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Page 10 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1981 Sports Battle for third is in SWC spotlight HURRY! HURRY! HURRY! Custom-made corps uniforms at lowest prices in town! BOOT PANTS — MIDNIGHTS SEIRGE PINKS — POLYESTER 1 DAY UNIFORM SERVICE $ 20 00 DOWN ON UNIFORMS Get your uniform ready before FINAL REVIEW! Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 United Press International Other than being able to hang up a pennant in the gymnasium, it doesn’t make that much difference whether it is the Houston Cougars or Arkansas Razorbacks that finish on top at the end of the Southwest Conference’s regular season. They will both almost certainly be drawing byes into the semifin als of the league’s postseason tour nament and they both will prob ably receive invitations to the NCAA tourney. But if one team does eek out the other for the league crown the odds seem to favor the Houston Cougars, despite their 15-point setback at the hands of the Razor- backs in Fayetteville last Satur day. 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The Razorbacks must go to both College Station tonight and Lubbock (Feb. 28) in addition to their home games against Rice and SMU. Houston, meanwhile, also has to go to College Station on Feb. 28, but its other road trip is to TCU tonight while the Cougars have home dates with Baylor and Rice. If they wind up sharing the crown, the seeding for the tourna ment would be determined how the two teams finished against the third-place team. At this point Texas Tech and Baylor are tied for third. Arkansas has lost to Baylor and Houston has lost to Tech. All of that figuring, however, doesn’t make a hoot to the Razor- backs, who won their biggest game of the year last Saturday in blasting the Cougars during the second half. “A team with less character might have gone into a tailspin (af ter losing three conference games earlier in the season), but we fought back and I think we can win the conference now,” Arkansas coach Eddie Sutton said. “Our players certainly think so.” The game seemed to turn on a decision made by coach Guy Lewis with 13 minutes left in the game. Having picked up three free throws — one of them thanks to an Arkansas technical foul — the Cougars had trimmed the de ficit to three points. Houston seemed to have the momentum, but when the Cougars brought the ball in bounds (again thanks to the tech nical foul) they went into a delay game. Four minutes ran off the clock before Houston took a shot and it turned out to be an airball by Lynden Rose. The crowd at Barnhill Arena, which had been screaming its col lective throat out of joint during the stall, really erupted after the missed shot. Houston did not score for another four minutes while Arkansas ran its lead to 12 points. While Arkansas and Houston are left to worry about first place, the middle of the SWC race has turned into a jumble. Thanks to Texas Tech’s 56-53 win over Baylor in Lubbock and Texas A&M’s 71-56 decision over Rice — the Aggies fourth straight vic tory — there are five teams bat tling for the third-place spot in the final standings. Texas Tech and Baylor are tied for third at 7-6, Rice is a half step behind at 6-6 and Texas A&M and Texas are at 5-7. Reflections By Richard Oliver The Hogs need a lesson On Jan. 24, Barnhill Arena in Fayetteville rocked as 9,400 Arb sas Razorback fans screamed their lungs out for their team as (lie Hogs took on Texas A&M. In the wilds of Hog country, that means a lot of cussing, fighting and intimidating. Saturday, that intimidation brought about the downfall of Roll Williams and the Houston Cougars 70-55, and catapulted the Razor backs into first place. I sat through that Texas A&M-Arkansas game on Jan. 24andlive(l to tell about it — barely. In a column after that game, I discussed and cussed that crowd thanking my Lord for G. Rollie White and the remnants ofsanityin the world. I endured a few taunts and blasphemies and evenafistii the back from a Hog groupie who found out I was an Aggie, bull didn’t squeal. At least not like they did when a call went against them. And not many do up there. A team may saunter boldly into Barnhill Arena, but moreoftet than not that team will run back to the bus after the contest and plead for the security of home. It’s that bad, folks. Even Skip Bavless, that renowned column writer of the Dallas Morning News, wrote an article about the hapless Hog crowd Sunday. Speaking of Saturday’s Hogs-Cougars game, Bayless reiterated what many have said and noticed: “The refs were worried