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Cage Round-Up larly—But Looks Best I3y BILL TURNER Guest Columnist Rice Institute went into Monday night’s roundball affair against Vanderbilt with a chance to raise the Southwest Con ference’s cage reputation by leaps and bounds. The Owls did it, convincingly. They ripped a good Vandy team, 79-60, for their seventh straight victory this season. Rice also established itself as a big favorite in the forth coming Southwest Conference tournament slated for Houston Dec. 28-30. Vandy had whipped Baylor and SMU. ★ ★ ★ Owls In Whirlwind Start Previously, (he Owls had done more for Southwest Conference basketball than any team in recent years. Coach Don Suman’s crew had started the ca;>e season like a whirlwind, winning over little Sam Houston State twice with ease and another small col lege bunch from Stephen F. Austin of Nacogdoches. That alone caused little eye-brow raising . . . but the Owls fol lowed with three more wins that had everybody in the league talking. First, it was Tulane, the Greenies still mad about last year’s upset by the Rice crew. Rice won 56-49, but it was much easier than the score indicated. Then the Owls gained what Coach Sum an termed “the most satisfying victory” in his tenure at Rice. They edged powerful St. Johns, 85-81, in Madison Sqlare Garden. Next came Tennessee— and (he Owls won easily, 78-66. ★ ★ ★ TCU Probably Toughest in Stretch With their start, the Owls most likely will be the class of the upcoming tourney. Later on, when the conference wars begin—and when results really begin to count—most observers think it will be a battle between the Owls and Texas Christian’s Horned Frogs. Tire Froggies, off to a slow start with a 2-6 record, have absorbed defeats by Utah and Brigham Young in intersectional play. They have won only from two small-college Texas clubs, Abilene Christian and Austin College. All this happened, however, with a Frog regular, Ray Walden, riding the bench due to injuries. Texas, Arkansas, Baylor and SMU—strictly on early season play - look fairly even and should battle for the third spot, with any one of four capable of surprising Rice and TCU. Only the Texas Aggies seem out of if. A&M, with inexperience taking its Loll, is off to a not-too-sur prising start. The Aggies may make it tough for any one of these in season play. Aggie Cagers Look Toward Tourney Alter Slow Start; Flay Rice in Opener The Texas Aggie basketball team wound up its pre-Christmas affairs last week with a. 55-58 loss to Texas Tech and the next item on the agenda for Coach John Floyd’s Cadets will be the annual holiday Southwest conference tour nament in Houston, Dec, 28-80. Both teams led by nine points before. Tech finally won out with their greater height. The Raiders constantly threw up a barrage at the bucket with their four men ov er 0-4 and out-rebounded the Ag gies, 54-84, out,-manning A&M on the boards by 20. As the Aggies prepare for the SWC tourney—they open with Rice in the 7:80 pan. game Monday night, Dec. 28—Center Roy Martin, the 0-8’Jj Waxahachic junior, con tinues to lead A&M scoring with 87 points in six games for :i 14.5 fverage. Next is Guard Rodney Pirtle, Coleman junior, with GO followed by James Addison of Lipan with 54, John Fortenberry of North Lit tle Rock with 44, Don Moon of Minden with 27 and Joe Hardgrove of Fort Worth with 28. The seven SWC teams plus the guests from Alabama open the loop tournament at Rice gym Dec. 28 and there will be two games nightly and two each afternoon daily through Dec. 80. Every team will play three games. Monday winners go into the semi-final round Tuesday night with finals set for 0:80 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 80. Southern Methodist, won the tourney in Dallas last December with TCU grabbing the conference crown in March. A&M opens the regular confer ence warfare Jan. 5 against Baylor at College Station. 