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Weep no more
for Kentucky
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI) — Weep no
more my lady for the Kentucky
basketball team.
The Wildcats went so much
further than even their most
ardent supporters could have
expected that losing to UCLA in
the NCAA finals distracts only
a tad from their finest season
in many years.
The Wildcats won four games
in the NCAA playoffs, and
that’s all it would have taken in
past years to win the whole ball
of wax. And, don’t forget, that
included beating the nation’s
top-ranked team, previously
unbeaten Indiana.
A lot of people felt Kentucky
had the size and depth
necessary to beat UCLA and
the Wildcats almost pulled it
off.
In retrospect, the Wildcats
probably would like to turn
back the clock to 6:23 left in
their game with UCLA.
That was the moment when,
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having reduced a 10-point
deficit to just one point (76-75),
Kentucky had two free throws
coming up, the second a
technical, and were to get the
ball out of bounds at mid-court
afterwards.
If Kevin Grevey, the star
Kentucky senior who scored 34
points in the finals, had made
the two free throws and the
Wildcats could have followed up
with a field goal, they’d have
had a three-point lead.
Instead, Grevey missed both
of his tries, the Wildcats lost
the ball on a turnover, and
UCLA took advantage to widen
its lead to three points.
That six-point turnaround
marked the end for Kentucky.
But, as stated earlier, waste
no tears for the Wildcats. The
year before, Kentucky had
posted a 13-13 mark, only the
second time in more than 40
years that the Wildcats hadn’t
had a winning record.
Joe Hall, the man who
succeeded Adolph Rupp, went
out last spring and rounded up
five outstanding high school
prospects, including three who
were 6-foot-10 or bigger.
All five of those freshmen
played in the NCAA finals.
Hall rotated those three big
men —Rick Robey, Mike
Phillips and Dan Hall. A fourth
freshman, 6-5 Jack Givens had
been the star of Kentucky’s
semifinals victory over Syracu
se. And the fifth, 6-6 James
Lee, also saw action.
One has to believe that
Kentucky will have another
outstanding team next season,
especially if Hall decides to use
Robey and Phillips at the same
time as double pivots.
UCLA has been in a class by
itself the past 12 years. Winning
10 national championships in
that span is a record that
probably will stand forever.
But the Kentucky Wildcats
have done pretty well them
selves with four championships
and two second-place finishes
over the past 28 years, winning
the Southeastern Conference
title 18 times in that span.
Going all the way to the
NCAA finals has to be
especially gratifying for Joe
Hall. A former Rupp assistant
who played on the Kentucky
team that won the NCAA
championship in 1949, Hall was
a man on the spot when he
succeeded Rupp three years
ago.
His first team won the SEC
championship but lost to
Indiana in the Mideast Region
als and when his second team
only broke even there were
cries for Hall’s scalp from
alumni long accustomed to
Rupp’s winning ways.
This past season not only
saved Hall’s job, it got his
contract extended for at least
four more years. It also
brought Hall part of the way
from under the Rupp shadow.
You won’t find Hall crying
about that loss to UCLA. He’s
too happy about the good things
that happened to Kentucky
basketball this year.
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Wooden’s successor
CHAMPAIGN, Ill.—Gene Bartow, head basketball coach at University of Illinois, has been
named head coach at UCLA succeeding the legendary John Wooden. Here, in a picture
made in January, Bartow was concetraitlng on the court actions of his mini in a game
against Northwestern U. Behind Bartow is Audle Matthews, one of Bartow’s prize recruits
for the 1974-75 season—Bartow’s first at Illinois. Bartow finished with an 8-18 season here.
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Griffin-LaGrange
game postponed
The Griffin-LaGrange base
ball game scheduled for this
afternoon has been postponed.
Coach Bobby Gene Pierce
called off the game this mor
ning after heavy rains yester
day and last night left the field
in terrible condition.
The Griffin coach hopes to
reschedule the game for April
22 or April 24.
Griffin already has four
games next week.
The Bears, who are 5-0 overall
and 1-0 in the subregion, are
now scheduled to open the home
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Flames
The Atlanta Flames are still hanging on in the race for a |
playoff berth in the National Hockey League’s Division
One. Atlanta beat the Toronto Maple Leaf s 3-0 last night in
Toronto to move within two points of the third-place New
York Rangers and within three points of the second place
New York Islanders. The Flames and the Islanders have
two games left and the Rangers three.
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The Atlanta Hawks have given Coach Cotton
Fitzsimmons a new three-year contract. Fitzsimmons’
salary will be in excess of 60-thousand dollars a year. The
Hawks play their final game of the season Saturday night
in Washington. Their record is a disappointing 31-and-50 |
but youth and injuries have contributed to that record.
I Braves
The Atlanta Braves lost again yesterday a 1-0 decision
| in 12 innings to the Baltimore Orioles in West Palm Beach,
| Florida. The winning run scored on a suicide squeeze bunt
| by Tim Nordbrook that brought in Don Baylor. The loss
| was Atlanta’s 17th in 25 games in Grapefruit League play.
| The Braves end their exhibition season today against their
| Richmond farm club.
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Season ticket sales for the Atlanta Falcons have |
dropped 12-thousand, 564 this year. Ticket manager Bill
| Brokaw says the official season ticket count for this fall is
42-thousand, 436 the third lowest total in the Falcons’ 10-
year history. The decline follows a disappointing season in
which Atlanta won only three of 14 games.
season Monday against Forest
Park.
Joe McGee is slated to pitch.
CARDS ACQUIRE INMAN
ST. LOUIS (UPI) - The St.
Louis Football Cardinals
Wednesday acquired veteran
center Ken Iman from the Los
Angeles Rams in exchange for
an undisclosed draft choice.
Iman, a native of St. Louis
who attended Southeast Mis
souri State at Cape Girardeau,
has started 140 straight games
at center for the Rams.
Raceway
improvements
are planned
TALLADEGA, Ala. (UPI) -
A $200,000 expansion project at
the Alabama International
Motor Speedway will benefit
spectators and news media
attending the May 4 Winston
500, track officials said Wednes
day.
The expansion program
began last year and will be
completed in time for the
$176,410 race, said track gener
al manager Don Naman,
There is a new traffic-parking
system in the infield which
prohibits cars, recreational
vehicles and trucks from
parking along the backstretch
of the 2.66-mile tri-oval track,
he said.
“This will provide better
viewing from all 65,000 grand
stand seats,” Naman said.
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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 3,1975
Bulldogs sign eager
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - The
University of Georgia athletic
department announced Wednes
day the signing of Mark
Slonaker, a point guard from
Rahway (N.J.) High School to a
basketball grant-in-aid.
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was a three-year starter for
Rahway, averaging 10 points
and 10 rebounds per game last
season, while leading his team
to a 23-5 record and ninth place
in the state.
Slonaker shot 50 per cent
from the field and 75 per cent
from the free throw line.