Battalion/Page 14
February 11, 1983
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Sutton says Razorbacks ready
Aggies, Hogs resume rivalry
Saturday in Barnhill Arena
by John P. Lopez
Battalion Staff
There’s no doubt the Texas
A&M-Texas football rivalry is
one of the fiercest battles in the
country. But when it comes to
basketball, many Aggies consid
er Arkansas to be the top rival.
The feeling is mutual.
Arkansas head coach Eddie
Sutton said motivating his play
ers to play Texas A&M is always
an easy task.
“You have to realize,” Sutton
said, “that no one has won the
conference championship the
past nine years except Texas
A&M or Arkansas. I don’t have
to worry about firing my players
up because they’ve been in too
many wars with the Aggies.
They know it’ll be another war
Saturday.”
Another reason the Aggies
are on the mind of many Razor-
backs, Sutton said, is because
Texas A&M consistently plays
well in Fayetteville. Sutton
added that Saturday’s game
should be another Barn(hill)-
burner.
“Every time w'e hook it up
with A&M you can count on a
great basketball game,” he said.
“The first time we ever played
them here we went into three
overtimes. That’s just how most
of our games go and I’m sure
this year will be no exception.
Both teams are very evenly
matched.”
The. Aggies, no doubt, will
have revenge on their minds
from a 66-64 loss earlier in the
year when they walk onto the
Barnhill Arena court, but the
Razorbacks aren’t the only fac
tor Texas A&M must deal with.
The hollering Hog crowd will
see to it Arkansas has a definite
home-court advantage.
The Aggies have done well in
Barnhill before, but this year
Texas A&M has six players that
have never played in front of the
rabid Razorback fans — a defi
nite disadvantage for the
Aggies. Freshman Kenny
Brown will be broken in to hos
tile surroundings Saturday, but
he said he’d prefer to concen
trate on the game.
“I’ve heard so much about
their crowd that I’m looking for
ward to going,” Brown said.
“But I’d just like to win. And I
think we can win if we keep our
own intensity up.
“If we win, we’ll be in real
good shape for the (SWC) tour
nament. And if we lose we really
won’t be hurt too bad either.”
Senior guard Tyren Naulls
agrees, but doesn’t want to think
about losing.
“Since TCU lost, (Wednesday
to Tech) we’re only one game
out of third place in confer
ence,” Naulls said. “We’d really
like to win to stay in the battle to
get to Dallas (SWC tourna
ment).”
Arkansas is already virtually
assured of a first-round tourna
ment bid, but Sutton said the
Hogs have been playing incon
sistently of late.
“We had a good game against
Wake Forest,” Sutton said, “but
I think we still need to go out
and have a good game against
A&M. I think a big difference in
our game will be the play of (cen
ter) Joe Kleine. He’s been a lot
more consistent in his play
lately.
“(Darrell) Walker has also
been doing very well. I think the
Reggie Roberts-Darrell Walker
matchup will be a great one.
They’re two of the quickest
guards around. But naturally, if
you want to beat A&M you have
to stop Claude Riley. He can hit
you with 25 or 30 points in no
time at all.”
If past Aggie-Razorback
games are any indication of what
to expect Saturday, Sutton’s pre
diction of a down-to-the-wire
game should prove to be correct.
But the Arkansas players might
have a little more motivation on
their side than Texas A&M’s
players.
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