News Scrapbook 1984

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San Diego, Thursday, March 15, 1984

Toreros lear ed what it's like to have rug pul ed out Princeton game. one wire rvu:e d t t Pr! o c ch had uncovered o treogths of the Torenis: ''They (Toreros) are big , ' Princeton coach P t Carril said. ive Clou ·ea need not worry about losmg h!S job Princeton sleuths Sooners or he may be JOlrung Hal~ No and Dupree. at , his mailing address could be something other ttian Norman. STATISTICS DON'T LIE HERE - It's hard to argue

joining the Tar Heels. The catch is he did it this season - on the first day of his junior year in high school. . .. University or the Pacific was on its way to setting the NCAA record for losses in a season, but the Tigers es- caped by defeating San Jose State 51-49 a week ago. The. Tigers (3-27) finished in a tie with Washington State for most losses in a season. Trivia test - What other two teams did UOP beat? Answer: Loyola Marymount and Holy Cross. Interestingly, the Tigers came within a field goal of beating Duke (22-8) in the Rainbow Classic.... Starting next basketball season, DePaul, Marquette, Notre Dame and Dayton will play each other home-and• home. There even may be a post-season tournament In· valving the four independents from the Midwest. .. . Names surfacing for the coaching job when the Universi- ty of Miami resumes basketball next season - Lou Car- nesecca (St. John's), Dick Versace (Bradley), Gary Wil- liams (Boston College) and Glenn Wilkes (Stetson). Reason for the interest: The salary for the job is rumored to be between $150,000 and $200,000 a year. (Bill Pinella's Colleges Notepad appears every Thurs- day in The Tribune.)

5'Jafd Brian Caradonna and sophomore center Deon Rldard made the All-Southern League team. Richard also made the NAIA District m team, and junior forward Karmen Stickney made the all-district women's team.... Recent embarrassing moment: Point Loma lost a 24-3 baseball game to Southern Utah a week ago as the Crusade committed 11 errors. PLNC is 8-13-1 after ring 46 runs In three games last week. . . . Defeating Oregon tomorrow night in the first round of the NC tournament shouldn't be all that difficult for be Lad Aztecs. State finished 23-5. Oregon got into the t urna t by defeating Oregon State in the last game of the n. It will be State's Tina Hutchinson (29.9 ppg) aga1I1St Alison Lang (20.2 ppg). In Peterson Gym, State ould win. SOONERS BETTER BE BETTER - The Oklahoma ners have finished 7-4-1, 8-4 and 8-4 over the last three f tball seasons. 'In Stillwater (Oklahoma State), 8-4 is a great record," sa d Sooner coach Barry Switzer, "but not here at Oklaho- ma" And that is why Switzer's annual five-year contract a nslon was reduced to four years last month. After the 1983 season, Galen Hall, who came to Oklaho- ma with Switzer 18 years ago, resigned to become the off nsive coordinator at Florida. Two weeks ago, after 11 years at OU, defensive line coach Rex Norris left for Art:ona State. And all that after the Marcus Dupree fi tried. He's just an introverted kid. He doesn't allow any- one o get close to him." Switzer knows this had better be the year for the

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that the Atlantic Coast Conference isn't the best in the country, when considering its record against Division I basketball foes outside the conference. For the loth time in 11 years the ACC bas woo that honor, this season r Dishing 88-11 against outsiders. That translates to an .889 inning percentage. Second was the Big East (.726). The AC was seventh (.625), and the Pac-10 was 12th (.539). The worst league? The Mid-Eastern Conference (.203). But the Ivy League - which produced USD's NCAA oppo- nent, Princeton, Tuesday night - was only three wins better. The toughest schedule? Virginia. The Cavaliers' oppo- nents won 67.8 percent of their games. 0~ - From the Rich-Get-Rieber Department comes the story of Kevin Madden, a high school player who already IS being compared to North Carolina's Mi- chael Jordan. Madden already bas verbally committed to

