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THE BATTALION
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1979
Start your calculator^
Tournament situation shaping up
By MARK PATTERSON
Battalion Sports Staff
Dust ott your slide rules, break out
your calculators and sharpen your
pencils, it’s Southwest Conference
tournament time.
The tournament format has been
changed somewhat this season be
cause of coaches’ complaints about
the past three tournaments. Before
this season the conference champion
received an automatic bye into the
final round to face the tournament
survivor.
The previous format sounded
good to every team except the con
ference champion. The conference
winner, forced to wait two weeks be
fore playing a game after its season
was over, lost the edge it honed dur
ing conference play. The argument
was well documented.
Only Arkansas, the 1977 confer
ence champion, was able to sit out for
the two weeks and beat the tourna
ment survivor, Houston, to gain the
NCAA playoff berth. In 1976, the
tourney’s first year, Texas A&M won
the conference crown but lost in the
tournament’s final game to Texas
Tech 74-72.
Last season Houston survived the
first three rounds and beat confer
ence champion Texas in the final
game 92-90.
This year the first place team and
the second place finisher in confer
ence play receive byes into the
semi-final round of the tournament.
Texas and Arkansas have already
clinched the top two spots, with
Texas being assured of the first place
slot no matter what happens Tuesday
night against SMU. Win or lose the
Longhorns win the upper-bracket
position due to the tie-breaking pro-
ceedure set up by the tournament
committee.
If Texas should lose and Arkansas
beat Texas Tech in Lubbock Tuesday
night, the two would be declared
conference co-champions. But be
cause the two teams split during the
season in heads-up competition, in
order to break the tie for tournament
play, it’s on down to the third place
finisher and see how the two teams
fared against it.
The Texas Aggies will assure
themselves of a third place finish
with a victory at home Tuesday night
against Rice. A third place finish in
1979 POST-SEASON CLASSIC BRACKETS
Saturday. Feb. 24 Thursday. March 1
(three sites) (The Summit)
Friday, March 2 Saturday, March 3
(The Summit) (The Summit)
Ninth Place
at Fourth Place
Seventh Place
at Sixth Place
Second Place
Third Place (bye)
Eighth Place
at Fifth Place
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the conference race gives the Aggies
a first round bye this weekend and an
automatic berth into the second
round of the tournament at the
Summit March 1.
Texas beat the Aggies twice this
season while Arkansas split with
Texas A&M, so on the basis of the
year’s performance the Longhorns
are declared the conference cham
pion for the tournament’s sake.
Fourth, fifth and sixth place
finishers host first round games
Saturday against ninth, eighth and
seventh place finishers, respec
tively. And the TCU Horned Frogs
are the only team in the lower six
with their spot locked up, ninth with
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a 1-13 record. TCU can look forward
to traveling to the home of the fourth
place finisher, either Tech or Baylor.
The Red Raiders were the only
team that controlled their own de
stiny in their last four games. The
Raider’s faced Texas A&M, Hous
ton, Texas and Arkansas, with a pos
sible conference championship at
the end of the line. After beating the
Aggies, Tech lost to Houston and
Texas and now face the Razorbacks
Tuesday night. Going into the Ar
kansas game. Tech is 9-6 in confer
ence play.
But right behind the Raiders are
the Baylor Bears, currently 8-7 in
conference play, with TCU as their
last game Tuesday night. A Baylor
win and a Tech loss would throw the
two team into a tie for fourth and
force a coin flip to decide which team
hosts TCU Saturday.
The loser of the flip, the fifth place
finisher, would host either Rice or
Southwest Conference Standings
Texas
. . . .13-2
.867
Arkansas
. .. .12-3
.800
Texas A&M
. . . . 10-5
.667
Texas Tech
9-6
.600
Baylor
8-7
.533
Houston
. . ..6-10
.375
SMU
. . ..4-10
.288
Rice
. . . .4-11
.267
TCU
. .. .1-13
.071
This week’s
schedule
TUESDAY: Arkansas at Texas Tech;
TCU at Baylor; Rice at Texas A&M;
Texas at SMU.
WEDNESDAY: SMU at TCU.
SATURDAY: First Round of SWC
postseason tournament — No. 9
finisher at No. 4; No. Sat No. 5; No.
7 at No. 6.
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SMU, the eighth place team. Eighth
place is still undecided. Rice, 4-11,
visits Texas A&M while SMU, 4-10,
host Texas Tuesday and travels to
TCU Wednesday.
