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Rancho Bernardo, CA (San Diego Co.) Rancho Bernardo Journal (Cir. W. 2,500)

USD Ready for KooSier Dome -Thompson Ry HRIS COBBS, Times Staff Writer SA DI~GO-Scott Thompson thinks he has a pretty good idea of wh t to expect in the . NCAA tournam nt-the Hoosier version of Over the Lme. Thomp on, a nior center for the University of San Diego (24-5), already has v1 ualized what the scene will b when he teps onto the floor in the Hoo 1er Dom in lnd1anapoli for Thursday's game against Auburn (17-12). "Everybody will be creaming and wearing red Jack ts.'' he said, a reference to the fact that Indian:t will play Fa1rflelt.l after the USO-Auburn game m the op ning round of the Midwest Reg1onaL Thomp on ha en the mov1C' "Hoosiers" but hasn't r d "A Sea on on the Brink," the best-selling account of a eason with Indiana Coach Bob Knight and his t m Thompson 1s far from awed by the experience awa1t1"lg him and hi teamm tes in the 43,000-seat II er Dome

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partment will hold three free forums on public issues. They will be presented March 26, April 2 and April 9, 7:30 p.m. at the Manchester Executive Conference Center. The March 26 forum will ask, "Can U.S. trade policies be reshaped to pro- mote growth in both the United States and the Third World?" Joan Anderson, Ph.D., and Yeo Lin, Ph.D., USD associate and assistant pro- fessors of economics respectively, will lead the forum. It will focus on whether the U.S. gov- ernment should change its tariff and quo- ta structures to assist debt-ridden Third World countries. The April 2 forum will discuss, "Can we have both guns and margarine?" Led by Dennis Briscoe, Ph.D. , associate pro· fessor of management and personnel at USD, this forum will consider the issue of defense spending at the cost of domestic social programs. Space is limited and reserved seating is suggested. For more information contact Kathie Hare at 260-4585. . /r

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de~!$~.,.b Y I 2, Two Univ~sity of Sa~iego pro- fessors, Joseph Darby and Jorge Vargas, repres~nting _oppo~ite philosophical and 1deolog1cal pomts of view debated the issue of "Law and the' US. Foreign Policy" at the March 3 meeting of the Rancho Ber- nardo chapter of the World Affairs

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dedare war. Smee the new te - ~~ology, there ~ave been over_ I~ without a single declaration of war. "If we can't trust the Soviets, ~nd they're set upon our destr~ct10:,, what are the free worlds options. he said. "We need to use for~e to stop th~ ~~iets and help our friends mc1dences of armed conflict

"In Mexico, Mexicans are saying the U.S. president is very similar to the Mexican president," Vargas said. "I'd rather see President Reagan perceived as a com- municator, rather than the world's He supported Reagan's efforts to enhance nationalism and patriotiSm and added that "no country or per- son is perfect, but the U.S. is closest Darby, an a thority on interna- tional law, represented the other According to Darby, the Soviet Union is trying to subdue the U.S. "Every front is being used to their advantage, including law," he said. There could not be the meeting of the minds necessary for contract negotiations between the two coun- tries because the Soviets won't fulfill their promises except to bury the U.S. and its dreams, he said. Darby perceives international law as an aid to those trying to defeat the The U.S. practiced international law for many years, he said. Now, Darby said the term war has been biggest gun." to perfection." side. without a fight. U.S. foreign policy.

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Vargas, director of the Mexican- U.S. Law Institute of USD, presented his personal perspectives on U.S. foreign policy as a member of a Third World country. His em- phasis was on the value of com- munication, and the U.S. showing respect for international Jaw and taking a more positive lead in that At the end of World War Il, Vargas said, the U.S. showed respect for in- ternational law and supported the United Nations. With time, however, the U.S. changed its attitude toward both. He said the serious financial crisis facing the U.N. is a reflection of a deterioration of powers. "The Tower Report confirms violations not only of international law, but also U.S. domestic laws," Vargas added that other countries have a "John Wayne" image of the area. he said.

