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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.
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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. The
Aggies play in the Bluebonnet Classic in Houston this week
end and return to G. Rollie White Coliseum Monday night
against Abilene Christian in their final game before finals.
(Photo by Steve Bryant)
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