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Mitchell Wary Of Cav Attack

'Hoos To Face Indians

By JOHN MARKON

After proving their
superiority over such diverse
foes as the University of
Maryland and Baldwin-Wallace
College, the basketball
Cavaliers, in search of new
worlds to conquer, travel to
William & Mary to begin a
string of three games with
Virginia colleges.

The Indian basketball
brain trust seems to be greeting
the Cavs' arrival with an
understandable lack of
enthusiasm. Despite a 2-1
record overall and a 2-0
Southern Conference mark,
Indian Coach Warren Mitchell
played down his material when
reached by phone yesterday.

Coach Mitchell's team is on
the small side, starting no one
over 6-6. One of his two
starters at that height, forward
Jeff Trammell, leads the team
in both scoring (19 points per
game) and rebounding (13 per
game). His center will be Jim
Warns, also 6-6, the team's
second leading rebounder and the
third high scorer.

The other forward will be
Steve Seward, 6-4, and he'll be
joined by guards Gerry Fischer
and George Spack, a 16-points
per game scorer. Top reserves
will be "bit men" Mark Ritter
and Herb Moss and guard Terry
Seay.

The only Indian loss was to
Wake Forest by a 75-60 count
with the two wins over Furman
and The Citadel, pre-season
favorites for the Southern
Conference title. William &
Mary presently holds down
first place in that league and is
sure to be a strong contender.

The team was set back earlier
in the year by the loss of two
top players and has since been
striving to catch up. "We run
when we can on offense" said
Coach Mitchell "but we've
been scrambling a lot on
defense between man-to-man
and zone."

Scrambling on defense is one
thing the undefeated Cavaliers
have forced all four of their
opponents to do and William &
Mary should be no exception.
For the second consecutive
game the Wahoos, short by
ACC standards, will be facing a
team smaller than themselves.

No changes are expected in
the Virginia starting five as
Scott McCandlish will again be
the center flanked by forwards
Frank DeWitt and Jim
Hobgood and backed up by
guards Tim Rash and Barry
Parkhill. Parkhill is, of course,
the key man and is coming off
a record-setting 51-point game
against Baldwin-Wallace.

"I have to think the only
way to stop Parkhill"
continued Coach Mitchell, "is
to either shoot him or cut one
of his legs off." This opinion,
perhaps not stated in the same
words, is now gaining a few
sponsors, chief among them
being two ACC coaches named
Waters and Driesell.