Demolish SMU, 100-77
THE BATTALION Page 9
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1975
Aggies clinch SWC basketball title with win
By TONY GALLUCCI
Staff Sports Writer
DALLAS, Tex. — “If I knew the
words to “That Good Ole Baylor
Line” I’d sing it!” Those were the
words from an elated A&M Head
Coach Shelby Metcalf in the dres
sing room after his Aggies had just
demolished SMU 100-77 and word
had come over the radio that Baylor
had ousted Texas Tech from the
SWC lead.
The combination gives the Aggies
a guaranteed tie for the 1975
Southwest Conference title. If the
Aggies finish off the regular season
in top style with a win over Texas
Saturday, the title will be
Aggieland’s outright.
By clinching the championship
Tuesday in Dallas, the Aggies bring
home to College Station the first
SWC basketball title since 1969 and
the first SWC title in any sport since
1971.
It was a great game to clinch the
title on, too. The Ags could do no
wrong for the first 30 minutes of play
as the Mustangs of SMU could not
penetrate, could not hit their usual
torrid outside game, and could not
keep up with the faster, taller,
stronger Ags.
The Ags bolstered by hot outside
shooting by Jerry Mercer and
superb hustle by the rest of the team
opened up an early lead of 12 in the
first ten minutes. The Ags went on
to build up a 20 point lead before
halftime and took a 46-28 margin to
the locker room.
The Ags came right back and ran
the tally up to as high as 37 points at
7:14 left in the game when Metcalf
loaded the team with his supersubs
and started using three guard com
binations.
A little sloppy play by the Ags and
hustle by SMU especially in the
form of Senior Rusty Bourquein led
to a narrowing of the margin to 21,
just two short of the final margin of
100-77.
The Aggies butchered the SMU
defense, claiming six players in
double figures led by Webb Wil
liams’ 17. Eleven of Parker’s points
came in the second half.
Sonny Parker was second high
man with 12 followed by Cedric
Joseph, Mercer, John Thornton and
Ray Roberts all with 10. Mercer
scored all 10 of his points in the first
half to lead the Aggie onslaught.
In a game which saw the Ags out-
rebound the ‘Stangs 64-41, Parker
collected 10 to lead the Cadets.
Barry Davis followed closely with
nine and Webb Williams covered
with eight.
Mike Floyd handed out six assists
and Mike Williams doled out five to
boost the Aggie total to 23, quite a
reversal from last week’s total of two:
versus Tech.
Joseph picked up three blocks
and Mercer two to give the Ags a
total of five.
For SMU, Bourquein led all
scorers with 18. The only other
Ponies in double figures were Mike
Jaccar with 12 and Bob Arnold with
11. Bourquein also led SMU caroms
with nine followed by Jeff Swanson
with seven.
A&M shot a mediocre 47.3 per
cent from the field with most of the
misses coming in the last seven mi
nutes.
The Ags connected on 84.9 per
cent from the line. SMU finished
with a 39 per cent figure from the
floor and a miserable 56.6 per cent
from the line.
The win was due mostly to a very SMU made a futile rally in the
stingy Aggie defense, which during final seven minutes, closing the gap
one stretch came up with five 16 points mostly on heads up fast
straight seals and turnovers and ten break play by Arnold,
straight points. But by that time the Ags were just
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Television people
mess up: TCU?
By TONY GALLUCCI
TVS — eat your heart out!
★★★
Thank goodness they didn’t put a football on the NEXT YEAR S HERE
bumper stickers. Cause babe, next year IS here.
★★★
Shelby Metcalf now joins Tom Chandler as the only active A&M head
coaches with three SWC titles under their belts.
coasting home, and awaiting the
news from Waco. They didn’t have
to wait long as the message arrived
about five minutes after the Ags had
finished the Ponies off.
The win is the go ahead signal for
the Ags who must conquer the
Texas Longhorns on Saturday to
gain the outright title.
The Ags are now 11-2 in SWC
play and 19-6 for the season. A win
Saturday could also mean the first
20-win season in Aggie history.
The Red Raiders and the Razor-
backs are both one game back in
SWC play at 10-3. Tech owns a
17-8 season record, to rank second
over the year.
TEXAS A&M
fgm-fga
ftm-fta
reb
pf
tp
Davis
2-6
2-2
9
4
6
Thornton
3-9
4-4
5
2
10
Mercer
5-8 .
0-0
7
2
10
Parker
5-9
2-2
10
1
12
Floyd
1-5
4-4
2
1
6
Williams, W.
7-10
3-5
8
3
17
Joseph
3-4
4-4
5
2
10
Roberts
5-10
0-0
4
3
10
Erwin
1-1
3-4
1
4
5
Williams, M.
1-6
5-6
2
1
7
Tone
3-6
0-0
4
0
6
Mezger
TOTALS
SMU
0-2
1-2
1
1
1
36-76
28-33
64
24
100
Swedlund
1-9
2-2
6
1
4
Swanson
2-8
0-2
7
2
4
Bourquein
Sagehorn
6-14
6-9
9
5
18
1-5
0-0
0
2
2
Jaccar
6-12
0-1
2
4
12
Robinson
3-11
2-3
3
3
8
Arnold
5-9
1-1
2
2
11
Lodwick
3-5
0-0
0
2
6
Galindo
1-1
1-2
0
2
3
Heatherington
1-1
1-3
3
1
3
Robertson
1-3
0-0
1
0
2
Ralph
2-4
0-0
1
0
4
TOTALS
32-82
13-23
41
24
77
One of the highlights of my career: I was asked to sign an autograph in
Dallas on Tuesday. Poor little kid, I signed my name so he couldn’t read it
and find out I wasn’t really Pete Maravich.
★★★
Spring Branch beat Corsicana in the 15-4A/16-4A bi
district playoff in G. Rollie on Tuesday. The Bears advance
now to the Regional Playoffs to be held in G. Rollie this
Saturday. Prelims are at 8 and 10 a. m. The final will be at 4
p.m. The other participating teams are Ft. Worth Paschal,
Tyler John Tyler and Dallas South Oak Cliff.
★★★
The SWC has gained a hot dog guard the likes of which
this area has never seen.
Bob Arnold, an SMU playmaker, will easily erase the memories of such
ball hogs and fancy dribblers as Zack Thiel, Richard Little and Mario Brown.
Arnold did a circus trick for the ref and even taunted his own coach Bob
Prewitt during Tuesday’s game in Dallas.
★★★
There’s nothing more pleasing to a championship basketball team
than a championship crowd backing them up. Game time: 7:30.
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