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...turned out, it was the experts who were embarrassed. The man responsible for the red faces was U.S. Coach Hank Iba, 64, the grand old man of U.S. college basketball from Oklahoma State University. Iba worked so hard at molding his players into a cohesive unit that he lost his voice. They responded by rattling off eight straight victories, including a surprisingly easy 73-58 triumph over Yugoslavia. They also got a big break when the Yugoslavs beat Russia 63-62 in the semifinals-thereby ruling out any confrontation between the U.S. and the favored Russians...
Coach Don Raskins of Texas West ern College was reminiscing before the finals of the N.C.A.A. championship in which his Miners would face the na tion's top-ranked Kentucky Wildcats. Raskins used to play under Oklahoma State's legendary Hank Iba, and "one night after a game, I fell asleep listening to him talk about stopping the fast break. He hit me with an eraser. If I missed anything then, it'll surely show up here." Haskins, it turned out, did not miss much. While he yelled encouragement from the sidelines, Western's all-Negro...
Sixteen hundred fans came to the IBA last night to watch Princeton All-American Bill Bradley put on a show, but when they left they were talking only about Keith Sedlacek, Merle McClung, and the rest of a brilliant Harvard team which had ripped the Tigers apart...
...Crimson's performance last night could have thrown a fright into any team in the country; this evening against Penn the Key problem will be to avoid the effects of a let-down. At any rate, they'd better leave those extra 300 seats up in the IBA. Harvard basketball may have won quite a few converts yesterday
...Fencing vs. M.I.T. at 2 p.m., IBA...