FIVE GAMES REMAINING:
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By JEFF SCHILLER
Here's a short quiz for all you
would - be college basketball ex-
perts. In rapid succession, you
must answer the following four
questions:
Which major college conference
had the greatest number of teams
receiving votes in this week's AP
college poll? What conference has
the best total non-league winning
percentage? What conference'
draws the largest number of fans
to watch its teams play basket-
ball? In which conference are all
but one of the teams still fighting
for the league championship with
the season almost 2/3's gone?
If you answered the Western
Athletic Conference to all four
questions above, you either cheat-
ed and peeked at this story's head-
line or else you deserve a place in
Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
It's too bad. The statistics tell
an impressive tale. WAC teams
compiled a .677 non - conference
winning percentage this year In-
cluding victories over 12th rank-
ed USC, Big Ten contender Pur-
due, twice over Big Eight con-
tender Kansas State, and na-
tionally ranked Centennary and
Cincinnati.
Nor is basketball prowess a
stranger to the conference. Texas
El Paso is the only team to de=
prive UCLA of the national cham-
pionship in the past ten years.
Brigham Young has won the NIT
twice in the last ten seasons, and
the conference has produced such
pro hoop superstars as KC-Oma-
ha's Nate Archibald and Caro-
lina's Joe Caldwell.
, the wire services play a crucial
M o r e o v e r the confer- role.
ence championship races are "Our games are played too late
perennially among the nation's to get on the wire service reports
most exciting. Last year, for coming out of New York. So peo-
example, four teams entered the pie don't know our scores or how
league's final game with iden- good the teams really are."
tical 9-4 marks. j Doubtless there are other rea-
All of the games were decided sons as well. Part of the problem
in the final ten seconds by two stems from viewing Rocky Moun-
points or less with Arizona State tain teams as baseball (Arizona
emerging as the titleholder with State has produced Rick Mon-
a 10-4 record. day, Reggie Jackson, Sal Bando
e iand others) or occasionally foot-
This year it's no different. With ball - oriented, and as Johnny Orr
five games to go, the champion- will tell you it's tough for a sec-
ship could go to any of seven and sport to get a lot of publicity
teams - only Wyoming is out of nd mot toietaos.
the picture. At present,Arizona, Or as Wulk added, "There just
Arizona State, and Utah are tied araWkay e ,eTer rust
for the lead with New Mexico and wrent any news centers around
UTEP one game behind, and BYU where we play.
and Colorado State just twogames Whatever the reason, there's
off the pace. some good basketball being played
in the mountains. When Fred
Many coaches believe that 9-S: Snowden left Michigan for Arizona
will get a share of the title while last year, he took along Ann Ar-
10-4 will win the crown outright. bor Pioneer's Bob Elliot who
Why, then, is there a dearth had planned to enroll at Michigan.
of publicity about Western Ath- Elliot, a 6-10 freshman center, is
letic Conference basketball? Ev- currently averaging 17 points per
eryone you ask has a different game. With an agile, high - scor-
answer. Utah's Bill Foster be- ing 6-10 center, why Johnny Orr's
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COLORADO STATE'S Ed Mul-
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Friday's WAC game in Tucson.
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