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Sutton explains technicals
Hogs hard to beat at home
United Press International
During Eddie Sutton’s stay in
Fayetteville, the Arkansas
Razorbacks have won 98 games
at Barnhill Arena. They figure
to win No. 99 tonight against the
SMU Mustangs.
Just why the Hogs are so hard
to beat at home was demons
trated quite clearly Saturday
night when the Texas A&M
Aggies limped out of town with
battered eardrums.
Not only do the Razorbacks
put a talented team on the floor,
but Sutton has shown over the
years he knows how to work the
officials and the crowd.
“Coach Sutton usually knows
what he’s doing when he gets a
technical,” Arkansas center Joe
Kleine said following the Hogs’
62-55 victory over the Aggies in
Fayetteville. “When he gets one,
he usually goes after it. I don’t
question it.”
Sutton’s outbursts at the offi
cials drew two technical fouls
Saturday night and worked up
the crowd at Barnhill, but it was
not until a late-game technical
was called against A&M coach
Shelby Metcalf that ninth-
ranked Arkansas was finally able
to subdue the Aggies.
Metcalf said he was merely
yelling at one of his players —
forward Roy Jones — when he
was slapped with the technical
foul.
“I guess we are going to have
to start using sign language,”
said Metcalf. “I’ll take a poly
graph test if they want me to. I
was just talking to one of my
players.
“I thought it was a pretty
quick technical considering
what was happening at the other
end of the court (a reference to
Sutton’s work on the officials).”
Sutton’s reputation for
lashing out at the officials has
grown steadily during his almost
decade-long tenure at Arkansas.
Two weeks ago, in a game
against Wake Forest that was
televised to much of the country,
Sutton fell to his knees after one
call he did not like and crawled
back to his seat on the bench.
Last year at the Southwest
Conference tournament, he
took off his bright red coat,
threw it skyward and ignited a
partisan crowd at Dallas’ Reun
ion Arena in the Championship
game against Houston.
After the A&M win Saturday
night, Sutton delivered another
of his frequent sermons on offi
ciating.
“This league has come so far
in basketball,” he said. “It’s been
a great football league and it’s
improved so much in basketball.
The players are much better,
but the officiating is no better
today than it was nine years
ago.”
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United Press International
Three days after scaling Mount Sampson,
North Carolina is about to take that grand
plunge from the summit.
The Tar Heels reinforced their No. 1 rank
ing Thursday night by rallying from a 16-point
deficit with nine minutes remaining to edge
second-rated Virginia — and 7-foot-4 center
Ralph Sampson — 64-63. On Sunday in
Chapel Hill, though. North Carolina looked
sluggish, fell behind early and was upset 56-53
by a 14th-ranked Villanova club that battled
the elements before battling the Tar Heels.
“There is no question that this is one of the
best wins we’ve ever had,” said Coach Rollie
Massimino after the Wildcats scored the
game’s first seven points and held off a com
eback bid to snap the Tar Heels’ 18-game win
ning streak. “There is no question that this was
our best game of the year.”
Villanova, 17-4, had to be routed through
Atlantic City, N.J., to catch a special charter
flight because of a blizzard that brought much
of the northeast to a standstill. T he Wildcats
didn’t arrive at their hotel until 12:30 a.m.
Sunday.
John Pinone scored 14 points, Ed Pinckney
added 11 and Villanova outrebounded North
Carolina 30-21 in avenging a 70-60 loss in the
NCAA East Regional championship game last
year.
“We started chasing with 7:22 left and thin
a long time to chase somebody,” said Tar He L
Coach Dean Smith. “We weredisappointedh I,
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with 16:34 left in the game, when Michaeljs
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back at 15:57 with a field goal to put the Will
cats ahead again.
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10 ranked teams. No. 3 Nevada-Las Vegi
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ped Wisconsin 75-65, Oregon State dowi
fifth-ranked UCLA 69-65, No. 6 Houstonba
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INGLEWOOD. Calif. — Julius Erving is 32
years old and therefore must be heading into the
twilight of a dazzling career. But it’s hard to be
lieve while he’s in the midst of a spinning, triple
pump slam dunk.
Isiah Thomas is 21, not four years out of high
school, and therefore must he easy prey for NBA
veterans. But no one who has seen his lightning
speed and brilliant raw talent believes that either.
Sunday, against the cream of the NBA crop,
the old man and the kid got together and put on
an electrifying show.
Erving, the oldest player on the team, and
Thomas, the youngest, combined for 44 points to
lead the East to a 132-123 victory over the West in
the 33rd NBA All-Star Game.
jump me, but I try to outthink them.”
Erving said the showcase game of the)
should boost interest for the second halfol
Erving, the Philadelphia 76ers’ star forward,
was named the game’s Most Valuable Player, re
capturing the award he won in the 1977 game. He
finished with 25 points and helped shut down a
West comeback bid in the closing minutes with a
pair of typically spectacular baskets. Erving,
appearing in his seventh All-Star Game in as many
NBA seasons, also had six rebounds as the East
won for the fourth consecutive year.
“At this point in my career, I’m just trying to
master my game,” said Erving. “There are guys in
this league who can outrun me and who can out-
season .
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pie who don’t know much about the game,
said. “This week, we made a concerted eff(
put on a show so that the people who weren’ll
would wish they were.”
Thomas, who in addition to being the vouk)
player in the All-Star game was also the shorn
6 feet, added 19 points, all in the first
periods. T he flashy Detroit Pistons’guardsc(
10 points in the opening period as the East
to a 42-31 lead. It was Thomas’ second/)
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