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~1i~:1,,,,ti•- with the game and get comfortable shooting the ball," Egan said. "We may have to buy a shot that careens off the rim and not get too panicky because we're in a strange environ- ment. We've just got to know that's going to happen." Facing the Tigers' so-called gim- mick defenses could be another con- cern. Said Egan: "In the Kentucky game they played a box-and-one, a trian- gle-and-two, a two-two-one full-court press, they fell back into a zone, they man pressed. So they do a little bit of everything on defense. "I think what they really try to do is make you lose your poise, so you're searching for what the answer is. I think this is really significant for us.

Egan has plan to tame Tigers Toreros hoping to control ~#burn quickness - fast It's no secret that the strength of Auburn's basketball team 1s its ab1hty to rebound and run. USD coach Hank Egan has designed a plan to stop the Tigers in their trac~ It will be up to the Toreros to execute Egan's plan when the teams meet here tomorrow in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at the Hoosier Dome. "We make adjustments based on each team," Egan said. "The first thing you want to do 1s make sure the kids have a good grasp of the game plan, and you can tell that the first couple of times up and down the floor. If they're into that groove, then you start wa~ching the flow of the game." Egan 1s aware that the Tigers (17- 12) led the Southeastern Conference in rebounding this season. He knows they averaged 8.1 rebounds more than their opponents. He realizes they outrebounded Nevada-Las Vegas by 11 {despite losing 104-85) and Kentucky by 17 (in a 79-72 SEC Tournament win). By i&fkenn?y Tribune Sporl,,wriler I NDIA~~POLIS -

When USD lost to Pepperdine 64-63 during last week's West Coast Athlet- ic Conference tournament semifi- nals, the Toreros couldn't hit their outside shots. "Pepperdine decided to take away our outside shooting, and see what we could do inside," Egan said. "If they take one away, then we must go somewhere else. I think our shooters felt like they were required to shoot. The requirement is, if you have the shot you take what is there. "We must move the ball around and find the open man. Our strength is our balance offensively. We play the game pretty much like a team. "If it's an us-against-them game I think we have a chance. A decent chance. If it becomes a me-against- you, individual against individual, I think we're ih deep trouble."

If we can maintain our poise through the early part of this, we'll be all right." Finally, the Toreros must display the balance that enabled them to compile a 24-5 record. Four of USD's five starters average in double fig- ures, led by senior center Scott Thompson's 15.9 points. Forward Mark Manor and guards Paul Leon- ard and Danny Means have helped the team shoot 44.4 percent from three-point range. The Toreros must take what the Tigers give them. If Auburn covers USD's outside shooters, the Toreros must get the ball inside to Thompson and forward Nils Madden. If not, Manor, Leonard and Means must be prepared to fire away.

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Tomorrow's game USD(24-5) vs. Auburn (17-12) • • • 4p.m., Chi. 69, KVSD-1000 • • • NCAA Tournament

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.__.::;--- USD's Egan has memories of past NCAA tourneys . '::)..(;\ s /' 1 By Kirk' Kenney7 West, who was the MVP of the '59 tournament, Midwei t Regional game against Auburn at the Tribune Sportswriter scored a game-high 34 points against Navy. Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis will be broadcast on ...u.:i.u....:wniors Scott Thompson, Nils Madden, • • • radio station KVSD-1000 beginning at 4 p.m. St ve Krallman, Eric Musselman and sophomore Ronnie Wald will do the play-by-play for the Mike Haupt all have played for teams that have Of the Toreros' current players, Thompson has contest, which will not oe televised. ESPN will gone to the NCAA Tournament, but it is Toreros seen the most action in tournament play. In USD's show the Navy-Michigan game in that time slot. coach Hank Egan who has the most tournament experience as a player.

"We have to play position de- fense," Egan said. "We can put a lit- tle bit of pressure on the ball, but then we have to play inside out eve- rywhere because we have to keep them off the boards. We've got to make sure our people are not in the passmg lanes and gambling. "We'd rather let them have the hall down low and play defense on th m, than have them in the position where they have the offensive boards. We can't afford to give them the second shot too often."

• • • The opening line on the USD-Auburn game tabs the Tigers as a 4½ point favorite. The winner will play Saturday against the winner of Thursday's Fairfield-Indiana game. USA TODAY printed odds yesterday provided by Danny Sheridan that picked the Toreros as a 1,500-to-l shot at winning the national champion- ship. Auburn was picked at 150-1. North Carolina was installed as the favorite at 3-1. Santa Clara, the West Coast Athletic Conference Tournament champion, is given a 500,000-1 chance of winning the tournament. · /

· Toreros notebook 65-56 first-round loss to Princeton in '84, the 7-foot center played 20 minutes, collecting four points and eight rebounds Musselman and Krallman each played one minute against Princeton. Mad- den did not get in the game. Haupt was a freshman on the San Diego State team that lost to Nevada-Las Vegas 85-80 in the first round of the '85 tournament. • • • USD's Thursday afternoon first-round NCAA

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Egan played his college basketball at Navy from 1956 to '60. He was the sixth man for the Navy team that__defeafed North Carolina and St. John's and lost to Boston University in the '59 tournament. Egan started for the Midshipmen team that lost in the first round to West Virginia 94-86 in the '60 tournament. His assignment that game was to guard West Virginia's All-America guard, a fellow IJy the name of Jerry West. What does Egan re- member about the experience? "He scored more points than I did," Egan said. t

