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Alabama Signs Six To Basketball Pacts
What do CM. Newton, Winfrey Sanderson, John Bostick and Wendell Hudson have that hundreds of collegiate basketball coaches don't have but wish they did?
Recruiting finished, that's what.
"I've already got a tee in the ground," smiles recruiting coordinator Winfrey Sanderson, after returning from the NCAA finals and the national coaching convention.
"We think we've had an outstanding recruiting year," says head coach CM. Newton. "We had a lot of quality players in Alabama this year, and we were fortunate to invite some really top young men to join our program."
The Crimson Tide has signed six players that will join next year's Alabama basketball team and hopefully get Bama back on the 20-win track again.
From 1973 through 1977 Bama was the nation's third winningest team, with a 114-28 record for those five years, and a percentage of .802. Only UCLA at 135-17 and .888 and Marquette with a 126-22 mark and an .851 percentage were ahead of Alabama.
The 1978 season saw the Tide dip to 17-10 and a fourth place finish in the SEC.
"1 enjoyed coaching this year's team," says Newton. "They played up to their potential, and as a coach, that's all you can ever ask. All of us were disappointed not to keep our 20-game streak going, but we return some top talent and with our young
people coming in, we'll be competitive again. Maybe even a contender." The six signed are:
(1) Carl Mitchell, a 6-7 forward from Dothan high school who was a member of the Super Five in Alabama, averaged 18.9 points and 13.9 rebounds and was a defensive intimi-dator.
(2) Eddie Phillips, a 16-year-old product of Parker High in Birmingham who is 6-6 and weighs 220. He averaged 17 points and 19 rebounds and took his team to the 4A finals before losing by one point. Phillips was named "Mr. Basketball" among the Super Five players.
(3) Joe Hancock, a 6-5 guard from Southern Union Junior College, who scored 16 points and rebounded 12 times a game. He was named the Most Valuable Player in the National Little College Athletic Association's national tournament, which Southern Union won. He played his prep basketball at Notasulga High School.
(4) Eddie Adams, a 6-0 guard from Central high in Phenix City. Adams is a long-range shooter who average 33.4 points and got 12 rebounds. He, too, was a member of the prep Super Five in Alabama and had a single game high of 57 points against Banjamin Russell of Alexander City in the 4A regional tournament. He scored 27 in a losing cause in the state tournament. Adams was a high school teammate of Ken Johnson, a freshman starter on this year's Bama team.
(5) Maurice Myers, who is 6-8, 210
SEC Statistics
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3	. Stan Pietkiewicz, Auburn		27		128	4	.7
' 4	Anthony Murray, Alabama		27		127	4	 7
5	Ethan Martin, LSU		26		118	4	 5
6	Henry Jackson, Mississippi		27		117	4	 3
7	Bubba Price, Auburn		26		109	4	.2
8	Richard Glasper, Florida		27		109	4	.0
9	Kenny Higgs, LSU		27		108	4	.0
10	Ray White, Miss. State		27		91	3	4
	FREE THROW SHOOTING		- TOP		15		
PI	ayer & School	G		FTM	FTA	AVE.	
1.	Kyle Macy, Kentucky	32		115	129	89	1
2.	Stan Pietkiewicz, Auburn	27		128	146	87	7
3.	Myles Patrick, Auburn	27		65	79	82	3
4.	Mike Rhodes, Vanderbilt	27		103	127	81	1
5-	Larry Brewster, Florida	27		91	114	79	8
6.	Ethan Martin, LSU	26		66	84	79	0
7.	Mike Mitchell, Auburn	27		105	135	77	6
8.	Jack Givens, Kentucky	32.		102	134	76	1
9-	Mike Phillips, Kentucky	31		66	87	75	8
10.	John Stroud, Mississippi	27		74	98	75.	5
1 1 .	Terry Crosby, Tennessee	25		79	106	74.	5
12.	James Lee, Kentucky	31		78	105	74.	3
13-	Kenny Higgs, LSU	27		112	152	73.	7
14.	Charles Davis, Vanderbilt	25		63	87	72.	4
15-	Rick Robey, Kentucky	32		126	175	72.	0
	(COMPLETE AND FINAL SEC	STATIST		ICS	FOR 1977	-78)	
pounds and played for Holy Family High in Birmingham. Myers averaged nearly 25 points and 19.8 rebounds a game for a Class 1A school who played mostly larger schools all season. Holy Family won the 1A state title Myers' junior year.
(6) Phillip Lockett from Livingston High School. Lockett is 6-8^ and averaged 21 points, 16 rebounds and eight blocked shots. His team went 24-4 and likely would have won the 3A championship had he not suffered a hairline foot fracture during the tournament.
Alabama's basketball coaches thus have rounded up the much-needed size for the front line, one big guard they wanted and an outstanding outside shooter.
Added in with SEC Player of the Year Reginald King, freshman starter Johnson, fast-improving Chris Brag-well in the middle and guards Kent Looney and Robert Scott, the 1979 Crimson Tide basketball team could be fun to watch for its fans and tough for the opposition.
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