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BB)AY. JANUARY 22, 1974
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“The fans that didn’t see us
play over the holidays should be
pleased with what we’ve accomp
lished since last semester,” said
Metcalf. “Of course, I wish we
would have learned a little more.”
The Ags left College Station
with an unblemished 4-0 mark be
fore hitting the rough tournament
competition.
“Overall I was pleased with the
caliber of teams that we played
and we found out a lot about the
team,” said the Aggie mentor.
Teamwise, the Ags split the
two games of each of the three
tournaments. Individually, Jerry
Mercer, Cedric Joseph and Mike
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Johnson garnered all-tournament
honors.
“Mike (Johnson) and John
(Thornton) were probably the
most improved individuals over
the break,” said Metcalf, “but
we had some other good things
happen as well.”
Johnson hit 28 points, his high
as an Aggie, against Denver in
the Bluebonnet Classic in Hous
ton.
“Mike has really learned our
system well for a freshman,” Met
calf said of the Chicago native.
“He has matured to the point that
when he isn’t scoring he doesn’t
let it affect other parts of his
game. He still plays tough de
fense.”
Thornton, a junior college trans
fer from San Antonio, appears
to be quickly becoming the apple
of Metcalf’s eye.
“John is so versatile and solid
it’s unreal,” said Metcalf. “We
can use him in the pivot to rest
Joseph or Mercer or outside when
the postmen said the big men
hopefully have found a peak at
which to level off.
“We just haven’t found the con
sistency we need yet,” said Reu-
ther. “Mercer, Joseph and Thorn
ton all play some great games but
we need to keep playing that way.
At times we let up and that is
only natural but we just can’t let
people sneak up on us.”
Players and coaches alike felt
the highlight to the holiday activ
ities was the Marshall Memorial
Tournament in Huntington, W.
Va.
“Hezekiah Ward, one of the few
people we met up there from Tex
as, just about adopted the team
and made the holidays great,” said
Metcalf. “Even though we didn’t
play real well, the personal touch
made the trip worthwhile.”
The Ags are 9-5 with a 1-1 con
ference mark entering tonight’s
contest with Texas Tech.
Holiday Results
Knowles needs a breather. His at
A&M
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titude is just great and it adds
71
Va. Commonwealth
72
a lot to the club.”
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Geo. Washington
91**
Other bright spots for the Ags
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Northwestern
84**
include the new stability of Ran
89
Okla. Christian
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dy Knowles who was struggling
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Tulsa
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in the early going.
79
Florida State
* *
“Randy is working as hard now
99
Denver
as when he was a sophomore and
100
Southwestern
87
has finally found the groove” said
90
SMU
75*
Metcalf. “Mike Floyd is finally
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TCU
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getting healthy again and this
should help him break a mid-sea-
son slump.
Assistant coach Norm Reuther
whose duties include working with
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By The Associated Press
Notre Dame’s basketball team
joined Ara Parseghian’s football
team Monday as sovereign of all
it could survey—No. 1 in The
Associated Press poll.
Dick “Digger” Phelps, young
coach of the Fighting Irish cag-
ers, anticipated the outcome when,
holding one finger on each hand
high in the air, told a Sunday
night pep rally:
“I want to thank you fans for
being the No. 1 sports fans and
No. 1 sports town in America.”
Notre Dame, in ending UCLA’s
88- game winning streak with a
dramatic come-from-behind 71-70
victory Saturday, bumped the
great California team out of first
place for the first time in three
years.
The Irish collected 36 of 51
first-place votes from a panel
of sports writers and broadcast
ers for a total of 990 points.
UCLA received 15 first-place
votes and 944 points.
The Notre Dame victory, scored
with an unbroken 12-point surge
in the final three minutes of the
game at South Bend, ended the
longest winning streak in college
basketball history.
It duplicated—on a smaller
scale—Notre Dame’s upset of
another powerful UCLA team
Jan. 23, 1971, when the Irish won
89- 82 to hand the Bruins their
first non-league loss in 48 games.
UCLA, under the grandfatherly
John Wooden, has dominated col
lege basketball for most of the
last decade, winning No. 1 honors
in The Associated Press poll in
1964, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972 and
1973.
The Bruins have won the last
seven NCAA championships and
nine of the last 10.
Notre Dame’s tenancy on the
poll’s penthouse could be short
lived. The Fighting Irish have a
return engagement with the
Bruins next Saturday night at
UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion, and the
West Coast giants have let it be
known they will be out for blood.
The Top Twenty, with first-
place votes in parentheses, season
records through games of last
Saturday and total points. Points
tabulated on basis of 20-18-16-14-
12-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1:
1.
Notre Dame (36)
10-0
990
2. UCLA (15)
13-1
944
3.
N. Car. St.
11-1
782
4.
No. Carolina
12-1
651
5
Maryland
10-2
649
6.
Marquette
14-1
510
7.
Vanderbilt
12-1
423
8.
Providence
13-2
375
9.
Alabama
10-2
334
10.
L. Beach St.
12-1
285
11.
Indiana
11-3
176
12.
Southern Cal
11-2
150
13.
So. Carolina
10-3
105
14.
Louisville
10-3
104
15.
Michigan
11-2
99
16.
Pittsburgh
13-1
88
17.
Wisconsin
10-2
69
18.
Centenary
12-0
41
19.
New Mexico
12-3
23
20.
Arizona St.
11-4
16
Others receiving votes, listed
alphabetically: Arizona, Cincin
nati, Colorado State, Detroit,
Jacksonville, Kansas, Kansas
State, Marshall, Maryland-East
ern Shore, Missouri, Nevada-Las
Vegas, Oral Roberts, Purdue,
Syracuse, Texas-El Paso.
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