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There is no consensus on the best college player in the draft, but the top prospects are forwards Larry Johnson of UNLV, Billy Owens of Syracuse, Doug Smith of Missouri and Stacey Augmon of UNLV, center Dikembe Mutombo of Georgetown and guards Kenny Anderson of Georgia Tech and Steve Smith of Michigan State. Owens and Anderson are underclassmen...
...Tarkanian's approach to the NCAA's regulations. The coach's 1986 recruitment of New York City prep star Lloyd Daniels, who attended four high schools but never managed to graduate, is an example of his pursuit of a questionable player. (In the end, Daniels never wore a UNLV uniform.) Tarkanian points to the likes of Johnson and current guard Greg Anthony as signs that his system works...
...spent seven seasons at the community-college level, then moved up to California State University, Long Beach, in 1968. His reputation as a winner, and coach of winners, steadily soared. He made the NCAA Final Four for the first time in 1977. He earned his nickname at UNLV, where visiting teams referred to the small arena as the "shark tank," where the Runnin' Rebels and the crowd chewed up opponents...
...solicitude for less fortunate players. Joe Barnes, who came to Riverside after being cut from his school's team in Detroit, recalls barbecues and parties at the Tarkanian house. But these days it appears as if Tarkanian's players enjoy a bit more than ribs and sodas. At a UNLV team practice last week there was no cookout, but there were plenty of fancy grilles on the player-driven Mercedes and BMWs in the gym parking...
...small, balding man with dark, deep-set eyes, Tarkanian strikes a strong contrast with his tall, predominantly black charges. But his sense of easy authority over the team is equally marked. Says Lonnie Wright, a UNLV forward in the early 1970s: "Coach Tarkanian is the first strong male figure many of his players have ever had, and they have a great deal of respect for him. The Father Flanagan image is not too far from the truth...