Wyoming to Supply CSUN Basketball Team With Answers to Championship Questions

Cal State Northridge heads into the 1985-86 basketball season without the top seven players from last year’s team and with a lot of questions. Many of the answers will be supplied in a hurry as the Matadors take on Division I Wyoming tonight in Laramie. On Saturday night, they play in Fort Collins, Colo., against Colorado State.

In Wyoming the Matadors will face a resurgent team that has a chance to take the Western Athletic Conference championship. Last season, the Cowboys finished seventh in the nine-team WAC.

Heading the Cowboys’ roster is Fennis Dembo, a 6-4 guard/forward who played so well as a freshman (13.5 points and 7.3 rebounds per game) that most people stopped making fun of his name by mid-season. He is flanked in the starting lineup by last season’s Los Angeles City Player of the Year, 6-7 Marco Fleming of Manual Arts, center Eric Leckner and guard Les Bolden.

In addition to losing virtually all of its top players from last season, CSUN heads into the opener without 6-7 center Ed Bowman and 6-7 forward James Hecht. Both are out with injuries.

The Matadors won the California Collegiate Athletic Assn. championship last season.