Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game time, the odds makers had installed U.C.L.A. as an eight-point fa vorite on the strength of a tougher schedule and no losses since the Houston upset. But no one remotely expect ed anything like the slaughter that followed. Attacking from the first tipoff, Coach John Wooden's Bruins outran, outpassed, outshot, and outrebounded the Cougars. Final score: U.C.L.A. 101, Houston...
...slaughter was over, the first question was how Houston could ever have beaten U.C.L.A. The second was why the sportswriters could have considered the January game anything but a fluke, a good team catching a great team on a very off night. Without making excuses, U.C.L.A.'s Coach Wooden at the time pointed out that 7-ft. If -in. Lew Alcindor was still seeing double, after an eye injury, that Guard Mike Warren, the team's playmaker, was weak with...
Last week Wooden's Bruins were all healthy, and hungry as their name. Every one of the five starters scored in double figures, played with poise, aggressiveness and precision rarely seen outside the pros. There was Alcindor, pounding Houston shots right back at the shooters, sinking soft hooks, seizing 18 rebounds and clearing the lane for the driving lay-ups of Lucius Allen; Mike Warren, brilliant with his passing and playmaking; Lynn Shackelford, killing the Cougars with his left-handed jump shots from the corner; and Mike Lynn, matching Allen and Alcindor with 19 points...
...could have been worse. When the U.C.L.A. lead reached an astonishing 44 points with 5 min. to go, Wooden mercifully removed his starters one by one. Alcindor left with 2:04 to play, and raised his long right arm high in the air with the index finger extended to signify No. 1. Who could argue? Said Houston Coach Guy Lewis: "That was the greatest exhibition of basketball I've ever seen in my life...
...that he urinates on a woman. Then there is the fellow whose sleep is troubled by a nocturnal emission, and next morning he frantically hides his shorts from the prying eyes of an older woman. Not to mention the daredevil who copulates with a nimble Philippine girl on a wooden bench while she chats nonchalantly with a waitress passing...