Texas A&M
The Battalion Sports
February 8, 1983/Page 11
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Presence of Houston’s Drexler
dictates many ‘court’ decisions
hey call him “Clyde the Glide” around the U niversi-
tyiof Houston campus. Professional basketball scouts
pencil “great NBA material” into their notebooks in
reference to his skills. And folks who are just plain old
fatjs say he’s the most talented athlete in college basket-
Meet Clyde Drexler, the Houston Cougars’ stud of
■dsand the president of their elite “Phi Slammajam-
ma" fraternity.
iHe’s the kind of guy you look at and decide to call Mr.
Dnrvler instead of Clyde. The Cougars’ No. 1 jammin’
S ent doesn’t care if you call him Clyde or Mr. Drexler,
It he’s courteous enough to give you all the respect in
the world — even if you’re a total stranger,
f But when he’s on the basketball court, Mr. Drexler
jons a red and white robe and becomes one of several
presidingjudges. This court of law doesn’t need jurors,
nclvever, since most of the verdicts are cut-and-dried;
thai is, they’re decided upon before the opening tip.
Ibrexler, Michael Young, Larry Micheaux and
Akeem Abdul Olajuwon form a multi-judge panel that
rats its defendants with no mercy and no respect.
In Saturday’s hearing with the Texas Aggies, the
terdict wasn’t handed down until the second half. But
then these judges decided to put an end to the Aggies’
Mieback, they did so without warning.
IThe Cougars have been doing that to many of their
ipponents. The Aggies just happened to be the latest in
i long line of defendants who didn’t have a chance
gainst a no-mercy group of judges.
■ But back to Mr. Drexler. Most people don’t call him
Your Honor,” but sometimes he makes you want to call
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him a gentleman and a scholar. Give him a chance to
speak and he’ll give you an earful.
“The greatest thing about today was our hussle,”
Drexler said with a smile after the Cougars finished off
the Aggies, 86-66, in G. Rollie White Coliseum. “Hussle
makes the team. Hussle is contagious. When you hussle,
you win ballgames.”
While nearby teammates laughed it up, Drexler
smiled from ear to ear, obviously pleased with himself
and his brief moment of literary license.
“I think we’ll get better and better as the season
progresses,” the Cougars’ smooth-flying forward said.
“There’s still work to be done. I hope we can keep going
at this pace.”
Drexler’s main task against the Aggies included
guarding 6-10 forward Claude Riley, Texas A&M’s
leading scorer and rebounder. At 6-7, Drexler lost some
height to Riley, but he says quickness made up for those
inches.
“Everywhere he went,” Drexler said, “I went, watch
ing the ball, whether he went right or left. I’m quicker
than him, so I was able to keep up with him. The Aggies
were trying to force it inside, but they couldn’t do it. We
just didn’t want them to have their way inside with us.”
Drexler, who faked in about four different directions
and snaked his way to an impressive layup to make the
score 52-40 with 13:43 left in the game, said the shot
didn’t come easy.
“I had to do a lot of twisting and turning to get free,”
he said, “but I’ve made that shot before. That’s the kind
of shot you make in practice, but not too often in a
game.
“We’ve got an awesome team. Whenever we play with
this much intensity, we’re hard to beat. The Aggies have
a good team, but their inside game just can’t match ours
— that’s the key.”
Now that the Cougars have a 9-0 record in the South
west Conference, Drexler said, it’s time to get the play
ers in line for the countdown to the league tournament
— and whatever may lie ahead. It’s up to him and his
fellow upperclassmen — Micheaux and Young — to
perform that task, Drexler said.
“We as the ‘senior’ members of the team aren’t going
to let everybody get cocky,” Drexler said with a grin.
“It’s up to the older members of the team to keep
everbody straight.”
And with Mr. Clyde Drexler at the helm, it shouldn’t
be difficult to keep the wheels moving in the right
direction.
firginia, Villanova next on schedule
No. 1 Tar Heels face tough road
[I United Press International
|NEW YORK — North Caroli-
la may find life at the top of
dlege basketball’s ratings to be
i bit precarious before next
donday rolls around.
■he Tar Heels hung on to the
op spot Monday in the weekly
Jijited Press International’s
loard of Coaches ratings, but
oust face two of the toughest
:anison their schedule within a
pate of four days.
■North Carolina, 20-3, and
tinner of 17 consecutive games,
(lays host to No. 2 Virginia at
Chapel Hill Thursday night and
entertains No. 14 Villanova Sun
day on national television.
North Carolina was far from
a unanimous choice for No. 1 in
this week’s ratings but held a
comfortable lead over Virginia.
The Tar Heels received 26 first-
place votes and 585 points from
the 41 members of the coaches
board who participated in this
week’s ratings, to outdistance
Virginia by 35 points.
Virginia, 19-2, received six
first-place votes and 550 points
to retain the No. 2 spot and un
beaten Nevada-Las Vegas, 20-0,
got eight first-place votes and
498 points to hold on to the No.
3 spot.
Indiana, UCLA, Houston
and Missouri each moved up
two places from last week. In
diana, 17-2, climbed to No. 4 af
ter turning back two Big Ten
Conference foes last week;
UCLA, 16-2, advanced to No. 5
after downing two Pacific-10
Conference rivals; Houston, 18-
2, moved up to No. 6 after beat
ing two Southwest Conference
opponents and Missouri, 18-3,
jumped to No. 8 after defeating
a pair of Big Eight Conference
foes. The Cougars received one
first-place vote.
St.John’s, 19-2, split a pair of
games during the week and
dropped three places to No. 7
and Memphis State, 17-2, fell
five places to No. 10 after split
ting a pair of games. Arkansas,
18-1, remained in the No. 9 posi
tion.
Heading the second 10 was
Louisville, 18-3, which won two
games during the week to adv
ance one place. Kentucky, 14-5,
Georgetown, 15-5, and Minne
sota, 14-4, each advanced three
places despite splitting a pair of
games during the week. Ken
tucky moved from No. 15 to No.
12; Georgetown climbed from
No. 16 to No. 13, and Minnesota
advanced from No. 18 to No. 15.
Illinois State, 17-2, won two
of three outings during the week
but dropped two places to No.
16, in a tie with Syracuse, 15-4,
which returned to the top 20 af
ter a one-week absence.
staff photo by David Fisher
A sure-bet two points
Aggie guard Reggie Roberts dunks the ball during
his team’s victory over the Texas Longhorns earlier
in the season. The Aggies, who lost to Houston
86-66 Saturday in G. Rollie White Coliseum, take on
Rice Wednesday in Houston. Game time is 7:30.
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