—The Daily Collegian Monday, January 30,1978
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The basketball team learned again Saturday that Jeff Miller (15) can’t win bas
ketball games alone.
Attitude sparks
By PETE DOUGHERTY
baily Collegian Sports Writer '
At least there’s hope for Penn State basketball fans.
Those Lion faithful who started to lose hope that a sagging
team can turn things around in a short period of time could
take solace after the University of Pittsburgh’s 82-65 thrashing
of the Penn State cagers Saturday night at Rec Hall.
The Panthers of a year ago were in a worse state than even
the Lions, if such a predicament is possible. After all, there
were not many teams that lost to Penn State twice last season.
But all that has changed now. The Panthers are 10-6, own a
victory over nationally ranked Syracuse, and are starting to
look a little like the Panther team that made the NCAA
tourney four short years ago. What has transpired in one
year? ■ ■' ■ ■ > ■ •
“Attitude. There’s a lot more of a positive attitude now,”
said senior forward Larry Harris, who by himself generated
most of Pitt’s offense the last two years. “We started going out
on the court thinking jye co\ild beat anybody. We looked at our
conference and said we can win it, and we still think we can.”
Coach Tim Grgurich claims “the kids themselves did it. I
also like to give credit to the coaching staff. We could have
folded our tents after going 6-21 last year.
“Last year was really a tough year,” Grgurich said. “Give
the players themselves credit for turning it around. There’s
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been the maturity of Larry Harris, and the play of Terry
Knight, who we didn’t have last year (due to injury). ’ ’
Knight, the brother of National Basketball Association and
ex-Panther star Billy, credits balanced scoring for Pitt’s new
found success.
“There’s more of a scoring attack this year,” he said.
“We’ve got five and six guys averaging 10 or more points.
They can’t isolate on Larry like they could last year. We were
always hoping somebody would pick up the slack last year, but
nobody ever did.”
What the Panthers found especially pleasing, though, was
the ease with which they handled Penn State despite having
three players Sonny Lewis (last year’s second leading
scorer for Pitt), Terry Peavy, and Gary Smith quit the
squad earlier in the day . ,
“We felt the players that quit really didn’t want to play,
anyway,” Harris said. “We’re better off without them. We’re
a lot more united in comparison with last year.”
Grgurich’s assessment was, “I don’t like to say they just
quit. It’s a combination of a lot of things, responsibilities they
had to meet outside the team.
“There are things like you have to go to class everyday, you
have to pass, and you have to play with the team. We hated to
see it happen. The kids have really worked hard. We were 6-21
last year
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Miller not able to do it alone
By NEIL RUDEL
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
Amidst Pitt’s 82-65 humbling of the
cagers Saturday night at Rec Hall, one
fact concerning the remainder of Penn
State’s season stuck out like a sore
thumb.
If John Bach’s ball club is going to
break its current seven-game losing
streak or more realistically, win
another game during this dismal season
it must get significant production
from someone besides star guard Jeff
Miller.
Miller, who drew raves from yet
another opponent for his shoot-’em
from-anywhere-and-hit-’em-act, col
lected 26 points, However, 20. came in
the first half which Pitt carried, 39-36.
“We sort of let him go in the first
half,” Panther senior forward Larry
Harris said. “But in the second half we
started watching him. Coach (Tim
Grgurich) told us before the game he
could shoot but not that good.
‘ ‘ I never saw anybody shoot like that. ”
Miller, telling it like it is and by no
means sounding conceded or cocky,
perhaps best summed up the Lions’
continuing saga. “We'ran more in the
first half and I was getting some quick
PITTSBURGH (82)
FG FT R
6- 4-4 8
8-16 2- 3 10
0-7 3-6 8
7- 2-2 3
7-11 5-5 4
0-0 0-0 1
4-7 2-2 5
0-1 0-0 0
0-1 0-0 1
0-0 0-2 0
0-0 0-0 0
0-0 0-0 0
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Kuhn 6-11 1- 1 7
Brickowski 1-4 0-0 3
Miller 12-20 2- 2 4
Wilkinson 1-9 2-5 5
Power 1-5 1-2 1
Jefferson 2-6 3-3 10
Korkowski • 0-22-20
O’Conor 0-1 0-0 1
Ice 1-5 0-0 4
Totals 27-71 11-18 43
Halftime: Pittsburgh 38, Penn State 36
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shots off the break but in the second half
we were dead.
“You can’t build a team around one
person, that just won’t work. Everyone
has to get their shots.’’
Pitt guard Wayne Williams, was
credited by both coaches for the shut
down of Miller, after the Lions captain
riddled the Panthers, now 10-6 with a
nine for 11 first half shooting entourage.
“The second half was the Wayne
Williams- show,” Grgurich said. “Not'
only did Wayne run our offense
beautifully but defensively he shut down
Miller in the second half.”.
Bach, who saw his Squad’s record
plunge to 5-13, attributed challenging
defensive assignments to his team’s
downfall.
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“I wasn’t pleased with the matchups
that we were forced into,”'he said. “I
think Wayne Williams, hurt as a great
deal as did (Terry) Knight and (Dave)
Olinger.”
Williams and Knight, the two Panther
guards, had a field day shooting over
shorter State, guards Miller, Tom
Wilkinson and Mike Power. The duo
teamed to play string music with the net
to the tune of 35 points, 18 above their
combined norm.
Said the undersized Power: “There’s
no excuse for the penetration they got.”
But center Carvin Jefferson wasn’t,
impressed. ,' „
“I don’t see anything great, about
them,” he said. “Harris is a good
ballplayer-but if they want to have any
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kind of a season they’ll have to get better
backup. Take away Harris and they’d be
another Muhlenberg.”
CLOSE-CALLS: : State guard Rob
O’Conor made a token appearance in the
first half, his first in Rec Hall since Jan.
3 of last year... Kuhn on Pitt’s
ferocious freshman forward Sam
Clancy: “He’s strong to the basket. I’d
•say look out for the future.” ... A. 30
percent shooting performance killed
.State, while Pitt was hitting at 50.0
percent.. . i Kuhn and Walt Young
fouled out for eighth time ... Pitt’s
Wayne Talbott was ejected for minor
melee with State’s Frank Brickowski in
the first half... Next game tonight at
West Virginia. Game time 8 p.m. .