4—The Daily Collegian Friday,' March. 3, 1972 PSU cagers host Rutgers in season finale Last roundup TOMORROW'S game with Rutgers at 2:30 in Rec Hall may: be the last one for seniors Chuck Crist - < above), Bob Fittin, Bob Hodgson, Andy Popelas and Pat Lukasavich. Only an NIT bid would prolong their finale. It will definitely be their last appearance in Bee Hall, that is, unless they have any phys. ed. requirements still at large. 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Include All Types of Accounts: Parking Tickets (Private Companies too) Books Rent Records Any Merchandise " /ty .er or Carol Shaffer 237-3059 By WARREN PAT-TON Collegain Senior Reporter There is a basketball" codecting dormitory dust - in the room of Ron Brown, which should come as little surprise to anyone on the penn State campus who isn’t bljnd, crippled* or crazy. . This particular basketball isn’t likely to see future dribbles, layups or any one of the numerous things that Brown has shown that he can do with objects of its nature. For if there is one thing that you don't do with a game ball, it’s taking a chance -on’ jeopardizing its game-ball lustre. Brown received the momento from a beaming coach John • Bach seconds after he stepped off the foul line during the Kent State game Tuesday night. His two successful free throws had just etched his name into the record books as the highest scoring sophomore in Penn State basketball history. “I knew that I had a chance to break the record this season but I thought that I might do it against Rutgers," Brown reflected in Rec Hall yesterday. “Late in the game, I. became aware that I had about ’2O points and only needed three to reach the record.” When some 1 athletes become similarly “aware” of reaching immortality,' their play often deteriorates into one huge ego trip, usually with good - results < for the opposition. Not so with Brown. HeUidn’rfill the air with a series of bad shots or call for the ball every time the Lions approached . the offensive zone. Brown took only 16 shots,' slightly less than his season’s average, making good on nine of them. His form at the foul line was similarly efficient, nitting on all six attempts for a well deserved 24 points. And the record. When Brown suited up for his first varsity competition this year, a lot of people thought he could possibly fulfill a lot of great ex pectations, something you’d naturally expect from a .high school all-American. .. With only the Rutgers game remaining tomorrow, it is apparent that he, has. Even if disaster should strike in Rec Hall, Brown will lead the team this season in scoring,- rebounding, and assists. He has added a new dimension to Penn State basketball, that of the do-everything player who forces rival squads to rack their brains for some kind of stop-gap defenses. His play has been the difference between a so-so Lion team of last year to one which is presently aspiring for an NIT bid. “It’s been a great personal experience for me to play in Crist most valuable? Penn State basketball coach John Bach cites team captain Chuck Crist as one of the main reasons the Nittany Lions have far exceeded their preseason expectations. “We have had great leadership from Chuck,’’ Bach said. “He is a good leader off the floor and his hustle and desire on the court make us play harder..” Bill Gibson, coach of Virginia’s nationally-ranked team,,had similar praise for the Lion captain. “Crist is the guy that makes them go,” Gibson said following the Lions’ . 86-74 victory over his team last month. Crist, a football quar terback in high school, has made some important plays to pull out victories this year. With one second remaining in the Georgetown game, Crist threw the ball the length of- the court (96 feet) to Ron Brown, who deposited the ball in the basket for a one-point win. At West „ Virginia, Crist made a steal and a layup in the last eight seconds to give the Lions another one-point victory. “Chuck’s value to the team doesn’t really show up in the statistics,” Bach said. “That was true last year when he was voted the team’s Most Valuable Player and it is equally true this season.” THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY presents DOC WATSON AND HtS SON MERLE 5 ■' W ' Friday, March 3rd 8 p.m. in SCHWAB AUDITORIUM — Tickets on sale Next to HUB Desk $1.75 for members $2.25 for non-members Ticket will also be on sale at the door this level of basketball,” he said. “I've developed some great personal relationships with some guys on the squad and I’m really ' looking, for ward to playing here for two more years. “But I also feel disap pointment'for the seniors on - the squad, too.” he continued. ■ “Guys like Bdb Fittin, Bob Hodgson, Chuck Crist, they've been here for three NIT still eyeing Penn