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' available ns’ Week) ikI S3.50 contest as A&Mfr ■he Siudi »d Center, m mem’s ide the Ei Engine^ Sports Friday, March 9, 1984/The Battalion/Page 9 rich indud el Lava Fal g. The tripi us SHOO. SWC quarterfinals tonight A&M confident of upset ub has tmericai also nai culture nted at t* convent i underL dysis of Mt lexicoto *ad of Ti as presidi i due p at Unit lie lurnedi Mitineims ’on s sponsoi ido . Riv( : r SHHiBS Todd Holloway and Roger Bock cele brate the Aggies’ 75-54 victory over Texas Tuesday with a high-five. Hol- Photo by JOHN R YAN loway celebrated his selection as the SWC Newcomer of the Year yester day. iving com V2 Briarcrs md 17 attl uirses will! on Satllr(lJ , :his in eat the course Aggie star Holloway top SWC newcomer United Press International HOUSTON — Texas A&M eshman Todd Holloway was imed South west Conference wcomer of the year, the only |ggie to receive all-conference nors (fits season. Holloway, die Aggies slaviiug intguard, led Texas A&M to 1 p.m. " a 14-13 record, averaging 12.4 tnway usetpomls per game. The Aggies «-s at a goffere preseason favorites to oc- ’OrangeGjlppy the SWC cellar— they fin- Chrisli. ped this year fifth in the con- aircraft isference. used by ffheis the Aggies leader in as- s and stulists, and steals. Holloway -h-and-gol started 23 games this season f or the Aggies. s said thepjAkeem Olajuwon and Mi- en j[ hit Bad Young, two of the cor- lierstones in what lias been the vy investij*ost successful streak in the e Thursd pistory of Southwest Confer- cause of Bee basketball, were named Bhursday as unanimous selec- Bms to the 1984 United Press International all-conference juwon came to the Uni- Irsity ot Houston from the her side of the globe and pung walked to the campus lomjusta few blocks away, hut Igether they keyed a siring of 9 consecutive wins within the inference, two straight league lies and two trips to the Final lur. Young, the conference’s C fjS \ / / IT/# leading scorer, and Olajuwon, the nation’s leading rebounder, were joined on this year’s first unit by teammate Alvin Frank lin and two members of the Ar kansas Ra/orbacks — 7-foot Joe Kfeine and pfaymaking guard Alvin Robertson. Of that group only Rob ertson and Young are seniors. Olajuwon and Young are the only repeaters from the 1983 first team. Olajuwon was selected player of the year in the league, Hous ton coach Guy Lewis was named coach of the year. The UPI all-conference team was chosen by a select group of writers and broadcasters. This year’s second team was made up of SMU’s Jon Koncak and Carl Wright, Carlton Coo per of Texas, Dennis Null of TCU and Bubba Jennings of Texas Tech. Going into the SWC tourna ment, which resumes in Hous ton Friday night, Young was the conference’s scoring leader with 20.7 points per game. Olaju won, meanwhile, had claimed 13.9 rebounds per contest, eas ily the tops in the nation. Together than have kept the Cougars among the nation’s elite despite the fact Clyde Drexler and Larry Micheaux — two of the key members of the 1983 squad — moved on to the pros this season. Franklin, meanwhile, steadily improved during the year to so lidify the Cougars’ backcourt and wound up averaging 12 points per game. HOUSTON — The ninth Southwest Conference basketball tournament re sumes tonight with four clubs squabbling for the right to face the league’s two power houses. The Aggies play Southern Methodist, the SWC’s third place finisher during the regular season, at 6 p.m. The Ponies are hopeful of joining Houston and Arkansas in the NCAA tournament. That game will be followed by a matchup between Texas Tech and Rice — the Owls making their first ever apperance in the tournament quarterfinals. Even thogh the Aggies finished fifth in the regular season and lost to SMU twice during the regular season. Coach Shelby Metcalf is confident. “There is not a player on our team that doesn’t think we can win,” Metcalf said. “That’s what makes for upsets. “But I know this. We will have to draw a royal flush. We will have to play as good as we’ve played all year to win. We could play hard and SMU could still blow us out. I’m Rice at SWC quarterfinals for 1st time United Press International HOUSTON — Rice coach Tommy Suitts does not get too many opportunities to sound off before a large audience and when he did Thursday he took advantage of it. Suitts, in his third season as the Owls coach, has brought his team to the SWC tournament quarterfinals for the first time. Suitts said he thought every conference team should come to the glamour portion of the league tournament instead of having home-sites to start the event. “I proposed that last year,” Suitts said, “but they turned me down- I guess they thought it was just my way of trying to get here since they probably felt I never would any other way. “But now tliat I am here maybe they will vote differ ently.” Battalion Classifieds Battalion Classifieds Battalion Classifieds Battalion Classifieds The Aggies play Southern Methodist, the SWC’s third place finisher during the regu lar season, at 6 p.m. The Ponies are hopeful of joining Houston and Arkansas in the NCAA tournament. not blowing smoke. SMU just hasn’t gotten the credit it deserves.” The SWC tourney returns to the Hous ton Summit after a four-year absence. Fol lowing a three-year run at the Summit, the conference moved its tournament to San Antonio for two years and then to Dallas for two more. But no matter where the tournament is being played, the same two teams would have been the overwhelming favorites to reach Sunday afternoon’s finals. Fifth-ranked Houston, which will meet the Tech-Rice winner Saturday night, and No. 8 Arkansas, which will take on the SMU-A&M survivor in the semifinals, are expected to meet for the the third consec utive Sunday. If the Hogs and Cougars do meet in the title game, the outcome will likely deter mine which team gets to play in the Mid west Regional and which one will be sent into the West Regional of the NCAA tour ney. “If we lose we will probably go to Pull man, Wash.,” said Houston coach Cuy Le wis. “That’s as far away as they could send us.” The SMU Mustangs bring a 24-6 record into the tournament and beat Texas A&M in their two previous meetings. “But the only way we did it the last time,” said SMU coach Dave Bliss, “is for Larry Davis (a forward who has a 40 percent free throw shooting average) to make nine out of 10 free throws. r Learn to Fly Sailplanes! 1600B S. College Bryan DO IT ON YOUR APPLE differential equation solver Do your transients decay? Is your solution stable? Is your controller optimal? Can your filter attenuate? The answers to these and other interesting questions can be obtained from Acme /oftware Arts for $79.95 plus $3.00 p&h. 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