Should SMU win its final two
games and end 6-10 and in a tie for
sixth with Houston (already through
with SWC play with a 6-10 record) it
would force a coin toss to determine
which team would host the other.
So to recap all we have learned,
Texas and Arkansas have assured
themselves of byes into the tourna
ment semi-finals March 2 at the
Summit in Houston. A victoiy by
Texas A&M Tuesday night would
give the Aggies a first round bye and
into the second round March 1. The
fourth place finisher hosts the ninth
place finisher (TCU), the fifth place
finisher host the eigth place finisher
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seventh place finisher. And all ties,
second throvxgh ninth, are broken by
a coin toss.
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DALLAS — Having pulled off one recruiting coup after another
Meyer is ready to reap the benefits.
And Meyer, the never-shy Southern Methodist coach who gather
one of the best groups of high school players in the country last w !i
feels those benefits will be forthcoming in a hurry.
“When we go out on the field next year we will be able to
anybody we play,” Meyer said. “We’ve been favored maybet\vi«'
year the past few years. Next year we will he favored in at leastsr,
our games and maybe more. And when we are the underdog we woi
be the underdog we were.”
The arrival of Meyer as football coach and promotion-minded Rt
Potts as athletic director has turned Southern Methodist’s footL
program into a potentially dominating force in the Southwest Confe
ence, and last week’s recruiting results mark the highlight oftfe
efforts.
LAST YEAR THE MUSTANGS WERE always a threat in (Re
with sophomore quarterback Mike Ford — the nation’s total offei,,
leader — and a talented crew of receivers. But they could not runt)
ball and the opposition knew it.
Now Meyer has landed the two best running prospects in Texas
Eric Dickerson of Sealy and Craig James of Houston. In additioi.,,
talent-laden recruiting crop includes running back James Collier
Seagoville, 9.3 sprinter Mitchell Bennett of Bonaham at wide receive,
defensive back Stanley Godine of Houston and highly sought alii
lineman Michael Carter of Dallas.
There is also New Mexico’s player of the year, quarterback Laj
Walker. Of the players generally considered to he the top lOOinTea
SMU grabbed 15.
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Meyer feels there will be no trouble keeping all of those wl# |R
tional signing date comes Wednesday and he says there mightevaff
national signing
be a few more surprises.
“THE BEST DEFENSE IS A GOOD OFFENSE,” he said 111 Unite
might get a few more from around the country.” 1ALLAJ
But SMU’s recruiting efforts were marred by rumors ofwrongdoh t as
and by an NCAA investigation into an automobile being drivenli itor, is f
Dickerson, a player who originally said he was going toTexasA&Mnl concenl
then chosen SMU. lights 1
“The NCAA investigator told me. Hey, coach. I’ve checkedita >ss the <
and it’s fine, Meyer said. "That was just all part of the innuendotli > N.J.,
was going around. lts call
“The thing that bothered me was that as soon as a rumor is broada eeves,
on a radio or television station or is printed in the newspaper) htestyc
becomes fact in the minds of 99 percent of the people wholiearit. leading
“Take the example of the James’ family in Houston (James backed! 1 cam
signing with SMU for a day because what other recruiters weresayiAts new
about the Mustangs left his parents in doubt). Beorge V
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“THEY ARE FRIENDLY PEOPLE. When the phone ringstk repor
answer it. And they had people saying. I’m so and so and this is goi >' Rhom
to happen to SMU. Well, who knows if it is so and so or not. ear-old
“But it can really get vicious, particularly in the hotbed that Housti top oi
is where there are alumni from every school and you happen tob ikes,
two of the best players in the state. * s
"Both kids told me all along they were going to SMU. Dickersonsa ' °f d°
three or four weeks ago that he was going to SMU. Ofcoursewhei res, \vh
came out that he had committed to Texas A&M it concerned me n calls
called him and he said he wanted to think about it. narde
“He said, ‘Coach, you come at 8 p. m. Friday and we ll sign. Sothi reevale
what we did. I didn’t talk to him any more. You just have to trustthfl an d I s
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them from the start.” iagains
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that SMU has been able to pull itself out of the depths. 1
“When John McKay went from Oregon to coach at USCitw
certainly no bed of roses,” the SMU coach said. “Schools haveria
from the bottom of the heap to the top before and theyve
legally.
“Anybody in football knows that. If they don’t they are just bei
short sided. And we didn’t get everybody we wanted. There wereal
of fine athletes that we wanted that signed with other schools
balanced out.”
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