The Battalion Sports
March 1, 1983 Page 11
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spite falling behind by 20
points, 45-25, at halftime,
came back out to start the
second half.
What guts.
Still, it takes more than guts
to beat the Aggies. You have
to have some players, also.
And the Horns simply
couldn’t keep up the pace.
The 3,141 fans that did
attend the game saw Texas
take an early lead at 7-6.
Aided by the strong inside
play of Bill Wendlandt, Carl
ton Cooper and David Seitz,
the Horns were able to stay
even with the Aggies.
But once Texas A&M cut
off the inside, the Longhorns
fell behind.
With the score 20-15 in
favor of the Aggies and 7:30
left in the f irst half, senior for
ward Claude Riley scored 10
straight points for Texas
A&M, six of them on layups.
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Pedaled J byJohn Wagner
Sports Editor
HBi’t feel sorry for Haw-
e scheduled C °' They got to 8°
wRe your sympathy for the
1-3. is stjB Longhorns. They have
1 ( lubacti\i,eip playing.
Rhe Longhorns — out-
■ed, outmatched and
W$HlP;p played in every aspect of
'* e « will besl® 1116 — themselves a
the mean e < ' ee P er into the foxhole
’•■ay night, losing to the
fas Aggies 96-59 in a game
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"tent wilhtj''
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t is hell.
■hose fans who stayed
H — glued to the televi-
a set and the final adven-
^■of the 4077th — missed
v»e that should have been
led at halftime.
'We’re talking white flag.
Claude Riley scored 20
points in 96-59 victory
unconditional surrender.
Throw in the towel surrender.
Hide in the locker room sur
render.
But the Longhorns, de-
rns, 96
Three slam dunks by Tyren
Naulls and Reggie Roberts, as
well as some good outside
shooting, boosted the Aggies’
lead to its 20-point halftime
margin.
The second half was more
of the same, with the Aggies
running and gunning right
past the Longhorns. Their
biggest lead was 40 points —
at 3:23 of the second half —
when Doug Lee scored on a
reverse layup.
Aggie coach Shelby Met
calf cleared the bench in the
second half, using 11 players.
Ten of those players scored,
five in double Figures. No
player played more than 30
minutes, and little-used play
ers like Roger Bock (seven
points) and Mark Peppercorn
(six points) contributed great
ly in the 39-point victory.
It was that kind of game.
Metcalf said the fact that
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Texas isn’t a powerhouse
team didn’t affect Texas
A&M’s desire to win.
“Here’s what you’ve got to
remember,” Metcalf said.
“The fact that they’re Texas
helps (get the Aggies fired up
to play). Just listen to the
words of our fight song, and I
think you’ll be aware there’s a
rivalry between us.”
Riley, who led all scorers
with 20 points, said the Horns
are not a typical Texas team.
“It’s kind of strange play
ing a Texas team like that be
cause when we used to play
Texas, and when you think of
Texas, you think of some real
ly good teams and players,” he
said.
“But they’ve had some
problems as far as keeping
guys on the team this year. It’s
hard to imagine playing
Texas when they don’t have
any real studs on their team.”
staff photo by David Fisher
UT’s Carlton Cooper shoots over Roger Bock,
center, and Mark Peppercorn, left, in the
Aggies’ 96-59 victory over Texas Monday night.
“jrustration
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H0 J UT coach Weltlich says Horns can’t keep up with rest of SWC
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by Joe Tindel Jr.
Battalion Staff
J>ril How does Texas basketball coach Bob Welt-
1 spell relief?
L-A-S-T G-A-M-E.
But relief won’t come for the Longhorns’
st-year coach until his patchwork team
r uggles through two more games. Yet Welt-
V ftrobably wouldn't mind closing the gym
7 Rif he could. There’s just nothing bright
^ Rt a 37-point loss.
. • Rnd after the Horns suffered the 96-59
"I Rter at the hands of the Aggies Monday
Bt, Weltlich seemed almost accustomed to
Rig about frustration. He’s had practice —
sie ve been 13 other SWC losses,
i t rucks, w[R| h ere ’ s two frustrations for me,” Weltlich
? produce d. “One is the fact that there's not anything
i na, Icnn.T|t y OU rea liy can c i () ”
me mayl Ifyou take away Texas forward Mike Wack-
availabilm ■
er’s injury last season, center LaSalle Thomp
son’s decision to prematurely turn pro and
change some players’ attitudes about former
Texas coach Abe Lemons’ dismissal last year,
Weltlich might have brought a powerhouse
into College Station Monday night.
Slip Thompson, Jack Worthington and
Wacker into the starting lineup with Bill
Wendlandt and Carlton Cooper, and you
might have a 14-1 Longhorn team instead of a
1-14 club.
But Weltlich’s right. There’s not a lot that
can be done.
Instead, the Texas mentor started a fresh
man, a walk-on and a former cheerleader
along with Wendlandt and Cooper, and all the
Texas coach could do was sit and watch as the
Aggies ran, slammed, stuffed and swished all
night long.
“It’s just alarming to watch the athletic abil
ity that comes into play in a game like this,”
Weltlich said, “where we’re out there and
we’re actually getting some pretty good shots
and making some pretty good plays and
they’re (Aggies) just going higher and running
faster.”
The coach said his team’s lack of speed ver
sus the Aggies’ abundance of it is the type of
trouble his team has encountered all season.
“We have to get the game to where it’s play
ed from the top of the key on in,” Weltlich
said. “If we get in a game that’s played from
the top of the key to the top of the key we’re
lost. That’s what happened tonight. When
they ran it on us, everytime I looked up they
were in a two-on-one or a one-on-nobody. I
got tired of seeing the guards dunk it.”
In addition to the mismatch in talent, Welt
lich said the second frustration was the Horns’
lack of concentration.
“I’m not sure that Bill (Wendlandt) or David
(Seitz) had a good foul,” Weltlich said. “I mean
a good foul — a fdul where they’re making a
good play. Everything was kind of “reach and
grab” after they had made a mistake. That’s
where we get the lack of discipline and the lack
of concentration, and that bothers me.
“I really felt like we could get the ball inside
because I thought they would allow us to have
the ball in there, which they did. But we just
didn’t get it in there.”
Despite the frustration, Weltlich praisedJtis
walk-ons for the hard work they’ve put in this
season, and cited Lance Watson, the former
cheerleader who started the game, for playing
well considering his ability and lack of experi
ence.
“I don’t think he in any way, shape or form
disgraced himself tonight in his perform
ance.” Weltlich said. “He handled the ball ade
quately and I thought he really tried to do
some things defensively. He surely was not the
reason why we had the problems we had.”
Watson scored four points in the effort, but
Cooper led the scoring for the Horns with 19.
Wendlandt and Seitz had 12 apiece.
Weltlich had some good things to say about
the Aggies, who shot 58.5 percent from the
field against Texas’ 52.2 percent.
“I think they’re probably the third best team
in the league right now in terms of personnel
and the way they’re playing," Weltlich said.
“I'm not sure that there’s really anything that
limits them in what they’re able to do. Their
personnel is exceptional, particularly in the
backcourt. I think when you have Roberts,
Naulls and Brown, you have three guards that
are really legitimate big-time players.” .
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