Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 160, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 March 1984 — Page 6

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, March 13,1984

Four Putnam County boys named to AII-WCC team

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Co-champions Greencastle and Edgewood were joined by Danville in placing two players on the All-West Central Conference high school boys basketball team selected by the 10 coaches Sunday. Greencastle and Edgewood officially finished as 8-1 cochampions, however other official statistical leaders won’t be announced until next week when compiled by Danville High School Athletic Director and WCC statistician Roland Fletcher.

NCAA tickets are on sale Tickets for the NCAA Division 111 final four basketball tournament in Grand Rapids, Mich, go on sale Wednesday morning at the DePauw University Athletic Department in Lilly Physical Education and Recreation Center. Tickets will be $3 for a single-session or $6 for a season, or two-session, pass. Clark College will play Upsala at 6:35 p.m. Friday night at Calvin College and DePauw takes on Wisconsin-Whitewater in the 8:35 p.m. second game. The two first-night winners play for the national championship Saturday night at 8:35 p.m. The consolation game is at 6:35 p.m. Tiger T alk Wednesday DePauw University basketball coach Mike Steele will analyze Saturday night’s 98-49 NCAA quarterfinal victory over Lemoyne-Owen and preview this weekend’s trip to the NCAA Division 111 final four during Wednesday’s Tiger Tajk. The luncheon is open free to the public and will be held in the Student Memorial Union Building. Those attending should bring their own lunch. Steele will try to field questions about the victory, the coming tournament and maybe the NCAA Division I tournament pairings that were announced Sunday. Sheriffs to play For DePauw University Tiger fans who can’t make the big show in Grand Rapids, Mich, this weekend, the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department will play host to their own big show at 7 p.m. Friday, at Lilly Center. Admission is by donation. The department will again play in a charity basketball game to benefit the Leukemia Society of Indiana. Proceeds from the lollipop, refreshment and ticket sales will be donated to the society in the name of former Putnam County sheriff’s deputy David Webber who died of the disease on Dec. 27,1981 at the age of 29. Both the sheriff’s department team and their arch rival the Roachdale Optimists will play one 20-minute game each against the DePauw University fraternity Phi Kappa Psi. Winners and losers of those contests will play two 20-minute rounds. A former member of the Roachdale Optimists, Webber was a 1971 graduate of North Putnam High School. Registration set Registration for the 1984 Greencastle Little League season will be held March 19 and 20 in the Greencastle High School cafeteria from 5:30p.m. toß:3op.m. each night. Boys age seven through 12 by Aug. 1, 1984 are eligible to participate. If prospective players can not make either night of registration the parent or guardian should contact Jim Amis (653-6245) or Janice Johnson (653-9545) prior to the registration dates. No late registrations will be accepted without prior approval.

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MIKE COOPER and Jim Hunter represent Greencastle’s co-championship while Edgewood has Mickey Jacobs and Jay Brown on the 12-player squad. Danville’s 5-4 conference effort is represented by Jon Rader and Nick Webb. South Putnam’s Mike McHugh and Cloverdale’s Brian Scott are the only other Putnam County players to earn all-WCC honors. South Putnam and Cascade were the only two league schools to capture sectional championship during the IHSAA state tournament and Kent Fisher represents the

Standings TEAM RECORD Greencastle 8-1 Edgewood 8-1 Cascade 8-3 Danville 3-4 Owen Valley 5-4 Cloverdale 4-5 Tri-West 4-5 Monrovia 3-8 North Putnam 1-8 South Putnam 1-8 Cadets’ 6-3 league effort for the season. Owen Valley, who tied with Danville for fourth place at 5-4, is represented by Greg Wright. Tri-West placed Ted Gillin on the squad and Monrovia’s Doug

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Coaching his final home basketball game, DePaul University coach Ray Meyer (left) was honored during pre-game ceremonies and now retired UCLA coach John Wooden made one of the presen-

