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By mark patterson
Battalion Staff
It’s hard to imagine that the out
come of a season can come down to
one game — 40 minutes of basket
ball — to decide who is a champion
and who is dubbed an also-ran.
But that’s how the Southwest
Conference race is shaping up for
the Texas Aggies, with a showdown
game against the University of Texas
Monday night in G. Rollie White
Coliseum. But the rematch will de
cide a champion if, and only if the
Aggies can win their next two games
on the road. And the first stop is
against the Hogs in the Hills of Ar
kansas.
With Arkansas defeat of the
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Longhorns last week, the race for
the conference crown is very much
undecided. The Longhorns and Ag
gies are tied for the lead with 9-2
marks. But following closely are the
Razorbacks (7-3) and the Texas Tech
Red Raiders (7-4).
“We could still finish fourth this
season, Aggie coach Shelby Met
calf said of his team’s chances in this
year’s race. “The worst thing we can
do right now is look ahead to the
end of the season.
“Tech, A&M and Arkansas are all
playing very good basketball right
now. Texas is fortunate that after
they lost (against Arkansas last
week) they didn’t have to travel to
Lubbock or Fayetteville. But that’s
just one of those things that you
have no control over during a sea
son.”
With the Longhorns’ loss, the
Texas A&M has control over its own
destiny. The Aggies don’t have to
wait for some other team to do their
work for them. They face their three
closest competitors in the next
seven days.
“We need to win two of our next
three games and one of those wins
has to be over Texas Monday night,’
Metcalf explained. “If we can win in
Fayetteville it sure will make the
Lubbock trip a whole lot more re
laxed.
“We have the situation where, if
we play the best we can, whatever
the results, we won’t be able to fault
anyone. We could win in both Lub
bock and Fayetteville and lose
Monday night. That would still give
us second place. And with second
we would have accomplished an
awful lot.
Second would be quite an im
provement from last season, a 12-15
record and seventh place in the
SWC. Second would still give the
Aggies a bye into the semi-finals of
the post-season tournament in
Houston March 1-3.
With the new format, the third-
place finisher gets a first-round bye,
with first- and second-place teams
receiving byes into the semi-finals
March 2.
But before final finishes are de
cided the Aggies have a match
against the Razorbacks tonight. And
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when you talk about the Hogs you
have to talk about their star, Sidney
Moncrief.
“When they played here (Jan. 17)
we had great luck stopping Sidney
with a 1-3-1 zone,” Metcalf ex
plained. Moncrief was held to 10
points, four in the second half and
none in the overtime period. “We
were able to double-team him when
he brought the ball inside. There is
no way we could go heads up on
him.
“If you’re going to stop Moncrief
it has to be done with team defense.
You’re not going to stop one of the
great ones all the time. We were
just fortunate the last time they
were here.
“Anytime you have a player that
can draw a crowd it can cause you
problems. If you double-team him
the other players are playing 4-on-3.
And at this level, the four will beat
the three.”
At times during the season it has
looked like the Aggie were playing
with four or fewer men on the court.
And still other times the Aggies can
look like they have their opponents
out-manned 3-to-l.
“We played better entire games
back in December,” guard Dave
Goff remembered, “but we playing
better basketball in spurts now.
“We were in a recession earlier in
the (conference) season, not on top
of our game, not shooting well. But
we re out of that now. Just playing
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1. Notre Dame (22)
2. Indiana St. . (16)
3. UCLA (1)
4. Duke (3)
5. Louisville
6. North Carolina. .
7. LSU .
8. Marquette
9. Michigan St. . . .
10. Syracuse
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(15-2) 603 11. Texas A&M .... (20-4) 182
(20-0) 562 12. Ohio St (13-6) 131
(16-3) 514 13. Iowa (15-4) 105
(16-3) 483 14. Arkansas (15-4) 95
(19-3) 438 15. Texas (16-5) 88
(16-4) 348 16. Vanderbilt (15-4) 60
(16-3) 289 17. Temple (17-3) 58
(16-3) 260 18. Purdue (17-5) 39
(14-5) 243 19. (tie) So. Calif. . . . (13-6) 31
(18-2) 214 19. (tie) Georgetown . (16-4) 31
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brought us out of that. Plus the fact
that every game is a lot more impor
tant now.”
Goff, says Metcalf, is the key to
the Aggie attack. He sets up the
plays and directs the team on both
offense and defense. Metcalf calls
Goff the settling influence on the
team, the court leader that heads
the attack.
“If Arkansas plays a lot of man
(-to-man defense). I’ll take it to the
basket more than I usually do,” Goff
said. “They have a bigger team
overall, but they have a much
slower team. Their guards aren’t as
quick as ours.
“We know that we have to win all
three of our next games. We could
win the next two and lose to Texas
and that’s all she wrote. If we finish
second we will have fallen short of
what we fought for. We set a goal to
win the conference and if we don’t
we’ve failed at what we tried to do.
“But I’d settle for a tie for first.
After all, you can’t just throw some
thing like that away after working so
hard to get it.”
But first, before a tie is even con
sidered, the Aggies have to play the
Arkansas Razorbacks. Tip-off is
scheduled for 7:30 p.m., with the
game being carried on radio by
KTAM, 1240-AM. Air time is 7:20
p.m.
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HOUSTON — The Houston As
tros Monday named Jesus Alou, 36,
as a new player-coach to replace
Tony Pacheco, who will become the
team’s National League scout.
Alou batted .324 last season after
the Astros brought him out of re
tirement. The 1978 major league
season was Alou’s 15th. It was not
disclosed whether Alou would as
sume Pacheco’s duties as first base
coach.
Pacheco’s primary responsibility,
providing the team with scouting
reports on National League teams,
caused the club to move Gordon
Lakey to the American League
scouting post.
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