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Coached by defensive wizard Bobby Knight. Indiana has four starters returning from last year's 17-8 NIT team. However one of these starters, senior guard Bootare White has lost his job. White has been replaced by freshman phenom Quinn Buckner...
...Buckner, a high school All-American from Thornridge High School in Phoenix. Illmore started practice Monday after playing safely for the football team. In the intersquad scrimmage earlier in the week Buckner scored 18 points and showed sparks of brilliance. He is not yet in top condition but Knight said yesterday. "He definitely is one of my top five ball players...
...Joining Buckner in the backcourt will be senior Frank Wilson. Knight said yesterday that Wilson would have the job of covering Jim Fitasimmons. The senior guard scored 13 points in the intersquad scrimmage...
Transferred to the First Naval District Headquarters in Boston-"the elephant's graveyard," as Navy line officers call it-Alexander will be replaced by Captain Joseph E. Snyder Jr., 43, a veteran of Leyte Gulf and Okinawa's Buckner Bay. No other heads are likely to roll, but many Navymen must be shaking theirs over the fall of Dick Alexander...
...Letter Writer Buckner [July 1] is a naive fellow. Certainly we are not fighting solely "so college kids can go to school," but that reason would rate somewhere on the list if servicemen made lists of such things. We are fighting, yes, because we have to, for the same reasons our fathers had to. We are fighting because our Commander in Chief believes that we are the best instrument for carrying out national policy...