about being lynched by the Razorbad rowdies. The final was Arkansas 70, Houston 55 — but don’t takeii to Wells Fargo Bank. In the San Antonio flatlands with half as many Hog Wilds in the SWC tourney stands, it will be different. Houston without Williams is Arkansas without its fans.” As Bayless quoted, recently Inside Sports magazine ranked Bar nhill as one of the top 10 “pits” of the country. Tonight at 7 p.m., Arkansas will creep out of that pit and venture into G. Rollie White Coliseum, a place known not only for a crowd that emits a noise perhaps “a decibel louder” than Barnhill despite having fewer in attendance, according to Bayless, but one that is becoming known for its sportsmanship albeit being a bit fanatical Last week, columnist Dick Vitale of the Detroit Free Press praised Texas A&M for its Jolly Roily crowd. At Rice Saturday nigtl in Houston, half of Autry Court was filled with vocal Aggie fans The Razorbacks have won seven straight. The Aggies have won four straight. Arkansas rests on top of the SWC heap. Texas AW! lies silently waiting in fifth place, a game and a half out of third, When the smoke clears and the season is over, the Hogs and (lit Cougars will undoubtedly both be invited to either the NCAA or NIT classics, regardless of the final tournament results. Both have virtually clinched semifinal berths in San Antonio’s HemisFair Arena March 5-7 for the post-season classic. The Aggies, however, will have to continue scrapping. But need less to say, the day in, day out battles will have them primed for combat come March. And tonight’s battle will be the most important of all for Texas A&M. In Arkansas, the Aggies had the Hogs on the ropes as they weaved, bobbed and scored repeatedly while maintaining a practic al, solid defense. But eventually the crowd and some bad free throw shooting won out — Barnhill 1, Texas A&M 0. Now, the Razorbacks visit G. Rollie. Assuredly, the stands willbe packed with avid fans. And assuredly, the fans will have their say That in itself is fine. There are fans and there are mobs. Arkansas will find out the difference tonight. I; mk Reggie wants more The ketba) day wl Abiler preluc United Press International NEW YORK — George Stein- brenner wants a few things clearly understood about his relationship Sun Theatres 333 University 846-' The only movie in town Double-Feature Every Week 846-9808 tive years Reggie Jackson has ® r ' r 1 Snisne given him with the Yankees anil 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Sun.-Theirs. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Fri.-Sat. No one under 18 BOOK STORE A ?5e PEEP SHOWS The with Reggie Jackson. He thinks the world ofhim.aail the ga that isn’t just talk, he means it. 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He says he will bend every effort to do that, and if he cant well, that would mean Jackson probably would elect to go some where else, to some other cW) willing to pay him more money Speaking from his office in Tam pja, Fla., Monday, the Yankee owner said he’ll meet with Jackson sometime next week to discuss hi future with the club. “I’m not trying to putanybei on Reggie, ” Steinbrenner says. “I’ll do what is realistic and wbat I think is fair,” he goes on, “If# isn’t good enough and he decides to try for free agency, I’ll under stand that perfectly. If he think he can get $9 million from some one else, God bless him. I spoil with him by phone the other nij and he asked me, ‘Whatifyoua I can’t get together and I go free agency? Would you be madal me?’ I told him no, I wouldn’tbf mad, and that’s the truth.” When Jackson signed a five- year contract calling for $2.66mil lion with the Yankees in Novem ber of 1976, few, if any, at tltfl time foresaw the possibility oft# being in the position to ask iff even more at the end of that con tract. To his credit, Jackson never sought to renegotiate during an!', of the period his contract was in force. Now, with one year to go, and seeing the more than $15 mil' lion given to Dave Winfield, be feels he can rightfully ask more. This will be Jackson’s 14th sea; son in the big leagues, he’ll be S in May and he has, on pure formance, established himselfasl legitimate candidate for the of Fame. He reads the papers and sa* where an arbitrator awarded Yankee catcher Rick Cerone $440,000 a year from the Yankees’ the other day, even thougl Cerone has been in the big league only four years and only one se^ son with the Yankees. Ceronej salary compares favorably to $532,000 a year Jackson is getting and would serve to strengtbe" Jackson’s argument for mof' money