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The Tor ro m y not command a lot of national attention, but they believe they belong m the tournament f1 Id of 64. And they are gomg to Ind1anaµol1 with the mtent1on of wmning. When Madd n was a ked if he was thrilled to be encll hts career in Indiana, the Mecca of college bai k thall. h hot back- "You mean NewOr,ean ?" The Fmal Four will b played in the New Orleans Sup rdome March 28 and 30. Although mo t observers would consider 1t one of Please see USO, Pace 7

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NCAA Tournament In the last four years. "Earned over the long A season in wh1c~ the '.forer<;>s won 24 of28 gam_es, including 1~ m a row before losmg to Pepperdine last Friday in the semifinals of the West Coast Athletic Conference Tournament. So, while Santa Clara was earning the WCAC's au- tomatic bid, the Toreros were left to wait and wonder. "I felt really terrible after (Fri- day's) game " Egan said. "But we had played with a lot more courage and heart than I thought initial- ly.... Tournaments are hard to play when you're the (regular-sea- son) champions. You always feel like you're protecting something and you don't play as loose as you should." Please see USt, page 04

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SAN DIEGO - At 2:40 p.m. b.st Sunday the phone in Hank Egan's Univers'itv of San Diegg,office was . -. . silent. In th 1 s inS t ance, thought, no news was bad news. Locals to call game, D4 Since the show announcing the pairings for the NCAA basketball tournament was not being tele- vised locally, Egan had been hop- ing for someone - anyone - to call and tell him that his Toreros had received an at-large bid. Now it had been 10 minutes since CBS began broadcasting the pairings, and still the phone sat si- lent. "I figured nobody had enough courage to call and say we didn't make it," Egan said. E gan

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Thompson said. "Since we wound up being seed- ed ninth in the Midwest, we obvi- ously were on the NCAA's mind before the WCAC tournament, but we were uncertain what they might be thinking." Auburn is seeded eighth. "Now we have to win," Madden said, "and I'm Just happy we are getting a shot to prove ourselves against a real good basketball team. I know Auburn 1s a physical team, but we can match them." The Toreros may have been nervous m last week's tournament, but they won't play tight this week, Thompson predicted. "We have nothing to lose now," he said. "This is it. There will be no holding back. We're going to play well." Thompson, the WCAC player of the year, is likely to receive a lot of attention from the media at the Midwest Regional. At 7-feet and 260 pounds, he 1s the biggest and most visible of the Toreros. The expectat10ns for any man his size are immense, but Thompson's skills and personality don't c - form to the norm. He is more of a finesse player than a bruiser, he is an excellent passer and free-throw shooter, and his personality is laid-back, with an understated sense of humor. "Scott has always been competi- tive, and he doesn't back away from a challenge," said Coach Hank Egan. "He's been a late bloomer in l:!1s physical development, and he has improved considerably in ag- gressiveness this season. "Everybody expects a 7-footer to run and jump and block shots, but Scott is not that type of player. But he catches and passes the ball well, and he's like a guard playing inside, with good vision and the ability to hit the open man." Thompson has met Egan's stand- ard for team play, downplaying his own role on behalf of the other four players. He seems happier describ- ing the team's unity than in talking about his own a pirations or views. "We were the surprise team in 1984, but this year we were expect- ed to do well." he said. "We put some pressure on ourselves, just like the media did. "But I thmk the pressure is mostly off us now. We have noth- ing to worry about. We can't•pJay much worse than we did last week. It's all-out now." /

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Just then, however, the phone rang. It was one of Egan's assistant coache , Mike LeGarza. "Mike said his dad had seen it on TV in eno and called him," Egan recalled Tuesday. "Then my wife's father called and then my son called• Th all had the same good news

for Egan: The Toreros had been se- lected to play Auburn in a first- round game of the NCAA Midwest Regional on Thursday (4:07 p.m. PST, KVSD-1000) at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. "I feel like this is something we've really earned," Egan said of the Toreros' second trip to the

