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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH M.r. it, 3 General KnigM in Command basketball tydavedorr CD I won't. I coached eight years in the East, six of those as head coach at Army and we went to the NIT four times. In 1968, we turned down the NCAA to go to the NIT.

"My first year at Indiana (1971-72) it was our This is the time of year that college basketball hysteria goes into orbit. A the University of Indiana, nothing can match the histrionics of a loyal Hoosier when Kent Benson hits a swcsping hook shot or Quinn Buckner steals a pass and feeds John (Polish Power) Laskowski for a long jumper from the corner. That's Hoosier Hysteria. Indiana, driving toward the Big Ten Conference championship before a late-season upset by Ohio State forced a tie for the title with Michigan, met the Wolverines at the University of Illinois Assembly Hall last Monday for the playoff berth in the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament. If Indiana coach Bobby Knight had never publicly said that his suitcase was packed for Greensboro, N.C., site of the NCAA finals Saturday and next Monday, the 4000 Hoosiers who followed their heroes to Champaign were confident.

Michigan would be a minor obstacle. Notre Dame thought so, too. The Irish scouted Indiana's final six games. The howling Hoosier fans at Champaign forgot about Campy Russell, the Wolverines' superstar. He ruined Indiana and he got the Irish, too, who had gambled that they'd be playing the Hoosiers in last Thursday's first round of the NCAA mid-east tourney at the University of Alabama.

This hasn't been a good week for Knight. Monday's defeat at Champaign was a bitter pill to swallow. That night, six Hoosier fans from Bloom-ington, were killed when their private plane crashed in murky weather near the Bloomington airport returning from Champaign. Knight knew each" of the victims. "What made it worse," said Knight, "was that when I first learned the plane had gone down I thought two of my closest friends were on it.

They weren't. But it makes you think. If there hadn't been a game, this wouldn't have happened." Because the Hoosiers had lost, they were committed to play in the Collegiate Commissioners Association tournament here. Knight didn't want to. He preferred to go to New York for the National Invitation Tournament.

Whenever Bobby Knight opens his mouth, one of two things happens: He is misquoted or he is misunderstood. Or so it seems. "I'm honest as I can be," says Knight. "But all that does is get me into trouble." Knight was blistered by the press because of his stand. Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke called Bobby for a fatherly chat.

"He told me to be more positive," said Knight. "Well, I told him I wasn't going to lie. I didn't and objective to go to the NIT if we got a bid. We did. I enjoy the NIT and I've had a great relationship with those people in New York.

"A few weeks ago at a press luncheon in Indianapolis, some guy asked me what I thought about the CCA. I was quoted as saying it was a waste of time. I never made that statement. I'm on record as saying last spring when the CCA thing came up that any post season tournament that is well run and offers an opportunity for more incentive for teams is good for basketball. "On Tuesday, Laskowski, Buskner and (Steve) Green came to me and we talked about what we should do.

They said, 'Coach, we'll do whatever you want. And we'll play as hard as we I made the decision to come to the CCA." Bobby Knight is a lot of things to a lot of people. He's intense. He's a perfectionist. His caustic tongue can be abrasive but he can also exude boyish charm.

He is military-minded and he spells discipline with a capital He reads "The Art of War" and he saw the film "Patton" three times. "I don't mind the aura of this General Bobby stuff," said Knight. "What I don't like is when a writer takes what I say and twists it around. At Champaign, I was talking about the game and this guy from a Chicago paper writes, 'Knight said the player was a bleep and the team was a bleep and the officials were a "I was just talking. His story was full of bleeps.

He made me sound like I'm some kind of a profane bleep. Now THAT irritates me. And I'm gonna tell him about it. "I get a name for baiting officials. Hell, I didn't get my first technical until the eleventh game of the season." Knight's short sideburns are a concession to the times.

But he's still in control. "I'm running the show," said Knight. "I don't need any interference. I tell 'em, 'If you don't like the way I'm doing it, get someone "Of course, nobody ever mentions the fact that our players visit hospitals and that once a year underprivileged kids attend a game and afterward our players have a party for them. "I negotiated the contract for Steve Downing (the Hoosiers' center on last season's team that finished third in the NCAA tourney here) when he signed with the Boston Celtics.

