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Battalion/Page 13
February 7, 1983
ougars remain undefeated in SWC
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UH confident after victory
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by Frank L. Christlieb
Battalion Staff
liven a choice between Texas
M’s pistol-quick guards and
Texas Ai own basketball-swatting bull-
Kentsaiiii
ready
rs, Houston Cougar coach
l Lewis admits without hesi-
I to a fa's, don that he’d take the latter.
course And when the Aggies tried to
lv burst Re the ball toward the basket
igwedo, Inst those intimidating bull-
lers Saturday in G. Rollie
pite Coliseum, Lewis had pre-
isianaisi; |j e( i the results beforehand,
vereally n(c nearly every Houston
justhopi lonent has attempted —
|hout success — to get the
■igars’ basket watchmen in
■ trouble, Lewis knew Texas
nM would fall short in the
nar.
ision of
^oody
lb put it lightly, Lewis has
we confidence in his “Big
Ir” than Kareem Abdul-
Aar has in his sky hook or
|ph Sampson has in his right-
ided dunk.
nd why not? As the club’s
jority stockholder, Lewis is in
fourth season with Larry
Rheaux, his third with Clyde
xlerand Michael Young and
lis second season with Akeem
■ul Olajuwon. Through the
ents iJ 1 two an( f a years — with
shot fa« e four Players contributing
■ I Wic cause — the Cougars have
’ iTBipiled a 64-19 record,
p i ■'he Aggies, outmanned and
d fourthf 1 et J t " ffed a g a, . n f I t \ he ei .g ht , h -
, p ■RedCougars, fell short in the
t C i ( ^ inal score, 86-66. In addition,
^|de Drexler, made Texas
IM’s players appear much
Jrter than the game program
5ed them.
_ rrwUt that’s not unusual. The
I I ligars seem to dwarf even the
Ly J lest opponents into submis-
|i, whether it be by blocked
f) Its, rebounds or showy dunks.
W lewis, whose club pushed its
|ord to 18-2 overall and 9-0 in
Southwest Conference, said
was glad to see the Aggies
tthe afternoon with their in
game. Although Texas
Mhad to turn to its shooting
rds — namely Reggie
rts, Kenny Brown and
jg Lee — later in the game,
Craig 8 pis said he still believes out-
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defense key to UH victory
side shooting doesn’t win basket
ball games.
“I’ll tell you one thing,” said
Lewis, whose team is on the way
to its 24th straight winning sea
son. “I’d rather see them take it
inside on us than to see them
shoot it outside. They can really
shoot. Boy, that (Doug) Lee was
unconscious. And (Kenny)
Brown was pretty damn good,
too.”
Lee and Brown, both fresh
men, came off the Aggie bench
to score a combined 15 points —
all but one from the outside. But
the inside domination of Drex
ler, Young and Olajuwon made
Texas A&M’s oft-brilliant out
side shooting seem ineffective.
“I think this was the most con
sistent game we’ve every played
up here,” Lewis said. “We really
hung in there and played our
game. I’m happy to get in and
out of here with a win. I’ll tell
you, A&M’s a good basketball
team.”
It’d been five years since the
Cougars had played a “consis
tent” game in the coliseum.
Since defeating Texas A&M
here 80-73 in 1978, the Aggies
had won 66-58, 92-79, 78-77
and 95-77, so Lewis had a quick
reply when asked how he felt
about winning in College Sta
tion.
“Well, how tall is the highest
mountain?” he asked. “We had
said a couple of weeks ago that
the next five games or so starting
with the Rice game (Jan. 26)
could make or break us. This
was the third of those games and
we still have to play SMU up
there and TCU at home.
“We played well today.”
After being asked if his
Cougars had played a better
game this season, Lewis paused
for a few seconds.
“That’s a good question,” he
said. “I think it’s definitely the
best road game we’ve played.”
Micheaux, who scored nine
points and had six rebounds,
played only 27 minutes after
getting into foul trouble in the
first half. When both Micheaux
and Olajuwon drew three fouls
in the opening 20 minutes, it
seemed the Aggies’ plan would
work. But sophomore Benny
Anders came off the bench to
score 11 points in 21 minutes.
“To me, this was really my
best game ever, because I came
off the bench ready to play and
was able to contribute,” Anders
said. “I knew in the first half that
our big guys were in foul trou
ble. Coach (Lewis) told me to be
ready for anything, and I was.
This was one game that we had
to win.”
Micheaux, the only senior in
UH starting lineup, said he has
big plans for the remainder of
the season.
“I really want to see us go un
defeated — both at home and on
the road. The team wanted to
play well today. It was just awe
some. The way Akeem was play
ing, especially with those first
two dunks (UH’s first two bas-
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sizeable slump. Baylor became
the first Southwest Conference
victim of the Rice Owls Saturday
night, 54-48.
The Houston Cougars return
to action Wednesday night at
SMU. The Mustangs won only
one conference game last year
and that was against the UH.
The Cougars are currently 9-0
in SWC play.
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kets), was just awesome.
“I think the Aggies wanted to
go inside on us and get us into
foul trouble, which they did. But
we held on and they had to go
outside instead. We were ready
to play. Everyone was saying
we’d have to win this one be
cause we hadn’t won here in so
long. So, we had no intentions of
coming in here and losing.”
And will the Cougars con
tinue their winning ways, which
have brought nine straight SWC
victories?
“Oh yeah, with a big win like
this in such a hard place to
play?” he aksed. “I think we may
just go on and be undefeated the
rest of the way.”
Drexler, whose No. 1 assign
ment was to stop Aggie forward
Claude Riley, said he and his
teammates didn’t want to see
Riley break loose like he has in
recent games with the Cougars.
Riley, who had 38, 28 and 24
points against Houston last sea
son, finished Saturday’s game
with 20 points and a. game-high
13 rebounds.
“Riley got the ball a little too
much in the first half (14
points),” Drexler said. “So
Coach Lewis told lis to forget
about the rest of the team, to still
play defense and to still re
bound, but to not let Riley touch
the ball. At halftime, he told us
not to let him get his hands on
the ball in the second half.”
The Cougars’ superior de
fense paved the way during the
victory, Drexler said.
“I think this was one of our
greatest games on the road,
without a doubt,” Drexler said.
“We played it just as if we were at
home. Defense was the key. We
won the game on our defense.”
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