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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1976)
- T me: i ALKJN The Last days 100 days to the crown r •> TONY CAiXUCCI *■»»■*■■■ lyrn WHtor (This co«rtu<ie« a two-part teriea cfarootdinc tkr I9T.V76 Ba«krthall i < trek to the SWC champton- Ihel 1 U\t time Texan Tech had W»t a hankrtliall game in l-nbhnck wan when the \iat>en visited last year. No one figured it could possibly happen again, especially this year, the year oif the Red Raiders, But the Aggies managed to come from behind and before a TV audi ence and a parked house put on a fine show of coach Shelby Metcalfs patented kair-corner stall With the game on the line. Tech was forced to ini Sonny Parker made the two free throws with onh seconds remaining to win the game fi»r the Ags. Sonny P was finally getting his due He was beginning to lie touted as All-America caliber, a status that was enhamed as tla- season pnigres- sed. ft got to w liere every game the kgs played was Itcmg called the shoot out or the biggest game of the sea son. One such game was against Ar kansas in the Hills laisl year, the Ags won the South west Conference title w hen a buzzer 37\S C ZYtU JSTrkTT i ThWrd A CoOt^ry basViefs Sleeper Stese Jones prosxrd he could plas as well as his Olympian brother Dwight. Wally Swanson prosed why he was a high school All-America as did Robinson. Sonny P., Davis. Ray Roberts and Gates Erw in show ed why they were called the "greatest hunch of seniors I've ever had." by Metcalf shot by Mike Floyd gase the Ags a b4 h2 \ ictory in College Station. The Aip had been lieaten earlier that year in double overtime in Fayettesillc. This year could base been a dupli cate This time the Ags fell sietim to a clock malfunction and suffered their first SWC defeat of the year, again in double-overtime to those same hogs in those same If ills. It was as much a spark as anything The Ags responded with a win user Rice which bn night Sonny P player-of-the-week honors. Then came a pot bust that in- . solved several athletes Rumors per sisted about the hosts’ effect on the team and who was inv oked, etc. The team resjionded by blasting Texas twice and iteing TCI' at the buzzer with a well-planned and better exe cuted shot by Karl 'Cool’ Godine. Then came a fateful trip to Dallas where the Aggies lost their second conference decision, also controver sial Barry Davis was called for a charging foul and a basket disal lowed. Metcalf as well as most everybody present disagreed. Met- call was more vehement about his pmtest. though, kicking the scorers tabic and tossing a chair on the floor. What was left w as a heavy week of must games, with none more impor tant than the then upcoming match with Tech. A win or loss could make the difference between failure and a championship. Not only did the fired up Ags pin a 74-63 loss on the Red Raiders, hut Tech coach Gerald Mvers admitted A 6c M was the liest. Sonny as super, and his squad would lie looking for ward to meeting the Ags in the playoffs. The Aggies now took a little time to sit hack and relax. The season was far from over, in fact one of the toughest games was yet to come. U H in Hofheinz. but twx> wins over Tech was just too good to waste. The rest and relaxation didn't last long. Godine and Williams hadn't played well in their Saturday ven ture of the week before against SMU and there was a reason for it. Godine and Williams had been de clared ineligible for the rest of^ihe season. No more said, no less. > Panic arrived on the bas'ketball scene. The players and coaches had known of the investigation hut of course nothing was said. Rumors started up everywhere and news paper after radio after TV' after newspaper related opinions and tirades and rumors. N’olxidy knew the truth. 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Served with Golden French Fries and Crisp Salad with your favorite Dressing .. $1.29 11 •.»«. to 11 p.m. only (no student discount on specials) OPEN 24 HOURS UNIVERSITY SQUARE IN COLLEGE STATION eligibility but the situation was not resolved before the big game at Houston The rest of the team pkiy«“d what had to he the most remarkable game all season Metcalf called it the “ greatest game in A6cM athletic his tory Kevin Jones sat quietly on the bench with emergency draftee Bryan Barrett, thus providing imid- ern meaning to the true meaning of the “12th man *. The Ags proceeded to blast Hous ton 94-60 and satisfv the world tliat nothing was going to keep them from their second consecutis e SWC title Nothing did. The next day a fed eral judge ruled that Godine and Williams constitutional nghts had lieen violated and gave the SWC 30 days to satisfy those rights. The pair returned to play for the rest of a rather unspectacular season. * Unspectacular. That is at least until they smothered last place Rite in Houston and got into the locker room. Then the whole season sud denly had meaning. It was into the showers again for Metcalf and his tat tered suit, and loads of champagne One felt, though, that an intense feeling of satisfaction w as prevalent. This bunch wanted to go further. They weren’t like last year’s hunch, according to team co-captain Davis, ‘we aren’t satisfied w ith just the con ference championship. We think we can go much further in the NCAA playoffs. Gist year we were satisfied with the SWC title. It was all part of the determination 7$V;£j Double check your tax return. ; 0 Errors delay refunds! Internal Revenue Service that made this team. The greatest team in school history.’’ There were just too many roadblocks though as the Aggies dropped a notch when the second hearing of the SWC apparently found Godine and Williams just as guilty as they had before eliminating them from participation in the plavnffs Tech made it to the finals of the tourney against the Ags and perhaps w ere fearful of losing to the Ags three times Or maybe they felt it was their due. Iiemg picked to wall in pre season and all. But vyhateser. the Red Raiders turned the tables on the depleted martyrs from College Sta tion. The Techsans stalled until the final seconds and hit a shot at the buzzer to win. It was a nightmare with the characters reversed. That buzzer had hurt many an SWC team this season, hut that one smarted nufst. The Aggies wert* left cold with a 74-72 loss. They were the AP’s 19th- rilnked team, had just been UPI’s 16th-ranked team, they had the SWC’s Most Valuable Player in Sonny P and the Coach of the Year in Metcalf and they were nationally ranked in several statistical categories Sonny P was also named District Vi’s most valuable player and was named honorable mention All- America by the Associated Press. He made the Pizza Hut All-Star team by finishing balloting in third place with almost 350 thousand votes. He will play on the West Squad along with Rick Bullock Meanwhile, the first 21 win season in Aggie history was done with, without an invite from the NIT or even the UIL. Now. 100 days after the start of the search for the crown, it’s over. Aggies have only to watch the playoffs, the allstar games, the All- America teams and dream of a future Aggie team that may have the chance to win 21 games in a season A 1/5 carat diamond can be worth $50 or $200. 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