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in loss to USF challenge. USD cut USF's lead to one point with 1 when freshman forward Gylan Dottin drovtt e baseline for a basket and was fouled. Dottin, whoscored 13 points, added the free throw to make it 57-56. The Toreros still trailed by one when. tHe1 called a timeout with 1:08 remaining to set up a play for center Dondi Bell. USD worked the ball to Bell, who had 12 points in the game, but he missed a short jumper that would have given the Toreros a 58-57 lead. "We got it down to one point, called timeout and ran a good play," said Egan. "His shot just came up a little bit short. That could have changed the way the ballgame went." Instead, USD was forced to foul in the final minute. USF went to the line six times in the final minute. The Dons made each attempt, proving some shots in basket- remaining

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was outrebounded 45-23. "We had to work for every bas- USF senior guard Kevin Mouton, who was averaging 10 points a game, picked up the scoring slack for the Dons with a game-high 20 points. USF received a boost off the bench from Jef Christian, who scored 10 points and grabbed five rebounds. Junior forward Joel DeBortoli added 14 points and sophomore forward Scott McWhorter Junior forward Craig Cottrell, who scored a team-high 18 points for USD, sank two free throws in the final minute of the first half to give the Toreros a 31-29 half- USF took a lead it would not lose when DeBortoli hit two free throws to make it 36-35 three minutes into the second half. The Dons never led by more than five, but turned back USD every time the Toreros attempted to ket." had 10 for the Dons. time lead.

game road trip at Santa Clara (0-3, 11-5). Although Santa Clara is tied for last place with USD in the WCAC, the Broncos' losses have been against the conference's top three teams - Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount and St. conference, improved to 15-1 last night with a 76-48 win The Broncos have one thing going for them: Every first conference win against the Toreros. USF accom- plished it last night and the Dons were without their over Santa Clara. USF senior forward Mark McCathrion missed last night's game in order to attend his father's funeral. McCathrion is averaging 15.4 points and 7.3 rebounds a "We knew we had to play without Mark and it showed game. leading scorer and rebounder.

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The Toreros have been paying all season at the free- throw line, and last night was n exception. USD's poor Athletic Conference loss to the USF Dons at San Francis- While USO watched its shots clank, USF put on a free- including the last 14 in a row. The Toreros shot 45 per• "We shot a lot of free throws this past week in prac- aid USO coach Hank Egan, whose team entered 1e shooting 60 percent from the line. "I don't know :se you can do. I think it's just a matter of confi- We j~t have to work our way through il" roreros (0-3 in the WCAC, 5-10 overall} have their co. cent (ll-of-24) from the line.

free-throw shooting was costly in a 63-58 West Coast Mary's. The Gaels, the preseason favorite to win he

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vi~ F.sr 18'8 San Diegans pointing out pros, cons By Kirk Kenney Tribune portswriter N O college or high school coaches have walked off the basketba 11 court in San Diego to protest Proposal 42, but that doesn't mean the issue is any I divi ·ive locally than it is nation- ally among coaches and administra- tors -U Dathletic director Tom Ianna- cone an San Diego State athletic director Fred Miller both cast "yes" votes for the proposal at last week's CAA convention. either school ha· recruited a basketball player af- fected by Prop. -t8, the freshman eli- gibility requirement strengthened by Proposal 42. The Aztecs have bad five Prop. 48 players, or partial qualifiers, in football. "To understand how we voted you have to look al the history of where all this lS going, starting back lo when Prop. 48 was proposed and this being an extension of Prop. 48," said Iannacone. "We're concerned that potential students have the tools that are necessary to be successful in a college environment. You must have standards and these are really minimum requirements." Miller said he doesn't w nt lo see schools take advantage o the ath- P/ea e see REACTION: , Col. 2 P. C. I ~96§°

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ics, but Proposal 42 is taking away too much." Back and forth il goes.

be hurt. One bad class and they're mehgible (for admis- ion)." Sweetwater football coach Andy Sanchez is in favor of Proposal 42. ''I agree with it," he said. 'Tm a minority, but I think the kids should be fully qualified. I think the SAT is fine. If they get tutoring before the test, they'll be OK. The kids that can't pass it are borderline as far as college is concerned." Martin Moss, a counselor at Mesa College and student/athlete academic adviser at Lincoln Prep, was encouraged by the steps taken by the NCAA to enhance academic requirements. Until now. "Athletes can focus on academics if they know they have t ," said Moss, a former NFL football player who graduated from Lincoln and UCLA. "When I went to Lincoln the atmosphere wasn't what it is now, but I got an education anyway because I wanted to get out. I like Prop. 48 because it was forcing kids to focus on academ-

: in youngsters, id then dismiss fbat's pure ex- !rs. If suddenly low graduation ls, then I think s wa satisfied MJSition 48. layer could sit 1," said Davis. ,ok at il as an g away." ,e Ohnesorgen: .rst impression nk the socioe- lds, especially irage kids will

