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The American University Bas- ketball Team enioyed the most successful season ot its history, finishing with a 21-5 record and a first time bid to the NIT. From the win over Rider Col- lege in Trenton, NJ. to the loss to Louisville at Madison Square Garden, the season was fantas- tic. An early season win over St. John ' s of New York sent happy students home for vacation. While at home we read of tournament victories in the Roanoke Classic in Virginia, over the defending small col- lege champion Roanoke and our win in the Presidential Classic over George Washing- ton University. Then a strange mid-season slump occurred. We lost three of eight games, but still had a glamorous 14-4 record. First St. Joseph ' s, then surprisingly GW and Temple, leaving the still hopeful Eagles in jeopardy of losing the coveted NIT bid. But the team came through. Washington and Thomas were phenomenal. Wilbur scored 34 points against King ' s College and 33 points against Towson State averaging 23.9 over the last seven games. Kermit aver- aged 23.1 points and 21.8 rebounds. In a never to be for- gotten performance he scored 40 points, 26 rebounds, and 8 blocked shots against George- town in his final home game at Fort Myer. The rest of the players were strongly supportive in both their playing ability and their spirit. Forward Pete DeHaven, much maligned during a shooting slump, shot 50% down the stretch, scoring 22 key points in a big win over LaSalle. He played the same strong defense that held St. John ' s All-American Bill Schaeffer to four points in a half. lohnnyLloyd, recovering from sitting out a year, did it all against Duquesne, scoring 29 points. He averaged 18.3 points over the last six games, lunior guard Steve G arrett scored 39 points in the seven games and had as many assists, while continuing to play his strong overall floor game. The bench contributed in key spots. Bill Mann had 12 points against Duquesne and 8 points against LaSalle. )im Neurohr, the high scorer against West Chester, made 14 points. Bill Ulbin started against Fairleigh Dickinson and had key steals and rebounds that aided the victory. Bob Rosenfeld and Bill Demharter also added needed depth. Demharter stood out against Gettysburg with 15 points and 13 rebounds. Rosy made eight points against Hofstra. Lenny Lock- hart, Art Perry and Paul Wholey also chipped in at times to aid the cause. Then the NIT came and, de- spite the loss to Louisville, Ker- mit showed why he was an All-American making 29 points, while Wilbur made 26. Coach Tom Young ' s charges did well for themselves and they gave a lot of us more en- joyment than perhaps we thought possible at AU. The screaming thousands at Fort Myer, the standing ovations in the Tavern, the anxiety while waiting for the NIT bid, and then the 2200 tickets sold at AU alone, the agony of falling 22 points behind Louisville in the first half, and the ecstasy of pulling within five in the sec- ond. All these things were AU Basketball in the memorable 1972-73 season.
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TOM YOUNG The General of the Ameri- can Revolution said farewell to his troops in April and moved up the coast to take Northern New lersey. Tom Young took a team that four years before had a disasterous 4-19 season and turned it into an Eastern power. Leaving AU with a 21-5 record, Coach Young resigned on April 23 and moved to Rutgers. He will be missed. Tom Young, with help from Kermit Wash - ington, Wilbur Thomas, and Coaches )oe Boylan and Tom Davis, turned American Uni- versity Basketball around and brought it to its highest level in its hist(jry. Despite playing in a disgraceful gym on Massachusetts Avenue, and having to travel out of state to every home game. Young recruited and coached the players that brought AU national recognition along with its first NIT bid. It was AU this year at Madison Square Garden with such as Notre Dame, Southern California, Louisville, North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Rutgers, and Minnesota — schools with innumerable times the basketball reputation of our own. While it was Kermit Washing- ton who put us on the map, it was Tom Young who took a chance on Kermit Washington. It was Young who used other players that didn ' t have the reputations that players from GW and Georgetown had upon recruitment. And it was Young whose teams los t just twice in ten battles with the other two schools in the area, schools with larger reputations, larger budgets, and more publi- cized Tallent. For it is almost impossible for any major college coach, no matter who he is, to compete with the facilities that we have here at AU. Tom Young did compete and that is his great- est achievement. P.S. KERMIT WASHINGTON Statements of praise become amazingly inadequate when you try to describe an athlete, student, and person like Kermit Washington. As an athlete consider his records: Second leading rebounder in the country as a sophomore. Led the nation in rebounding his junior and senior years. A career 20 point per game scoring average. A career 20 rebound per game average. Honorable Mention All- American as a junior. Recognized as one of the five best basketball players in the country in being named to the Associated Press All-American team his senior year. Kermit ' s talents in the class- room proved to be equally im- pressive as those he displayed game after game on the bas- ketball court. He graduated with a B-plus average in his major, psychology. Further tes- timony to his talents as a stu- dent-athlete was provided by him being awarded a NCAA postgraduate scholarship to pursue his education. These could not have come to be were it not for that that makes up the person of Kermit Washington. A sense of dedi- cation, self-discipline, sensi- tivity, and intelligence came together to make up the per- sonality and spirit of Kermit Washington. Whatever life holds in store for him, the Tal- on staff as well as the AU com- munity would like to thank Kermit Washington for an ex- citing 4 years of AU basketball and a glimpse of a fine individ- ual. After the players Tom Young recruited have graduated, this latest golden era may be over.
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