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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1975
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By TONY GALLUCCI
Staff Sports Writer
"Mr. Clutch”, “Iceman ”,
[‘Superman”, call him whatever you
want, Mike Floyd and a cool bundle
of nerves put the Razorbacks on ice
for the season with a 15-foot jump
shot with one second left in a hotly
contested Arkansas-Aggie game
Saturday night.
Floyd had his second highest
scoring game oftheyeru'with 16, his
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Mike Floyd fires the shot heard throughout Aggieland
previous high coming last Saturday
against the Razorbacks in Fayet
teville.
Playing before a record crowd ol
10,308, the Aggies slipped by Ar
kansas, using head coach Eddie
Sutton’s favorite weapon against
him.
With the score tied at 56 all after a
Barry Davis jump shot for the Ags,
Sutton tried to engage his previ
ously successful four-corner stall
game. But the Ags came up with a
steal and Floyd was fouled by
Robert Birden. Floyd hit both free
throws to give the Ags the lead
58-56. Two seconds later, John
Thornton was called for fouling
Ricky Medlock. True to form Med-
lock answered with two points on a
one-and-one situation.
Arkansas had the ball back sec
onds after A&M missed a crip-shot
and put the stall into low gear again.
But with a little more than four-
and-a-half minutes left Thorn
ton stole a pass and the Ags looked
like they had the setup again. But
alas another shot missed and Arkan
sas recovered. This time the Hogs
wasted little time in sending Kent
Allison to the bucket for a drop in
shot and the lead at 60-58. The Ags
brought it down court and Floyd
tried to drive one under, but was
stopped dead cold by Allison whose
seven inch taller frame simply got
between the basket and Floyd.
Allison caught the eye of Referee
Joe Shosid, though, and was
awarded his fifth foul of the night.
“Cool man” Mike hit both of his free
throws and the game was tied again,
for the final time, 60-60. With 2:24
left to play, Arkansas had the ball,
and apparently the drivers seat as
they had a week earlier in the cradle
of the Ozark Mountains.
Sutton’s troops tried the stall
again, and made it work for 1:11.
But a miscue and a little nervous
ness overcame a previously solid
Hog team and they threw the hall
away with 1:03 left.
A&M called a timeout and Aggie
head coach Shelby Metcalf turned
the table on Sutton and put the Ags
into the stall. The Ags looked a little
tight hut managed to hold off the
Razorbacks for almost a minute. The
Ags called a timeout with 20 seconds
left to plan a final strategy.
When the plan failed, Floyd just
gathered the nerve and hulled his
way to the free throw line where he
put up a shot.
It fell through the net with 0:01
left. The crowd and the team went
wild. But it wasn’t over. Yet.
Arkansas had the ball for one sec
ond. The ball was passed in to Bir
den, but Davis came up with his
clutch play of the night by stealing
the inbounds pass as the buzzer
sounded. Delirium. What could
easily be the most important bas
ketball game in the history of the
Southwest Conference ended with
A&M on top 62-60.
Floyd said, T didn’t see it go in. 1
was too worried about fouling Bir
den.
T didn’t even know Floyd took
the shot, I passed out three seconds
earlier, ” Metcalf jokingly said.
Arkansas jumped out to the early
lead at 2-0 and 4-2, hut the Ags got
untracked and with four minutes
left in the first half held an eight
point lead.
Arkansas rallied to within three at
the half 32-29. The Aggies came
back strong after the intermission
and in four minutes built up an 11
point lead at 44-33. But that lead
was cut to six before the Ags had the
ball again. Jack Schulte put in a
layup on a fourth rebound and Davis
was awarded a technical for grab
bing the basket ring. Medlock made
the free throw, and Allison hit a
layup on the inbound pass. Arkansas
cut another two from the lead when
A&M missed a free throw and
Schulte tipped in a shot seconds
later.
Allison led all scorers with 17, fol
lowed by Birden with 14 and Med-
Marvin Delph tied the game up at
48 all halfway through the second
half to start the fireworks,
lock with 11 for the Razorbacks.
Floyd led for the Ags followed hy
Webb Williams and Davis with 12
and Thornton with 11. Arkansas
outrebounded the Ags again 31-23
and was led by Schulte’s nine
caroms. Allison had eight, Davis
and Daryll Saulsberry had five each.
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Ags defend SWC lead,
go against Bears tonight
By DAVID WALKER
Staff Sports Writer
Number one hits the road tonight
as Dr. Shelby Metcalf and his Ag
gies travel to Bear country to play
the young, but mad, Baylor Bears.
The Bears have lost their last
three games hy a combined score of
32 points. Two one-point losses to
Texas and a 30 point set-back to the
Ags last Tuesday night at G. Rollie.
The Aggies have won their last
two by the same 32 points. The
above mentioned Bear bash 96-66
and the two point thriller over Ar
kansas Saturday night.
The Aggies lead the Southwest
Conference with a 7-1 record over
second place Arkansas and Texas
Tech with identical 6-2 records.
The bears are out of the SWC title
chase with a 3-5 record hut are not
being taken lightly hy the Aggies.
“That 30-point victory doesn’t
mean anything when we go to
Waco, ” said assistant coach Norman
Reuther Sunday after the Aggies
went through a brisk 50 minute
workout. “They will he ready for us
and we will just have to forget about
our last game with them because
they are a different team in Waco. ”
Tonight’s game will he the 127th
between the two schools with A&M
holding 77-49 all-time edge over the
Bears. The Ags have won six of the
last seven.
The Aggies are coming off their
biggest victory of the year, 62-60
over Arkansas. They will be trying
to bounce hack in the rebounding
column after being out-rebounded
by the Razorbacks 31-23. The Hogs
beat the Ags on the boards at Fayet
teville 41-26. Between the two Ar
kansas games the Aggies had one of
their best rebounding games of the
year against the Bears as they out-
rebounded them 51-26. The Aggies
hope to reach top form again against
Soccer team downs
Baylor for fifth time
The soccer team suffered through
rain and mist Saturday morning to
defeat a feisty Baylor squad 6-2.
It was the fifth win against no los
ses for A&M teams against Baylor
this season. The Ags lead in the scor
ing department 23-6 in those five
games.
The Ags led 3-0 at the half after
dominating with a strong controlled
passing attack. Habib Ben-Ali,
Ricardo Schwartz and Mehrdad
Farrokhnia all scored for the Ags in
the first period.
A&M and Baylor traded scores
midway through the second half,
but A&M had the last say when
David Bernard slipped one bet
ween the Bear goalkeeper’s legs.
Other second half scorers for the
Ags were Habib and Jim Davis.
The Ags season record now stands
at 6-4-4. The Ags have scored 41
points to the opponent’s 31 and
score an average of 2.93 goals per
game to the opposition s 2.22 point
per game average.
The next competition for the Ags
will he the second weekend in April
as the Ags travel to Waco to com
pete in the Baylor tournament.
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the Bears.
Barry Davis was the leading
scorer for the Aggies in their first
game with the Bruins with 19
points. He had all of his points in the
first half hitting on eight of nine
from the field to give the Aggies
their 51-29 halftime lead.
There are plenty of tickets re
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can’t go to the game it can be heard
on KTAM with Mike Mistovich
doing the play-by-play.