While watching films of Auburn agains~ UNLV and Kentucky, Egan also discovered that senior guards Frank_Ford and Gerald White move the ball down court quickly following a defensive rebound. "One ?f the things the do is they fly at your shooter and then take off " E~~n said. "Our shooter 1~ going to have to watch for the flyer. ' Tho~e are the thmgs that you want to get straightened out early. Then we can decide whether we should be playing man or zone or whether we're gom· g to trap." Th~ front_li~e of sophomore forward Mike Jones, junior forward Chris Moms an~ Jumor ce~ter Jeff Moore gives the Tigers the size and strength to rebound with the nation's best teams. "You look at their front line and they look like they're all stamped out of the same mold as Charles Barkley (Auburn Class of '84)," Egan said. "They're all about 6-7 or 6-8 and anywhere from 230 to 245 pounds, and they just jump ou~ of the gym and pound the boards. One of the reasons they're good off the boards is because for all that size and st~ength they're pretty quick people. They tend to put it up quick and get a runnmg start at the boards." Controlling the Tigers' rebound1ug and running may be Egan's primary concerns, but he has o~rs. Playing in the 43,000- eat Hoosier Dome is one. Please •-e TOREROS, -G

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C-2 / San Diego, Wednesday, March 11, 1987 I Mortensons showered with kudos for restoration work 24-,;;-,5 By Alison Davis Tibbitts Special !o The Tribune ' ' HE IS a fighter for what years by Mr. and Mrs. Euclin Reeves. The priceless collection of over 3,000 pieces was bequeathed to the university in 1967. Fitch III, and Debbie and Jim Frampton. L EADEN SKIES did not mean leaden spirits at Friday's dedi- cation of the Un~rsity of Sa-!> THE~TRIBUNE

Among history buffs on hand were Klonie and Fritz Kunzel, Walter Nel- son, Ann Boyd, the John Klinedinsts and the Jim Ballengees {both men are Washington & Lee graduates). Also there were: Ann Kantor, Rosie and Mike Stepner, Billie Reil- ly, Richard Esparza, Pam Post, Romilya Driese, Erin and Brian Walsh, and Cindy Echols. P REVIEWS of coming attrac- tions were everywhere at Alice and Mike Cavanaugb's La Jolla home on the evening of March 4. Art Alive chairman Mary Allen and her committee heralded the sixth floral extravaganza, com- ing April 29 and 30 to the San Diego Museum of Art. Guest lecturers expected are Brit- ish art historian Elizabeth Gordon and author Ronaldo Maia. Thirty- eight floral designers and garden clubs will interpret art pieces in the museum collection. Artist Joanne Crosby collected kudos for her elegant poster of roses, designed to publicize the event. Opening-night chairman is Barba- ra Malone. Her co-chairman, Fran Golden, will be in Africa on the big

he believes in. Just ask the city building depart-

lliei:o's new..ll11ivecsity Ce11ter. Rain did not dampen enthusiasm for about 500 who gathered indoors to see Jim Colachis, chairman of the Trustees' Buildings and Grounds Committee, hand over the keys of the kingdom to Bishop Leo T. Maher, chairman of the trustees board. Dr. Author Hughes, USD president, spoke on the building's importance in enriching campus life. Now, students and faculty have an informal setting in which to meet, and many student services and offices are under one roof. Dr. Philip Hwang, professor of education, was the keynote speaker. A reception committee welcomed guests touring the facility. John Tri- filetti relished being "the lonesome polecat," the group's only man. Other members were Pat Keating, Linda Alessio, Darlene Ventimiglia, Carol O'Connell, Tina Cutri, Barbara Covey and Rochelle Capozzi. Also helping were Virginia Stehly, Marilyn Benstead, Louarn Fleet, Helen Egan, Val Frager, Doris Hughes, Ann Nichols, Carol Reilly, Ruth Mulvaney and student Stepha/ ie Rothstein. /

ment," said Bud Fischer during the introduction of Chris Mortenson Fri- day night. Mortenson and his wife, Francie, were recognized by the Gaslamp Quarter Foundation for their work in restoring old San Diego buildings. Over 450 enthusiasts of bygone days were at the U.S. Grant Hotel to honor the Mortensons and to view pieces of Chinese export porcelain from the Reeves Collection, dis- played on the West Coast for the first time. "Americans became interested in preservation during our bi-centenni- al, and the momentum just keeps building up," said Joella Morris. She and her husband, Stewart Morris, presented the 1987 Stewart Title His- toric Preservation Award to the Mortensons. Morris is president of Houston's Stewart Title Guaranty Co., and an adviser to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C. In his acceptance remarks, Mor- tenson said, "I'm not a pure preser- vationist. Not all old is good, and not

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Tribune photo by Michael Franklin James and Celeste Whitehead, at left, with Christopher and Francie Mortenson at gala honoring the Mortensons. all new is bad. Not all buildings should be saved."

Alice Cavanaugh opens home for 'Art Alive' preview. night. Among the flower lovers present at the preview were Sally and John Thornton, Dirk Broekema, Nancy Johnson, museum deputy director .Jane Rice, Tory and Jim Luick, Brooks Noah, Dolly Maw and Judith andNeilM~ Others ncluded advisers Barbara 1.oBell and Pam Allison, Gina Muir and Scott Northcote (charged with designing the rotunda decor), Walter

which the Mortensons now live. Mortenson said that without his wife's enthusiasm, he would not be involved in such projects. "When things are going badly, I remind her of this," he added. James Whitehead, director of the Reeves Center at Washington & Lee University, in Lexington, Va., was the keynote speaker. He brought slides and examples of Chinese ex- port porcelain collected during 25

He said he believes that "in the last analysis, we can't freeze build- ings in time or place, because that limits history and negates all that bas happened to that building before and after." Among the Mortenson restorations are The Abbey, tie Golden Lion Tav- ern, and the Del, a Victorian ho~e mov to Coronado and in