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AL RE ON OOD GEE’S M BATTALION 18th - ranked Ducks Thursday, December 10, 1970 College Station, Texas Page 5 NING WBY IONS NING ‘table ■ V Y TEAK tAVY AGHT STTI Sauce ie lad ssing d ING CLIFFORD BROYLES Battalion Sports Editor Eighteenth ranked Oregon, w hich had the distinction of being one of two teams to beat national champion UCLA but also the misfortune of being in the same le ague with the Bruins; unranked hut powerful Houston; the Texas Lies; and the Tulane Green Wave line up Friday and Satur day night in the 1970 Bluebonnet Basketball Classic in the Univer- s ity of Houston’s Hofheinz Pa vilion on the UH campus. It will be the eleventh year for the event, which has been domi nated by the host Cougars. This year the Aggies and the Univer- jity of Houston will co-sponsor the event. Coach Shelby Metcalf still is confident although his team is off to a struggling start. The coach feels his problem on defense and coordinating the new sophomores on the squad into the system have taken time, and feels that when the Aggies do come out of the slump they will definitely come out stronger than before and be ready to roll. Metcalf will start the same five that started against the Uni versity of Texas at Arlington Monday. Pat Kavanagh will be at the point, Bobby Threadgill and Jeff Overhouse on the wings and Rick Duplantis and Steve Niles at the posts. Early statistics for the Aggies show the difference has been in the shooting. The Aggies have A BENCH-EYE view of a basketball game as head coach Shelby Metcalf, assistant Jim Culpepper, Chuck Smith and student manager Lee Murphy look on the game with various tones of expression during Monday’s game with the University of Texas at Arlington. (Photo by Steve Bryant) out-rebounded their first three opponents, had less turnovers than East Texas and UT-Arling- ton, but the combined shooting percentage for their three op ponents is .503. On 18 less tries, A&M oppon ents have made one less field goal than the Aggies, who are shooting a very respectable .459 from the field. A&M has pulled down 127 rebounds to 118 for their opponents. Another drawback has been in the all-important foul shooting, where the Aggies have hit on only .609 percent compared to .701 for their opponents and have been outscored by five there, de spite five more attempts. Niles is the only early season field goal shooting leader with 609, but not far off are Duplantis, .588; Kavanagh, .529; and Over house, .458. Bill Cooksey, with four of five from the foul line, leads with .800 and Duplantis is second with .773 on 17 of 22. Overhouse is the leading re bounder with 7.7 per contest and Niles and Duplantis have 6.0 each and Chuck Smith 5.7. Duplantis is the leading scorer with 12.3 in the Ags’ balanced attack. Niles and Threadgill are netting 11.7 apiece, Kavanagh and Overhouse 9.3, Cooksey 8.0, Smith 5.3, Bill O’Brien 4.0, Bob Gobin 3.3, Charlie Jenkins 1.5 and Wayne Howard 1.3. The first round pairings for the classic have Houston meeting Tulane at 7 p.m. and the Aggies tangling with Oregon at 9 p.m. The two losers will play Saturday at 7 p.m. and the winners at 9 p.m. Tickets for the tourney are priced at $3 and $4. The following is a rundown of the other three teams in the tournament. Oregon—The Ducks of Oregon are currently undefeated in three starts, having bowled over San Jose State 95-65, Portland 76-54 and Texas Tech 96-81. The key man in the OU attack is defending Pacific Eight Con ference scoring champion 6-9 Stan Love. Love averaged 20.8 last year head list in tourney field in the league which was domi nated by the almighty Bruins—a league which the Ducks finished fourth in, with a 17-9 season record, that was better than any team in the SWC could boast of. Thus far this season, Love has scored 25.7 per game and grabbed 10 rebounds per contest. Add to that returning starters Ken Strand and Bill Drozdiak at the guards and 6-9 Rusty Blair and either Lenny Jackson or Lar ry Holliday at the forwards. They are a team possessed with veterans that could push the Bruins this year, although that isn’t likely to happen. Blair, Drozdiak and Holliday all averaged in double figures last year for the Ducks, who are aided by help from Doug Little and A1 Carlson from a 22-2 fresh man unit. Houston — The Cougars are down from the past few years but Guy Lewis’ crew still might be good enough to walk away with the marbles in the classic. The Cougars lost Elvin Hayes a couple of years ago and also had the big muscle of Ken Spain. They have some size but lack the great board strength at the post. Houston has a 2-1 record to show this year and opened with an 81-68 win over Northwestern Louisiana, a team which their opponent Tulane lost to, 88-77, in the Green Wave opener. But then they fell flat on their back in a 79-58 loss to Tennessee and barely squeezed by Florida 61-60. They return starter Dwight Davis, who became the second sophomore in UH history to score 500 points in his initial year. The first was Elvin Hayes, guard Poo Welch, who averaged 29.0 a game two years ago at Tyler JC, but turned into a playmaker averag ing six assists a game last year as a junior. Jeff Hickman, a junior, who averaged 12.3 while playing at both guard and for ward, is another returning vet eran. Larry Brown, a sharpshooting transfer from Northeastern Okla homa who averaged 35.1 last year, will handle one of the guard posts for Houston and one of two soph omores, Gene Bodden, 6-9, or Steve Newsome, 6-8, will line up at center. The Cougars’ main loss from last year were 6-2 Ollie Taylor, who signed to play with the New York Jets of the American Bas ketball Association, and 6-7 cen ter Melvin Bell, who was drafted by the Baltimore Bullets of the National Basketball Association. Tulane—The Green Wave from New Orleans has opened the sea son with a 2-1 record and are definitely improved on their 5-18 mark of last year. Tulane defeated the Citadel 77- 69 and South Dakota 100-77 to go with their loss to Northwest ern Louisiana, and they return the two best players off last year’s club. Seniors John Sutter, 6-8, and Harold Sylvester are the aces on top but there may be some more because the Tulane freshmen last year won 16 of 20. Sutter was a Helms Founda tion All-American, an honor be stowed also on Oregon’s center, Love. He averaged 24.8 last year and 11.8 rebounds while Sylvester chipped in 13.5 points and 9.9 rebounds, despite being weakened by mononucleosis which he was just recovering from when the season started. Up from the freshman squad are 6-3 John Szponar, who aver aged 14.1, 6-5 Ricky Miller, who netted 22.4, and Jim Kwitkowski, who scored 18.5 a game. We pay half. You pay the other. Special Half Price Rate for Faculty and Students Please send me the Monitor for □ 1 year $15 □ 9 mos. $11.25 □ 6 mos. $7.50 I am □ faculty □ student □ Check/money order enclosed □ Bill me later Name. Address. City. .State. The <p - CN) Christian Science Monitor^ Box 125, Astor Station Boston, Massachusetts 02123 THE AGGIES’ Rick Duplantis, left, and UT-Arlington’s Bob Peek battle for a rebound with Bill Cooksey and a couple of Arlington players waiting for the outcome. 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