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Horns’ Weltlich a loser
Photo by DEAN SAITO
Darnell Williams leads the Aggies
down court on a fast break in
the second half against Texas
Wednesday night. Williams had
18 points as A&M beat the
Longhorns 68-52.
Texas A&M defeated The University of
Texas last night extending the Longhorns'
Southwest Conference road losing streak
to 18 games. It was their sixth straight loss
to the Aggies.
But for the first 20 minutes of the game
it appeared that the Horns might have a
reasonable shot at winning its first confer
ence road game since they defeated SMU
in Dallas over two years ago.
But they didn’t.
As usual, the Horns fell victim to a lack
of confidence on the players part and a lack
of ability from the bench.
Especially a lack of ability from the
bench.
Texas coach Bob Weltlich has directed
his team tojust two SWC victories since he
was hired to replace Abe Lemons following
the 1981-82 season.
Weltlich’s 2-20 conference record is the
worst of any active coach in the league. And
only one coach in SWC history has ever
done worse.
Not since TCU’s Mike Brumbelow
directed his team to a 2-46 record between
1938 and 1941 has any coach done so
badly.
And it’s really not out of character. Welt
lich only managed three winning seasons at
Bill Wendlandt, the Horns’ leading scor
er and most valuable player for the 1982-83
season, heads that list.
Also gone are lettermen Jack Worthing
ton, an all-area player from Houston
Spring High School, and Doug Moe, son of
the NBA coach of the same name. Mike
Hess, Texas’ top recruit this season, only
lasted through the opening weeks of the
Longhorns’ schedule.
Most of the players cited “personal
reasons” for making their departure, but a
dislike for basketball must not have been
one of those reasons because most are play
ing for other universities.
And except for Carlton Cooper, the
Horns great 6’4 forward, most of the re
maining players are far from great.
Mississippi — the best of those being a .600
season — before the Horns hired him.
That’s the big mistake.
When Weltlich took over the program
the Texas roster was loaded with talent in
every position. Now he has a nine-man ros
ter with only six that play consistently.
More than 10 players have defected
from the team in a year and a half.
But it is Weltlich’s team and only he can
Lake the blame for poor recruiting and the
hat players he do
inability to retain what players he does sign.
Fortunately for the Longhorns — and
for Weltlich — the Texas women’s team is
not on their schedule.
(Bill Robinson is the assistant sports edi
tor of The Battalion and a seniorjounalism
major)
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Holloway leads Aggies past Texas
■ Freshman guard Todd I lol-
tMvay scored 16 of his 20 points
■ the second half Wednesday
nii^ht to bring Texas A&M from
■hind to a 68-52 victory over
the Texas Longhorns.
I The Longhorns, who had
broken a streak of 17 straight
Buthwest Conference losses
last Saturday, surprised the
aid her by jumping to an eight-
kpomt lead midway through the
f! rsl half on the shooting of Carl-
‘p u “|of Cooper. t-
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deficit to two points at the half,
28-26, and then outscored the
Longhorns in the early portion
of the second period, 14-4.
“When we’re down like that,
we know what we have to do,”
Holloway said.
Holloway started a streak of
10 straight A&M points and
then scored seven in a row mid
way through the period to fight
off a would-be Texas comeback.
“I’m not a shooter but I go for
the ball more,” Holloway said.
“I’m a streak shooter — when I
hit, I tend to shoot more.”
The Aggies had to play the
last 12 minutes of the game with
out starting center Jimmie Gil
bert, who fouled out having
scored just two points.
“The comeback in the second
half was really the product of
our good defense and the way
the crowd got into the game,”
A&M coach Shelby Metcalf said.
But junior guard Darnell Wil
liams was more appreciative of
the home crowd at the “Holler
House on the Brazos.”
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Lady Homs whip Aggies
By BOB CASTER
Sports writer
thereto# The Texas A&M women’s
basketball team learned the
jjj,, hard way what it’s like to play the
JMtion’s second-ranked team.
'| R ‘ * The University of Texas Lady
Longhorns walked out of G.
I Rollie White Coliseum with a
1 , 108-77 win over the struggling
mbe f rS ;. Aggies.
on o °f ^^BThe Horns have been beating
' ‘ Southwest Conference foes by
r an average of nearly 35 points a
;U* e - and l lh 7 Illade no ex ~
Uikri< Ce P tlon for the A S8 ,es -
r ■ JJ“They really ran us to death,”
- said A&M’s head coach Cherri
Rapp- “They just got so many
baskets off of our turnovers.
three steals. She also hit 80 per
cent from the free throw line.
Junior Jenni Edgar, hitting
eight-of-twelve from the field,
put up 16 points and also grab
bed six rebounds for A&M.
The Aggies came out strong
in the first half and were within
two points of the Longhorns
seven-and-a-half minutes into
the game. But they failed to turn
their shots into points — Texas
didn’t.
“I thought we played good in
the first half,” Rapp said. “We
just gave them the opportunity
for too many baskets in the
second.'Our goal was to try to
play consistently for the entire
40 minutes and concentrate on
our game instead of theirs.”
The Aggies have Thursday
and Friday to regroup before
travelling to Lubbock Saturday
to play a less fearsome foe,
Texas Tech.
“You just don’t know how im-
[ tortant it is to a ball club,” Wil
iams said. “There’s nothing like
playing at home. It’s worth at
least ten points in a game.”
Williams added 18 points and
Kenny Brown scored 16 for the
Aggies, including four free
throws down the stretch.
Cooper paced the Longhorns
with 24.
Texas A&M boosted its SWC
record to 4-3 and its overall re
cord to 11-7. Texas is 1-5 in the
league and 5-13 for the season.
“We just have to play as hard
as we can everytime we go out on
the floor,” A&M coach Shelby
Metcalf said. “Tonight was a
good example of that. Texas was
well prepared and took the fight
to us in the first half.”
Metcalf blamed the Aggies’
cold first-half start on inexperi
ence.
“I don’t think they know how
to get themselves going until
they get on the court,” he said.
“We really didn’t do anything
dif ferent in the second half than^
we did in the first, we just did it
better.
“Texas is going to win some
ball games this year. I just hope
they don’t win more than we
do.”
Texas coach Bob Weltlich
wasn’t seeing things in the same
light.
“We just hurried from one
mistake to another,” he said.
“The crowd got back into the
game and we just had mental
breakdowns all night. At the end
we weren’t doing much to stop
them.”
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And they should be. With ta
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But the Aggies also had some
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