College coaches now scout at home

By MALCOLM MORAN c. 1984 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Barbara Mahoney was immediately aware of the consequences of the birthday gift she gave her husband, Brian, last December. She had been married to a basketball coach for too long to have any doubts. For two years, cable television had been available to the residents of Rockville Centre, N.Y. For all that time, Brian Mahoney, ans assistant coach at St. John’s University, wanted the cable installed in their home. His wife said nothing doing. But basketball coaches are a resourceful lot, and Mahoney knew that his mother-in-law, who lives nearby, had the cable. So every now and then he would mention to his wife that it had been a very long time since they had visited her mother - it had been a day or two, at least -- and off he would go. Barbara Mahoney teaches gifted children. She is nobody’s fool. “He was always at my mother’s,” she said. “People would call, and he’s at my mother’s, and I’m home.” So last December, not long before her husband’s birthday, Barbara Mahoney broke down and had cable television installed as a surprise gift. In the middle of the night, when their infant daughter, Christine, would begin to cry, Brian Mahoney would ge perform his fatherly duties. “And he wouldn’t come back,” Barbara said. He would sit in the den, in the glow of the television, with the baby and her bottle and a pad of paper. He would study basketball teams that were appearing in his home through the magic of cable television and videotape, all night long. He was collecting information. There is no month of the basketball year when information is more valuable than it is during the month of March. Beginning yesterday, when the pairings were announced for the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament and the National Invitation Tournament, some basketball teams were as few as 48 hours away from a game that would extend, or end, their season. Some of these games would match teams against an unfamiliar opponent from an obscure conference from a faraway part of the country. Since there is no formalized arrangement to exchange films, as football teams have traditionally done, any insight is more difficult to discover and more valuable to possess. Do they like to run? Do they use a deliberate style? Do they press? What kind of press? Do they depend on five players? Seven? Ten? Who is the shooter? Who can’t make the important foul shots? Do they prefer a zone defense? Man-to-man? Combination? The information has become that much more valuable with the growth of so many more competitive programs, the emergence of more lesser-known conferences whose champions receive automatic bids to the NCAA field, and the policy of sending teams all over the nation to achieve competitive balance in each of the four regions. The process of gaining that information, however, has become so much simpler in the last decade with the spread of cable television and the development of the home video recorder. Coaches who were once forced to depend on the reports of independent scouting services can now see for themselves, in their offices, or in a den at home at 3 o’clock in the morning. Or at any hour. When St. John’s defeated Georgetown last month and immediately took a bus back to New York, Brian Mahoney arrived home at 4:15 a.m. At 4:30, he was in the den, watching a replay of the game that lasted until 6:30. He showered, laid down for a short while, returned to the television, and watched another replay of the same game. At 11 o’clock, he collected his things to leave the house. “He said, ‘I have to go to school,’ ”his wife remembered. “I said, ‘What do you have to go to school for? ’

Wells was also selected. North Putnam is the only team not represented. IT’S A SENIOR dominated squad, as expected. Greencastle’s Cooper, Cloverdale’s Scott, Owen Valley’s Wright and Tri-West’s Gillin are the only three juniors and there were none younger. Edgewood’s Jacobs and Owen Valley’s Wright are also the only two repeat selections. Wright could make the squad three straight years, pending his senior performance. Cooper averaged 25.6 points per game during the regular

tations. Wooden, known as the Wizard of West Wood, retired with a national championship in 1975, just as Meyer would like to end his 42-year coaching career. (AP wirephoto).

season for 14-7 Greencastle. The six-foot guard reached double figures in every game with four games of 30 or more points and a season-high 34 points coming against Terre Haute North. He scored 33 against Brazil. HUNTER averaged 12.3 points per game for Greencastle while playing center. Unofficially he was the Tiger Cubs’ leading rebounder, pulling down a season-high 18 rebounds against South Putnam during the second meeting of the regular season. The 6-3 senior also scored a career-high 30 points in that game.

