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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454) MA 27

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 127,454)

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ends. In addition, Majerus' girlfriend doesn't want to live in Reno. • • • Syracuse graduate assistant coach Matt Bassett had a bunch and bet a bunch on a horse in the 10th race Thursday at the Fair Grounds race- track here. The horse's name was D.C. Spirit Son. "D.C." is the nickname of Syracuse freshman sensation Derrick Cole- man. Bassett said he was going o bet "every cent in my pocket." D.C. Spir- it Son beat favorite Bright Fruit in a close finish and paid $15.60. • • • New San Diego State coach Jim Brandenburg picks Indiana and Syracuse to win today and play for the national championship on Mon- day night. "More than any of the three teams here," Brandenburg said, "Syracuse has the capability of having a large rebounding margin. If they get to dominate the boards like they can, they'll win it." Brandenburg coached Syracuse big man Ron Seikaly in the World Game tryouts. "He's really shown me he can be more of an offensive force in the tournament," Brandenburg said. "He's a little bit like UNLV's Hammer (Armon Gilliam). He's play- ing on a new level here in the tourna- ment." Brandenburg, one of Indiana coach Bob Knight's close associates in the coaching profession, said: "Knight will have studied more tape on UNL V than they will have studied of themselves. Knight spends endless midnight hours studying tapes." • • • Iowa's Tom Davis was named the Associated Press' Coach of the Year here yesterday, but even Davis felt there were more deserving coaches. He named Temple's John Chaney, Purdue's Gene Keady and Indiana's Knight as three more qualified coaches for the award. Said Davis: "Look at the job Jerry Tarkanian has done there. Why doesn't anyone respect that?" GOOd question.

coach Hank Egan is one <1TT!ie1liree leading candidates for the vacant Wyoming job, according to sources here. New Orleans coach Benny Dees, a Wyoming alumnus, interviewed for the post this week and Southwest Missouri State coach Charlie Spoonhour is expected to interview today. Egan could be the next one. Wyoming athletic director Paul Roach has been searching for a new NCAA Tournament notebook head coach since last Monday, when Jim Brandenburg quit there to take the San Diego State job. Egan, here attending the Final Four, could not be reached for com- ment. Should Egan leave USD, word here is that former Toreros coach Jim Brovelli is seeking a return to San Diego. Sources contend that Brovelli is unhappy coaching at USF, his alma mater, and would like to return to USD if there is an op,::ning there. Egan interviewed for the Nevada- Reno post last week, but withdrew bis name from consideration. • • • Washington Post sportswriter John Feinstein's book "A Season on the Brink," which details the ups and downs of Indiana's 1985-86 season, is not nearly as popular with the Hoo- siers players as it is with basketball fans around the country. At least that's what Indiana guard Steve Alford said here yesterday, much to the disbelief of the media. Asked if the book, which has been ripped by head coach Bob Knight, had done anything to change the image of the Indiana program, Al- ford said: "I really don't want to make any comment on the book. It came out at a time during the season when we really didn't have time to read it." Said Hoosiers forward Daryl Thomas, who like Alford and Knight, is not pictured favorably in the book:

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USD'S HANK EGAN - RUMORED FOR WYOMING JOB

"I didn't read it yet." Pressed on the issue, Alford said: "I don't know of any player on the team who has read it. Everyone saw what that season was. We experi- enced that season." Knight has said that be read three pages and threw the book down. He didn't like it and for good reason. The book portrays him as a dominating, foul-mouthed coach whose coaching style is one-half teaching kids and one-half humiliating them. • • • When Jim Bo.eheim was looking for an assistant coach in 1976, he went after Rick Pitino, now at Provi- dence and Boeheim's opponent today in the first semifinal game. Problem was, Pitino was on the first day of his honeymoon in a New York hotel and preparing to go to San Francisco and Hawaii for the remainder of it. "Jim was a bachelor at the time and didn't know what was going on," Pitino said. "He called me and said he'd like to talk about the job, and I said, 'Sure, I'd love to talk to you when I get back from my honey-

moon.'" But Boebeim was persistent and told Pitino that he already bad flown in from Syracuse and was at New York's La Guardia Airport. Pitino interrupted his honeymoon to join Boeheim's staff. He spent the next month recruiting Louis Orr, who went on to star with the Orangemen for four years before going on to the NBA. After signing Orr, Pitino final- ly went on bis honeymoon. Said Boebeim, when asked why be was so aggressive in going after Piti- no: "I had seen Rick in recruiting situ- ations and I'd seen him as a player at UMass. He's a very aggressive guy. He talks basketball and lives basket- ball 24 hours a day. He did a tremen- dous job for us. His recruiting helped stabilize our program." • • • Milwaukee Bucks assistant coach Rick Majerus, who was expected to take the Nevada-Reno job, has put UNR athletic director Chris Ault on bold. Word is, Majerus can't leave Milwaukee until the Bucks' season

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