THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1979
Page 9
)Y Aggies tied for first place
Troubled Cougars come to town
By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Staff
in gei^BThe entire Southwest Conference
^ lesspBwondering what has happened to
apsiri|he Houston Cougar basketball
ne mi Jam.
'isionjLast year’s post-season tourna-
Electrtjroent champion is stumbling
edistoBrough this season with a 11-11
laloftJark, 3-7 in conference play.
pThe obvious problems the team is
res came into focus Wednesday
headJght when Houston traveled to
It oiF'Tt Worth to face TCU. The
Tie RuBougars dropped a 67-61 game to
It is L the Horned Frogs, to date the lone
gnmai perence win for TCU. The loss
lense j ppped the Cougars into seventh
3ftl, e y [ace in SWC play.
noistuR r'We just got out-shot against
:ion (Ini pU. Houston Coach Guy Lewis
1 (J e t e jj laid of the game Wednesday night,
lirectioi Pf weren't out-played, but if you
2 oftlit t score you can’t win.
the Ini [ Needless to say, we weren’t too
dg].; Sgh at practice today. All we tried
to do was regroup from last night.
We won’t even think about the
J&M game until tomorrow (Fri-
But that’s not to discount the
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importance of the game. The way
A&M’s been playing you can’t take
them lightly. But all our guys are
trying to forget TCU today.’’
The Cougars are also trying to
forget the last time they faced the
Aggies this season, back in early
January in Hofheinz Pavilion. The
Cougars managed five second-half
points in losing 69-43.
“The last time we played was just
one of those things,” Texas A&M
Coach Shelby Metcalf said. “It
wasn’t all us. They had to contribute
something. When you hit only
2-of-27 shots (from the field) it’s not
all the defense.”
“ Talent wise, they’re very capable
of playing good basketball. They had
Arkansas down by 21 at the halt be
fore they lost to them (scoring only
12 points in the second half). But
Houston can be explosive on of
fense.”
Their explosiveness hasn’t been
too evident this season. But Coach
Lewis is clear on what the Cougars’
problem is.
“It’s easy to see what our prob
lem’s been this season,” Lewis ex
plained. “We’ve had too many in
juries at our center position and ha
ven’t been getting any inside play.
“Were not a big club and not a
big rebounding club, so when we
don’t shoot well we don’t do well.”
One player that has supplied a
consistent offensive punch to the
Cougar attack is junior Ken “Juice”
Williams. Williams is currently
ranked fifth in the conference in
scoring, carrying a 18.8 per-game
scoring average. Williams is joined
in the Cougar starting line-up by
Victor Ewing (averaging 15.8 point
per game), George Walker (13.7),
Ken Ciolli (6.6) and Leonard Mitch
ell (5.2). Mitchell draws the task of
guarding Rudy Woods in Saturday s
televised game.
“Realistically, we don’t have any
body that can stop Woods,” Lewis
admitted. “If we try, we re just
whistling Dixie. But we can’t con
centrate all our effort on Woods. If
we do, they’ll come at us from
somewhere else.
“They have shooters that can
score from anywhere on the court.
Their guards will hit from the out
side or their forwards will take the
ball inside and score. They just
come at you from everywhere.”
The Aggies have been showing off
their power in their last few ball
games. Yet Metcalf still thinks the
Aggies haven’t return to the form
they exhibited earlier in the season.
‘We are playing well, but we
played very good ball back in De
cember, Metcalf said. But right
now we’re playing as well as we’ve
played in conference.”
Because of the television cover
age, tip-off Saturday is scheduled for
2:40 p.m.
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■AUSTIN — Texas Coach Abe
a mp |>J-* mons and Arkansas’ Eddie Sutton
hat J ded game in a little more
Llternat : r nt , Iema ; ll y f ' ash ion — shaking
pels — than they did the first half
conji-J Longhorns coach had harsh
*totlieJ rds ^ or routerpoints.
'allontiB^ r ^ ansas landed Texas its first
ie sizeiJ eat ' n SP ec i a l Events Center
r and J urscla y n ight, a 68-58 decision,
esbesij er t ^ le coat ’hes engaged in a
.^jJJving-shouting scene as the teams
af noJ re E 0 ' n £ to the dressing rooms at
Bftime.
ar has !B eirions to °^ a on ® pu h on his
(feu- and spoke of Sutton and their
ia . Ttipounter.
vine ,
E He s a chickens Lemons
If he tries to talk to any of my
(lasers again I’ll knock his a— off.
He called Moore a dirty player
shoved him.”
iutton denied touching the Texas
lyer.
iThe incident started just after
le ran out in the first half — with
Arkansas leading 25-17 — when
"Mxas guard John Moore tried to
pv a charging foul and was ran
ser by an Arkanas player.
Iutton approached Moore sternly
[d Lemons entered the conflict,
le coaches began pushing each
• and continued with a verbal
lault as players and uniformed
irds separated them,
he Razorbacks held on in the
:ond half to take the win and drop
has into a first place tie with Texas
IcM. After the game Lemons and
Iutton shook hands and walked off
idc by side.
n the Arkansas dressing room
villbfJjSutton was asked if the incident
m)d ruin his relationship with
mons.
IT hope not,” he said. “I hope he
ng P r cools down and we can be good
theU.Jnds.
l0na ' 1 f "I told John he was too good a
lia w' 1 mayer to take a cheap shot like that,
er W< J should not have said anything to
It was uncalled for, but Abe
'mpletely lost his poise and grab-
d me by the coat.
' “In the second half, I knew it was
jiny responsibility not to incite any-
ing, and I told my players to just
sit on the bench and be calm. I did
not even question any of the offi
cials’ calls.”
1 Sidney Moncrief led the Razor-
>ack.s’ win with 26 points.
[ Texas and Texas A&M now are
8-2 in SWC games and the Long-
jorns are 15-5 for the season. Ar-
iansas moved to 6-3 in conference
and 14-4 overall.
I Thursday night’s upset brings
about several critical games in the
remainder of the SWC schedule,
mong them will Texas A&M’s trip
Arkansas Feb. 6 and Texas’ trip to
Texas A&M Feb. 12.
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