Word: backcourts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard plays City College of New York in the Big Town of Friday, December 9. The Beavers won the City University Championship last year paced by a backcourt of Rich Silvera and Ken "Pogo" Collins. Silvera averaged 16.6 points per game last year and is CCNY's all-time leading scorer with over 1300 career points...
...flung his arm toward Brown when the coach sent in a replacement. Simpson, an All Star at Denver before he was traded during the offseason, could not adjust to his "sixth-man" role and told reporters he wanted out. Mean while, Brown was not exactly winning friends and influencing backcourt men. Porter felt belittled by him in practice and somehow Brown contrived to irritate most everyone else on the roster...
...biggest transition in New York roundball, however, is taking place at 119th Street and Broadway. Columbia's head basketball coach Tom Penders, the dean of the new breed of young, dynamic coaches, is building a team around a sophomore backcourt of Ricky Free and Alton Byrd that should make New York fans forget the heyday of Jim McMillian and Heyward Dotson, the Kramer-Hairston era at NYU, and the glory days of Fordham under brilliant coach Digger Phelps...
...visiting Knicks ignored the switch at first, padding their lead to 96-90 before the Celtics' playoff desire took hold. Providence grad Kevin Stacom moved into the backcourt with Olympic-champion Jo Jo White to spark the Celtics in their late drive...
Veteran John Havlicek, who had been playing in the backcourt in the first three periods, moved to the front line for the decisive fourth quarter...