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the tmal. H,111k Egan and hi, , 1 ,ung t am posted one ot the sea- son ·arl, upset in defeat ing the h ist I nhos 64-5J lor thi: champion- lup in lront ot 1- 9lP spectators. And l'SIU lipped ir l·orce 82- i'8 111 ( ,olden II. II " ith j unior gu rd StC\e Smith scori ng 20 p llll State entenam, In inc tomorro\\ night at the rcna wh1k powerful CSl -I ulkrton ol the Rig We t Con- ercr e 1mad~ the l SD Sports en r D·cembe h ---~

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 USO-high 17 points and game-high 10 rebounds. 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 Toreroa on Page 0-6

T6ifg1{Kingsmen are no breather By Ric Bucher, Staff Writer 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- theran Kingsmen. Cal Lutheran is an NAIA Division II school. After beating t he University of New Mexico, a highly regarded NCAA Division I school, USO 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

• Vanderbilt upsets 13th-ranked Louisville with a 45-foot·shot at the buzzer-D-6 four days earlier. Then again, USD 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 bad a young ballclub," Egan

The San Diego Union/Chris Cavanaugh Sophomore center Don · Bell stuffs for two of his team-high 7 points.

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By Qropping Team Right Into The Pit, Egan Gave USD a Lift K quiz has to do with strategic ------------------ Maybe the Toreros thought those 6,889 lunatic successful direction, though it is only a year removed s~hedul;ng as apphed to the game or Dave Distel were cheermg for them. . . from t he giddiness of winning the West Coast k tball ------------------- It could be th at th es kids c Just a little bit crazy Athletic Conferen<'e championship and going to the Y .iu r<' u c. ch whose team is attcmptmg to themselves. They practice each day at 6 a.m. . by rebou d from a rather modest 11 _ 17 sea ·on The home side won nearly 80% of its games. their choosmg. NCAA Tournament with a 24-6 record in 1986-87. "I like to start on the road," Egan argued. "You d ""' 'd " h ro tcr ha seven fre hmen, five sophomores, aJumor "They said Temple oes tt, r,gan sa, , sot ey find out more about your players ... and it toughens 1 r and two seruors, one of whom is your only returning them up." wanted to know if they could do 1t sat on 1t or starter. Of course, The Pit was a neutral court for USD's about a month and came b?ck and asked them 1f they

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 Mo.ico'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, Man st, 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 had a 24-6 advantage in rebounding.

actual season-opener. It went up against Lehigh in the first game of a tournament-opening doubleheader Saturday night and came away with a And then came Sunday night's date with the Lobos, runaway 96-71 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 oaching m The Pit, but J 1 magme 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 right out and fell behmd, 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 68-58 victory.

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A) Schedule a home game agamst Doane. B) Schedule a home game against Clark. C) Schedule a home game against Olivet. D) Go to a tournam nt at the Umvers1ty of New After all, how do you choose from among A, Band If ou happen to be Coach Hank Egan, whose ..i.1vers1ty of San Diego Toreros fit the above profile, ou throw stcreotyp1cal coachmg wisdom out the ? No one should go to New MeJOco unless they have to, at least not with a basketball team. Arizona went over there last year unbeaten and ranked. o. 1 in the nation and came away a 61-59 loser The University Arena is called The Pit, and I'm not sure1f1t wa rucknamed by satlJ..ollc local Lobo locos or by unfortunate visiting teams. The Pit 1s an asylum that played to 97% or its 17,235-seat capacity through its first 22 years, durmg which time the MeXJco I know, class, thtS 1s a tough one. wmdow and choose D You're k1ddmg.

"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 mother campus And so it goes each morning with the players, coaches, trainers and, occastonally, a lost and Incredibly, the Toreros successfully made the transition from such tranqu1hty to the bedlam of The Hank Egan, for one, enJoyed the taste of such a dehc1ous surpnse, but he prefers to look at a bigger picture. To him, the victory m New MeXJco was not as important as what 1t represents. "We've had two good recruitmg classes, and we feel good about the one we have coming up," Egan said. "We've got the makmgs of puttmg it all Pit. activities." befuddled jogger

