Bob West Sunday Column mention Lamar basketball schedule

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One of the lures college basketball coaches sometimes use on recruits from out-of-state is to promise they will schedule a game as near to their home as possible. That’s how defending NCAA champion Villanova wound up opening the 1985-86 season at Lamar, with Rollie Massimino following through on a promise to West Orange-Stark’s Connally Brown. LU’s Steve Roccaforte is using the same tactic. He’s working on a game at the University of Florida for Devon Lamb and Brandon Davis, a game at DePaul for Tremell Adams and Stan Brown and a game at USC or UCLA for Donnally Minor and Orlando Brazier. Roccaforte also said Lamar will be playing at Kentucky in the near future, primarily because his former boss, John Calipari, is offering a $90,000 guarantee.

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