COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP : Chapman Has New Look, Runs Up 132 in Victory

If nothing else, Chapman’s 132-79 men’s basketball victory over Pacific Christian Saturday in Orange showed that things will be different this season around the Hutton Center.

It was the opening game for Coach Mike Bokosky, and the Panthers only took a half to show a major break from the past.

The Panthers had scored 71 by halftime, which is 11 more points than they averaged per game last season under Coach Bob Boyd.

Last season, the more-patient, deliberate Panthers once scored as many as 85; this time, they had 86 with more than 15 minutes left.

The 100-point barrier, which Chapman hadn’t broken since a 102-40 victory over Pacific Christian on Dec. 21, 1990, was surpassed with 10 minutes 24 seconds remaining.

It was the second highest-scoring total in Chapman history, surpassed only by a 141-54 victory over LIFE Bible in 1983.

The result against the Royals (2-1), a let-’em-shoot, fast-breaking team, likely won’t have much in common with the rest of the Panthers’ schedule, but for the players who endured last year’s 7-19 season, it had to feel good.

Jeff Gardner, a senior guard who averaged 7.7 points last season, scored a career-high 30. Vern Broadnax, a junior guard who averaged 5.0, scored 19 points, making five of 13 three-point shots.

Charles Ross scored 37 points for Pacific Christian.

--MARTIN BECK

Cal State Fullerton 80, Fellowship of Christian Athletes 69--Aaron Sunderland and Bruce Bowen each scored 18 points, and Kim Kemp added 16 and 11 rebounds for the Titans in an exhibition at Titan Gym.

Fullerton put the game away with an impressive 13-point run midway through the second half to bump a 59-47 lead to 72-47 with seven minutes remaining, but their overall play was ragged: Fullerton committed 28 turnovers (FCA had 34) and made only three of 18 three-point shots.

Junior college transfer Don Leary, whose outside shooting is expected to ease the departure of guard Joe Small, had a particularly rough debut, making two of 10 shots, including one of seven three-pointers.

“I don’t think that’s indicative of how we’re going to shoot three-pointers,” first-year Coach Brad Holland said. “We’ll be better. If not, every team in America will zone us.”