Word: iba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confess the whole business to his commander. Quickly the government rounded up 14 sergeants and corporals, opened a military court to investigate the affair. As the noncoms blabbed, the court arrested a group of army and aviation officers. Then it netted two big fish: elderly (71) ex-President Carlos Ibañez del Campo and Colonel Ramón Vergara Montero, retired air force chief...
This season, Iba's "slow death" is more deliberate and painful than in previous years. Flashy Texas U. bucked up against the Aggies and bounced back with its horns twisted, 32-31. It was Texas' first defeat. St. Louis U. (TIME, Jan. 12) was rampaging along at a 64-points-a-game pace until Iba's men sat on them, 33-30. It was St. Louis' first defeat...
...Chicago fortnight ago, DePaul's coach decided to administer some of its own poison to Iba's Aggies. At one point in the game, a DePaul player knelt down on the floor and put the ball in front of him, and dared the Aggies to come after it; instead they stood in their defensive positions. With tactics like that, DePaul out-slowed the Aggies, 32-31. The defeat only convinced the Aggies that slow basketball is winning basketball. Last week the Aggies sludged past Tulsa (42-27), and gave arch-rival Oklahoma U. a lesson...
...Hank Iba insists that "firewagon basketball is only for a crew of firemen." He keeps hammering "ball control" into his players until they dream about it. Iba's first rule: "Never shoot unless you have the percentages with you that the shot will be good." There is only one ball in a basketball game, he likes to say, and as long as you have it the other team can't score...
...trade, Iba's stalling technique (after getting a slim lead) is known as "the deep freeze." The play is turned over endlessly about 15 feet outside the foul circle. The trick : make them come out and get you. When they do, they will leave a lane open for you to break through. Iba insists that the old way, which is his way, is scientific basketball: "Anyhow, it's not indoor shinny...