4—The Daily Collegian Monday, March 6, 1972
Lion eagers topple Rutgers
By WARREN PATTON
Collegian Senior Reporter
Once again, a fine guard led
his team into Penn State.. AS
usual? Jim Dashield had to
cover him. An(J, typically, the
fine guard’s tea'm lost. ,
Such was the scene at Rec
Hall last Saturday, one which
has not been without
precedent this year. One by
one Brian Taylor, Wilbert
Robinson', Greg Kohls, Barry
Parkhill and finally Rutgers’
John Somogyi ventured into
the Nittany Valley and every
one of them went home losers.
Of the aforementioned, only
Robinson of West Virginia
reached'his season’s scoring
average in Rec-Hall and that
owed' more to the quantity
than to the. quality of his
shots. And the chief prac
titioner of all this frustration,
Dashield, is only beginning to
realize his prowess as a
defensive player.
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“He really ran me ragged
out there,” Dashield puffed of
Somogyi following ,Penn
State’s 77-66 victory over
Rutgeps. “He got by me a few
ymes but somebody else was
always, there to back me up.”
- Somogyi, the Scarlet
Knights’ leading scorer, freed
himself long enough for only
11 shots, eight less than his
norm. He also totaled but 20
points, somewhat under the
23.6 average he brought with
him from New Jersey.
Thus was a successful
finish achieved in 'John
Bach’s - experiment in the
transformation of his transfer
guard from Robert Morris
Junior College."
‘.‘l’ve never really been able
to remian the same basket
ball player from one year to
the next,” Dashield joked.
“My first year in college, my
coach wanted me to Jbe a
'shooting gurad. - Thenf the
next year he wanted m£ to be
the assist man so I passed
more. When I came here, I
learned that now I was going _. ~ . , .. , ,
to be concentrating on Ed Chubb broke the school
defense ” record for field goal per-
Unfortunately, Dashield’s cent^ e ‘ shdotin B 531 for the
defensive efforts went largely •' season - ‘
unnoticed alongside the of- Ron Brown’s sophomore
fensive side of the game, statistics read 434 points
much of it flagrant. Vince scored, for a team leading
Roundtree, Rutge rs ’ average of 18 . points per
strongman forward almost game. He also set the Penn
decapitated a Lion un- State mark for assists in a
derneath the boards with a season with 110. Chuck Crist
whirlwind of,forearm play, also dished out 100, making
The crowd hooted, but no foul the two passing
ensued. combination to wehr,the,Penn
“The ref said he didn’t see State blue and white"
his elbows move more than
•once,” Bach concluded
lightly.
Another time, Ron Brown
and Gene Armstead went up
for a rebound, each coming
down hard with a piece of
each other.
" A pileup collected around
the • foul line, from which
Brown emerged minus his
glasses and not completely in
control of himself. “I got a
little mad at some of the
things which were going on,”
he explained.
One of those things was a
well-placed shove from
Roundtree, resulting in a
technical foul mistakenly
awarded to Armstead: “Hov?-
could you give it to me?” the
big center pleaded to the
scorer’s table:. .“We. don’t
even look alike.”
FREE THROWS
The Lions finished the
season with a record of 17-8,
which was the third highest
win total in school history.
They were 9-2 at home, 8-6 on
the road.
'h to
MCtl , „ Bach that the Lions’ chances rode on their
RON BROWN, Penn State’s outstanding sophomore, gunned performance against Rutgers. If they
the Lions past Rutgers, 77-66, Saturday in Rec Hall. His 25 emerged with their 17th win they would be
points gave him 434 for the season, the most ever by a ' “given consideration.” So, now the con
sophomore at Penn State. He also set a single season assist sideration. process is beginning. .
record with no. fzsz- “He wouldn’t speculate on our chances,”
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Bach NIT-picking
By GLENNSHEELEY
Assistant Sports Editor
“Ben, did you see the game?” an anxious
John Bach inquired of 1 NIT committee
chairman Ben Carnevale yesterday.
• Carnevale, who was viewing the late
season action at Madison Square ,Qarden,
-admitted to the Penn State coach, his long
time friend, that he had not been tuned into
the ECAC Game-of-the-Week.
He quickly calmed Baph down assuring
him the remarks from other, persons on the
committee were “favorable.”
Bach was hoping to gather some good news
from Carnevale as to whether, or not the
Nittany Lions had played their last game of
the season. They had just beaten a strong
Rutgers team, 77-66 culminating-a season
-Bach feels is worthy of a spotJn the NIT
tournament. -
“He told me we would definitely be one of
the six or seven teams to be given con-'
sideration,” Bach said late yesterday af
ternoon. According to Carnevale; . the
majority of'today’s committee deliberation
will be focused on the conference teams. By
tomorrow or -Wednesday, the time devoted
toward independent teams and their chances
for anNIT berth. Bach will learn the fate of
lis 17-8 Penn State cagers.
One of Bach’s problems at this point is
receiving “a frank appraisal” of the Lions’
credentials from Carnevale. “I know they
donU like personal calls,” Bach said earlier
in the afternoon while trying to reach Carne
vale at his- New York home. Carnevale
later returned the call to Bach, who Was
sitting by the telephone all afternoon.
After the Rutgers game Saturday Bach
told.reporters he would attempt to discover
what might be on the minds of the com
mittee. “I’m going to call my friends on-the
committeerthe guys I grew up with,” Bach
said. “I .don’t want to influence them as a
friend but as a team we feel deserves being
looked at.”
After the call, personal or not, the' Penn
State coach didn't know much more than he
did before. -The committee had informed
Bach said. “But it's rumored there are two or
three independent spots still at-large. I-Was
satisfied when he-said we have a chance. As
long as there’s a chance I’ll just haye to wait
patiently by the telephone.”
Television contests have not been .the'most
fortunate things for Penn State teams in
recent years as the football team discovered
two years ago in Colorado and last season in
Tennessee. . .
Bach’s situation was considerably more
pleasant. Although Penn State did not play its
most flawless game of the year, it still- ter
minated with the' Lions on top the chief
statistic the NIT committee was watching.
“I thought the television exposure went
over well,” Bach said, “although we hoped
for a packed house.” (The attendance was
.4,000). ...
Penn State Sports Information John Morris
assisted in mailing the happy news to the
members of the committee, statistics and the
like, to what Bach terms “plead our case.”'
He hopes the package will be received today.
“I feel we shouldn’t be overlooked on the
basis of what we’ve done,” Bach said.
. Bach’s point is well taken. His team has
won 17 games this year, the third highest
total in Penn State basketball history. They
have won 12 of their last 15 games,
adequately fulfilling the “finishing strong”
category the NIT demands of its competitor.
Duquesne’s 19-4 squad is the one many
feel will*fill the berth the Lions’ are hoping to
step into. The NCAA committee may have
skipped over the Dukes due to the Dave
Roody case. Roody had been lifted from the
Duquesne roster midway in the season for
being ineligible under NCAA rules. 1
“Each committee looks, at it differently,”
Bach said. “When you have a situation like
-that-—it- always stirs up conjecture.
Duquesne’s record-is in itself impressive
although most of their wins have come at
home.”
Penn State, a team which during the
beginning of its season had numerous road
problems, .rallied to finish with an 8-6 card
away from Rec Hall.
Bach, an amateur pilot,"said “I won’t buzz
the field but you may see me flying around at
2,500 feet.” That would have been the case
had the news from Carnevale been a little
more definite. As it is, Bach’s plane is still in
the hangar.
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