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Thou Adams, Du John Lucas BY JAMES P. HERSH Asst. Sports Editor With many of last year's college basketball stars graduated, David Thompson is about the only familiar name on Tbe Gamecock's preseason All-America team. Instead of names like Walton, Barnes, Shumate and Wilkes, the nation's best basketball players are named Fogle, Adams, Lucas and Dunbar. And rather than playing at UCLA, Notre Dame or Providence, they are at Canisius, Oklahoma, Maryland and Houston. And the second team has players representing schools like Southern Methodist, Oregon and Alabama, in ad dition to traditional basketball schools like Marquette and Carolina, who is represented by Tom Boswell, a ~transfer from South Carolina State. First team All-Americas are: David Thompson, for ward, North Carolina State; Larry Fogle, forward, Canisius; Alvin Adams, center, Oklahoma; ,John Rlon Lee 1ps-on nbar, Fogle The Game First -team DAVID THOMPSON, NO] CAROLINA STATE LARRY FOGLE, CANISIUS ALVIN ADAMS, OKLAHOM JOHN LUCAS, MARYLANID LOUIS DUNBAR, HOUSTO? ----- ------ Lucas, guard, Maryland; and Louis Dunbar, guard, Houston. On the second team are: Ira Terrell, forward, Southern Methodist; Bo Ellis, forward, Marquette; Tom Boswell, center, Carolina; Ron Lee, guard, Oregon; and Charles Cleveland, guard, Alabama. Thompson, for the third year consecutively, is at the top of the list of the nation's best players, although for the past two years he had to share that spot with UCLA's Bill Walton. Averaging 26 points a game, Thompson led State to a 30-1 record last year, including the NCAA championship, with the only loss coming to UCLA in St. Louis. Thompson has been an All-America for two years, and it should go without saying that he leads any All-America list this year. . Fogle, the nation's leading scorer last year, is Thompson's running mate as a forward on the All-America first team. A junior who played his fresh man year at Southwestern Louisiana, Fogle transferred to Canisius after USL was placed on probation by the NCAA. Last year as a sophomore Fogle averaged 33.4 points-per game and was much better than he showed when USC's Mark Greiner held him to a season-low of 18 points last winter in the Coliseum. With two years of experience, Fogle should be even better this year. The center on the All America team is an unheralded junior from football-rich Oklahoma. Called by many writers the best player in the Big Eight, Adams had the best scoring average in his freshman and sophomore years, 22.6 last season. Adams, 8-9, applied for hardship status to turn pro, and was accepted. However, he changed his mind and will top , Lucas also cock All-Ameri tTH IRA TERR METHOD BO ELLIS, ,A TOM BOSW RON LEE, CHARLES David Thompson p lay his junior year in college. This summer Adams was the leading scorer on a team of Big Eight all-stars that toured Yugoslavia. Adams' name did not appear on any major first or second team All-America teams last -season, but with Walton, John Shumate and Marvin Barnes all graduated, he should begin to get the recognition he deserves. . The guards for the All America team are about as dissimilar as a pair could get. Lucas, 6-4, relies on quickness and speed to get the job done, while Dunbar, 6-9, relies on his superior height to overpower .his shorter opponents. But both are worthy of first team status. Lucas was the man who set up Tom McMillen and Len Elmore, Maryland's big men for the past two years. With those two graduated, and with Mosss Malone in Utah rather than at College Park, Lucas will be more in the spotlight than in his first two years at Maryland. Recognized as the best guard In the ACC, Lucas was both All ACC- in basketball and the 11-Am named to ca Team Second team ELL, .SOUTHERN IIST MARQUETTE ELL, CAROLINA DREGON CLEVELAND, .ALABAMA conference's singles champion in tennis last year. He and Maurice Howard are probably the best guard combination in the country and will have the Terrapins in the running for the ACC crown even in the absence of the big men they have had in the past. At Houston coach Guy Lewis never has been one to do things in a conventional manner, so it should not be surprising that he plays a 6-9 man at guard. Now a senior, Dunbar has been rejecting pro offers for two years. While Lewis says he is going to play Dunbar full-time at forward because he signed a high school All-America to play guard, don't be surprised to see Dunbar back at guard many times this season. He averaged 21.7 points there last year, and since Lewis likes to use big players, he will not pass-up the chance to use Dunbar at guard. The Gamecock's second team All-America is probably nearly as good as the first team. USC's Boswell is a sure pick even though he has not played a single minute of major college basketball. Several magazines have mentioned him highly, but none have taken the risk of going out on the limb to make him an All America choice. Boswell has the size, 6-9, to be a dominant force on the court, and he should fit in with Alexander English to give the Gamecocks a formidable frontcourt. Boswell played in the Pan American games this summer, even though he still has not proved that he can play major college basketball. However, it should not take long for him to prove his worthiness to be an All America choice. His match-up against Adams of Oklahoma in the second game of the season elite squad Louis Dunbar should be a sign of just how good Boswell will be. The second team forwards are SMU's Terrell and Marquette's Ellis. Terrell has the more im pressive statistics. He is a two year All-Southwest Conference choice and averaged 22 points, 13 rebounds and- a 53 per cent shooting mark last year. Ellis averaged only 12.2 points last year as a freshman, second on the NCAA runner ups, and 8.5 rebounds, but he should do better this year with Maurice Lucas moving up to the pros. Lucas's load will have to be shifted elsewhere, and Ellis will probably be called upon to score and rebound more this year. Pacific Eight conference players usually do not get the recognition they deserve unless they play for UCLA, but guard Lee may be too good to pass over. From Oregon, Lee joins Alabama's Charles Cleveland, who can play guard, forward or even center in some offensive alignments. Cleveland will be the guard for the second team AlI-America team. Bo Ellis