th 21

"They satd Temple does 1t," Egan said, "so they wanted to know tf they could doit. I sat on it for about a month and came back and asked them 1f they "It's more good than bad," Egan said. "They're fresh and alert. They have a good practice. go to breakfast and then they're regular students for the rest of the day. They don't have to worry about us, and they can involve themselves in other campus And so 1t goes each morn ng with the players, coaches, trainers and, occas1onally, a t and Incredibly, the Torcros successfully made the trans1t1on from such tranquility to the bedlam of The Hank Egan, for one, en)Oyed the taste of such a delicious surpnse, but he prefers to look at a bigger picture. To him, the victory in New Mexico was not as important as what 1t represents. "We've had two good recruiting classes, and we feel good about the one we have coming up," Egan said. "We've got the makings of p·Jtting it all were sertous. They were. activities." befuddled )Ogger Pit.

"I like to st.ar t on th e road," Egan argued. "You fi nd out more about your players· · ·a nd It toughens Of course, The Pit was a neutral court for USD's actual season-opener. It went up against Lehigh in the first game of a tournament-opening doubleheader Saturday night and came away with a them up." And then came Sunday night's date with the Lobos, runaway96-71 winners over Loyola (Md.) in the first round. This was surely a mismatch akin to sending a kid on his first date .•. with Mae West. Egan was 0-5 ;iaching in The Pit, but I imagine he neglected to impart that bit of trivia on his troops. 'I told them to look upon this as an opportunity," he said. "I told 'em Just to go out and get after 'em" And so the Toreros went nght out and fell behind, 13-0. Understand that New Mexico's fans stand and cheer and clap and stomp until the other team scores, and you probably get a feeling for how intimidating 68-58victory.

roster has seven frc hmen, five sophomore , a Jumor and twosemors, one of whom is your only returning •ro open th e season, you· A) Schedule a home game against Doane. B) Schedule a home game agamst Clark. C) Schedulf'a home game agamstOhvet D) Go lo a tournament at the Un1vers1tyof New I know, class, thrs is a tough one. After all, how do you choose from among A, Band If •ou happen to be Coach Hank Egan, whose t of San Diego Toreros fit the above profile u throw tereotypical coaching wisdom out the ' ·o on should go to New MeJOco unless they have to, at lea t not with a basketball team. Arizona went over there last year unbeaten and ranked No. 1 in the nation and came away a 61-59 loser. The UmverSJty Arena is called The Pit, and I'm not sure 1f It was nicknamed bf sadisuc local Lobo locos or by unfortunate v1S1ting teams. The Pit 1s an a~ylum that played to 97% of Its 17,235-seat capacity through its first 22 years, during which lime the tarter MelOco window and choo e D You re kidding.

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This USD team is young but deep. Egan will send the Toreros onto the court in swarms and waves, uncharacteristically going in the face of the Loyolas of the world with increased offensive tempo and pressure man-to man defense. The Baby Bench Brigade outscored New M1cxico's bench, 30-10, and Significantly, these kids will face one of the toughest schedules USD has encountered, including 10 teams that played in the postseason in 1987-88-Lehigh, New Mexico, UC Santa Barbara, North Texas, Manst, Utah, Western Kentucky, Loyola Marymount, Pepperdine and Santa Clara. What happened in New Mexico, to be sure, was that these kids went down into The Pit and proved how up-and-coming they are. had a 24-6 advantage in rebounding.

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'Th t half they were throwing k•away pa es and guy ally take it out of bound were ing 1t out of bounds," aid Egan. luff you do when you get ried way with yourself" low ood are the Toreri>S? Egan d told the players already this sea- I that he will be the judge of that ,D freshman guard Wayman ickland, who scored 10 points, re- ed the coach's me age. ·coach said that by no mean· have that don't 1at' f1

this might be to a young team. "Slightly," Egan laughed.

Egan laughed' Why not? After all , USD won.

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That's right. And it wasn't really close. This was a case of the road-runner eating the wolf, 64-53.

