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JWC tourney
Cougars seem unstoppable
At! by John Wagner
# I I Sports Editor
DALLAS — Say what you will
■t the 1983 Southwest Con-
rence basketball tournament,
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said bcf ou.ston Cougars,
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nobody else stands a chance. »
Talk about pressure, but re
member the Coogs beat Arkan
sas in Barnhill Arena — never
an easy place to win.
Talk about looseness. OK, the
Texas Aggies have more to gain
and less to lose than UH, but
then remember that the Coogs
beat Texas A&M twice, and
Arkansas twice, and TCU twice
and so on.
Falk about upsets, but the
Cougars have fought their way
past several upset tries this sea
son, including an 86-(5t) blowout
of the Aggies in CL Rollie White
Coliseum at a time that UH was
supposed to be vulnerable.
The Cougars rolled to an im
pressive 16-0 SWC record, a No.
1 national ranking and the top
seeding in the post-season tour-
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nament. They have no inten
tions of letting anyone stop
them. UH coach Guy V. Lewis
may sound worried, but if the
truth were known, he probably
has never been more confident.
The Cougars are that awe
some.
“We don’t have a shoo-in to
the finals,” Lewis told the crowd
of sportswriters gathered
Wednesday at Reunion Arena
for the pre-tournament press
conference. The writers just
snickered.
UH’s lineup of Clyde Drexler,
Michael Young, Larry Mi-
cheaux, Akeem Abdul Olaju-
won and Alvin Franklin is
perhaps the most dominating
group of basketball players the
conference has ever known. No
matter who struggles through
the first two rounds of the tour
ney and lines up to play in the
final game, they will have been
beaten by the Cougars — twice.
And the memory of those beat-
See COOGS page 15
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by John P. Lopez
Battalion Staff
DALLAS — It just didn’t
seem right.
Eddie Sutton wasn’t yelling
and raving, Guy Lewis didn’t
have a bright red-checkered
towel, Jim “Killer” Killingsworth
kept his coat on throughout the
event and Gerald Myers and
Dave Bliss seemed completely
out of place.
It wasn’t the sidelines of Bar
nhill, Hofheinz or any other
Southwest Conference arena. It
was the official media lunch and
press conference held Wednes
day at Reunion Arena in Dallas.
The only person comfortable
with the situation was Texas
A&M's Shelby Metcalf.
But then again, Metcalf and
the Aggie basketball team have
reason to feel good about them
selves,-
“How do you feel about not
having a 45-second (shot) clock
in the tournament?” one mem
ber of the throng of sportswri
ters attending the conference
asked Metcalf. “You mean we’re
not going to have the (45-
Analysis
clock?
Metcalf
second)
answered.
Naturally, Metcalf and the
Aggies are well aware that the
45-second clock will not be plug
ged in during the SWC tourney.
Metcalf just wanted to the break
the tension.
In short, Metcalf typifies his
team’s attitude going into the
eighth annual tournament. The
rest of the coaches wished they
could say the same. .
Metcalf is loose, confident
and has everything to gain from
the goings on at Reunion.
Lewis is confident, but is
under the tremendous pressure
that goes along with being the
coach of the No. 1 team in the
land.
Sutton and his Razorbacks
have just one thing on their
minds — BEAT HOUSTON.
And trying to beat Houston can
give gray hair to the stoutest of
heart.
The same is the case with the
Horned Frogs. “Killer” was sup
posed to lead his team to at least
a third-place finish in the con
ference, and maybe even into a
position to challenge for the top
spot. But the Frogs ended up
tied for fourth place. To top it
off, TCU finished the season on
a downswing, losing several
See AGGIES page 15
Forward Claude Riley, Texas A&M’s
leading scorer, goes under the back-
board for a shot this season. Riley and
staff photo by David Fisher
the Aggies will play TCU tonight at 7
in a Southwest Conference tournament
quarterfinal game at Reunion Arena.
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