I saved him $25,000. Didn't charge him a dime." That's the soft side of Bobby. "You got a leader on your team?" someone asked Knight. "Yeah," he answered. "Me." flip! th A IP3 MUSIC MEN.

Three of the players in the Collegiate Commissioners Association basketball tournament ham it up before a banquet for the teams on the Goldenrod Showboat. From left: Arizona State center Ron Kennedy, Southern California guard Dan Anderson and Kansas State forward Dean Harris, a former Edwardsville High standout. (Post-Dispatch Photo by Fred Sweets Bobby Knight USCs Williams On His Wghs' Lovejoy's Winston Sees Good Future At K-State For the season, Williams, a 6-foot-2 junior from Mount Vernon, N.Y., is averaging a little more than 15 points a game. "Gus is spectacular when he's on his said Boyd, "although he's just another guard when he's on his As the Trojans' record would lead one to believe, Williams hasn't been in the depths that often this season. But the loss to UCLA flattened him.

"It was really tough for me to get too high for this (CCA) tournament," Williams said. "We wanted to go to the NCAA. I didn't even get up for the SMU game until about five minutes before it started." Which, as far as SMU was concerned, was about two hours too early. CCA Semifinals Set For Sunday Indiana, co-champion of the Big Ten Conference, will put its 21-5 record on the line Sunday against Toledo (19-8), runner-up in the Mid-American Conference, in the first game of the Collegiate Commissioners Association basketball tournament semifinal round at 1:35 p.m. at The Arena.

Southern California (23-4), runner-up in the Pacific-8 Conference, will face Bradley (18-8), runner-up in the Missouri Valley Conference, in the second game at 3:35. The championship game will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday. By Rick Hummel Of the Post-Dispatch Staff It's been eight days now since the University of Southern California Trojans were discarded at the Los Angeles Sports Arena like so many popcorn boxes. But what happened that night is as painful now to Gus Williams as if it had taken place only hours ago.

"I think," said Williams, solemnly, "that it will be with us forever." Perhaps no one really will be able to explain how UCLA could batter USC by 30 points in a game which was to decide the Pacific-8 Conference basketball title. Williams, the Trojans' standout guard, tried. The other day he asked his roommate, Forward John Lambert, "You know what happened, don't you?" Lambert just smiled and then handed the potato right back to Williams. "It's your interview, man," he said. Williams, after some pondering, finally reached the same conclusion that most other USC people have reached.

"I don't know what happened," he said. However, he does want to make one thing perfectly clear. The Trojans, who will meet Bradley at 3:35 p.m. Sunday at The Arena in a semifinal game of the Collegiate Commissioners Association tourney, have still won 23 of 27 games. "It seems like a lot of people want to base our whole season on the UCLA game," said Williams, dejectedly.

There's something else a lot of people think, though: Williams has been the best player, to date, in the entire CCA field. Williams gliding on a basketball court is like maple syrup oozing over a large stack. He's that smooth. He's also the leading scorer in the tournament with his 27-point outburst In Thursday's 82-70 victory over Southern (Methodist. "Gus is totally capable of doing anything he wants to," said USC coach Bob Boyd.

"He's got so much physical ability I accuse him sometimes of taking himself for granted, but when he plays as he did against SMU, he's at an all-time best." Against SMU's Mustangs, Williams was breaking free for net-rippling perimeter jump shots, darting into the passing lanes for interceptions, bouncing the ball between his legs as casually as taking a drink of water. "I've said he could be the greatest guard ever at USC," said Boyd. "And I've had some great ones (Paul) West-phal and (Mo) Layton, for instance." Westphal now plays for the Boston Celtics and Layton was with several National Basketball Association teams. Hunt Gets Bartow's First Call By Rkk Hummel Of the Post-Dispatch Staff Darryl Winston scored 40 points this basketball season. Heck, he used to get that many in one game when he played for Lovejoy High School.

