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Mlke Estep   January 1988 Volume 1, No. 10
GRAPHICS COORDINATOR
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BUSINESS MANAGER ~ `     Eddie Goes OI19-Oh-OHS G ,
D¤¤¤¤ Cembs ° {       , An exclusive question—and-answer session about basketball with
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C'a"€'"'c€ Miller J'- s. - {   85 years ago this month, on a cold January morning in 1903, I
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER A0 .   gymnastics coach Walter H. It/lustaine reluctantly held the tlrst .
Tim Walden 5 I` t .._   basketball practice at the University of Kentucky (then called
    ·¢   Kentucky State College). Read about the humble beginnings
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS .   of the nation’s most successful program. By Russell Rice
Rick Bolus, Bob Gibbons  
» Russell Rice   i Down Memory Lane 20
COLOR SEPAHATIONS ‘·I·‘‘   A     Kentucky wen 96 games during Jim Masters four-year career,
I C . Dwang Casey but it’s a loss, against arch-rival Louisville no less, that the Ft.
Computer CO Or Orporatmn Wayne, Ind., native remembers most. Jim recalls UK’s 80-68
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. time plays. There are some great players that     Question: Vl/ou/d you go over the progress Z
l’ve known through the years that never were   - i   l of the freshmen (excluding redsh/rts)?  
able lc maybe make as many blg plays as Eddie Sutton· Well of the four freshmen i
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remember that play in Indianapolis when he freedom to go out there running and jump- iii (loc? lizlédlaliwolgd be  lc Manuel ENC  
stripped the ball, dove on the floor and in a ing. So, it is taught, yet when the time comes L aigue Eiies if aye dexcei Emi basketball
vew unorthodox position he was able to get ips aimcsi an instinctive piay_ dgnipigéiieisgd igggritpégdehgmogro   I
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is that Something he does on his own? performance, but he really dldn‘t have that Siag€.s_ Biii in the Six gam€S_ Eric has piayed
Eddie Sutton; Just like we give certain much of ell dPPddUl‘llY· His elllldde ie Qddd the best and LeRon has played well at times.
players offensive freedom, we do teach in he oerheoe hee lost eellle eelllldellee- Reggie (Hanson) nas not bggn given ing Op-
pidclicc lhctc Sic times YOU can gamble. Question: ls Derrick now bas/ca//y a portunity to play that much. Sean (Sutton)
When thc gamble is One where YOU Think il designated zone—buster or can he play knows his role. The times he’s played he’s i
might be advantageous to your ballclub then against a mar;-[O-mart defense? played very wg|l_ Hi; p|·Ob|gmi as it is {Oi ati
do SO. (EO) Davondet and Chapman atc 3 Eddie Sutton: l believe he can play against the players, is defensively, who does he i
couple ofthe players we give freedom to dou— the man, but l do believe he must unders— cover? The other night l would have liked to ‘
blc Up On the ball. Those atc SpOnl8ncOUS tand that his biggest value is to shoot. This put him in the ballgame (against UNCC) to i
pl8YSV YOU can show lhcni lJUl lhcy have to doesnt mean he can go out and mess up give Ed Davender some rest but l didn’t 2
acl On instinct. Whether Ot nOl they feel like in the other areas of the game. His team- believe he could cover (Jeff) West or (Byron)  
they can make the play. l would have to mates realize that he can shoot the ball. it Dinkins.That‘s whatitoomos downto. l know  
_ believe that the two players l lust mentioned we are struggling, whether it be against a offensively he can play against anybody. ln  
die the DSSI that W9 hdl/Gi but llln nOl going man or zone, when the shot comes along fact, Our ballclub runs very smoothly when  
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crazy college basketball is. l use this (exam-   .        
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l Tulsa beat Arkansas 68-47. The next week    
l Arkansas beat Ole Miss 79-40. So, that’s 60  A   V
_ points difference. Tulsa is now going to play   A `i‘     
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and Arkansas beat Ole Miss. So, if you look P t A gv`'     _ '
at figures of the games you’d say that Tulsa   ¤~t·A_AA_‘_,.
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  {  j When you reflect back on Kentucky’s
  f   championship season of 1978, immediately,
$ E   all the great stars come to mind: All-
    Americans Jack Givens, Kyle Macy and Flick
» lj   Fiobey; Mike Phillips, who teamed with
l     Fiobey to form Kentucky’s first "Twin Towers"
  ? Q  _‘ combination; super sixth-man James Lee.
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      the shadows, little-known reserve Dwane
5 C    Casey played as big a pan in the drive to the
A t    title as anybody.
  G   "(Dwane was) one of the most important
    I 1 people on the team that year," Givens was »
      quoted as saying in Ben Nelli’s book The '
Eff IY Winning `Hadition: A History of Kentucky ,
E Q     ;€ VW/dcat Basketball. "Everyday in practice and  
  · ,     every minute he was in a game he showed  
T     more heart and desire than any guy l have I
Q ever seen. Considering the limited amount
_ ,,,.,..-· of time he got to play