the more m1raculou · stories , college basketball history if USD made it to. ew Orleans, the Tore- ros are convinced that they are not out of place m Indianapolis. "I fe I hke we can play with the best of them," Thompson said. "When we were freshmen, it was scary bemg in the NCAA tourna- ment, but not this year. "We don't feel like there's a big gap between USD and the so-called powerhouse teams. I thmk we have closed the gap. We've been re- ferred to as the Aztecs and the Clippers and UCSD this year, but I thmk we have proved that we belong Thomp on expects to be nervous during the pregame warm-ups, but that's nothing out of the ordinary for him. "It's good to feel butterflies," he said. "I have them before every game You need to feel that way or you're not ready to play. "We'll definitely feel the excite- ment, but we're not going to change our approach or our rou- tine. Hey, the baskets are still 10 feet high, aren't they? Once the ball goes up, you block out every- thing anyway." Madden 1s aware of Indiana's storied basketball tradition, but he doesn't seem to regard playmg in the NCAA tournament as a mysti- cal experience. In fact, Madden, who says he doesn't even watch basketball on telev1s1on. seems al- mo t blase about appearing in the NCAA tournament for a second time. "I know there's a lot of support by the fans in Indiana." he said. "It's very intense." In last weekend's West Coast Athletic Conference tournament, the Toreros were upset by Pcpperdine in the semifinals. They had entered the tournament with a 14-game winning streak and a 24-4 r ecord. However, the loss to Pep!)<'rdine left the Toreros facing the pos 1b1hty of not receiving an NCAA invitation. Going to the National Invitation Tournament m lead would have been a disap- pointment "We were really wondering what was going to happen [in the 48 hours after Friday's defeat],"

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White (7.4 points per game) is joined in the backcourt by fellow four-year starter Frank Ford (13.2, 6.2 rebounds). The front line fea- tures a trio of 6-foot-7 underclass- men - center Jeff Moore (17.2, 9.3) and forwards Mike Jones (15.0, 7.2) and Chris Morris (13.4, 7.2) - who "all look like they're stamped out of the same mold of Charles Barkley," according to Egan. . The Tigers' strengths are run- mng and rebounding, so it's no se- cret what USD must do in order to pull off an upset. "We have to send all five guys to the boards, at least early, and we have to slow their fast break " Egan said. "On the other end V:e have to stay together and mov~ the ball and find the open man. That's our strength, our balance offen- sively. They try to make you lose your poise. It's significant for us if we can maintain our poise through the early part of the game we'll be all right." ' Egan's club is not as talented athletically as the Tigers but it does have its strengths. Se;en-foot center Scott Thompson (15.9, 7.5) and forward Nils Madden (11.3 6.8) provide the inside game and forward Mark Manor (10.1)' and guards Paul Leonard (IO. 7) and

Danny Means (7.6) are all shooting better than 44 percent from three-point range. Defensively, USD still leads the nation in field goal percentage al- lo?:ed (.367). It also yields just 60.3 pomts per game, 20 less than Au- burn has averaged. ."We had a lot of family traveling with us last week and I felt maybe we lost some of the unitedness we had in the past," Egan said. "This week we're going to try very hard and keep together as a team. "If it's us against them we've got a chance," Egan allowel "But ifit turns into me against you, individ- ual against individual I think we're in deep trouble." ' ... Thompson, Madden, Steve Krallman and Eric Musselman were freshmen when the Toreros made their only other NCAA Tournament appearance, in 1984. (!SD lost to Princeton 65-56 in its first game...._Auburn is making its fourth straight appearance in the NCAAs. Led by Chuck Person the Tigers advanced to the West Regional final before losing to Louisville 84-76.... USD started the year 2-2, then won 22 of its next 24 games before losing last week. Auburn began 7-0 then lost 12 of its last 22. '

Now ~he Toreros are loose again, and while they definitely will be the underdogs Thursday Auburn certainly is beatable. ' .Beatable, yes. But not as bad as Tigers Coach Sonny Smith makes them out to be. "We have to jump-start our te~m," Smith was quoted as saying th1 s week. "We've been referred to as uninspired, unmotivated and uncfa~he~. ~e can't even get up for M1am1 Vice' and it's the No 1 television show up here." · . True, Auburn is only 17-12, but it played in the always-tough Sout~eastern Conference, which has six teams headed to the NCAA To~rnament. In 16 games this year agamst tournament-bound teams th e Tigers won seven. (The only such team USD played was Santa Clara.) truth of the matter," Egan sa11, 1s that when they struggled ~unng t~e season, they were miss- ing an important ingredient, a gu~rd named (Gerald) White. In the SEC Tournament (last week), they absolutely manhan- dled Kentucky. It was riot a con- test."

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