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THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1975
Ags play Texas at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday cage action features perfect record
By TONY GALLUCCI
Staff Sports Writer
Texas A&M and Texas both enter
their Saturday night date risking
perfect conference records. But if
Texas wins, both teams will be scar
red.
The Ags are currently leading the
SWC with a 3-0 record while Texas
holds down the other end with an
0-3 record.
The Ags, off to their best start in
14 years, are looking for their fifth
win in a row. A win would give
Coach Shelby Metcalfhis 98th SWC
win.
The Aggies will start Mike Floyd,
Sonny Parker, John Thornton,
Barry Davis and Jerry Mercer.
Probable Texas starters are Dan
Krueger, Ed Johnson, Tyrone John
son, Hank Bauerschlag and Bruce
Baker.
Parker is the Ags leading scorer at
a 15.0 clip overall and 13.0 in the
SWC. Davis follows in both
categories at 13.7 and 12.0. Thorn
ton is third overall at 9.6, while Ray
Roberts and Floyd are tied for third
in conference at 7.7. In rebounding,
Davis lead the Ags with 7.7 overall
and Mercer leads in conference play
with 8.0. Overall Mercer and
Thornton are tied for second at 5.9.
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Barry Davis, a key man in the Aggie
attack, puts up a layup against Oral
Roberts in a non-conference game earlier
this season. Davis will be the man to
watch when the Texas Aggies face the
Longhorns Saturday night in Gregory
Gym, at Austin. Tipoff for the contest
will be 7:30 p.m.
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Parker at 5.8 is fourth overall. Davis
is second in the SWC at 5.7. Floyd
leads the team in free throws (three
or more per game) with 46 of 54 for
an .852 percentage. Chuck Tone has
hit 8-9 in 14 games for an .889 mark.
A&M is outscoring their oppo
nent by an average of 3.9 points
overall and 7.3 points in conference
play. A serious deficit however is in
the free throw department where
the Ags are hitting only 59.4 per
cent to their SWC opponents 72.6.
Tyrone Johnson is becoming a
threat to other SWC teams with his
improving play. It is believed that
guard Krueger may be hurting his
teams performance by holding on to
the ball more than he should. It is
thought that this hampers the Lon
ghorns ability to score.
Says Metcalf of Texas, “They’ve
had pretty good luck with the 1-3-1
zone. They run the ball good and get
up and down the floor good. To beat
’em we’ve got to stop their break
and cover real well. Krueger domi
nates their game. We must get the
boards. Texas is big.
“Texas has a good ball club.
They’ve lost two close games they
could have won. The important
thing for us will be stopping their
fast break. We re just going to try to
put our game on the floor. ”
“The thing I feel good about is we
have a good basketball team,” said
Metcalf about the Ags. “We have a
good mental attitude and are very
unselfish. All we have to do is keep
that same attitude and stay heal
thy.”
Texas is tough, always tough, and
Texas in Austin is tougher. Increas
ingly confident and stronger Aggie
play though should easily overcome
what’s left of the ‘Horns after gradu
ation. They’ve lost Larry Robinson,
Roosevelt Leaks and Harry Lar-
rabee. The only thing better that
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AUSTIN (AP) — The scholastic
loss of hurdler Nate Robinson has
cut deeper in Texas’ track depth,
which virtually disappeared in the
off-season.
The Southwest Conference
champion Longhorns have lost
95- 1 A points of the 182 they scored
last year in winning the champion
ship, including those who
graduated.
Robinson, second in the SWC last
year in the 120-yard hurdles and
also the conference’s no. 3 long
jumper, lacked the required
number of classroom hours to re
main eligible for his senior year.
The fifth-place finisher in the
120-yard hurdles, Randy Lightfoot,
was dismissed from the team for al
legedly smoking a cigarette.
Another hurdler, prep champion
Bill Blessing, spent a month in bed
with hepatitis and is just now joining
workouts.
Shot putter Bishop Dolegiewicz,
second in the SWC shot put and
fourth in the discus, and javelin
thrower Siggi Busha also were dis
missed for “disciplinary reasons.”
The SWC mile champion, Paul
Craig, will miss at least two months
with a shin fracture.
Cedric Joseph goes high to battle an Oral
Roberts player for a rebound in a contest
which the Aggies lost in overtime 84-83.
Joseph has been slowed by an injury to
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