THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1979
Page 9
4gs lose to UT in Drum, 89-66
nent of ?.I
at 4 p.in j By DAVID BOGGAN The pair combined for 31 points gies hit only 33 percent. Vernon .1
at 4 p „ By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Sports Editor
t 6 30 AUSTIN — There is not room
lough in the Southwest Confer-
ce for two first place teams.
■ "'ll Both Texas A&M and the Univer-
(n ttT, for L 0 f Texas, which had identical
Hecords at the top of the confer-
n will nie, tee before Monday night, knew
Plans wil at is true. So the two teams, the
Tig gunslingers from the Brazos
ley and the old NIT gang, met in
“'icouragedl
mamentsil
Super Drum Monday night to
le this thing once and for all (for
>lamil;ii The Aggies never made it to high
Showd»rion. The superior marksmanship
Peering Texas seniors Tyrone Branyon
ng conceti 4 Jim Krivacs saw to that as the
mghorns beat the Aggies to the
B 89-66.
B’m disappointed,” said Aggie
ach Shelby Metcalf after the
nent Par jjne. “I don’t think there’s that
d floor oi jich of a difference between these
out todaifi clubs. But there was tonight. ’
■hey’ve got such great shooters,
nnmittee fficouldn’t handle Krivacs and
must aHJMvon. Branyon is very decep-
e. He s a fine basketball player. ’’
it 7:30 par B
ine Surgeri
The pair combined for 31 points
in the first half. Texas A&M ended
the first half with 31 points. Branyon
finished the game with 29 points
while Krivacs scored 28 points in
Texas’ 23rd straight victory in the
Super Drum.
“The guards beat us tonight,” said
Body
Woods
Aggie junior David Britton, who
had said before the game Texas
A&M’s guards were better than
Texas’. “I can t really say what hap
pened. Krivacs was hitting them
from anywhere. He’s a helluva shoo
ter. I didn’t figure Branyon would
do that good.”
The Longhorns hit half of their
shots for the evening while the Ag
gies hit only 33 percent. Vernon
Smith hit nine of 23 shots and
Tyrone Ladson hit two of 13 shots
contributing to Texas A&M’s poor
field goal percentage.
“Nobody (for Texas A&M) could
hit from outside,” Smith explained.
“Our post men just couldn’t get in
side. We didn’t have enough
movement on offense. Our guards
just didn’t penetrate their zone.
“I think we took them too light.
This was just the night for them.”
Metcalf agreed that the stars were
shining bright for the Longhorns.
“I didn t see anybody out there in
white that didn’t have a good night,”
the Aggie coach commented.
“They re just a very intelligent ball
club. But there’s no way I’m going
to fault these (Texas A&M) players.
They’ve been too good. We re 15-4
and we’ve played some good ball
clubs.”
Smith scored 18 points and grab
bed 11 rebounds for Texas A&M,
which out-rebounded Texas 55-46.
Rudy Woods hit eight of 11 shots,
scored 17 points, got ten rebounds
and blocked four shots.
‘Woods is the best post man I’ve
ever seen, Texas coach Abe Le
mons said. “He’ll be the best in this
league in the next couple of years. ”
“I’m still real high on A&M. We
just played better tonight.”
The Longhorns played much bet
ter and increased their conference
record to 5-1. Texas also kept its
perfect record in the Super Drum, a
record that Britton had hoped to
break.
T’ve got another shot next year,
the New York junior college transfer
said. “I don’t want to stay upset and
dwell on the loss ’cause we’ve got
another game coming up.
The Aggies, now 4-2 in confer
ence play, host TGU Wednesday
night. Texas A&M is ranked 14th in
this week’s UPI top 20 poll while
Texas is ranked 16th.
"Texas just put a clinic on for us,
that’s all,” Metcalf said. “Those
things are going to happen.”
Yessir, just as sure as the sun sets
in the west.
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BOX SCORE
TEXAS A&M (66)
Woods 8 1-4 17, Britton 0 0-0 0, Wright 1 0-0
2, Goff 3 2-2 8, Smith 9 0-0 18, Ladson 2 2-2 6,
Sylestine 0 4-4 4, Jones 2 2-2 6, Paderson 1 0-0
2, Schlicher 0 1-2 1. Totals 27 12-16 66.
TEXAS (89)
Baxter 1 0-0 2, Branyan 11 7-8 29, Stroud 5 1-1
11, Krivacs 12 4-6 28, Moore 3 2-3 8, Shepard
3 4-6 10, Dotson 0 0-0 0, Stephens 0 1-21,
Boyd 0 0-10, Blundell 0 0-0 0. Totals 35 19-27
89.
Halftime — Texas 43, A&M 31. Fouled out —
None. Total fouls — Texas A&M 25, Texas 15.
