Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-03-14
MARYLAND

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here; Kentucky, Notre Dame
or Indiana from the Mideast;
Kansas State or Cincinnati
from the Midwest, and San
Francisco or Seattle from the
Far West.
Crowd Backs Terps
Maryland, the favorite of
the anti-University of North
Carolina fans last Saturday in
the conference finals in Ra-
leigh, figures to be a strong
crowd favorite tonight, accord
ing to the home folks. mas
much as North Cardinals de-
Tending national champions or
Duke cannot be here, the
crowd solidly will back the
Terps.
Red Brown, former coach at
West Virginia, and the present
athletic director, was an early
arrival here yesterday in a COM
mittee role, he was sorry to
say, and he had to like Mary
land over the Owls.
Temple may have the
f1ashiest team" Brown said,
but I've learned to respect
Maryland. I used to play them,
and we're hopeful of getting
them on our schedule in the
future. I've seen them play
this year.
Bud Millikan's teams don't
make many mistakes. and they
can run with Temple or slow
them down. It should be a
terrific ball game whether they
run with each other or play it
close, and I believe it'll be a
pretty fast ball game"
Owls More Experienced
Temple was No. 5 in the final
Associated Press poll and Mary
land No. 6. Some like the
Owls because they're fresh,
relatively INFESTED of late and
much more experienced, while
the Terps are just of the
toughest conference tourna-
ment in basketball, and de-
pend greatly on two sopho-
mores, All Bunge and Charley
Mcneil.
But Bunge and Mcneil didn't
display any sophomore ten
denotes at Raleigh, and win
ming the conference title
seemed to do much more for
the Maryland team than it
might have taken out of it.
Temple has a weird defense
which has been widely publi-
cized, but the Terps have been
instructed to play their own
ball game. It's too late in the
season to come up with some
thing new.
Temple may have the re-
bounding edge in 6-foot-8 Tink
Van Patton and Jay Norman, a
6-foot-3 Negro with the spring
of jack-in-the- box. However,
Bunge, Mcneil and John Ma
cincik may give them trouble.
Nacincik's Task Tough
Nacincik. who always draws
the toughest defensive assign
menT, doubtless will be assigned
to Rodgers. and John appeared
not the least brothered with
the pressure of that task.
Maryland expects Temple to
play a four-man zone with one
man assigned to Nick Davis,
who hit on eight of his first
nine shots against Boston Col
lege with Harry Litwack, Tenn
pie coach in attendance.
That would be all right with
Mcneil, second leading scorer
of the ACC tournament, or
with Bunge. Nacincik or Tom
Young, the latter a 25-year-old
ex-serviceman who has come
up with sparkling scoring
performance several times this
year. They've all taken turns
as the leading scorer.
Temples Record 25-2
Temple lost only two games
this year. to Kentucky in triple
overtime and Cincinnati on the
same early-December road trip.
Since then the Owls are UNI
beaten, including New York's
Holiday Festival among their
triumphs.
Temple is 1872 on the season,
Maryland 21-6 against a
tougher schedule. Maryland
could have the best bench
strength in Gene Danko, Jim
Halleck and Bill Murphy, who
alternated as pressure players
in the ACC tournament.
The Observation-Disclosures
game figures to be a frees
wheeling affair between two
give-and-go-teams from the
New YorksNew England area.
But unless the complexion
changes drastically tonight, the
winner will be an underdog 70
Maryland or Temple tomorrow
fnighs.