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Rutgers's biggest advantage is probably experience--four starters are seniors, including the leading scorer, a 6-7 pivotman named Bob Greacen. Harvard coach Bob Harrison's scouting reports indicate that the Knights make few mistakes and play well together as a team...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Cagers Meet Rutgers In Xmas Trip Tune-up | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...truss, felt ready to give way. "I was so tired," he said later, "that I didn't think I could stand, let alone run. I decided to gamble. Even if I fell down and died, that was better than losing." West arched a soft pass to Pivotman Rudy LaRusso. Heinsohn darted in front of LaRusso and slapped the ball away. He stumbled, somehow regained his balance, lurched down court-and sank an easy layup that put the Celtics ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Basketball: Better to Die than Lose | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

Kentucky, No. 1, which last week crushed Georgia Tech, 93-42, for its 106th consecutive home-court victory. A perennial threat, Kentucky is sparked by the scoring of Pivotman (6 ft. 4 in.) Cliff Hagan (21 points a game), the all-court play of 6 ft. 3 in. Guard Frank Ramsey, and the playmaking of little (5 ft. 10 in.) Captain Bobby Watson. Average home attendance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball's Big Ten | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...Vern Mikkelsen-were seesawing the Trotters dizzy from a double pivot. At the half, Minneapolis was breezing along in front, 40-29. Although the Globetrotters put two and sometimes three men on Mikan, they could not stop the big fellow, and loose-jointed "Sweetwater" Clifton, the Trotters' pivotman center, fouled out trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Night of Reckoning | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...given night, Pivotman Macauley was good for at least 18 points a game. But because L.I.U. double-teamed him (he had two men guarding him), he didn't bother to shoot much. He just kept feeding the ball to the open man. The Billikens led at half time 38-20, and the crowd was disappointed when they didn't pour it on in the second half. But the Billikens were content just to win (58-47). Macauley had scored only 10 points, but he had set up most of the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stop St. Louis! | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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