CHITWOOD GIVES CSUN A FRESH START.Byline: Jill Painter Staff Writer Calvin Chitwood was in Phoenix for a few days of vacation, but that didn't mean a break from basketball. Chitwood, Cal State Northridge's freshman standout, was at Paradise Valley High School Paradise Valley High School, Phoenix, Arizona, was the first of five high schools built in the Paradise Valley Unified School District. Featuring an A/B Block Schedule, students have the opportunity to be enriched with a wide selection of courses in Athletics, Arts, and Technology. to work on his jump shot and free throws, and to give an impromptu A Windows query and reporting tool from Cognos with support for a large variety of databases. It is capable of generating cross tabs for spreadsheets such as Excel, Lotus for Windows and Quattro Pro for Windows. speech to his former teammates on his first free morning. Chitwood, son of former NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= player Roy Hinson Roy Hinson (born May 2, 1961 in Trenton, New Jersey), is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1st round (20th overall) of the 1983 NBA Draft. , has established himself as a leading candidate for the Big West Conference's Newcomer of the Year. Chitwood is averaging 9.9 points for the Matadors (2-6), who open conference play today with a home game against Cal State Fullerton. ``In high school, one of the things I learned was to get after it in practice,'' Chitwood said. ``If you do that, games are easier. I was shocked when I found that out in college.'' Chitwood made CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge coach Bobby Braswell's starting lineup For the line of action figures, see . A starting lineup in sports refers to the set of players actively participating in the event when the game begins. The players in the starting lineup are commonly referred to as starters, whereas the others are substitutes by the opener at Oklahoma and scored a team-high 19 points on 8-of-9 shooting. Freshmen don't usually command a lot of minutes unless they know the system and play defense. Chitwood has done both and provided another consistent scoring threat to go with with senior Ian Boylan, who leads the Matadors in scoring at 13.6 a game. Chitwood, a 6-foot-5 forward, has picked up the slack 1. (operating system) slack - Internal fragmentation. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to store useful information. 2. (jargon) slack because senior Eto Onyenegecha has been battling knee tendinitis tendinitis or tendonitis Inflammation of a tendon sheath, due to irritation of this thin, filmy tissue by overuse of the tendons, which slide within them, or to bacterial infection. . Onyenegecha played in CSUN's win Dec. 21 over Cal Baptist but has averaged just 14 minutes. ``Calvin's been huge - I can't even describe it,'' Braswell said. ``With Eto's knee problem, and him not being where he wants to be, having Calvin come in as a freshman and play with the confidence he's playing with and doing the things he's doing, it's been great.'' For all of Chitwood's success, CSUN is 2-6. The Matadors had respectable losses at Oklahoma (82-72) and Arizona State (67-66), but losses to Tennessee State and Lafayette weren't exactly ringing endorsements. ``It's just a record,'' Chitwood said. ``We're starting conference 0-0, so it's like we're starting over. There are games we should've won, and it's been a good learning process.'' Jill Painter, (818) 713-3615 jill.painter(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: CHITWOOD Box: (1) CAL STATE FULLERTON at CSUN - Jill Painter (2) EXPERTS' consensus: DOHN'S PICKS (3) AP TOP 25 |
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