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Aggies jump on slow Frogs 57-431’C
By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Staff
The Texas Aggies played twenty
minutes of good, solid basketball
Wednesday night as they handed
TCU its sixth straight conference
loss, 57-43.
But twenty minutes was all the
Aggies could play as the Horned
Frogs came out in a slow-down game
in hopes of stalling the Aggies out of
a victory.
“They beat us up in Fort Worth
that way last year,” Coach Shelby
Metcalf said about TCU’s delay
game. “It’s hard to find fault with
them running that kind of offense.
“I thought that they might not play
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that way because of the TV audience.
But I agree with (TCU Coach) Some
rville’s thinking. He can’t let TV dic
tate his game plan. I thought it was a
pretty good plan.”
But what the live and television
audiences saw was a slow, dull bas
ketball game that had a total of 36
points scored in the first half, 18 by
each squad. At the intermission both
teams had identical shooting per
centages, hitting nine out of 19 shots
for 47.4 percent.
“All that was said at halftime was
that we needed to keep playing our
kind of basketball,” Rudy Woods
said after the game. “Our shooting
was the thing that hurt us in the first
half.
“We came out in the second half
and slowly started pulling away from
them. We couldn’t stay cold for long.
“But this game was a laugher for
us. Like in football, you can play
some games that don’t mean as
much. That’s what tonight’s game
was like.
“They (TCU) knew they were
going to get beaten before the game
started. You could tell by the way
they played the first half. It was like
they didn’t have any nerve out there.
They took the fun out of the game.
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“I was talking to number 34 (Steve
Scales) and even he was mad at the
way Somerville had them playing.
He (Scales) is used to running. They
shouldn’t of come out that conserva
tive. ’
The rest of the Aggie basketball
players were as perturbed as Woods
at the game plan used by the Horned
Frogs.
“All they wanted to play was chase
the ball around, Vernon Smith said.
“They couldn’t play any basketball.
If they can’t play, get them out of the
conference.
“I went up to Somerville at the
end of the first half and asked him
why he wouldn’t let his team play
basketball. They came all the way
down here to play, they ought to be
able to play basketball.”
TCU came out in the second half
and was forced to play the Aggies’
style of basketball, a running, shoot
ing game. The Aggies took 32 shots
in the second half while the Horned
Frogs could manage only 18.
“We went to the press and forced
them into making some turnovers
that we converted into points,” Met
calf explained. “Our press has been
very effective for us this year and it
worked again tonight. They got be-
hind and were forced to come out of
their delay game.
“After the game a guy came up to
me and asked if TCU’s game plan
was an argument for the 30-second
clock in college basketball. I told
him no, that it was an argument
against the 30-second clock. Their
stall was the equalizer against us.
It gave them a chance tonight.”
The Aggies looked sluggish for the
first part of the game, partly due to
the Horned Frogs’ stall and partly
due to their own emotions. The Ag
gies looked slow during last night’s
game.
“We came out unemotional,”
Metcalf said, “but we wanted them
that way. These guys have just play
ed three emotional games (Arkan
sas, Texas Tech and Texas) and they
ought to be a little down.
“You can’t get high for 16 games in
a season. Tonight was one of our
down games.
“We’ve been in a little slump, but
I liked what I saw in the second half. ”
Woods agreed with his coach on
the emotional level of the team.
“We came out flat tonight, like we
did Monday against Texas,” Woods
said. “We’ve been sort of in a slump,
and in the first half we didn’t have
the chance to work our way out of it.
We got the ball 19 times and took 19
shots. But we looked good in the sec
ond half.”
Rynn Wright felt the Aggies were
prepared for Wednesday’s game.
“We came out ready, but we had
to stand around and see what kind of
a game they were going to play
against us,” Wright said. “They
knew that if they tried to run with us
we would beat them by a lot. And we
knew that if we could play our game
we would win.
“We had to be ready for this game.
We couldn’t let a team like TCU
come in here and beat us. We can t
afford another loss.”
The Aggies got their win, but for
the 6,103 fans and the television au
dience it was a dull way to spend a
Wednesday night.
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TCU (43)
Scales 4 4-4 12, Nickens 6 4-5 16, Thompson 1
1-2 3, Blackwell 3 0-0 6, Vincent 1 2-3 4, Hund
0 0-1 0, Haynes 0 0-0 0, Wineger 1 0-0 2,
Mansbury 0 0-0 0. Totals 16 11-15 43.
TEXAS A&M (57)
Smith 7 0-0 14, Wright 7 0-0 14, Woods 6 1-2
13, Ladson 0 0-0 0, Goff 1 0-0 2, Britton 0 0-0 0,
Robinson 2 0-04, Culton 0 1-21, Sylestine 01-1
1, Jones 2 0-0 4, Pederson 1 0-0 2, Schlieher 1
0-0 2, Baird 0 0-10. Totals 27 3-6 57.
Halftime — Texas A&M 18, TCU 18. Fouled
Out — Woods. Total Fouls — TCU 9, A&M
21- A — 6,103.
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night’s TCU-Texas A&M basketball game. The Aggiesi
the contest 57-43.
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