"I've been thinking about that a lot this year," he said. Thinking about the time he scored 58 points against the Lincoln Lab School of Jeuferson City, Mo. Or the season (last season) he averaged 32.6 points a game and was named to the Post-Dispatch All-Metro team. He shifted the ever-present toothpick in his mouth. Then he laughed.

Darryl Winston went from high school superstar at Lovejoy to benchwarmer at Kansas State, but he says it really didn't bother him that much. "I knew it was going to be a year of learning experience," he said. "I'm not unhappy at all. Next year should be my year." Next season, Winston is likely to join fellow East Sider Dean Harris of Edwardsville In Kansas State's starting lineup. Harris, another freshman, started most of K-State's games this season, but he was the only non-senior in that lineup.

"When you look at the future," said Wildcats coach Jack Hartman, "these boys are gonna be my forwards. At least, it's a very strong possibility." Winston led the Kansas State junior varsity in scoring this season, but he didn't start any varsity games and he played in only 13 of 27. "I thought I should have played more," he said, but coach Hartman knows what's best. I believe in myself, though. If I ever get a chance to flay Despite the fact that Lovejoy played a zone defense through most of Winston's high school career, Hartman feels Darryl has made great strides in man to man defense in college.

Ironically, it has been Winston's shooting, the thing that got him to college in the first place, that has suffered. Whereas, he used to shoot 57 per cent in high school, he shot 24 per cent at Kansas State. "The mechanism of his shots is just not the same every day," said Hartman. "He has a chance to be one of the top players in the Big Eight conference, but he has to develop consistency in his scoring. I'm a little surprised he hasn't shot better this season." "Lack of concentration," explained the slender 6-foot-6 Winston.

"And then, sometimes, I'll come in off the bench and miss my first two shots and be right back on the bench. Then I'll come back later and miss three more. I guess I'm not warmed up enough." Yet, Winston, the kid from small-town U.S.A., doesn't feel he's been overmatched in the Big Eight. "It wasn't as hard as I thought it was gonna be," he said. "I thought things were really CHAMPAIGN, 111., March 16 AP) Leroy Hunt, assistant to new Illinois basketball coach Gene Bartow at Memphis State for four years, has been named to the same spot at the University of Illinois, the school announced Saturday.

Hunt, of Windsor, was responsible for scouting Memphis State opponents and recruiting. "When I got the job at Memphis State, my first call for an assistant went to Leroy," Bartow said. "When I accepted the Illinois position, my first call went to Leroy to see if he was interested." Hunt was graduated from Central Missouri State in 1957 and received a master's degree from the same school in 1960. GLIDING GUS. Gus Williams (right), Southern California University's star of the CCA tournament, moves quickly down court despite pressing by Southern Methodist's John Sagehorn in Thursday's opening-round victory.

(AP Photo) Si, "Wa csd ft end it's fl ua? a luuxKKPfirir YtVKECwfli taw, sra yChVBTC 1560 S-KHlChttWW He coached at Wellington and Wis Warrensburg, high schools Dnver, Colorado for nine years, compiling a 136-66 record. He worked three years at Cen tral Missouri State as an assist-ant basketball coach before EVERY MONDAY! leisure ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Darryl Winston going to be different with people leaping all over me." "When I played against Alvan Adams (6-foot-9 center) of Oklahoma, he blocked my first shot, but I got the ball back, took it up and he fouled me. Then die next time I got it, I was able to drive on him." In Kansas State's 68-64 loss to Bradley Friday night in the Collegiate Commissioners Association tournament Winston played about seven minutes, scored two points and grabbed two rebounds. Afterward, he promised things would be different next year.

"I intend to do a whole lot of serious work this summer," he said. And maybe, someday, that 40 points in the scoring column will be for something other than for one season. joining Bartow at Memphis State in the 1970-71 season. hf SPRING Tire changeover We'll demount your winter tires WSiXT lOWCOST-" regular tires. mm, Trfon U.

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