Page 10 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1979
Draft choices could aid
NBA expansion teams
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HOUSTON — Future NBA ex
pansion teams may be allowed to
build their initial rosters with top
college draft choices instead of with
NBA substitutes, the president of an
existing team said Wednesday.
“It is one of the possibilities,”
Houston Rockets President Ray Pat
terson said. “It is extremely impor
tant for the (expansion) franchise to
be able to compete competitively
with the other clubs in order that
they might develop a stable franch
ise.
During the recent NBA all-star
break, the league’s expansion com
mittee heard proposals from seven
cities. The leading contenders to ob
tain a franchise for the 1980-81 sea-
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son appeared to be Dallas and
Minneapolis-St. Paul.
In past expansions, existing teams
froze their top seven or eight
players while the new teams chose
from the remaining substitutes.
“That did not seem to work as
rapidly as it should, Patterson said.
“Therefore, it is thought in some
quarters that preference should be
given to expansion clubs in the up
coming college draft so they might
have a built in attraction. It would
help them draw good crowds on the
road, too.
“One way to do it,” Patterson
said, “would be to allow a new club
to take the first two draft choices. In
the case of two clubs, maybe one
could take the Nos. 1 and 3 choices;
the other could take 2 and 4.”
He said there had been no official
discussion of stocking expansion
clubs at the Detroit meetings earlier
this week.
“It would be worked out by the
expansion committee and presented
to the Board (of Governors), Pat
terson said.
If Dallas does get a franchise, Pat
terson can be expected to push for a
realignment featuring Houston,
Dallas, San Antonio, New Orleans
and possibly Kansas City in the
same division.
“It would be excellent. San An
tonio has helped create an interest
in professional basketball. Dallas
would too. We have our best crowds
when San Antonio comes here.
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DALLAS — The Southwest
Conference announced Wed
nesday the championship game
of its post-season basketball
tournament, to be played on the
evening of March 3 in Houston,
would be televised.
The nine SWC faculty repre
sentatives agreed Wednesday to
accept a bid made by Metro
Communications of Washington
D.C., the producer of five prime
time Southwest Conference tele
casts this year.
SWC officials said the game
would be blacked out within a
75-mile radius of Houston and
that tipoff of the contest would
be at 8:10 p.m. CST. Any sta
tions outside that blackout area
are eligible to contract with
Metro Communications and pick
up the telecast.
Conference officials have been
criticized for not televising por
tions of the tournament the past
two years, but they have said
that no worthwhile bid had been
received until Metro Communi
cations made the offer that was
accepted Wednesday.
All three sessions of the tour
nament, played in the 15,330-
seat Summit Arena, were sold
out last year and sellouts are ex
pected again for all three sessions
this year.
At the same time, conference
officials said the Texas-Texas
Tech game scheduledforF
in Austin would be tele
Tipoff of that game will be
to 1:40 p.m. CST toaccom
the telecast. In addition
the three first-roundtounij
games set for Feb. 24 »i!
televised.
The SWC post -season
nament was inaugurated
the 1976 season and the
event was played in Dalla:
year the semifinals andf
were televised.
But after the toumames
moved to Houston in
home television was a\
The Houston portion o|
tournament begins on
March 1 with a doublet)!
beginning at 7 p.m. Tbe
place finisher in the regul
son will be in action tbal
along with the winners
three first-round games
played on Feb. 24.
On Friday, March 2, lie
ners from the previous nigfc
return to play the ft
second-place finishers in
fere nee race. That
will also start at 7 p.m,
on Friday night meet
night for the tournament
and an automatic inviationk
NCAA tournament.
The SWC tournament
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victory over Tyler Junior College
Wednesday at the Aggies new var
sity courts. The Aggies beat the
Apaches 8-1.
Singles winners for Texas A& M
included: Kathleen Sissom over Teri
Neutze 6-4, 6-1; Maylyn Hooton
over Terrisa Cargill 6-3, 6-0; Pam
Hill over Janet Kniffen 6-3, 6-2;
Susan Schilling over Rachel Howell
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