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By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Staff
Students, here’s the chance
you’ve been waiting for. Yes, you too
can see a Texas A&M basketball
game in person this season.
There are 4,200 student tickets
available for every Aggie home bas
ketball game played in G. Rollie
White Coliseum. And those students
who have tried to get tickets for the
last three home games have found
the task as difficult as securing foot
ball tickets. Well, not so for tonight’s
game.
The TCU Horned Frogs are in
town for a Southwest Conference
basketball game and there are plenty
of student tickets available, says
Euleta Miller of the athletic ticket of
fice. As of late Tuesday few students
had come by to get tickets for to
night’s game.
“We still have about 600 reserved
seats and 2,000 student tickets left.
Miller said late Tuesday. “We had a
good, little crowd this morning but
the students have been trickling in
ever since. We have plenty of tickets
remaining.
“And this just reaffirms my belief
that this school can only sell basket
ball tickets for the big games. I
thought that the students would turn
out this season this team, but they
aren’t for TCU. People here won’t
come out for the little games. We re
not having consistantly good crowds,
just good crowds for the good
games.”
One reason the students might be
staying home tonight is the fact that
the TCU-Texas A&M game will be
shown on regional television. The
choice of this game being televised
has Texas A&M coach Shelby Met
calf bewildered.
“Somebody is sure using poor
judgement by showing this game on
prime time television,” Metcalf said.
“Why would anyone pick this game
when Texas is playing at Baylor? It
just doesn’t make sense.
“But I’m not surprised that the
ticket sales are slow for TCU. Our
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host Horned Frogs tonight
game last night at Texas sure didn’t
help in selling tickets.
Metcalf and the Aggie players
were still reeling after the bombing
they experienced in Austin’s Super
Drum. The University of Texas
made shambles of the Aggies, hand
ing the visitors a 89-66 loss.
“We haven’t played a team that
had as good a shooter on it as (Jim)
Krivacs,” Metcalf explained. Krivacs
laced the Aggies for 28 points. “And
(Tyrone) Branyan (29 points) is bet
ter than he has to be. He’s sneaky-
quick.
“All I hope is that we learned
something from the loss. We at least
know that the next time we play
them (Feb. 12) we have to play some
better defense.
“We need to be more patient on
offense and have better shot selec
tion. We also need to work on penet
rating a zone defense and get the
better shots. Other than our shoot
ing we didn’t play that bad of a ball
game. We only had 13 turnovers and
we out-rebounded them 55-46.
The Aggies will be on the rebound
when they take on the Horned Frogs
tonight. TCU brings a 5-10 season
record and a 0-5 conference record
into tonight’s game.
“This game has the odor of an
upset the way we played against
Texas last night, ” Metcalf admitted.
"We need to come out and have a
good game and get our confidence
back.
The confidence level of the team
might be a little down but Metcalf
doesn’t expect any' problem in the
team regaining the poise it has car-
United Press International
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Bobby Dandridge of the Eastern
Division-leading Washington Bul
lets and Jack Sikma and Dennis
Johnson of the Western Division
leading Seattle SuperSonics were
among 12 players added to complete
the rosters for the 29th annual
National Basketball Association
All-Star Game.
Chosen to the East squad along
with Hayes and Dandridge, in a
ried throughout the season.
“The good players, the ones with
the strong characters, won’t stay
down for long,” Metcalf
philosophized. “The strong players
will come out of the Texas loss
stronger because of it.
“But the weak players won’t come
back as strong, and that will hurt
them. But that’s just the way people
are sometimes. Adversity pulls the
vote by the division coaches, were
Larry Kenon of San Antonio,
Campy Russell of Cleveland, Doug
Collins of Philadelphia and Calvin
Murphy of Houston.
The West additions, chosen by
that division’s coaches, included
Walter Davis of Phoenix, Maurice
Lucas of Portland, Artis Gilmore of
Chicago and Otis Birdsong of Kan
sas City.
The starting teams for the game to
be played in the Silverdome at
tough people together. The tough
people we have on this team will pull
together and go on from here.”
The tipoff for tonight’s game is
7:00, one half hour earlier than usual
for television. There will be no wo
men’s game before the men’s con
test.
And yes, there are plenty of tickets
still available.
Pontiac, Mich., Feb. 4, were cho
sen by fan balloting.
The East’s starting lineup consists
of Rudy Tomjanovich and Moses
Malone of Houston, Julius Erving of
Philadelphia, Pete Maravich of New
Orleans and George Gervin of San
Antonio. Starting for the West will
be David Thompson and George
McGinnis of Denver, Marques
Johnson of Milwaukee, Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar of Los Angeles and
Paul Westphal of Phoenix.
All-Star squads complete
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