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UK's Miller, Ellis, Manuel Chosen For Summer Play
University of Kentucky sophomore Derrick Miller has been selected to play for the South basketball team in the United States Olympic Festival in mid-July. UK athletics director Cliff Hagan announced.
Miller, a 6-6 guard from Savannah, Ga., averaged 5.2 points and 1.9 rebounds last season for the Wildcats.
UK coach Eddie Sutton will be coaching Miller's South club during the tournament which gets underway with preliminary rounds July 18-20 with the finals scheduled for July 22 in Chapel Hill. N.C.
Hagan also announced the incoming freshmen LeRon Ellis and Eric Manuel are two of the 20 finalists to be named to the U.S. team that will compete in the Junior World Championship Basketball Tournament in Bormio. Italy, July 23-30.
The two reported to Lawrence. Kan., for tryouts July 5. Kansas coach Larry Brown has been chosen as the coach of the U.S. team.
'"We're extremely pleased that these three players, in addition to Rex Chapman who will play on the Pan Am team, have been chosen to be part of our Olympic training program," Sutton said. "It is a very prestigious honor to be chosen to one of these teams and I feel they will represent the University of Kentucky very well."
Ellis averaged 23.0 points and 10.0 rebounds as a senior at Mater Dei High in Santa Ana, Calif., and was named California's Player of the Year.
Manuel, a native of Macon, Ga.. netted 24.0 points and 7.9 rebounds as Georgia's Player of the Year at Southwest Macon High.
Both were named to several prep Ail-American teams last season.
If Ellis and/or Manuel should not be chosen for the final 12-man roster for the Junior World Championship team, then either or both would participate in the Olympic Festival in Chapel Hill. Ellis would play for the West team and Manuel would join Miller and Sutton as a member of the South squad.
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Manuel And Pittman Meet Proposition 48 Guidelines; All Seven UK Recruits Now Eligible For '87-88 Season
Eric Manuel
John Pittman
University of Kentucky signees Eric Manuel and John Pittman have met the Proposition 48 requirements and will be eligible to participate during the 1987-88 season, according to UK head coach Eddie Sutton.
Both players met the necessary criteria in order to be eligible after taking the June 13 ACT, the last available date to take the test and still be able to play in the upcoming season. Under NCAA rules, incoming freshmen must score 14 or higher on the exam to avoid sitting out a season.
Manuel, a 6-6 forward/guard from Macon, Ga., averaged 24 points and 7.9 rebounds a game for Southwest High School. He was named to virtually every first-team All-America squad and was chosen as Georgia's Player of the Year for 1987.
"Naturally, we're quite pleased that Eric has qualified," Sutton said. "We felt all along that he is a quality student who did well in high school and will do well in the classroom in college. He should have a great future, not only on the court, but academically as well."
Pittman, a 7-0, 245-pound center from Rosenberg, Texas, was a consensus Ail-American at Terry High School last season. He averaged 20.7 points, 16.3 rebounds and 6.0 blocked shots per game.
Pittman took the test three times prior to June 13, and made dramatic improvement each time. Reportedly, Pittman posted scores of 4. 11 and 12 before his final testing date, in which he scored a 17.
Fletcher Walker, Pittman's high school
coach, said the big center made such a marked improvement soley on determination.
"He just dad-gum wanted to (meet Prop 48 requirements)," Walker was quoted as saying. "Each time he failed, he'd be disappointed, but not to the point of not wanting to take the test again. He kept saying he'd pass it. In our gym, we have three-foot tall letters on the wall that say: 'Rangers Never Quit.' From the moment that young man walked into the gym, he's lived up to that."
"I'm very pleased that John has met the requirements," Sutton said. "He has an outstanding future ahead of him, not only as an athlete, but also as a student.
"We're excited about our incoming freshmen. We felt each signee was not only an exceptional athlete, but a quality student. With everyone meeting the Proposition 48 standards, it just reinforces what we have felt about this group all along."
All seven UK recruits are now eligible for the upcoming season, which poses another problem. Kentucky has 16 players eligible for a basketball scholarship this falland only 15 scholarships to go around. At the time it was announced that Pittman had passed the test, Sutton was in North Carolina, where he was taking part in the Olympic Festival, and was unavailable for comment. His top assistant, James Dickey, declined to comment on how the Wildcats will meet the 15-scholarship limit when school starts in August.