Miller can barely step outside his office without run- ning into an opponent of the proposal. SDSU basketball coach Jim Brandenburg is against it. "Not every university in the United States has the same role or mission within its state or community," said Brandenburg. "I think it might be far better for the institution to still be autonomous and set its own en- trance requirements." Said USO basketball coach Hank Egan: "What's the answer? The ideal answer to this whole thing? There is nobody in the world better capable to decide who can be a good, effective student than an admissions officer at that particular school. He can look al the transcript and interview the student and come the closest of anyone on the face of the earth f knowing whether the kid and the

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its second-half lead to 13 pomts, and USD couldn't come all the way back. Down, 53-40, With 6:18 to play, the Toreros made their final run and closed to within 60 -58 on Danny Means' 3-point jumper with 10 seconds to play But four Santa Clara free throws put the game away. "We're a young and strugg1mg team," USD Coach Hank 'Egan said. "We're on a death struggle every time out, and that is what we have to understand. We playe hard tonight and hung m there, and hopefully that will help us when we get home. The Toreros outrebounded Santa Clara, 40-21, but turned the ball over 26 times to Santa Clara's 10.

· 'A TA CLARA-Two dry pell . or.e m each half, choked the Unlvcrsltf of an Diego men's basketbaJ learn and lea to a 64-58 West Coast Athletic Conference loss to Santa Clara Saturday. The Toreros fell to 5-11 with their ourth loss in four conference games. The first drought came in the first half, beginning with 6:30 left. USO was leading, 19-16, but Santa Clar scored nine consecutive pomts and went on to take a 27-24 halftime lead. W1 h 15:06 to play, USO again went cold. Ahead, 34-32, the Tore- ros allowed Santa Clara to score 10 consecutive points. Melvin Chinn's 3-pointer put Santa Clara ahead,

v • ...:Jl~l~~;::",:••~P~. c;·~a:_!E~••~' 8!88:,._~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;... new C~ach has Lobos winning after a 2-4 beginning By Chris Clarey Staff Writer Coaches usually have to be told to pack their bags and move on Dave Bliss has made his own deci- sions. TODAY'S GAME • Tipoff: 2 p.rn. • Where: Sports Arena. • Records: San Diego State, 8-6 overall, 2-3 in the Western ate degree at Cornell. During that time, he worked for Procter and Gamble. "I was selling Crest toothpaste," Bliss said. COLLEGE BASKETBALL Int€Rse

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He received his MBA in 1967 and was drafted into the Army. Knight arranged to have Bliss assigned to West Point as an enlisted assistant coach. ''The thing I enjoyed about it," Bliss said, "was that I came to real- ize a lot of the things you do of an organized nature in the corporate world, you can do in the college world. Bobby Knight showed what organization and intensity could do for a basketball team. He took col- lege basketball coaching out of the 'sweatshirt and whistle around the neck' mentality, and that's what I think a lot of us - the so-called disci- ples - have picked up on." After two years, Bliss was dis- charged and returned to Cornell to coach under Jerry Lace. He rejoined Knight as an assistant at Indiana in 1971 and stayed through the 1974-75 season, when the Hoosiers had Scott May, Quinn Buckner and Kent Ben- son. That team won 34 consecutive games before being eliminated in the NCAA quarterfinals, and Bliss ac- cepted the head-coaching position at Oklahoma. The Sooners were 13-13 under Joe Ramsey in 1985, but little talent re- mained. Bliss' first team finished 9- 17 and fourth in the Big Eight - good enough for him to be the conference's coach of the year. His next four teams were 68-45 (21-10 in 1978-79, when Oklahoma won the Big Eight and lost in the NCAA second round}. Bliss was 7-20 and 6-21 in his first two years at SMFJ. But in his last six seasons, the Mustangs were 129-60 with three trips to the NCAA Tourna- ment. His new employers would like nothing better than for Bliss to dupli- cate that feat. But Bliss isn't making promises. "I like to keep the horse ahead of the cart," he said. "Trying to im- prove a team is what my staff is best able to do. If we work on that,zaybe some good things can happen."

Athletic Conference. New Mexico, 9-5, 4-1 WAC.______ • Series: SDSU leads. 14-9. The teams split last season's home- and-home series. • TV/radio: Channel 51/KFMB· AM (760). New Mexico's program already has done pretty well," Bliss said. ''But the neat upside of that is they still have some things that can be done additionally. We hope to help this program move on." The Lobos (9-5, 4-1) started slowly, losing four of their first six (once in The Pit against lightly regarded USD)....J3ut they have won seven of their last eight. "I think it's just a matter of getting used to new ideas," Bliss said. "We had some tough games early (losses to Arizona and Oklahoma), and some- times that causes you not to advance as you'd like to, But I think we're beginning to understand what it takes to be effective." Colson was affable and low-key. Bliss is intense and has earned a rep- utation as a disciplinarian. "You're always at attention," said 6-foot-7 senior forward Charlie Thomas, who leads the Lobos in scor- ing (18.9) and rebounding (8.6). "Even when we're scrimmaging and I come out, I don't sit down. I might get a drink of water. I might not. We run from drill to drill. There are no breaks. It's boom, boom, boom. Things are a lot more intense in Albuquerque." Bliss would prefer to term his ap- proach "businesslike." It's a style he grew comfortable with as an assist- ant to Bobby Knight. Bliss met Knight when he was playing for Cornell and Knight was coaching at West Point in the mid· 1960s. Bliss graduated in 1965 and spent two years working toward a gradu-

