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Sunday, April 1, 1984

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Toreros dominate all-scholar unit

UC-Irvine buries the Toreros;

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USD's m ns basketball team topped the West Coa -t Athletic Conference in the cla sroom as well as on the court this sea on. The Toreros, who won their first conference title, also dominated the All•WCAC scholar athlete team. The 1:i-membcr squad features eight USO players. Heading the list are USD for- Y. ards I\-Iike Whitmarsh and Anthony Reuss, who earned spot:; on the conference all- tar unit as well. This marks the fourth con-

secutive year coach Jim Brovelli's cagers have had the most entrants on the scholastic team. All 13 of the scholar-athletes maintained at least a 3.0 grade point average this year. Whitmarsh, who paced the Toreros in scoring ( 18. 9 average), rebounding (7.4 average) and assists (6.2 average) while shooting 54 percent from the field, carries a 3.07 GPA. He is a political science major.

scholar-athlete squad for the third straight year. The junior carries a 3.5 GPA while averaging 11.9 points and 6.5 rebounds and shooting 62 per- cent from the field. reserve guard for USD, had the highest GPA on the the scholar-athlete team at 3.6. He is an accoun- ting major. Also representing USD on the team were .Mario Cor- on ado, Joe Fish, Steve Krallman, Eric Musselman and Nils Madden. John Prunty, a

UC-Irvine got off to a quick start and never looked back yesterday m its Southern California Baseball Association game against USD. The Anteaters got a two-nm homer from Bob Perry in . first inning and another two-nm blast from Steve Morgan in the third en route to a 9-4 victory over the Toreros at Irvine. USD's brother combination of Andre and David Jacas provided four hits (two apiece) in eight at-bats, but it wasn't enough for the Toreros, who could muster just two other hits and are 2-5 in association play. The Anteat- ers lead the league with a 4-1 record. USD's next game is Friday at 2:30 p.m. at home against Fullerton State. San Diego State's No. I-rated baseball team (42-7) has been idle since winning the Riverside lnvitational over the weekend. The Aztecs' next action is a four-game set against the University of Hawaii beginning Friday in Honolulu.

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COLLEGE BASEBALL K1~k Bates smacked a home run and Tom Thomas drove m two runs with a single ill a five-run eighth inning to lead .Cal State J:uller:ton to a 8-3 victory over the Umverstty of San Diego m Southern California Baseball Association action at Alcala Park. The Toreros (15-20-2) tied the game at 3-all in the sixth 1 inning when Bill Ismay, Tom Seyler and Eric Bennett hit ! consecutive singles leading to a three-run iMing.

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LOS ANGELES TIMES

D's Brovelli Will Be Named Coach at USF By DAV DI TEL, Times ta// Writer

By Bill Center Staff Wrller

and a Torero player said Brovelli told him 'Tm

USF recently adopted Brovelli's plan, which includes limiting recruiting to California, with

the program ... one that I grew up loving. I used to fall asleep at night listening to Bill Russell's games on the radio. USF is the school of 60 straight wins, Russell and Phil Woolpert. It was a top 10 team and can be again. "But it can be one the right way. Some of the best high school basketball in America is played in San Francisco and across the bay. All you have to do is recruit the best two players in the area each year and have a little patience. "If I go, it will be on my terms. We'll be clean, with high academic standards fitting the university. No more recruiting trips to South Carolina and Chicago." Continued from D-1 Brovelli will have one year to re-establish a program before USF begins playing in the 1985-86 season. The Dons will rejoin the WCAC. His first tasks will be to draft a schedule, recruit a full roster of players and draw guidelines for an overzealous booster group that has run roughshod over the last sever- al coaches. "A coach must draw guidelines that he'll allow no booster to cross," Brovelli said recently. "It's worked at USD, where we have shown you can win with the second- toughest (to Stanford) entrance requirements west of the Mississippi, a small gym and no television and radio con- tract. "You have to get the right players and work. "It's going to take five years. I have told USF that. I don't believe you can build overnight. You can go out and get players who will help you win overnight, but you can't build the foundation for a solid program in less than five years. There are no shortcuts. If you have the foundation, the program will last a lot longer without embarrassing the university. "That's the saddest thing to me: USF basketball embar- rassed the university. You can't skip the steps in be- tween." Brovelli had a 160-130 record at USD. His first six seasons with the Toreros were played at the Division II level where USO had 22-7, 20-7 and 19-7 seasons - twice going to the Division II playoffs - be- fore joining the WCAC and stepping up to the major university level in 1979-80. From a 6-19 record in its first season as a Division I school, USD improved steadily, although the Mike Whit- marsh-led team of 1983-84 was the first to post a winning record. "There might never be another season like this one," Brovelli said last week, "but the USD program is sound. It will be in good hands, no matter what happens.'' Assistant John Cosentino is expected to apply for the head coaching job at USD, with Brovelli's recommenda- tion. Earlier, when discussing a possible shift to USF, Brovelli said he hoped to take along his top two assist- ants, Cosentino and Dave Babcock. Cosentino has been Brovelli's top assistant and chief recruiter for six seasons. BROVELLI on Page D-8

going home."