TOR~ROS: An easy win C , ucd Fr m /:,,I pen d rmg warm•u ," 1d USD opliomor ctnter Dondi Bell, who I· th Torero with 17 points and 10 r bound "Some of the guys were just going through the motions and tryln to be cool. I felt like in the ft t three or four minutes of th a om or that wa still I ft over. We ere JU t kmd of off m the first half." halftime. "Th ft

t half they were throwing look-away passes and guys that don't normally take it out of bounds were taking 1t out of bound ," aid Egc1n. "That's tuff you do when you get earned away with yourself." How good are the Toren>S"' Egan bad told the players already this sea- son that he will be the Judge of that. USD fre hman guard Wayman • tr1ckland, who cored 10 points, re- layed he coach' message. "Coach said that by no mean· have we arrived yet," said Strickland. "He . aid he will tell us when we have arrived, and that be will probably take that to his grave He said he's never coached anyone who has reached their potential. There's al- ways something more you can do. And we ave a long way to go." Th 'foreros pomted them elves in th right direction with an 11-2 run at the begmmng of the second half for a 55-32 d. That allowed Egan to empty the bench, sit back and figure out what the Toreros had accom- plished "I think it' all part of the learnmg proces for a young basketball team," said Egan. ''That's what we got out of it. But I didn't like our execution. I thought we bad great in- tensity on defense, but we didn't play good defen e." It could have gone better. Much better. Even junior forwa rd Craig Cottrell struggled at times. Cottrell had just two pomts in the first half last mght. He settled in with the rest in the s cond half and finished with 13 pomts. •·we weren't lackadaisical, but I think our heads were still in the clouds from the tournament," said Cottrell "We had to come down a htUe and I think this game did it for u "All I know i I'm going to be there in the first half against Santa Barb ra, in tead of off in the clouds some- where"

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

Egan laughed?

Why not?

how up-a nd -coming they are.

After all, USD won.

together."

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

Smart scheduling, Coach Egan. Right, class?

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Thi game by itself was an exam- ple of what can be expeded this sea- son. USD actually trailed 10-7 through the fi t 61/z minutes. The game wa tied 19·19 with 10:21 re: maining m the first half. The Cal Lu- therans on the schedule aren't sup- posed to do that to USO. This was supposed to be a breather between la t week' game again ·t New Mexi- co and Saturday' game at UC Santa Barbara. "I think we kind of switched roles," said fr hman guard Gylan Dottin, who ored 13 points for the Torero . "In N w Mexico, we thought we were the und rdogs, so we bad to come out and play hard In this game, I tr.ought we bad the attitude that we'r better than that team o we're going to come out and play lackadai- sical I think th1 openP.d our eye . We napped out of it. ' team that L n't D1\ 1s1on I, you don't take them that erious until the game actually begin . It didn't hit u until we started playing. They were going at It hard, and the game was still close during the early minute , o we had to turn 1t on." Dottin was one of the sparks off th bcnrh for USD, which finally turned it o I b 4·25 remaining in th first half That's when Bell hit two free throws to tart a 10-0 run that expanded a 28-27 Torero lead into a 38-27 advantage. Dottin add d a three-pointer during the spurt, which also included ba kets by Da nny Means, who finished with 14 pomts, and Kelvin Means. USO took a 44-30 lead into the locker room at

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In step with holiday prepa- rations, the Uni,•ersity of San Diego Community Concert Clfo1r w1lr present a tradi- tiona I service of Lessons and Carols. Evening performances on Friday, Dec. 9, and Saturday Dec. 10, will begin at8 p.m. in Founders Chapel. The program will include settings of traditional English

carols, as well as music by choir director Fr. Nicolas Reveles, with accompaniment provided by University orga- nist Janice Feher. Admission is $5 fo r the general public and $3 for seniors. Fo r more informa tion, please contact Fr. Rcv/eles at 260-4600, X44S6. .

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- Plaintiff attorney Ha rvey Levme has become the new presi- dent of the California Tria l Law- yers Assn. Levine, 44, is known aro und t he state as "Mr. Bad Faith of California" for h is handling of ba_d faith claims a nd big personal '"Jury cases. A popular 17-year professor at_USD, he a lso helped lead the charge this fall against Props. 104 and 106. He likes to per- :,orm magic tricks for children as The Great Levini." -x,.&c~ * * * .....-X.. f:,; :::.----

Cal Lutheran was paced by Steve deLa- veaga with 21 points-he had been averag- ng 30.5. Center Mike Demeter scored 18 for the Kmgsmen before he fouled out with 3,36 rcmammg. USD outrebounded Cal Lutheran 47-21· Bell had IO rebounds and Cottr~JI and freshma~ Kelvin Woods had 5 each.