State? Committee chairman By GLENNSHEELEV Assistant'Sports Editor Second chances seem to be tfie latest thing for'Penn State athletic teams. Football coach Joe Paterno, forced to swallow a nationally televised nightmare in Tennessee, could lean back with the upcoming Cotton Bowl still on tap as a potential face-saver. And a 30-6 de horning of Texas eventually bailed the v *. Lions out with a fifth-place finish in the polls. Could it be that the current holder- of that often important ace in the hole is basketball coach John Bach? His 16-8 cagers, whom even Bach had counted out as prospects for the NIT tournament, still seem to be in the running for a New York trip. Before the Kent State game, which the Lions won, 61-51 Tuesday night, Bach faced the not so"pleasant fact that Penn State “seemed to be out of the tournament.” ■ But, nevertheless, yesterday Bach decided'to make a telephone call to NIT committee chairman Ben Carnevale, the athletic director at New York University, just to make sure there was nothing more than a good season on the line for tomorrow’s game with Rutgers. The telephone company is constantly hounding its Wednesday, the committee handed out bids to the in customers about the value of a phone call and as it turned out dependent teams: St. John’s, Syracuse, Niagara, Fordham Bach thinks he made a real “tele-bargain.” and Jacksonville. Fordham is 18-6 on the year. St. John’s “I asked him that-as-chairman-of-the-committee-tohave-a are New York teams and a sure bet to jam Madison frank appraisal of the situation,’’.Bach said from his Rec Hall '“'Square Garden with plenty of local followers, office. “He said that they were waiting until the conferences Still under consideration are the runner-ups from various finished their season Monday night but Tuesday morning they conferences, although the NIT is under no obligation to pick were going to sit down and take ajook at us. But it all depends them. Teams like ninth-ranked Virginia, Duquesne-(the - on how we do against Rutgers. number 20 team), St. Joe’s, Temple,'Tennessee (both of whom “They’re aware of our record and what it might be at the end of the season,” Bach said. “Our credentials are in teresting and a win would give us a strong finish. It would match the records of St. John’s and Fordham (both already accepted for the NIT). The door is ajar,” Bach metaphored. “Maybe we can open it a little wider if we do our job. If we don’t we don’t belong in the tournament.” Regardless of how much validity there is in the sudden rejuvenation for Penn State’s tournament hopes, it certainly is an abrupt turnaround from the situation after the Pitt loss. In the locker-room-you-couldn’t help but sense the utter frustration in Bach’s mind. Sure, he said they still had a chance, but down deep you knew it was rationalization at its finest. “I was depressed about our chances,” Bach said. “I knew Gymnasts step ahead in EIGL By MARK SIMENSON Collegian Senior Reporter Penn State puts its gym nastic prowess on the line next weekend when it hosts the Eastern Intercollegiate Gymnastic League Cham pionship at Rec Hall. The undefeated Lions are confronted with two obstacles before their season is over. .Penn State has to master the competition in both the EIGL and NCAA Championships if years and . were looking forward to J going to a tour nament at the end of this one. I’ve still got two more years to play and if we don’t get a bid now. their careers end with the game tomorrow.'” The Rutgers- seniors themselves will be finishing out this season with a few pangs of remorse. The pre season banners were all printed and distributed in * SHEELEY it wants to attain the number one ranking in gymnastics. This season State breezed through an eight-team schedule without any major problems and scored over 160 points in three meets. Coach Gene Wettstone, owner of 15 EIGL crowns, indicated the winning score will be about 160, well within the Lions’ range. In the Eastern scoring set up, it is possible for a team to represent the EIGL in the- NGAA-meet-in April and still not win the Eastern title. The representative to the Nationals is determined by adding the compulsory and optional scores together. The team with the top combined score will then compete in the . NCAA Tournament along * with eight other - conference victors. The Eastern winner is picked by assigning two points for each dual meet win and two points for each team it places ahead of in the op tional routines. Penn State has 14 points while Temple, Ma ss a c.h u.s.e.t ts_, a n_d Springfield .are tied for State College Christian and Missionary Alliance-Church Schedule of Services For Sunday March 5 9:30 Sunday School 10:45 Morning Worship 7:00 Bible Worship Mercedes-B«ni " -7/ ~0, ! ’ Sales • Service * Overseas Delivery