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McNutt DENTIST Office Over Ellison’s Pharmacy Entrance—J.U7 E. 26 St. Ph. 3588 Bryan Ur, Carlton It. Leo OPTOMETRIST SOSA East 26th Call 2-1662 for Appointment (Across from Court House) PREP FOR GATOR BOWL—Bobby Cavazos (left), great halfback of the Texas Tech football team and second team All-America, follows teammate tackle Jimmie Williams, 210 pounds, as they prepare for their January 1 meeting with Auburn in the Gatop Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo) Basketball Scores Tueoduy, December 22, 1993 THE BATTALION Page 3 Indiana Holds r I'op Cage Spot 1 lice Moves Up to Eleventh By ASSOCIATED PRESS Rice 79, Vanderbilt 60. Tulane 57, Wisconsin 55. (Ov ertime.) LaSalle 62, UCLA 58. Ohio State 106, Miami, Fla. 81. Cincinnati 81, Michigan 62. Loyola, (New Orleans) 79, De troit 63. Oklahoma A&M 65, Illinois 60, (Overtime). Iowa 78, Colorado 72. Louisiana State Univ. 79, North western 51. Memphis State 71, Baylor 64. Western Michigan 80, Loyola, (Chicago) 68. Bradley 79, Southern California 64. Kentucky 85, Duke 69. Oregon 84, Nebraska 68. Regis 74, Hardin Simmons 43. By ORLO ROBERTSON NEW YORK — </P> — Indiana’s unbeaten Hoosiers and Kentucky, winner of all five of its games, are still running one-two as the na tion’s leading college basketball teams. The Hoosiers, picked in the px - e- season poll as the team most likely to succeed and on top ever since, rolled up 933 points in this week’s Associated Press poll of sports writers and broadcasters. Ken tucky, seeking to regain the No. By BEN PHLEGAR NEW YORK—-UP) — Oklahoma A&M( the nation’s fifth-ranking basketball team, has had its re venge on the Big Ten for its only loss of the season. The Cowboys pinned the first defeat of the winter on fourth ranking Illinois last night, 65-60 in overtime, and they did it on the Illini’s own court at Champaign. The Oklahoma club’s lone setback so far was by one point in over time against Minnesota. Illinois was one of three major teams which lost for the first time last night. Rice whipped Vander bilt. 79-60 and top-ranking Indiana squeezed past Oregon State 76-72 in overtime. Kentucky’s resurgent Wildcats broke loose in the third quarter for an 85-69 decision against Duke in the first round of its own invita tional tuornament at Lexington. La Salle defeated UCLA 62-53 in the other first round game. Eight Big Ten teams saw action and the conference just managed I spot after a year of enforced id leness, stayed close to Indiana with 896 points and actually received more first-place votes—36 to 35. Duquesne, with nine first-place votes and 692 points, held to third place on the basis of a 7-0 record. Illinois also remained in the folrth spot with 514 points but, after the ballots were counted, the Illini dropped their first game of the campaign 65-60 to the Oklahoma Aggies. The Aggies 8-1 moved up a coup- to break even. In addition to Il linois’ defeat, Michigan bowed be- fore a 26-point fourth quarter splurge by Cincinnati 81-62; Louis iana State held Northwestern to two points in the third quarter in its 79-51 victory; and Tulane edged Wisconsin 57-55 as Hal Cervini sank four of six free throws in ov ertime. Ohio State ran up its all-time high total as it overwhelmed the Universtiy of Miami, Fla. 106-81 with Paul Ebert scoring 35 points. Minnesota remained unbeaten with a 66-63 triumph over Tulsa. Iowa came from behind to nip Colorado 78-72 and stretch its perfert home r e c o rd against nonconference teams to 61 games. Indiana had a real battle before subdueing Oregon State. The thriller was the nightcap of a double-header in which Oregon ran away from Nebraska 84-68 in the first game. Bradley surprised Southern Cal ifornia 79-64, the third loss for the Trojans on their Eastern tour. le of notches into fifth place and Western Kentucky 9-0 took over sixth after being 10th last week. Fordham 6-0 also jumped two places into the seventh spot, fol lowed by Minesota 5-0. Holy Cross was the only newcomer to the top 10. The New Englanders were ranked 14th a week ago. Louisiana State 5-1 dropped all the way from fifth to 14th. The top 20 with number of first- place votes in parentheses: 1. Indiana (35) 933 2. Kentucky (36) 896 3. Duquesne (9 692 4. Illinois . 514 5. Oklahoma A&M (4) 358 6. Western Kentucky (2) 331 7. Fordham (1) 229 8. Minnesota 226 9. North Carolina State 173 10. Holy Cross (1) 159 11. Rice 122 12. Oregon State (2) 118 13. UCLA (2) 100 14. Louisiana State 92 15. Oklahoma City (3) 7-5 16. Dayton and La Salle (tie) 59 18. Wisconsin 50 19. Notre Dame 47 20. Vanderbilt and Idaho (tie) 36 CHS Slates Party For Scbool Exes A&M Consolidated High. School will hold its second annual Exes Party Wednesday night at 7:30. The party, slated to be held in the high school’s cafeteria, will feature dancing and a talk by Consolidated superintendent Lester Richardson. 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