In 1975 he became Oklahoma's basketball coach, and in five seasons he built the Sooners into a Big Eight power. But no sooner had Bliss suc- ceeded than he left in 1980 to coach Southern Methodist. He stayed in Dallas for eight years. Three of his teams qualified for the NCAA Tournament. Last sea- son's team won the Southwest Con- ference title and established a school record for victories with 28. But Bliss didn't linger to revel. He left in May for New Mexico, which will play San Diego State today at 2 p.m. in a Western Athletic Confer- ence game in the Sports Arena.

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P. C. B E,r. 1888 ~To eros short at s,nta Oara By ill fnter, Staff Writer SANTA CLARA_ Th U . . ketball team is in a c1:ss ~i,~~ilr~ Diego's bas- Athletic Conference - last y I elf m the West Coast But the Toreros' plight d. , as it did a week ago. oesn t look quite as desperate Although Santa Cla d . . with a 64-58 victory :!:"u:t iis los1_ng s~reak at three lion, the young Torero ast mght m Toso Pavi- provement for the secon~ ::r~7eit s?me noticeable im- USD shot bett . g mght. cent from the fiefJ :da~~st the Broncos, hitting 50 per- respective percentages Fr~:rcent from the foul line (the the Toreros contmued I ay were .418 and .458). And played Friday night in t!e 61~~~nr rebounding they dis- USD's 40-21 margin a a. oss at San Francisco. Toreros a 85-48 rebound·g medst Santa Clara gave the Last night h mg ge for the weekend ' owever T'SD made 26 t · the pressure applied b. S ta urnovers against and a lineup that so yf an Clara's full-court pres players on the floor. me imes sported the three talles The loss was USD' . . games. The Toreros !r:1~~0str~ght a_nd ninth in 10 Santa Clara is 12-5 and 1-3 an 0-4 m WCAC play "We plaued hard" sad. couple of times the '1ast US!> coach Hank Egan. "A wo mghts, both San Francisc

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I 888 f oreros drop another game (AP) - Kevin Mouton's 20 points led the ., Dons as the University of San Franc, co scored a 63-58 victory Western College hie• ic Conference basketball gaJ'!le Fridav night. Joel DeBortoli added 14 points for the Dons. USD, v.:hich was led by Craig Cottrell with 18 points, is now 5-R overall and 0-3 in WCAC pla~ SA FR~ • ..,,. ·

"Coaching is an adventure, and my family and I were ready for a new adventure," said Bliss, 45. "I think coaches are basically gypsies. Just look at (SDSU coach) Jim Brandenburg. I

think he enjoyed Bliss the chance to try a new opportunity after Wyoming. He moved within the league. We moved ove aA(1te." Coaching tne Lobos presented a different challenge. At Oklahoma and SMU, Bliss inherited programs in trouble and helped them recover. At New Mexico, he took over a pro- gram with a rich heritage and a zealous following. His predecessor, Gary Colson, was 136-106 in eight seasons - 57-24 in his last two - before resigning under pressure. Colson's gravest sins? His teams had difficulty winning away from the boisterous confines of their home court, "The Pit," and none qualified for the NCAA Tournament. "There's no doubt there's pressure of a certain nature in everybody's j~ the pressure in ours is that

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lack of confidence coming into n1:: game," said Williams, whose club )lot 28 percent the previous night and was routed by WCAC leader St. Mary's, 76-48. "We started playing scared, but our defens got us back in the game." After Danny Means hit an 8-foot jumper to give USD a 19-16 lead, the Toreros went 4½ minutes without ·oring. They made turnovers on five of their next seven possessions..

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/. Harvard law Professor Dun- can Kennedy will participate in a panel discus. ion this evening at l.ISD..=-the "critical legal studies" form of law school education. Other panel members: lawyer Kimberly Crensha_w, presenting the minority P,erspect rve; USO Professor Joanne Conaghan, with the feminist perspective; and USO Professor Paul Wohlmuth. That's 7 .m. at the University Center. -<-?§ .. .~

{:~~rna scored 14 pomts, Rochelle Lightner 12 and Juhe Lemery 10 as the~ty of San J?u1go defeated Santa Clara, 69 · 60 , m a We t Coast. Athletic Conference game. USO is 6-8 and 2-2. ____,