THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1978
Page 7
Ags lose another close one;
host Texas Tech tomorrow
A&M forward Willie Foreman (No. 35) grabs a
rebound away from Razorback guard Ulysses
Reed (No. 24). Foreman led the Ags in scoring
with 26. But it wasn’t enough as the Razor-
backs defeated the Ags 80-79.
Battalion photo by Ken Herrera
Almost.
It describes how close the Aggies
came to defeating the No. 3 team in
the basketball nation. The final
score was 80-79 in favor of Arkansas.
“We got too far behind in the first
half a nd couldn’t catch up,” coach
Shelby Metcalf said. T think it
speaks highly of our group that we
came so close.”
The score was 21-21 with 10 min
utes remaining in the first half. Ar
kansas took control of the game at
that point, and led at intermission
49-36. One man was responsible for
the Razorback turnaround.
Ron Brewer.
We just can t stop Brewer,”
Metcalf said. “He’s the one who
Jogs can’t explain contest
SMI
By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Sports Staff
jWe re the Southwest Confer-
t ( ‘ champs!” The chant echoed in
c Razorback locker room after
f narrow 80-79 victory over
is A&M last night,
id the Hogs performance live
o their title? Well, they led at
ime 49-36, but the Aggies out-
ed them in the second half by 12
its.
can’t figure out what it is,” said
nsas’ Marvin Delph, “but every
I’ve come down here we’ve
a close game. When I was a
nnan and a sophomore we lost
dose ones down here. Last year
ere able to win a real close one
here.
he Aggies are just a tough,
ical team. We used a zone on
just to keep them outside. Un-
nately that let Foreman get his
For
outside shots. He's a good basket
ball player.
Delph’s teammate, Sidney
Moncrief, agreed that Foreman was
a main force in the Aggies come
back efforts.
"We thought that eventually
Foreman would get cooled off, but
he didn’t,” Moncrief said. "They
were able to come back on us be
cause we weren’t aggressive. Once
they get going they’re hard to stop. ”
Earlier in the season, Moncrief
was involved in a brawl with Jarvis
Williams when the two teams meet
in Fayetteville. Moncrief said lie
was pleased that the College Station
fans were not the vindictive type.
“I thought there would be a bad
reaction here because the press
here still hasn’t let the incident
die, Moncrief said. “But they have
a class basketball team down here?
and a class crowd that acted like a
class crowd should.”
The Razorbacks said that the
crowd played a big part in the close
ball game.
“They have great crowd support
down here, said Ron Brewer, Ar
kansas’ leading scorer with 25
points. “Any team that comes down
here should be a five or six point
underdog just because of the crowd.
Of course, I suppose they say the
same thing about Barnhill.
Brewer had 19 points in the first
half, but was not as effective in the
second half. He explained that he
was partly at fault for the closeness
of the contest.
“I slacked off and it was a bad
move on my part, ' Brewer said of
his second half performance. “I
should have taken control like I did
in the first half. Then it wouldn’t
have been so close.
Arkansas coach Eddie Sutton
echoed the feelings of his players
concerning their close call in Col
lege Station.
“We’ve always felt that this was a
difficult place to play, Sutton said.
“The fans were a factor but you have
to give their ball club some credit.
A&M played a very hard, good sec
ond half.”
beats us every time we play. If
Brewer played us every game he
would be consensus all-America.
He is the best all-around player in
the conference.”
Brewer finished the game as the
Hogs’ high-point man with 25. Sid
ney Moncrief had 22 and Marvin
Delph wound up with 17.
“The trio is the best threesome in
the country,” Metcalf said. “It’s
hard to stop a team who hits 70 per
cent of its shots in the first half. But
we almost did.”
Almost, but not quite.
“The way to beat them is to press
for 40 minutes,” Metcalf said. “But
we just can’t do that. We pressed
them for 20 minutes and made up 12
points. They still have the same
weakness as last year.”
At the beginning of the second
half, A&M began the press. Arkan
sas appeared confused and lost the
aggressiveness that gave them the
big halftime lead. Hog coach Eddie
Sutton called timeout two times,
but everything they employed,
failed.
“It’s always been tough for us to
win here,’ Sutton said. “The Aggies
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have an impressive press and it got
them back into the game. We had a
13-point lead here last year. But it’s
never enough.”
Willie Foreman and Joey Robin
son had an excellent second half.
Foreman finished the game with 26
points; Robinson had 12. Both men
were valuable in the stretch drive.
“We moved Willie around to get
him open,” Metcalf said. “We feel
he s our best offensive threat.”
Sutton agreed with Metcalfs as-
sesment.
“Foreman had a super shooting
night,” Sutton said. “And Robinson
hit that last one from Shelby’s lap.
A&M made a great run at us.”
Foreman had his own thoughts
about the game.
We just played great in tfie sec
ond half’ Foreman said. “If were
close at the half then we have a
chance to win. I know that were
going to win here pretty soon. It
may be tomorrow night.”
The Aggies next game is tomor
row night against Texas Tech. Last
night’s contest should give Metcalfs
men the lift they need.
With the effort we re giving,
we’re gonna win one .” Metcalf said.
“I had aspirations that it would be
tonight, but maybe Tech will be the
game.”
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