fTJICIGf'fcn 3220 WEST COLLEGE AVENUE U' CrjdßCUn STATE COLLEGE,’PA. IMPORTED JffCARS INC. 16801 § northern New Jersey lauding seasons ago, Somogyi’s, Dick Lloyd’s first effort at gunning .style forced a coaching the Scarlet Knights revamping of the Knight’s one surely to finish up in a attack.. -- tournament-,of'some sort. . It took half the season to ■ Getting„adjusted to back-- complete the adjustments, court transfer John'Somogyi Now, Rutgers has won five of proved more difficult than six and will come to Penn pre-supposed. New Jersey’s tomorrow with a front all-time leading prep scorer line of Eugene Armstead (a who wandered into Rutgers high school.teammate of Dan after averaging 39 a game for Tarr) 6-9 Steve Kaplan, 6-7, the New Mexico frosh two and Vince Roundtree,-6-6. the sure way was to beat Pitt. The way we were playing better basketball we should have handled.them easily.. “It’s a glimmer of hope,” he said of the new-found possibility for a tournament spot, especially for the seniors. They’ve been the greatest. They want something before they leave besides a good season. I just hope the door stays open." The Lions will entertain Rutgers with anybody that really matters watching with a critical eye as the contest will be featured as the ECAC’s Game of the Week. Ironically, the last time the ECAC booked Penn'State, it was a game which eventually shoved Pitt out of the NIT picture as the Lions triumphed, 61-48 in Rec'Hall. _ But noKqbe a party-pooper, one would have to look at Penn State’s chances with, if not a grain of salt, some equally deserving spice. First of all, Carnevale may have-been simply easing Bach’s* 1 pain since the Penn State coach is a member of the NIT committee. Giving him a little incentive at this point probably won’t hurt anybody even if the Lions, with a Rutgers win, aren’t even considered come Tuesday morning. After all, Bach thought the Lions' had already taken their ten count after they blew the Pitt game. Who could get burned-from-an_ unexpected “glimmer of hope?” Secondly, even if Penn State has them glued to their teevee sets Saturday, a glance at the other NIT hopefuls isn’t exactly comforting for Bach and the Lions. have defeated Penn State) or possibly Maryland or defending champ North Carolina, are possibilities depending on how the Atlantic Coast Conference winds up. The Lions have beaten .Syracuse once (at home) but have lost twice, once in Madison Square Garden in the Holiday Festival. Temple defeated Penn State at home, 68-66. Bach may have one factor on his side with soph Ron Brown, a former New York high school All-American around to spice up the local fan.participation. But the committee surely is not forgetting about the Lions’ previous doldrums in the Holiday Festival where they dropped four-out of five games. -But Bach says the Lions are “a different team.” And he may be right. But realistically one might look at the Rutgers game merely as a face-saver and not a deciding factor in the Lions’ most-likely extinguished NIT hopes. „ second with ten points a piece. “We are odds on favorites to win (the Easterns),” Wettstone said, .in an un derstatement. With no one to challenge the Lions for the crown, Wett stone is working toward two goals. “We want our all-around men to place high and have them qualify for the Olympic trials,” he stated. Any gymnast who totals -more-than—loo-points in-his compulsory and optional exercises qualifies for the Olympic semi-finals held in late'May at the'University of California at Berkley. Last year Marshall Avener scored a 103.55 in the com pulsory-optional part of- the tourney held at Mass achusetts. Avener will need about a 46 on the difficult compulsories to go with a 54 in the optionals. . 'Both sophomore Jim. Kruest and senior Billy MitchelL.have a chance to qualify for the Olympic trials if . they improve on their at. Amherst. Kruest placed third in the says ‘yes’ all-around with 94.35 while Mitchell knotched sixth place with a 89.45. Both gymnasts had troubles with compulsory routines. Wettstone doubted that his team would take home'the same number of Eastern berths to the NCAA tourney. “There are so many better specialists around this year,” he concluded. In 1971 State took 13 of the 21 Eastern NCAA qualifying slots. This year the Lions are -concentrating-on-tea mlunity and not going out for in dividual medals. We blew it The Collegian inaccurately reported that swimmer John Piatt’s ■■ 3.79 cumulative average was the highest of any current Penn State athlete. In reality, Bruce Bannon, junior defensive end on the Lion football team, heads the list with a 3.89- average. It was “de grading” slight. Gun bill intact^ HARRISBURG (AP)—The ' House Tuesday voted to leave.. 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