th TorerO!! keep Brovelli• If the Uruversity of San ha made a coachmg offer to him. and appar• , U Dwi hav bout as much trouble keeping th Torer had getting an inside hot Tuesday OL Y Pl MOMF.NT - Twelve coUege coach , , will select the US Olympk bask tball team. Joining Games and Olympic head co ch Bobby Kn ht of Indiana are; (in alphabetical order) D ve Bil s (SMU), Hank E«an (Air Force), Gerry Glmelstob ( ge Washington), like rzyiewski (Duke), C.M. N • t ( and rbilt), George Raveling (Iowa), Willis Creighton), Dean mltb (North Carolina), Bob Weltllc ) and Dave Whitney (Alcorn State). Ei ty playe will be invited to the tryouts In Bloom- ngto , IDd, starting April 17. By April 22, the 12-player uad nd three alternates will have been selected. The 80 la r wlll includ at lea t one high school player, Del• n roo of Michigan City, Ind., who already has s1 oed th t e Hoosiers for nc t year. ALLY PEA . G - The Pomt Loma Nazarene ers flrushed th ba k tball season 15-16, and juruor mcludmg mokey Ga

Bill Pinello COLLEGE

NOTEPAD

MAR l 5 • USD's Brovelli Now Must Decide About USF Post By DA VE DISTEL, Times Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA-A New Jersey writer talked at length to Uruversity of San Diego basketball Coach Jim Brovelli about academic standards, Mike Whitmarsh offensive philosophies and come-from-behind wins: then started to walk away. "You notice," the writer said, "I didn't ask you about USF." "Thanks," Brovelli laughed. "You're the first one." Rumors have circulated for years that BroveJli would someday return to his alma mater as the head coach. They have become more pers1Stent of late because USF is about to restart the program that fell apart in the aftermath of an NCAA investigation Brovelli, for his part, might have been able to quietly contemplate his future, except for the fact that USO thrust itself-and him-into the spotlight with a stretch run to the West Coast Athletic Conference champion- ship and its first Div1Sion I NCAA playoff appearance. When the Toreros lost to Pnnceton Tuesday night 65-56, Brovelh's mner struggle began. He would have to ec1 e between taymg a t USO and gomg "home" to USF. "It's going to be a tough decision for me " he said "I honestly don't know what I'm gomg to do." ' · It was a subject he would avoid and a decision he could de!,ay as long as the Toreros kept their run alive. The. playe~~ have read all the stuff in the papers," ~rovell1 said, but what this team was doing was most 1mportant to me. It was totally unfair to be distracted and I wouldn't Jet it happen. Until the season was completed, I couldn'.t think of anything else" It will be a particularly tough decision for Brovelli beca11Se the 1983-84 season was the culmination of years of ground-work and four years of struggle at the Division I level. .. "This was the best team I've ever coached," he said. Not Just because of the record, but because the togetherness was so unique " . Brovelli's goal at the b gmmng of the season was sunply to 1~prove, something he'd accomplished in each of the previous years. When the Toreros began Division I play m 1979-80. they were 6-19. They improved to 10-16, 11 -15and 12-H. Not too spectacular. but steady. "My plan was to build a good strong foundation " he sai~, "a foundation that would be there for a long p~riod of t~e. I could see the improvement, but we hadn't had a wmrung season and 1t was getting to be like a gorilla on our backs. When we won our 14th game this year, which Please see USD, Pace 28

ever got close to him," Switzer said of Dupree, now a ,;_______....;:,_____________ member of the USFL's New Orleans Breakers. "Tried and

USD Continued from PaJe IA assured us of a winning season, we caught fire and took off." Th Torero finished their season with an 18-10 record and finally got the attention of a city that had Ignored them. And that, m part, complicates Brovelli's upcoming IOn. would be tough to leave this school for a lot of ns." he said. "The administration is as good as you ~ss1bly have in terms of being interested and rtive and realistic. It's like the whole university is growmg together and the basketball team is only part of ll" The basketball team certainly attracted attention to th university. The basketball players-eight of whom are on the WCAC All-Academic team-brought to light USD's high academic standards. "And," Brovelli said, "we don't sacrifice admissions standards for athletics. I'd love to have a couple of C ~udents, but the guidelines were set by the administra- tion and we follow them." Brovelli will talk about the building of the basketball te3i:n, then n~te th t the u v ty completing a new busm s admm1stralion building and a new library and IS about to start work on a new student union. The building of the team, of course, is of particular interest. "We wanted to establish a good strong foundation for a long ~riod of time," h~ said. "I didn't think you could build qU1ckly, and I didn t try. It something just to win it (the WCAC title) in the fifth year. Santa Clara's never won it, Portland's never won it and Gonzaga's never wont. We'll sustain it now." Star forward Mike Whitmarsh and super-sub John Prunty are the only losses to graduation, but they are ubstantial losses. "We'll be a different type of team without Mike" BrQvelli said. "We revolved around Mike this year. The chemistry will be different without him." Brovelli's shopping list includes a forward and a point guard. Center Scott Thompson, power forward Anthony Reuss and guards Chris Carr and Mark Bostic return. ~Chris did a mce job for us at point guard," Brovelli said, "but he'd never played the position before. He'll be better as an off•guard. Anthony Reuss is coming into his own and Scott Thompson will be more of a factor with a year's experience. He's the first genuine center we've ever had." Whitmarsh, according to Brovelli's thinking, has a chance to make it in the National Basketball Assn. "Mike would have to go to the right system" Brovelli said. ' fhe's fortunate to do that, you never kn'ow." sup

