As a capricious basketball season came to a close, a capricious team wavered into preeminence. Wyoming and Notre Dame, early-season powerhouses, had blown their fuses. Now N.Y.U., with theatrical laterally wins over St. John's (58-54) and Temple (59-57) and a rout of Baylor (72-57), had emerged as the nation's best.
The man behind New York University's late-blooming Violets was modest, blunt, hokum-hating Coach Howard ("Jake") Cann. Scornful of modern mastermind "systems," for 22 years he has coached the same kind of ball he played a quarter-century ago, when he was one of basketball's...
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