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Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago; WTS Pharmaceutical, Rochester, N.Y.; Mennon Co., Morristown, N.J.; American Hospital Supply Corp., Evanston, Ill.; Acme Markets Inc., Philadelphia; Borden Co., N.Y.C.; General Foods Corp., White Plains, N.Y.; Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati...
...Didn't Work." With Robertson in the lineup, Cincinnati was a run-and-shoot team that delighted fans with its hipper-dipper attack-but never won a national championship. When Jucker took over, Cincinnati abruptly became deliberate and defense-minded. "I asked myself where I was going to make up all those points," he says. "I decided that maybe if we gave up only 40 points a game, we wouldn't need to score much. But I knew I was asking for trouble. If it didn't work, I was dead." It worked so well that Jucker...
...assistant at Cincinnati before moving up to the top job. Jucker, 45, is a master of such complicated tactics as the Backdoor Trap and the Swing-and-Go, plays designed to spring a Cincinnati player, all alone, under the enemy basket. He dotes on "the science of percentage basketball, " computes the mathematical odds on the success of every maneuver he orders the Bearcats to make on court. Methodical on offense, Cincinnati concentrates on ball control, passing the ball back and forth, patiently waiting for an enemy defense to make the error that will leave a Bearcat player open...
Elbows & Springs. Most topflight college teams rely primarily on the all-round wizardry of one gifted player. Kentucky has its Cotton Nash, Duke has Art Heyman, and pre-Jucker Cincinnati had Robertson. This year's Bearcat squad has no one player whose talent towers over the rest; instead, it is a well-coordinated collection of specialists. Center George Wilson is a 6-ft. 8-in. giraffe from Chicago who turned down 89 other college offers to go to Cincinnati; his job is to control the backboards, and his sharp elbows have helped him pull down 81 rebounds...
Louis, Drake, Tulsa, North Texas State), has never crossed Coach Juckers mind-or so he says. But it sometimes occurs to rival coaches. "I saw Cincinnati beat Kansas," says Joe Swank, whose own Tulsa team boasts a 5-0 record, "and they just looked invincible. I couldn't sleep after I watched them play...