USD Football 1993

TOUCHDOWN ILLUSTRATED Basketball Preview

Ellen though Bo/; Knight has a team packed with talent, Indiana needs a 7,calthy Alan Henderson to get the Hoosiers back to the show.

Crystal City. He was an assistant on Lou Campanelli's staff at Cal when, on Feb. 8, 1993, Campanelli was fired for what Cal athletic director Bob Bockrath said was verbal and psycho- logical abuse of his players. Bozeman became coach, mentor and friend to Cal's players. He encountered resent- ment from his co ll eagues who refused to shake his hand after games because they thought Campanelli got a raw deal. Cal removed Bozeman's interim status and named him head coach. Guard Jerod Haase is transfer- ring to Kansas, but Bozeman inherit- ed a roster of mostly freshmen and sophomores, and he has a chance to make a statement for West Coas t hoops. This much we know: the Kidd is a keeper. Marquette. T en years is a long time to stay away from the NCAA tournament, but that's how long it had been since the last appearance by Marquette. Seeded 12th in the Midwest Regional in March, the Warriors went into a first-round game against Oklahoma State at Indianapolis with a 20-7 record, but quickly exited. They lost 74-62. Last season Marquette sur- faced in the Associated Press poll for the first time since 1978-79. That was a high. The low was a 5-5 record down the stretch that almost cost Marquette its place in the NCAA tour- nament. The awarding of a place in the tournament bracket completed a huge turnaround for Marquette, who had a 16-13 mark in 1992. With four starters and the first four off the bench returning, the Warriors are in position to go even deeper into the NCAA tournament this season, not to mention what could be accomplished in the Great Midwest. Setting all this up was the arrival four years ago of 6- 8 Damon Key, 6-3 Robb Logerman and 7-1 Ji m Mcilvai ne. They'll be

championship game, but it really cuts to the quick when it happens the way it did." Time has a way of healing all wounds, and as the weeks turned into months, the bizarre finish in New Orleans was pushed into the back- ground by Fisher. Instead, he got ready for another season in the Big Ten, this one without Webber, who left school early for the NBA. Funny how recruiting goes. Fisher and his staff knew about King. Jackson, they learned, wore a Michigan cap to high school. One phone call and Michigan's coaches were hot on the trail of Jimmy Jam. That led to Fisher's Texas Connection and...well, you know the rest of the story. NCAA title games as Fab Freshmen and Fab Sophomores. Is that not achievement with a capital A? California. T hese Bears from the Bay Area were one of the NCAA tourna- ment's inspirations. Beating Louisiana State on an impossible shot by celebrated freshman Jason Kidd, only to hear LSU coach Dale Brown predict afterwa rd that Cal "didn 't have a prayer" against Duke. Beating Duke on a twisting, impossible shot by Kidd , who when later asked by someone what he would call it, said he had no idea. The Pretzel? How about if we just say he threw up a prayer? But the magic that Kidd knew so well would evaporate against Kansas in a 93-76 loss. The crash could be heard in Berkeley. It was especially hard on Todd Bozeman, who, at 29, was handed the team in the midst of a palace coup and went on to win 11 of 13 games. At the press conference fo ll owing the Kansas defeat, Bozeman was overwhelmed by his emotions. It was a gr ippin g moment for a man who five years ear- lier was delivering Federal Express packages in the Virginia town of

Jackson said of King, "I call him Jam. Jimmy Jam." Jimmy doesn't go any- where without Ray and Ray isn't seen without Jimmy. They're inseparable. So much so that it wasn't surprising they shared an apartment last season. And yet, although they both grew up in Texas, it wasn't until they shook hands on their first day at Michigan that they saw each other face-to-face. King played his high school ball in Plano, a suburb of Dallas. Jackson is from Austin, the home of the Texas Longhorns and golfer Tom Kite. But Jackson decided Texas wasn't for him when he could become part of a col- lection of standouts that arrived together as freshmen at Michigan. You remember: Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, "Money" and "Jimmy Jam." The Fab Five that reached two NCAA champions hip games but won neither. Webber prob- ably will be remembered for the inop- portune timeout he called in the 1993 title game against North Carolina. Michigan coach Steve Fisher lament- ed, "It's hard enough to lose in a