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USDJ)oes Care About Bas~etball Cahil ants to Keep Brovelli, Newspaper Story Stll'S Students

By DA VE DISTEL, Times Staff Writer SA • DIEGO-The University of San Diego may be new to the glare of basketball spotlight, but 1th adapted rather quickly in terms of mtens1ty of interest. . On the day after the Toreros returned from their first NCAA playoff appearance, interest manifested itself in two ways: . -Father Patrick Cahill, USD's director of athlet- ics, immediately began a quiet campaign to keep Coach Jim Brovelli from leaving the Toreros. -And irate students made it known that a reporter assigned by The Times to cover USD's reaction to Tuesday night's telecast from Philadelphia missed a vocal gathering of 500 students on camp11S and reported mstead that there was little excitement. In their own ways, Cahill quietly and the students with great umbrage, made a point. They care. USO reached rather giddy athletic heights in the

last couple of weeks. beginning with the driv_e to its first West Coa t Athletic Conference champ1onsh1p and ending with the 65-56 loss to Princeton in the NCAA preliminary round. If 1983-84 had to end in Philadelphia, the future has to begin here in San Diego. In the aftermath of such a season, Brovelli has become an mcreasingly hot commodity as a coach. When a university comes from seemmgly nowhere to a taste of prominence, other universities mvariably take note of the man at the top. It has already been wntten that USF is interested in luring Brovelli back to his alma mater to restart the basketball program. But USF may not be Brovel!J's only suitor. 'Tm afraid more than JIISt USF will be after him," Please see USD, PaJe 17

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BARBARA MARTIN / Loo A In TUnel Coach Jim Brovelli is a man Patrick Cahill wants to keep.

Continue rom a1e JI said. ''H 's be n known as su<'h a good coach w h n our conference. but now he's gotten so much d h " I not r1 ty aroun t e country C 111 und rstands th emotions th t would be In Jved should Brov lli g t the expected offer from ' rov Ill's roots are m the Bay Area. where he w nt to St. Ignallu High School and USF. But, I know he love 1l here," Cahill said. "I have ev ry hope he'll remain with us. And, frankly, I thmk w ca keep him." Brovclli has only a one-year contract, but Cahill does n t think that should bother him. "Everybody here has a one-year contract," Cahill said. "In as ns•'. though. Jim has a long-term contract and h do n't nc d 1t m writing He knows 1t. He !<~?ws th p ct we have for him as a coach and a person. elh. who ft Thursday morning for Uie state r co le c tourn ment in Fresno. has not yet met Dor U F to d1sc11Ss the future. W realize 1t has to b settled," Cahl.11 said ' The kids h r ru1tlng will want to know what Is gomg on." . And U o·s students were wondenng what was gomg on when they read The Times Wednesday mormng The first thing they told me when we got off the plan wa not to believe what was m the paper," Cahill . }t- was r ported that the Toreros' game agamst Princeton cau ed "little excitement" on campus because I ts were oncentratmg on their studies. In a m ur of the mtercst b sketball has created among D student.'!, a number of them called The Time o prote t that they were not concentrating on th r studies dunng the game Tuesday mght. 'W had 500 people watchmg th game on a Jarg .screen tclev1s1on m the M1 10n Crossroads,'' one c complam d "~'ire mar hals had to close the doo Th M1 10n Crossroads 1s an activity center on c mpu The r port r had apparently v1s1ted a dorm1to- r l11ch had been emptted by students gomg else- r lo watch the game A mo t of the kids left the campus because they nt d top rty," Cahill said "We have a dry campus, th kid had to go omcwhere else 1f they wanted to tch th game and have a beer." Con qucntly according to another caller, a couple of " t at" saloon ne1ghbormg the campu were p c (I with sturlc-nt-fans. 'Th tory r ad llke we didn't care," a student said, ' d II( do '

