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By TONY GALLUCCI
Sports Editor
What can I say? The Aggies played
their best basketball game of the sea
son. Who knows, it may have been
the best ever? In a game worthy of
t'the final four, the Aggies still came
up on the short end of the stick, 45-
to the Arkansas Razorbacks.
They were met at the airport on
, the return trip by a large vocal crowd
and the Aggie Band, all of whom had
| waited the two-and-a-half hours
beyond the scheduled arrival time,
Ilin the cold, to greet the Ags.
' Sour grapes don’t win games, past
or future — but the Aggies were rob
ed when Southwest Conference
fficials made another mockery of
he sport of basketball.
“It’s really sad if the championship
omes down to that play,” said a de
lected head coach Shelby Metcalf.
Some of our guys have worked their
—s for four years only to have this
happen. Hell, all the guys have
worked so hard this year for this,
hat do you tell them?”
Arkansas was outplayed, outclas-
;ed, outguessed and outcoached by
he Aggies. The same Aggies who
lave been taking so much heat for
ot playing well against Rice or
ech. The same Aggies who have
aken so much heat for playing just
pod enough to win.
The game ended when U.S. Reed
it a free throw with no time remain-
liig to break a 44-all tie. Dave Goff,
senior Aggie guard, had taken an in-
ounds pass and dribbled down the
poor trying to get off a desperation
shot before the buzzer.
His miss should have sent the
;ame into overtime. But referee
eggie Copeland (of Mobile, Ala.)
called Goff for charging. The whistle
was blown before time ran out, but
from there the questions begin. Did
Goff foul? Some folks were quite
emphatic, including Hog coach
Eddie Sutton, “The ref made a gutsy
:all but I felt it was correct. ”
Reed said of the call, “I saw Goff
jetting ready to shoot that last shot
and when he left his feet something
told me I could get a charge. I got in
front of him and that’s what hap
pened. Yes, I think it was a good call.
I really felt I was set.”
But was Goff in the air when Reed
moved under him? Was the charge
before the shot or after the shot? Did
the clock still have one second on it
as the official scoresheet says — or
none, as the timekeeper indicated?
The answers may never be known,
although, already, some claim the
videotapes vindicate Goff.
With 3:25 remain in the game and
a 42-37 A&M lead, the Ags went into
the four-comer stall game. Vernon
Smith was fouled by Mike Young.
Smith was pushed on the inbounds
pass and Copeland not only failed to
call that but also indicated that Smith
had stepped out of bounds, which,
according to those closest to the spot,
he clearly did not do.
Young hit a 15-foot jump shot from
the top of the key to narrow the mar
gin to 42-39. Rudy Woods threw a
pass away on the next Ag possession
and Reed took the ball down court
and narrowed the lead again, to 42-
41.
David Britton drove the lane the
next time down court and hit, mak
ing the Ags three-point leaders once
again, 44-41.
In the remaining two minutes,
Young fouled Goff twice going for
steals. Copeland was there to miss
the calls. Young narrowed the lead
again to 44-43 on an 18-footer.
Young fouled Tyrone Ladson, who
missed the one-and-one, and it was
Young who gathered in the rebound.
The Hogs weren’t able to convert,
though, before Goff came up with a
crucial steal. Rynn Wright was
fouled in the scramble but missed
the front end of his one-and-one, his
only free throw miss of the night.
The next trip down the court, a
foul was called on Rudy for blocking
Reed as Reed drove the lane. There
was not, of course, a foul. One guess
who made the call. Reggie Cope
land.
Because it was a shooting foul,
Reed had two shots, the first of which
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he missed. The second tied the game
at 44-all.
Listen to what Reed had to say
after the game. “The time I went to
the line with four seconds left I was
surprised I had that much of an open
shot. I thought they’d play a little
tighter. I didn’t know I’d been
fouled. I thought it was Scott (Hast
ings) that was fouled. ”
Hastings reaction? “U.S. seemed
to think that I was the one who was
fouled and I said, ’What?’. I thought
he might have been a little gunshy or
in a daze.”
It might only be strange coinci
dence that in 1979 at Fayetteville
four starters fouled out in the last few
minutes and two others gathered
four fouls. It might be even more
coincidental that the referee who
made the crucial, controversial calls,
in the waning minutes of that one
was Reggie Copeland.
The game was delayed once in the
first half when the lights mysterious
ly blacked out just after the Aggies
gained a seven-point advantage, 13-
6. In addition, the game was delayed
five times to clear ice, cups, prog
rams and spent snuff from the court.
The Ags are tied with Arkansas for
first place in the conference now,
with 11-2 records. Overall the
Aggies are 19-7 while the Hogs are
18-5. A&M hosts Texas at 1:40 p.m.
on Saturday in an NBC regionally
televised game.
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Tyrone Ladson (10) scores on a layup in the Aggies’ four-
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line pass to Ladson in last Wednesday’s 55-53 win over Rice.
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jjQg,. Staff Photo by Lee Roy Leschper
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1980
Rockets win
over Spurs
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — Two free
throws by Allen Leavell with four
seconds to play finally clinched a
120-118 win for Houston over San
Antonio Tuesday night, moving the
Rockets to within a halfgame of the
second-place Spurs in the Central
Division.
Houston’s Calvin Murphy ignited
a third-quarter rally with seven
points and two steals to help offset
the 41 points scored by San Antonio’s
George Gervin.
Murphy scored the last four points
of the third period to pull the Rock
ets to within three at 84-81. His 18-
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and the clubs exchanged baskets un
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