November 18, 1987 | Volume 67, Issue 22

Global recruiting put St. Michael's on the map

1. St. Michael's (Vt.)2. Mt. St. Mary's (Md.)3. S.E. Missouri State4. District of Columbia5. Tampa6. West Texas State7. St. Cloud State8. Ferris State9. Kentucky Wesleyan10. West Georgia

Terri Mann arrives at Western Kentucky with the best credentials and the brightest future the women's game has seen in a while. They call her Baby Moses, and all she has to do now is fulfill the...

The Lady Horns are slim favorites in a familiar field

1. Texas2. Tennessee3. Auburn4. Long Beach State5. Louisiana Tech6. Georgia7. Rutgers8. Western Kentucky9. Virginia10. Ohio State

Twenty-five years have passed since Loyola of Chicago beat Mississippi State in the second round of the NCAA basketball tournament, in East Lansing, Mich., and Joe Dan Gold remains incredulous—not...

Oh, what a season it will have been

The Runnin' Ravens of San Jacinto College, the dominant juco team in the land, all have two things in common: a dingy past and a brighter future

John McDonough's photographs are physical proof that college basketball provides a showcase for everybody and every body part

Senior editor David Bauer, who makes his debut as our College Basketball editor with this, our third special issue devoted to the sport, remembers exactly when he became a college hoops fan. In...

The undermanned Providence Friars used pressure defense in last season's NCAA tournament to burn some better teams and reach the Final Four. Don't think that other coaches didn't notice

LOOK FOR: A long-limbed thyroid case harassing the inbounder after a basket. Two good-shooting teammates are aligned behind him like splitbacks in a backfield. A guard and the center are in an I...

LOOK FOR: All five defenders picking up their men full-court, overplaying them or guarding "straight-up."

LOOK FOR: The two front men play off the baseline, conceding the first pass inbounds if it's in front of them.

Syracuse, led by a terrific trio, is No. 1. As for which conference is best—a subject of hot debate among fans—it's the Big Ten

Indiana won the championship, but I'm not sure they were the best team in the country," says Ohio State coach Gary Williams. "Any one of four teams from our conference could have won it last...

At Michigan, "O-15" is shorthand for the first day of basketball practice, Oct. 15. For sophomores Rumeal Robinson and Terry Mills, the recent arrival of O-15 brought more joy than if the number...

Although the Big East is just eight years old, it already has the trappings of conferences decades older: glamorous arenas, feisty rivalries, network TV exposure, tournament madness—and a communal...

By any reckoning, Seton Hall has been the least of the East. Since joining the Big East as a charter member in 1979, the Hall has had the most dismal marks in the conference (18-97) and overall...

Fans fed up with the arrogant Octet will be dismayed to hear this, but last season's struggles were an aberration, a blip on the ACC's cardiogram. Time was when the conference was so balanced that...

Various players' answers to the question, "Why Duke?" appear with their biographies in the Blue Devils' 1986-87 media guide. Freshman Phil Henderson explained his decision to enroll by saying,...

I believe in the star theory," says Oklahoma coach and impresario Billy Tubbs. "I love stars. I want to put an exciting show on the road. That's my style." Tubbs's style has become the Big Eight's...

Oklahoma State players call their English teammate Big Al—he's as tall as Big Ben, but with less dependable hands. Cowboy coach Leonard Hamilton calls him by his last name. Bannister, which seems...

The public should be forgiven if it can't seem to get a fix on the Southeastern Conference. The SEC seems to be constantly changing its coordinates. Only two years ago it was a forwards' league...

Everyone knows that 7'2" Dwayne Schintzius has the altitude. But what about the attitude? In his first nine games as a freshman last season, Schintzius seemed bent on backing up his boast that he...

The Metro is like the little girl with the little curl in the middle of her forehead. When it has been good—Louisville won an NCAA title in 1986, Southern Mississippi bagged an NIT crown in '87—it...

Betsy had such a crush on Randolph Keys that when the bus dropped him off after school, she would meet him with her big moony eyes and walk him home.

It would be an overstatement to call the Western Athletic Conference, home to Wyoming (page 20), unprecedentedly strong. After all, in the 1980-81 season the conference had eight players (Danny...

Your father's name is Smith; your mother's maiden name is Smith; there are 2½ million other Smiths in America; there are at least 30 other Smiths playing Division I basketball; and two of those...

The Pac-10 is still trying to figure it out. The conference has a disproportionate number of the nation's Young Turk coaches, had four of the first 16 players chosen in last spring's NBA draft and...

In the 1930s, Stanford's Hank Luisetti ushered basketball into the modern era by discarding the two-handed set shot for the one-handed jumper. More than fifty years later, junior Todd Lichti has...

Since its founding in 1982 under the shadow of the Big East, the Atlantic 10 has plotted an upward course that goes something like this: Step 1—Play high-caliber ball. Over the past two seasons,...

Carlton (silk) Owens has a couple of physical peculiarities. Of the two, the big gap in his front teeth is more noticeable than the dime-sized spot on the back of his upper arm, left by a bullet...

Stan Albeck, Bradley's second-year coach, has heard it a thousand times: The Valley is a coach's league. Albeck, who was formerly a mentor in the NBA (Cavs, Spurs, Nets and Bulls) doesn't deny it....

You never know what a summer job will lead to. In the summer of 1986, Hersey Hawkins, a quiet, genial basketball star at Bradley University, hired on as a clerk for a Peoria, Ill., law firm....

The two giants among the , Notre Dame and DePaul, made the Sweet 16 last spring, and each has a gem of a point guard returning. David Rivers of the Irish is back up to 180 pounds, having fully...