College Report

He started collecting sneakers quite innocently, but now his passion is out of the closet. Campbell turned up a pair of particularly vintage sneaks from the mid-'70s while rummaging through the Pan American equipment room. "It was an old pair of Converse sneakers they wore a long, long time ago," he says. "Even before the Dr. J All-Stars."

Campbell, who through Sunday was averaging 9.8 points as a starter for the 3-1 Broncs, collects for the sheer sport of it. "The shoes have no resale value at all," he says. He then dares to dream a sneaker-buff's dream. "Now, if I got some shoes from somebody famous," says Campbell, "if I got a pair of Michael Jordan's shoes—then I'd have something."

SHORT SHOTS

New Marquette coach Kevin O'Neill on recruiting: "It's ridiculous for young players to have 30 grown men call them up every night and tell them how much they like them."...

Brian Hendrick, a 6'8" redshirt freshman, made all 10 of his field goal attempts and five of seven free throws for 25 points in California's 83-61 win over San Francisco. He's a son of George Hendrick, the former major league baseball player....

Purdue coach Gene Keady, after the Boilermakers' 65-63 win over Utah: "Any road win in December is great." The game was played on Nov. 30....

Texas A&M is again the tournament champion. By Dec. 28, the Aggies of coach Shelby Metcalf will have played five tournaments over a 38-day stretch in which they will have covered 16,500 miles. "If anybody has a tournament," says Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson, "they call Shelby first."...

If you have the feeling that the last few minutes of any game take forever because of all the fouls and timeouts, consider this: Alabama and North Carolina needed 24 minutes and 12 seconds to play the final 2:42 of their game on Nov. 30. Rule makers, get to work.