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Daniel Hackett is a 6-foot-6 shooting guard who would still be playing for Bellflower St. John Bosco High had he not graduated a year early to join the Trojans. Kevin Galloway has morphed into something resembling a 6-8 power forward after sprouting nearly four inches over the summer. Hackett and Galloway have been pressed into duty as ball- handlers in the wake of the shooting death of Ryan Francis and the academic ineligibility of Gabe Pruitt for the first semester. of them have played there at points in their lives for eight to 10 minutes a Coach Tim Floyd said Thursday at a news conference featuring Southern California college basketball coaches at the L.A.

Athletic Club. going to have to do it all the some ways, it would be equivalent to us moving wide Dwayne Jarrett to quarterback and orchestrating an Floyd said the point exceptional size may necessitate the use of a zone defense at times, I to combat quicker opposing guards. Pruitt could return by the middle of December if he can achieve satisfactory grades, though the junior will sit out key games against Kansas and George Washington. Floyd said he might limit role in practice to helpthe development of Hackett and Galloway. UCLA center Lorenzo Mata had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee Thursday to remove cartilage fragments that wasex- pected to sideline the junior four to five weeks, according to Coach Ben Howland Mata, a 6-8, 235-pounder from South Gate High, sat out 16 games last season because of a concussion and a broken right leg.

He had surgery on the same knee last June and Howland said when Mata began intense work- outs for this season that the knee swelled again. not going to rush Howland said. we get him back we want him back for Despite his injury-plagued season, Mata led the Bruins in blocked shots. Only two weeks after returning from his broken leg, Mata had six rebounds in NCAA regional championship win over Memphis and had eight rebounds and two blocked shots in a semifinal win over Louisiana State. Former Purdue coach Gene Keady was named the John R.

Wooden Legends of Coaching winner Thursday. Keady was 512-270 in 25 seasons. Keady joins Dean Smith Mike Krzyzewski Lute Olson Denny Crum Roy Williams Mike Montgomery Jim Calhoun and Jim Boeheim as Wooden Award winners. After afalling out with the L.A. Athletic Club last year over rights to using the name R.

Wooden Wooden decided he would no longer attend the award ceremony, which is scheduled for April 7 at the club. USC will honor Francis during halftime of its home opener Nov. 16 against South Carolina, Floyd said. The Trojans will wear apatch bearing jersey No. 12 this season, and a locker will be left vacant with his jersey hanging in it.

The university is also endowing a scholarship in honor and constructing abench outside the Galen Center featuring his jersey num- big men RouSean Cromwell and Abdoulaye have been cleared to practice afteroff-season knee surgeries, but freshman forward Kasey Cunningham may be limited for a while as he continues to recover from a torn ligament in his left knee suffered in Trojans will practice in the North Gymnasium on campus through Sunday before moving into their new practice facility adjacent to the Galen Center on Monday. The new practice courts feature what Floyd described as a playing surface that has more give than traditional courts. ben.bolch@latimes.com diane.pucin@latimes.com COLLEGE BASKETBALL USC Freshmen Vie for Point Guard Job By Ben Bolch Times Staff Writer The scores of workmen who had spent the last week frantically applying the finishing touches on the Galen Center were gone Thursday night, replaced by hordes of USC fans eager to open the long-awaited athletic facility in style. Cheers rang out as the fourth-ranked USC volleyball team rattled off the first five points against No. 6 Stanford, but USC could not sustain the momentum during a 30-21, 30-26, 30-28 defeat in the first athletic event.

Nonetheless, the arena scored big points among the estimated gathering of 5,000 for impressive sight lines even from the far reaches of the upper deck and an intimate feel for a arena. think said Steve Krasnow, 43, of Irvine. waited 35 years as a Trojan fan for the best part? Indeed, Carol Dougherty, the USC senior associate athletic director in charge of the project, described herself as in the moments before the opening serve. have my hard hat on, I have my steel-toed she said, alluding to a series of setbacks that had delayed the opening several months. feel Dougherty said workers had conducted an afternoon walk-through of the facility and found nothing out of whack save for one faulty electrical outlet.

She later discovered an empty soap dispenser in one of the restrooms. Among the other imperfections were some unfinished landscaping outside the building and a few makeshift signs taped to restrooms and seating sections. One fan complained that paper towel dispensers were set too low restroom. But the faults were offset by some fancy features. The lights were dimmed for professional-style pregame introductions, which included player profiles on the video scoreboard above center court.

feel comfortable said senior libe- ro Debora Seilhamer, whose match-high 21 digs could not prevent the Trojans (17-1 overall, 6-1 Pacific 10 Conference) from suffering their first loss of the season. felt like every time we went to another Pac-10 gym it was better than ours. Now we have the best one, no The Galen Center will also be used by the and basketball teams and the volleyball team. like the Gabe Pruitt, a junior guard for the basketball team, said as he walked through the main concourse. reminds me of a mini-Staples Center.

more of a college atmosphere and reminds me of some of the places played on the Christine Cotter Los Angeles Times ENTERING A NEW ARENA: An estimated 5,000 attended USC-Stanford volleyball match at the Galen Center. Just One Glitch in New Digs The Galen Center opens to rave reviews, though No. 4 volleyball team loses in first event. Christine Cotter Los Angeles Times HANDFUL: Jessica Gysin tries to block a shot by Erin Waller during 30-21, 30-26, 30-28 victory..