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Tuesday, March 20, 1984

Days of decision are upon Toreros and their coach

to name its coach by May 1, but no talks have yet been scheduled for Brovelli and USF officials. Rev. Cahill says he intends to meet with Brovelli and do whatever is possible to keep the Toreros' coach of 11 seasons at Alcala Park. "Brovelli has brought us from the backroads to the spotlight," said Cahill. "The students and the faculty of the school love the man. Yes, we are going to try our best to keep him." Meantime, there is some celebrating to do. Brovelli is planning a team banquet. "It (the banquet) won't be a huge affair," said Brovelli. "It will be a team gathering and friendly, low key." Clearly, part of the USO tradition.

Toreros have signed a high school forward, Steve Moser, from Los Angeles. USD also needs a forward who can play now, to take up some of the slack left by the graduation of WCAC player of the year Mike Whitmarsh. He and four-year letterman guard John Prunty are among four departing seniors. "It's amazing how much better-known we are now than we were a year ago," said Brovelli. If Brovelli does decide to leave USO, he would seek to take his top aide of six seasons, John Cosentino, with him. But Cosentino, a native San Diegan, would probably seek the No. 1 USO position and would have Brovelli's strong recommendation. Time has become a factor In any decision. USF wants

tinuation of Farmer's services. Those same rumors say Brovelli also would be a favorite at Stanford. Broveili continues to say little, other than, "The time has come to sit down and discuss the possibilities." After paying a visit to the state junior college tourna- ment in Fresno, Brovelli enjoyed a weekend off at home for the first time since November. This is where the decision process begins. The possibility of returning to San Francisco is just one of the decisions facing Brovelli. At the moment, his biggest concern remains USO. He is in the middle of recruiting. There is a point guard from a junior college in Arizona who is No. 1 on the Toreros' list and appears ready to commit to USO. Already, the

By Bill Center, Starr Writer The games are over. Now is the time of decision for the University of San Diego's basketball program. Losing to Princeton in the opening round of the NCAA playoffs was a disappointment for the Toreros, but it would be a minor setback compared to the loss of head coach Jim Brovelli. Brovelli is being courted by his alma mater, the Uni- versity of San Francisco. Recently, USO athletic director Rev. Patrick Cahill said that more than one school might be interested In Brovelli's services. There are rumors In the Bay Area that Stanford's Dr. Tom Davis is waiting in the wings just in case Larry Farmer and UCLA can't agree on the con-

SAN DIEGO UNION MAR 2 l 1984

LOS ANGELES TIMES MAR 2 l 1984

THE TRIBUNE MAR 2 l 1984 SanDiego Notepad

REGULAR-SEASON GAME

USD Loses SCBA Opener to Waves SAN DIEGO-The University of San Diego opened play in the Southern California Baseball Assn. at Alcala Park Tuesday with a 5-3 loss to Pepperdine. Martin Montano led the Waves with a solo home run in the first inning and a two-run homer in the fiftl). He also pitched thew final 1 ½ innings to get the save for Pepperdine (20-8 overall and3-2in the SCBA). John Slaught's two-run triple in the second inning provided the Toreros with an early 2-1 lead. Greg Bertrand took the loss for USO (13-15-1). The Torercs continue league play Friday at home against Cal Sta .e Long Beach at 2:30 p.m.

Peppenline 5, USD 3 - Martin Montao collected three RBI on two home runs and earned a save in the Southern California Baseball Association opener for both clubs I John Slaught smacked a two-run triple i~ the second inning to put USO (13-lS-l) ahe~d but 17th ranked Pepperdine (20- 8) talhed three runs in the fifth inning, two eommg on a Montano home run.

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Despite a two-run triple by Torero John Slaugbt in the second inning, Pep- perdine came back to hand the Univer- sity of San Diego a 5-3 defeat yesterday in the Southern California Baseball As- sociation opener for both teams. Martin Montao hit two borne runs and drove in three runs for the Waves (20-8), ranked 17th nationally. USD dropped to 13-15-1.

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