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By Staff Reports
Arizona Daily Wildcat
November 7, 1997

The 15th Annual Veterans' Day Race is Sunday at 8 a.m. at Reid Park. The event consists of a 10K race and a 2 mile Fun Run/Walk and includes a wheelchair division. Anyone can register today from 1 to 6 p.m. at Performance Footwear, 1722 E. Speedway or tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. It costs $10 today and $12 after that. Check in on Sunday is between 6:30 and 7 a.m.

Briefly

The defending champion Arizona basketball team was selected to finish first in both major polls and in the Pacific 10 Conference yesterday by members of the media.

With their top eight players returning, the Wildcats received 30 first-place votes in Associated Press' preseason poll. Kansas, which received 29 votes is second.

''My feeling about preseason polls is they're the best guess people can make. Really, that's where it is right now,'' UA coach Lute Olson said.

The No. 1 ranking is the first for Arizona since 1988-89 when the Wildcats held it for four weeks. Duke, North Carolina, and Clemson complete the top five.

Arizona received 16 of the 30 first place votes in the preseason USA Today/ESPN coaches basketball poll. Duke had six first place votes and tied with North Carolina, which had one first place vote, for second. Kansas (7 first place votes) and UCLA rounded out the top 5.

Pac-10 media allotted the Wildcats 22 of the possible 27 first-place votes, while UCLA got the remaining five votes and was picked to finish second. Stanford, Washington and California fill the top five. Arizona State was picked last.

Playboy magazine named Miles Simon and Mike Bibby to its annual preseason All-America Team. It also chose Arizona's Lute Olson as coach of the year. The magazine did pick UCLA to win it all this year, however, listing UA as No. 4.

The magazine places Duke in the No. 2 slot, followed by North Carolina, Arizona and Kansas at No. 5.

By the Numbers

Years the Tucson-based postseason bowl game was named the Copper Bowl before yesterday's multi-year, multi-million dollar sponsorship deal with the Tempe-based computer company Insight Enterprises, Inc. renamed it to the Insight.com Bowl.