“He said, ‘I have to watch a tape of the game.’ ” She had to laugh. “That’s a sickie,” she said. But she knew it was all her doing, for being such a thoughtful wife, for providing such a nice birthday surprise. “I hope he takes his surprise well when I take it out,” she said. Coaches usually hold one of two approaches to a tournament game against a little-known opponent. One group, which includes John Wooden, who won 10 national championships at UCLA, maintains that the fundamental skills of his team are more important than anything an opponent will do. The other group, which includes Ray Meyer of DePaul, tries to learn as much about an opponent as possible. “It’s nice to say, ‘We’re going to play our game,’ ” Meyer said, “but I don’t think we’ve got that kind of talent. When we’ve had two or three days of preparation, we’re a better team. In the NCAA, you find out on Thursday who you’re going to play on Saturday, and you travel to the site, and you only have one hour. ” Fourteen years ago, when A 1 McGuire was the coach of a highly ranked Marquette team, he devised a different approach. He knew hardly anything about his opponent. There were extenuating circumstances. Marquette turned down an NCAA bid that year in favor of a trip to New York for the NIT, the last team to do so The Warriors had been assigned to a Midwest regional game at Houston, and McGuire, feeling that his team deserved a spot in the Mideast, refused to go. A rule now makes acceptance of a bid mandatory, but then, the Warriors went off to New York. McGuire thought that for the first round, at least, he would have nothing to worry about. His team was matched against the University of Massachusetts. McGuire had a report but paid little attention to it. “I figured because of doing the NIT a favor, they’re giving me a cupcake,” he remembered. “Before the game, I said, ‘Let’s just go out there and blow ’em out in the first half, and let ’em back in the second half to make it look good.’ ” That was not the way the game developed. After 10 minutes the teams were almost even, and one Massachusetts player, a sophomore, was doing remarkable things. “He was killing us by himself,” McGuire said. “ By himself.” McGuire was livid. He turned to Hank Raymonds, his assistant and eventual successor. “And I said, ‘Who the hellis that guy,” McGuire remembered. He confessed that those were not exactly the words he chose. “I had no idea,” he remembered. “No idea in the world. We were thinking we’ve got East Cupcake.” He could be forgiven for his oversight. Marquette escaped with a 7-point victory, its closest in a tournament that included Pete Maravich’s LSU team. Freshmen did not play on varsity teams then, so the Massachusetts sophomore was in his first season. McGuire was not the only one to overlook him, since the player had not been highly recruited when he played for Roosevelt High School on Long Island. In March, 1970, Julius Erving was just beginning to earn his basketball doctorate. A little information can help a lot. Near the end of the 1943 season, Meyer’s first at DePaul, the Blue Demons approached a game against a highly-ranked Kentucky team that had beaten Notre Dame a month before. The only aid Meyer had was a telephone and Moose Krause, a friend from Meyer’s days as a player at Notre Dame. “He said, ‘Can those two guards shoot the ball,’ ” Meyer remembered last week, at the beginning of his 42d and last March as the DePaul coach. “Ticco and Akers. I’ll never forget those two.” Milton Ticco and Marvin Akers were seniors on the 1943 Kentucky team. Armed with his information, Meyer had an idea. He devised a defense around George Mikan, his huge center, that limited the two guards and helped DePaul beat the Wildcats. “You never think of things like that,” Meyer said. “It was an ac-

McHugh did a little bit of everything for South Putnam this season while averaging 13.3 points. The 6-1 senior scored a season high 26 against West Vigo. He came on with a 20point performance in South Putnam’s sectional championship game victory over Van Buren, the school’s first title since 1977. Scott led Cloverdale with an 11.2 average this season, turning into the primary offensive threat for the 8-13 squad during the second half of the season. The six-foot junior scored season-highs of 23 points against Van Buren in the sectional

WCC girls repeat

By STEVE FIELDS Banner-Graphic Sports Editor Led by three-time selection Kathy Woodall, six players were named to the All-West Central Conference high school girls basketball team for no less than the second time by the 10 league coaches Sunday. Greencastle and Tri-West shared the 10-team league title with identical 8-1 records and were among the four teams placing two players on the 12girl squad. Owen Valley is the only school not represented. ALONG WITH Tri-West’s Woodall, Cascade’s Cindy Bridges, Cloverdale’s Debbie Mann, Greencastle’s Shelley Hunter and Kim Sheldon and South Putnam’s Lea Ann Toney were all selected for the second time. Rounding out the team from Putnam County Cloverdale’s Suzanne Reid, North Putnam’s Jodi Pickel and South Putnam’s and Jami Flora. Also voted to the squad were Edgewood’s Tracy Headley, Monrovia’s Mary Lahrman and Tri-West’s Julane Chaney. Woodall, who was invited to participate in the Indiana High

All-WCC boys

Player and school Kent Fisher, Cascade Brian Scott, Cloverdale Jon Rader, Danville Nick Webb, Danville Jay Brown, Edgewood Mickey Jacobs, Edgewood* Mike Cooper, Greencastle Jim Hunter, Greencastle Doug Wells, Monrovia Greg Wright, Owen Valley* Mike McHugh, South Putnam Ted Gillin, Tri-West 'Repeat member*

School girls all-star tryout camp last week, led the league with a 19.8 scoring average. GREENCASTLE’S Sheldon could become a three-time AllWCC player. The six-foot junior finished fourth in the league with a 15.5 scoring average. Cloverdale’s Mann might be a future four-time selection. The sophomore earned her second All-WCC spot with a 15.2 scoring average for the third place Clovers. South Putnam’s Toney also carried a 15.2 scoring average

