Word: zone
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U.C.L.A., wielding its zone press with awesome effectiveness, ran massive Michigan into the boards Saturday night in Portland, Ore., and beat the Wolverines 91-80 for the NCAA basketball championship. But Bill Bradley stole the show by scoring a record-smashing 53 points in the consolation game and leading Princeton to third place with a 113-82 victory over Wichita...
From then on, Princeton was unable to dent the Michigan lead. The Tigers had moved from a man-to-man into a zone defense, hopping like puppets to rattle the Michigan guards, but Russell and George Pomey merely found men open on the base line for easy baskets...
...halt with gravelly crunches, and dropped their ramps. Out poured hundreds of U.S. marines in full battle dress, with M-14 rifles held at high port. They were the vanguard of a 3,500-man force, the first marines since Korea to hit the beaches in a combat zone, and the first U.S. combat-as opposed to "advisory" -troops to arrive in South Viet...
U.C.L.A. lacks Michigan muscle and height, but has managed to compile a 26-2 record this year with excellent ball-handling, an adhesive zone press, and the consistent shooting of Gall Goodrich and Keith Erickson. Goodrich, a Lilliputian 6-1, is averaging 23 points per game and has sunk 54 per cent of his field goal attempts this year...
Clark and Daly, the new captain and the old, backboned the Crimson defense this year. Clark is the kind of defenseman who is best at moving the puck--toward the end of the season he set up several goals by starting with the puck in his defensive zone and carrying it all the way around the opponent's goal...