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Seeks NCAA playoffs
Roberts shoots for higher goal
By PAUL McGRATH
Battalion Sports Editor
Champion is the title given to
those who achieve the ultimate in
sport.
Last week against Rice, the Texas
A&M basketball team became the
undisputed champion of the South
west Conference (SWC) for the sec
ond year.
For Ray Roberts, that is not the
ultimate goal. He said he wants the
team to go as far in the National Col
legiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
playoffs as possible. Last year, the
Aggies lost to Cincinnati in the pre-
regional, 87-79.
Roberts is one of four seniors on
coach Shelby Metcalfs fourth cham
pionship team. He, along with
Sonny Parker, Barry Davis and
Gates Erwin, provided the leader
ship and maturity for the team of five
freshmen and five upperclassmen.
“We all want to do well in the
playoffs,” Roberts said. “That’s our
big goal. Of course, you have to get
there first.”
Roberts had one of the best games
of his career against the Owls, hitting
11 of 13 shots for 22 points, his sec
ond highest point production this
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After the game, Roberts was one
the first to pop the cork on a bottle of
champagne. Being in the winners’
circle once again was quite satisfy
ing, he said.
Stripping off his sweat-soaked Ma
roon uniform, Roberts said there are
differences between the present
team and last year’s version.
“We’ve had to go through a lot
more adversity,” the weary senior
said. “There was always something
happening at the wrong time.
It has been a controversey-filled
season for the A&M cagers. Several
members of the team were linked
with a local marijuana arrest involv
ing Texas A&M athletes. Davis and
Parker have been censured for scuffl
ing with a University of Houston fan.
Two members of the team, Karl
Godine and Jarvis Williams, have
been suspended by the SWC for re
cruiting violations.
In spite of this, the Aggies posted
their best record ever, I
SWC’s first post-seasontouni
where the Aggies do not[
the final, is all that liesbetes
team and the NCAA p
“We’re what, 16th, ini
(United Press International)|
Roberts inquired. “I thinU
to prove we deserve tobenati)|
ranked.” The Aggies weren
removed from the UPI i
possibly due to the Godine liij
case. Texas A&M is If
sociated Press poll this weel
“Last year, a lot of the gin: | § (
just happy in winning then L
ence. This year, we wantto*
far we can go.”
Hoosiers still number one
Texas A&M moves to 19tl:
By The Associated Press
Indiana, Marquette, Rutgers,
North Carolina and Nevada-Las
Vegas remained entrenched in the
Top Five spots in The Associated
Press major college basketball poll
this week. After that it was a whole
new ball game.
The unbeaten Hoosiers, who,
whipped Northwestern 76-63 last
Monday night for their 26th victory,
received 57 of 60 first-place votes
and 1,194 points out of a possible
1,200 in the balloting by a nation
wide panel of sports writers and
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Marquette's Warriors, 23-1 fol
lowing last Saturday’s 81-75 triumph
at Notre Dame, got two first-place
votes and 1,060 points while the
Scarlet Knights from Rutgers, com
pleting the first unbeaten regular
season in their history by nipping St.
Bonaventure 85-80 for their 26th vic
tory, received the remaining first-
place vote and 876 points.
North Carolina’s Tar Heels, 24-2,
received 864 points by virtue of vic
tories over rival North Carolina State
and Duke last week. The Rebels
from Nevada-Las Vegas had the
week off, remained 26-1 and stayed
fifth with 725 points.
Alabama, seventh a week ago,
edged up one position with 561
points following its exciting double
overtime victory over Tennessee last
Saturday. UCLA routed California
and Stanford and moved up two
spots to seventh with 517. Notre
Dame, meanwhile, fell two places to
eighth with 459 points, Maryland
climbed up one position to ninth
with 416 Washington, eighth a week
ago, dropped to 10th with 292 points
tifter its 73-64 loss to Oregon State.
In the Second Ten, Michigan
moved up one spot to 11th with 282
points, Tennessee was 12th with 232
and Cincinnati made the biggest
move of the week, shooting down
West Virginia and San Francisco and
shooting up from No. 18 to 13th with
180 points.
Western Michigan remained 14th
and Missouri fell three rungs to 15th,
followed by St. John’s. N.Y., North
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11. Michigan
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