YEARBOOK_1974

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URI Basketball

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"As a coach, I have to be very pleased wiih the way the game The final of basketball was played over our 25 games this year. record of 11-14 is incidental as to how the club performed. Thai's the way URI coach Jack Kraft summed up his first aI season al Kingston after 12 highly successful campaigns Villanova in which 11 of his teams went to post-season "

tournaments.

We did things that are absolutely necessary for a good team, making mistakes, naturally, but this comes through inexperience and perhaps a bit more talent on the part of the individual," "

Kraft concluded. "Bul we did play some good defense which is ultra-important, and we did play as a leam, practicing our fundamentals. This is in his firsl year al the no more than a coach can ask of a team helm.

"

The Rams did indeed have

a

"good" season when one

campaign when the team finished the history of URl) and were (the fifth in the Yankee Conference with a 5-6 mark. This year's club had a 6-5 conference stale, goodfor fourth place. Kraft's firsl leam al Kingston will not go inlo the record books compares il lo the 1972-73

with

a

7-18 record

worst in

Merguerian


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