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THE BATTALION Page 9
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1975
Ags fall to Cougars in Bluebonnet
By ALAN KILUNGSWORTH
Staff Writer
Texas A&M Basketball Coach
Shelby Metcalf had a plan. It was
one that he is not well known for but
one that he likes to be able to use. It
was one that gave A&M second in
the Bluebonnet Classic played at
Houston.
Metcalfs plan was to play as many
players as he could and try to tire
the other teams with the tremend
ous depth that the A&M team has
this year. It worked on the Univer
sity of Nevada at Las Vegas with
A&M winning that first game 80-78.
A&M got off to a slow start and at
one time early in the first period was
down by eight points. The defense
started to work and with 3:57 left in
the first half, A&M took the lead
that it kept the rest of othe game.
Metcalf took 12 players to Hous
ton and played them all. They all
scored except Doug Mezger who
played the last seven seconds
against Nevada but never got to the
other end of the court.
The University of Nevada at Las
Vegas is a powerhouse basketball
team coached by Jerry Tarkanian.
Tarkanian left Long Beach State two
years ago to take the job at Nevada
and brought some outstanding tal
ent with him. A majority of the team
is sophomores and the team has a
great future.
Sonny Parker led the scoring for
A&M with 14 points and his com
bined effort against Nevada and the
University of Houston earned him
all-tournament honors. Mike Floyd
had one of his best showings this
season with 13 points.
The University of Houston had
other plans for A&M. They came
out and played their best game of
the season. They defeated the Uni-
Knight s crew reaches top;
UCLA moves into second
versity of Hawaii 105-96 to get into
the play-offs.
A&M scored first, lost the lead,
and then jumped ahead 19-18 for
the last time. Houston held com
plete control of the backboards
which led to their 92-72 victory.
Houston’s all-star player Louis
Dunbar raised havoc on the A&M
team on both offense and defense.
He scored 27 points and had 11 re
bounds. He was named the
tournament’s most valuable player.
John Thornton led the Aggies
with 18 points and only three other
players managed to get into the
double figures. Barry Davis came
down with 13 rebounds.
Houston played flawless ball.
They came to win and that they did.
Metcalf had a plan and in all ways it
should have worked. He just
needed to convince the University
of Houston.
Pizza Hut ballot
includes Thornton
Texas A&M s John Thornton is on
the ballot for the national Pizza Hut
Basketball Classic.
Thornton and 12 other Texas
players were selected by national
balloting of coaches and the media.
If elected, Thornton will represent
the West.
The balloting is underway at
Pizza Huts and the A&M basketball
games.
(Photo by Allan Killing.sworth)
Sonny Parker intercepts errant Cougar pass
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Four years of recruiting, five re
turning starters, seven other let-
termen and 12 straight triumphs
add up to No. 1 in the weekly As
sociated Press major college bas
ketball poll.
But when Bobby Knight, coach of
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“It’s something we have to live
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“Being ranked No. 1 is just high
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ing Big Ten co-champions received
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points, compared with 14 No. 1
votes and 988 points for the Trojans.
Ag bowling team
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Texas A&M holds first place in
the Texas Inter-collegiate Bowling
Conference. The team has a 25-11
record.
The team recently took top hon
ors in the Ft. Worth Bowl spon
sored by North Texas State Univer
sity. A&M won eight games drop
ping only one with a pin total of
8091.
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and Ray Scott holds the highest in
dividual average with a 195.0.
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UCLA, 10-0 and winner of three
straight titles until last year when
deposed by North Carolina State,
finished a healthy 212 points ahead
of unbeaten Louisville, which had
the other two top votes and 776
points.
The Wolfpack had to settle for
fourth with 762 points and Mary
land, also 9-1, was fifth with 558, up
from seventh after a triumph over
Notre Dame, which was dropped
from the ratings along with Penn
sylvania, Purdue and Memphis
State.
The second five was led by
Southern California, 10-1 and taken
down a notch after being beaten by
Fordham in the final of the ECAC
Holiday Festival. Kentucky
climbed to seventh from ninth after
stretching its record to 8-1 by
thumping Louisiana State;
Alabama, handed its first setback by
LaSalle, dipped two notches to
eighth with a 7-1 record ; Oregon,
the only other unbeaten team in the
Top 20, climbed to ninth from 11th
and Arizona rallied four places to
10th after triumphs over Stanford
and Texas Tech.
Agate sports pg. 9 add knights crew
1. Indiana (36)
2. UCLA (14)
3. lamisville (2)
4 VC St
5. Maryland
6. S Calif
7. Kentucky
8. Alabama
9. Oregon
It). Arizona
11. Michigan
12. Arizona St.
13. Marquette
14. LaSalle
15. N. Carolina
16. S. Carolina
17. Minnesota
IS. Tennessee
19. Providence
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Centenary, Central Michigan, De-
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St., Miami, Minnesota, New Mex
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