All-WCC girls

Player and school Cindy Bridges, Cascade* Debbie Mann, Cloverdale* Suzanne Reid, Cloverdale Tracy Headley, Edgewood Shelley Hunter, Greencastle* Kim Sheldon, Greencastle Mary Lahrman, Monrovia Jodi Pickel, North Putnam Lea Ann Toney, South Putnam* Jami Flora, South Putnam Julane Chaney, Tri-West Kathy Woodall, Tri-West* 'Repeat member*

cident. I was just talking to Moose Krause. I remember at the end of the game, those two would look at the basket, and look at Mikan, and shake their heads.” More than four decades later, after jet travel and television made scouting a breeze, Meyer’s preparation for this year’s game against FTinceton was complicated when Jim Molinari, an assistant who also works as an attorney, lost his notes. But usually, Meyer has access to more information than he wants. “We have a lot of help coaching,” he said. “One guy sent me a 41-page, single-spaced letter, and it said, ‘More to come.’t” Part of the excitement of this month, though, is the fact that information does not guarantee any victories. Five seasons ago, Lamar University advanced to a second-round game in the Mideast regional against Michigan State. The day before the game, Billy Tubbs, the Lamar coach who is now at Oklahoma, joked that his scouting report on the Spartans consisted of having read a magazine article. Still, Tubbs knew what his players had to do, and he told them: Watch Magic Johnson. The next day, after a 31-point loss to the eventual national champion, Tubbs said his players had done just that. “They came in at halftime,” Tubbs said, “and said, ‘He’s playing a helluva game.’ ” In the 1930 s and 19405, when the game stepped into the bright lights of Madison Square Garden and Chicago Stadium and both postseason tournaments grew, coaches began to find they needed more information. At first, much of it came from coaching friends via telephone When Frank McGuire coached at St. John’s, he and Buck Freeman, his assistant, would get on extensions and write everything down. “Buck Freeman used to watch the other guys warming up,” McGuire said, “seeing whether they were right-handed or lefthanded, or watch their form, and then go back to the lockerroom and make the matchups.” Sometimes McGuire would ridethe train to see games in Philadelphia with Nat Holman, the City College coach. Holman kept files on teams just in case they became opponents. By the mid- 19405, he convinced his school’s administration to invest some money for films. “The clubs were all coming in to New York,” he said. “There were real hot doubleheaders coming in. I’d have a budget put aside so they’d make films of the games.” He estimated that the college spent between $65 and $75 to film each of eight or nine games. He used the films for scouting and when the season was over, they were used for alumni meetings. Four decades later, in an office in South Bend, Ind., Digger Phelps, the Notre Dame coach, discovered a new form of coaching burnout. Not him. His machine. Phelps had worked out a system in which he could analyze a two-hour game within 45 minutes. “I just punish the machine,” he said. Phelps would fast-forward right through all the introductions, the timeouts and the foul shots and concentrate on the half-court play. During the past Christmas vacation, he played so many tapes so quickly in such a short period of time that suddenly the machine could take no more. “Machines are not made for what I want to do,” Phelps said. Thirty-four years after Holman’s City College team became the only one to win an NCAA and NIT championship in the same year,he can watch more basketball than ever. “I find myself today, at the age of 39,” he said, pausing to let his joke take effect, “at almost 1:15 in the morning, and I’m watching the basketball games from the Coast. And I’m interested. And I say, it’s certainly in the old boy’s blood.” He is not alone. Last Thursday night, after St. John’s defeated Boston College by a point in the Big East tournament, Barbara Mahoney went home while her husband went to the team’s hotel. “I got in about 20 after 12,” she said. “I went directly to the den. A tape of the game was coming on, and I watched the whole thing. Now that’s sick. This sickness is catching."

Ht. Cl. Pos. 6-3 12 F 6-0 11 F 6-0 12 F 5- 12 G 6-2 12 F 5-10 12 G 6-0 11 G 6-3 12 C 6- 12 F 6-4 11 F 6-1 12 F 5-10 11 G

to earn a second All-Conference honor. Standings Team Record Greencastle 8-1 Tri-West 8-1 Cascade* 6-2 Cloverdale 6-3 South Putnam 5-4 North Putnam* 4-4 Edgewood 3-6 Monrovia 3-6 Danville 1-8 Owen Valley 6-9 ’DM not play each other

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