Jim Brovelli, who took the University of San Diego from Division II to the NCAA playoffs in five years, will become head basketball coach at the University of San Francisco this morn- ing, The San Diego Union has learned. Brovelli capped an 11-year career at USD by winning the West Coast Athletic Conference title this season and advancmg to the NCAA tourney, where his Toreros lost 65-56 in the opening roUDd to Princeton. Brovelli could not be reached for comment. USD and USF officials would not comment on the report, but the San Francisco school has called a press conference for 10:30 this morning,

For Brovelli, home is San Francisco. the foUDdation being m the San Francisco Bay He grew up across Golden Gate Park from . area, and moving forward at a pace parallel to USF. After winning all-city honors at St. Igna- USD's. tius High, Brovelli enrolled at USF and earned Today ':he Dons will re-adopt Brovelli. All-West Coast honors as a guard in 1964. He Brovelb apparently was the only one among played in two NCAA tournaments with the the 125 applicants - including one-time Los Dons. Angeles Lakers coach Paul Westhead and Gary In the two years since USF dropped basket- Colson, the former UCLA coach now at New ball, after scandals involving guard Quintin Mexico - seriously considered by USF.

Dailey and a series of recruiting violations that put USF on probation, Brovelli has helped USF's president, the Rev. John Lo&hiavo, draft the format for the Dons' eventual return to the

"It's a great job, possibly the only one I would ever consider away from USD," Brovelli said recently, while discussing his options. USF of- fered Brovelli the job the first week of March. "It's a terrible shame what has happe o

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The Daily Californian APR 5

LOS ANGELES TIMES APR l 1984 Spirited USO Students

Brovelli headed for USF SAN FRANCISCO (APJ - The University of S.an Francisco, which , dropped its men's basketball program two years ago, will name University of San Diego Coach Jim Brovelli as its new coach for the 1985-86 season, a San Francisco newspaper reported this morning The Rev. Robert Sunderland, USF's athletic director, scheduled a 10:30 a.m. news conference today, and the San Francisco Chronicle said the announcement would be that Brovelh would be named to the coaching post. Brovelli, who was a hoop star before

Contlnu from Pa,.. 1 hp U D finl h d, in order. eighth, eventh sixth and fourth b for making th Jump to first m 1983 -84 ft r y ars of being a tepchlld nd The Other Team m Its own town, U Dwas suddenly m the spotlight. Th WCAC champion htp gam against St. Mary's, a 68-59 Tor ro wtn. dr w a fr nz1ed crowd to the U D 'port Center. Onward to th CAA playoff . U D played Prtnce on In Ph1ladclph1a' Pal tra and suffered a • -56 defeat Through II or the excttement of the stretch run lo the WCAC t tie- IX tr 1ght wins, includmg three on the r d-Brovelh wa ware that the USF dects1on would hav tobemad H trted to shove It into a corner of his mind , and he tr1 d toke p 1t off the players· minds. "It was totallv unfair lo be distracted." he said after the P inceton g · m . "and I wouldn't let it happen." With th d c1slon in front of him , he was candid about the emotions tuggmg at him· "It's gomg to be a tough d c1slon form . I honestly don't know wh t I'm going to do." ' H wa torn between the lure or rebuilding his alma m ,t r to Its p t prominence or staying at a umvers1ty which Ju t now seemed In a poslllon to en,oy prominence in th future llrovelh, who went to St. Ignatius High School in an Francisco, played for U F teams which won WCAC championship m 1963 and 1964. He was later elected to the U F Hall of Fame. Talk or USF basketball begins, of cour e, with the 1955 and 1~56 national champions starring Bill Ru ell and K C Jones. Tho are teams Brovelh remembers from his youth in San Franci co However, scandal wer to ht th USF program in the early 1 and th program was dismantled after the 1981-82 season. The university recenlly deeded to give its basketball program a fr h tart Il will field a team once agam for the 19 5 86 eason Brovelh. thus, will have a year in which to orgamze th program In term of r cru1llng and scheduling Jim Brov lit, in returning to San Franc1 co, proves you can take a man out of The City but you cannot take The City out of the man

