Word: alcindor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a growing suspicion among at least 20 college basketball coaches that they have just wasted two whole years working furiously on their defenses and doodling the name Alcindor on the backs of old envelopes. It was heartbreaking enough when Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., the most sought-after high-school basketball player in the U.S. two years ago, decided to pass up their scholarship offers and go to U.C.L.A. instead. It was worse when the coaches checked their schedules for 1966-67 and discovered that they would have to meet him in person. Now Lew Alcindor...
...Stopping Alcindor (pronounced Al-sin-der) is obviously a necessity for any team that has designs on the N.C.A.A. championship-this year, next year or the year after. The question is how. One coach suggested raising the height of the baskets from 10 ft. to 12 ft.; that proposal was discarded when it was found that Lew can leap up and nearly touch the top of the backboard-13 ft. above the floor. Another coach facetiously plugged for sinking the baskets into the floor like golf cups. "That way," he said, "it should at least take him longer to reach...
Three on One. No such disaster for Vic Bubas, the coach of Duke's No. 7-ranked Blue Devils. Bubas had scouted Alcindor all through his freshman season at U.C.L.A., and had a different plan. He also had a veteran team; All-America Guard Bob Verga and two other starters were back from last year's squad, which won 23 out of 26 games, wound up No. 3 in the nation...
...lack of height creates two difficulties: rebounding and guarding against opponents' big men. Wilson frets about rebounding, but actually it shouldn't be too bad. Gallagher, who averaged 15.6 points per game for the freshmen, is tough on the boards -- why, he once out-rebounded UCLA's Lew Alcindor...
...last, Lew was ready for a public game against the Bruin varsity, the No. 1-ranked college team in the U.S. Alcindor scored 31 points, pulled down 21 rebounds, blocked 7 shots, and the Brubabes clobbered the Bruins, 75-60. All of which may just make the U.C.L.A. freshmen the best team in the U.S.-considering that the varsity then went out and clobbered Ohio State...