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That' what USO coach Hank Egan ·n trying to do ever since USO upset New Mexico four days ago. h

arrtvt'tl yet,'' said Strickland. "He Egan continued to preach that mes- d be will tell us when we have sage 1 t night after the Toreros 1m- lved, and that he will probably proved to 3-0 by beating Cal Luther- e that lo his grave. He said he's an 90-64 at the USD Sports Cent~r. •er coached anyon who has ''I've tried to temper this thmg a ch d their potential. There's al- httle bit," id Egan, whose team {S omething more you can do. opened the season over the w_eekend I we ave a long way to go." by winning the Lobos_ Classic with 'he Torer<>:; pointed themselves in victori against Lehigh and New right direction with an 11-2 run at Mexico. "1 think we did a heckuva beginning of the second half for a job at New Mexico. We played awful- 2 ad. That allowed Egan to ly well to do it. But we're not going >ty the bench, ·it back and figure to be able to ji.st come out, throw the what t Toreros had accom- ball on the floor and get it done. ied. , I'm not too ure, but I thm think it' all part of the learning they re still talung bo · 1aybe all ·e s for a young basketball of , including me, expect them. to ,;• said . Egan. "Th_at'~ w_hat we perform ltke that all the time, hke out of 1t. But I dtdn t ltke our mebody c me in with a wand and uhon. I thought we had great in- id, •Boom• But it's not going lo ty on defense, but we didn't play defen e" happco hke that." If handed a canvas and bl'lllih, the could have gone better Much picture Egan wou~d paint of his r. Even Junior forward Craig young team would include a moun- ell struggled at times. Cottrell tam range, not a desert, in the back- u I two pomts m the first half ground There will be plenty of peaks ight He settled in with the rest and valleys before the sun sets on second half and finished with th1 ~ts. thi season. tur "We've got a lot of freshmen who weren't lackadaisical, but I th make a lot of mlStakes and a bunc.h our beads were still in the twc of sophomor~ ," aid Egan. "This from the tournament," said tba thing is not put together the way L ''We had to come down a Into you've got to have, it ~ut together to nd I think this game did it for a L be consistent. We re Just not the~e whit yet J would like 1t to be, but tt s Danr oing to take 1 t a lot o~ time and point seasoning." a 44.- . ? Get the picture. . know is I'm gor.ng to be there t half against Santa Barba- ' d of off in the clouds some-

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the University of San Diego defeated ) San Diego Sfate s Bui Kearsley 6-3, 6-0 in yesterday's third round of the San Diego All-College Tennis Tour- nament at USD. Noriega plays teammate Dan Mat- tera in a quarterfinal match today at 1 p.m. Mattera, seeded seventh. de- feated SDSU' Dana Gill 2~, 6-0, 6-2. In other quarterfinal matches, Palomar's Chris Toomey plays SDSU's Joe McDonough, SDSU's Woody Yocum meets third-seeded Mark Farren of USD, and USD's J.R. Edwards plays USD's David Stewart. Semifinals are tomorrow at 9 a.m. The final is Sunday at 11 a.m fol- lowed by the doubles final at1/

MEN'STEN!':f!S Thtrei1~Cded players ad- need to the third round of the an Diego All-College tournament at the University of San Diego. usu•s 30 c Lws Noriega. seeded o. I, defe ted Gary Breen of San Diego City College, 6-1, retired, and second-seeded David Stewart 0 uSD dvanced with a 6-0. 6-2 victory over Randall Mark of UCSD. Third-round matches begin at 1 p.m. today.

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The Toreros didn'l get the picture until tale in the first half la t night against Cal Lutheran (4-3), an NAIA Division II team. USD came out against the Kingsmen with over-in• flated egos and played like a car run- ning on four flat tir~. "I thought that was go,, to hap- Please ·ee TOREROS: E-:._\Col. 5

efeated_ San D!eg? City's Gary fee~ 6-2, 6-2 m men_ s smgles yester- ay o make- the third round of the San Diego All-College Tennis Tour- Second-seeded David Stewart of USD stopped UCSD's Randall Mark 6-0, 6-2, and No. 3 seed Mark Farren of USO beat San Diego State's Jeff Belloli 6-4, 6-4. o th er seeded players to advance were SDSU's Joe McDonough ( 4) Palomar's Chris Toomey (5), nament at USD.

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