I was quite puzzled by Tim Gillman's inaccurate representation of campus life at the University of San Diego residence halls durmg USD's first attempt at NCAA tournament play. ( "Students Bored by Big Game." Sports, ~Iarch 14.) :Unlike Gillman, I found our students to be quite spmted pnor lo, and during, the game. Apparently Gillman visited only one area of our campus housing complex. Within several hundred feet of the residence hall where he portrayed our stuC:ents as bemg "bored" by the game, nearly 150 USD fans gathered before a wide-screen television in our major lounge facility. These "bored" students were filmed by Channel 39 and were featured at the close of the local broadcast that evening. The residence area was anything but "sleepy." Perhaps Gillrr.an was not aware of this and other celebratory activities taking place throughout our resic!en~e halls (which hold some 1,350 students) and off campus. Further, Gillman larnentea the fact that our students were not "partying" during the game. He attributed this fact to midterm examinations taking place. I ~an assure you and your readers that us:, students are :imong the most socia!ly well adjusted I have ever seen. Like our outstanding basketball players. they manage to balance the academic constraints of attending a competitive university with a responsible approach to all extracur- ricular activity. As a member of the residence life staff at USD, not only _am I extremely proud cf the Toreros' unprecedent. ed. nse to national prominence, but equally of Olli' students' great support of their team and USD. JOHN A. TRIFILETTI Residence Director University of San Diego

Jim Brovelli graduating frorp USF in 1964, coached the University of San Diego to the West Coast Athletic Conference title this year. He has coached al that school for 11 years . \li'hen USF resumes its basketball program in 1985, it will be after a three-year self- imposed absence from the game The Rev John LoSchiavo, the school· s president, ordered the sport suspended in 1982 after three violations of NCAA rules in five years. :'

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Brovelli's heart still in San Francisco, and now so is his job By T.R. Reinman Tribune Sportswriter

a program from the groUDd up, to establish our own program," Brovelli said last night. "It'll take time, but I said that when we start- ed in Division I at USD.'' Brovelli, a native of San Francisco and alumnus of the University of San Francisco, has coached USD' basketball for the past 10 seasons. This year he led the Toreros to an 18- 10 record, the championship of the West Coast Athletic Conference and the NCAA tournament. Now he's headed to San Francisco, where he'll spend the next year setting up a sched- ule and recruiting players for the team that will begin play in the WCAC on Oet. 15, 1985, the first day of the 1985-86 season. USF dropped basketball after the scandal- ridden 1981-82 season. Guard Quintin Dailey

received a suspended sentence in an assault case, recruiting violations and financial ir- regularities involving players, the coaching staff and boosters were brought to light, and the program was dropped. "I'm not concerned about that hurting our program now," Brovelli said. "This is a brand new program with brand new people. Now and the future is all we're thinking about." But the past at USF is hard to forget. Bill Russell led the school to 60 straight wins and two consecutive national championships in 1955 and '56. The Dons won 15 WCAC titles in 30 years, had the league's best defense 13 times and best field-goal percentage nine times. Five of the 10 players on the WCAC Silver Anniversary team and its coach, Phil Woolpert, were from USF.

Two years ago, Brovelli was inducted into the USF Hall of Fame. He was the point guard with Ollie Johnson, Joe Ellis and Erwin Mueller on the 1963 and '64 teams that made the NCAA tournament. Last year he was the master of ceremonies at the USF Hall of Fame dinner. There were 125 applicants for the job. Gary Colson, once the Pepperdine coach and now at the University of New Mexico, was one. So was former NBA coach Paul Westhead. But m all likelihood the job was Brovelli's from the time last year when the university an- nounced it would restart the program. "People had talked informally about the possibility of my going up there on and off," Brovelli said, "but my application didn't go in until a couple of months ago."

Ironically, it was about that time that his USO team was beginning to hit its champion- ship season form. In his first five years at USD, the Toreros were in Division II, averaging 21 wins be- tween 1977 and 1979 and making the Division II Final Four in 1978. But it was clear to Brovelli that USD belonged in Division I, and the UDiversity upgraded its program in 1979- 80. Since then, the Toreros have improved their record each year. Next season, four starters and all but one of the key backups return. John Cosentino, Brovelli's assistant for the past six seasons, appears to be a prime candi- date to replace Brovelli. Neither Cosentino nor the Rev. Patrick Cahill, USD's athletic director, was available for comment.

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It was late at night, and his team had just lost its first-ever Division I NCAA tourna- ment game to Princeton in Philadelphia. Jim Brovelli was sitting with friends, talking about his season and his future. "There are only two places to be, San Diego and San Francisco," Brovelli said that night far from home. "I don't look forward to leav- ing San Diego." Today he left. He signed a five-year contract as head coach at the University of San Francisco, where he'll be charged with restarting the school's dormant basketball program. "It's a great opportunity to be able to build

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