Technical — None. A — 14,503.
Texas
5-1
.833
Baylor
4-2
.667
Texas A&M ....
4-2
.667
Texas Tech
3-3
.500
Arkansas
3-3
.500
Houston
3-4
.429
Rice
3-4
.429
SMU
2-3
.400
TCU
0-5
.000
TUESDAY’S RESULTS
Baylor 70, Arkansas 67; Rice 59,
TCU 56; Texas 89, Texas A&M 66;
Houston 82, SMU 78.
7:30 p.i
Jniversih' „
By SEAN PETUl
Battalion Staff
> wiH ine#STiN — The Texas Aggies
yelled to Austin’s Super Drum to
7:30 p in land give the Texas Longhorns
ballet ir first defeat in their 16,000-seat
offered, ne but were foiled in their at-
ipt by a garbage man, a pickpoc-
comedi. i a nd a rainbow-shooter,
ants to staiBcp Horns had the old double-
is 8 p m|ck-pack offensive attack led by
ior forward Tyrone Branyan,
Hi as the "Garbage Man for
dug up baskets after the initial
t, who managed to pick up 29
nts worth of garbage to stop the
ties in their tracks.
Ve Horns’ second weapon was
1 a meetimV' guard, Jim Krivacs who
> the puhlM bounce his rainbow jump
ts pff the top of the Drum's roof
general intfea points.
MSC. ’he two seniors accounted for 57
cq fi-omTflf bon&horns’ 89 points. In fact,
i||( | jj, two were only nine points short
| 342 Z,i; itie A ^ ies ’ 66
He pickpocket in the story was
Korns’ John Moore who stole
rested d ball four times and played out-
ling defense.
r | really thought it woidd be a
5 ’ m ’ m buster here tonight,” said Texas
:h Abe Lemons. “Texas A&M
late vaca: ted off the season playing great
; of Engiafjwe started playing poorly. Now,
y College re playing very well and they are
Ki'iglit now.
in which rhere are S ome let downs during
linood «H as(m anc j some teams tend to
! popub'into a hum-drum attitude, he
0 p.m. i»HBut the Aggies have the per-
nel to come out of it. Who
ws, we could be down next
e, you can’t tell in this confer-
e."
the Longhorns continue to play
way they have in their last four
iries, they will be virtually im-
ible to stop. Krivacs is hitting
the outside again, Branyan is
Wing better than ever and Phillip
J Ivfiid has come into his own to sol-
J I Uhe Horns. The team is moving
playing together like a chain-
iship team.
ffnllip (Stroud) really helped us
ght, said Moore. “He got in
relfor the rebounds and played
blunder the boards all night,
itioud neutralized the Aggies
inside, said Branyan.
go inside and do all th
We let him
dirty work
bile Ron Baxter and I waited for
him to get the rebound.
The Longhorns managed to stay
with the Aggies on the hoards all
night. The Ags pulled down 55 re
bounds to Texas 46 yet it seemed
that the Horns controlled the hoards
as much as they controlled the
game.
Texas defense and A&M s cold
shooting were.two key factors in the
game. The Horns forced the Aggies
to shoot from the outside more than
they' wanted and held Aggie Rudy
Woods to only , four points in the
second half, taking away the Ags in
side strength.
“We just forced the guards to take
more shots from the outside than
usual, Moore said. “Rudy had a lot
of points in the first half but we con
centrated on him in the second half
and held him.”
“If they were gonna beat us,”
Branyan said, "it would have to be
with the outside shot. We just sag
ged in on Rudy and managed to stop
him and get a lot of rebounds. We
knew that by' taking away their in
side shot they would have to change
their plans and maybe make mis
takes. ”
The Aggies hadn’t faced a confer
ence team with Texas outside shoot
ing ability and it showed. The
Longhorns were able to control the
tempo of the game. At times the
game looked like a track meet with
the Horns fast-breaking left and
right and other times they slowed it
down and worked for a good shot.
“We really' started getting our
game together after we lost to
(Texas) Tech, Branyan said. “We
were pretty humiliated after losing
to them on television. But since
then everything seems to be coming
together for us.
It was really good to play A&M
here first before going there, he
said. “There s not as much pressure
going there now because they have
to beat us there.
T m glad to be in first place at the
moment,” Lemons said. “I ve never
been cocky but I feel good about it
now. You just never know what’s
going to happen. I’m sure it will be a
great game when we go over to
A&M.”
"It might have been a different
story il we had been playing over
there (at A&M),” Branyan said.
It just may be a different story
when the Horns visit G. Rollie
White Coliseum, but this story’ is
over for now. Yet, the main charac
ters, the garbage man, the pickpoc
ket and the rainbow shooter will re
turn for the second part of the story
and should provide an interesting
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