THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17, 1975
Page 9
; ace tough LaSalle first
A&M cagers hit tourney trail
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The defending Southwest Confer-
ice champions in basketball hit the
ad Friday for their First game of an
tended road series.
The Ags, now 4-0 and carrying
ring credentials of 113.5 points
ne, will meet highly-rated
in the opening round of the
yhawk Classic in Lawrence, Kan-
LaSalle, 22-7 and an NCAA
ayoff representative last year, has
lettermen returning to boost
irchances for an improved record
id another invite to the playoffs,
iewinner will meet the survivor of
matchup between improved Yale
id always tough Kansas. Yale suf-
red through a 3-20 season last year,
utreturns nine lettermen. Kansas
returns six lettermen from a 19-8
club. Kansas is defending Big Eight
champ and a finals matchup between
the two defending champs, A&M
and Kansas, would be a season high
light.
From Lawrence, the Ags travel to
Louisville on the 26th for an opening
round matchup with Seattle, who
was 8-18 last year and returns seven
lettermen. The tough starting
matchup will be between Louisville
and Kentucky State. Louisville, an
NCAA semi-finalist and 28-3 last
year, returns eight lettermen. The
Cardinals are currently ranked 10th
nationally although they finished
third in some polls last year. The
Kentucky State Thorobreds return
six lettermen from a 26-3 club that
finished as the number one ranked
small-college team last year.
The Ags then travel to Houston for
the Astro-Bluebonnet Tournament
in Hofheinz Pavilion. The Ags first-
round meeting will be with San
Francisco, currently ranked 13th
with a 5-1 record. The Dons, accord
ing to two polls, brought in the
number one freshman crop in the
country, led by Bill Cartwright,
probably the most sought after
schoolboy in the nation last year. The
Ags were ranked eighth and tenth in
incoming talent by the same polls.
In the other matchup in the first
round will be conference newcomer
and host University of Houston, and
Houston Baptist. Houston and A&M
are the only conference members
still unbeaten at this point, and one
of the Aggie victories is a 127-80 shel
lacking of the Baptists. The Ags con
sistently finish second to UH in this
tourney, but this year things may be
different.
Before school starts up again the
Ags will have started conference
play, opening against Baylor in Waco
on Jan. 10, and returning home to
meet SMU on Jan. 14.
The Ags are probably one of the
highest scoring machines in the
country and currently have seven
players averaging in double figures
to bolster that machine. Barry Davis
leads with a 19.8 norm, followed by
Sonny Parker at 17.5, Ray Roberts at
16.3, Karl Godine at 14.5, Jarvis
Williams at 11.0, Steve Jones at 10.3
and Wally Swanson at 10.
Davis also leads in rebounding
with 11.3 and Williams is averaging
10.
The Ags are outrebounding their
foes by 18 per game, have a 78-27
margin in assists, 62-11 in steals,
12-3 in blocked shots, and 127-68 in
turnovers. A&M is outscoring its op
ponents by 40.5 points per game.
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