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Texas Tech
surrenders
with towel
By TRAVIS TINGLE
Sports Editor
Gerald Myers didn’t wave a
white flag while he watched his
Texas Tech Red Raiders surren
der to Texas A&M Wednesday
night, 50-47. Instead, Myers liter
ally threw in the towel — and a
white one at that.
With 4:09 left to play in the
second half, A&M’s Kenny
Brown stole an errant Tech pass
at midcourt and raced toward the
bucket for a what appeared to be
an easy slam dunk.
As Brown drove past the Tech
bench, Coach Myers tossed the
towel he was holding into the air,
caught it and then threw it on the
floor. An official saw it, whistled
it and assessed Myers a technical
foul for his antic.
Myers said after the game he
didn’t deserve the technical. My
ers insisted the towel wasn’t
thrown on the court until after
the play had passed — no malice
intended.
“Our guy had the ball at mid
court and then A&M stole the
ball,” Myers said. “1 had a towel
in my hand and threw it up in the
air. It was just the frustration of
the play, that’s all. The official
saw it and gave me a technical.
“It was a very cheap call. It was
just a lousy call. I mean I’ve had
some technicals in my time that
I’ve deserved, but that wasn’t one
of them. (The towel) might have
been a foot on the floor, but it
was close enough for me to lean
over and pick it up.”
Despite the poor officiating,
Myers offered no excuses for his
team’s play.
“Don’t misunderstand what
I’m saying though,” Myers said.
“We got beat and A&M deserved
to win. We had our opportunities
to win the game, but A&M hung
in there.
“(A&M Coach) Shelby (Met
calf) was telling me before the
game that the technical he got
against Arkansas he didn’t de
serve. I told him afterward, ‘You
got that technical back tonight
Shelby.’”
Ags content with sluggish win over Tech
By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer
“Downtown” Kenny Brown hit
only three of 11 field goals and actu
ally missed an open slam dunk.
Guard Don Marbury fouled out
with nine minutes and 18 seconds
left in the game.
And 6-foot-9 center Jimmie Gil
bert, a 58 percent free throw shooter
throughout the first 16 games of the
season, was on the line Tor a crucial
one-and-one.
No, you can’t wake up now.
The Texas A&M men’s basketball
team actually survived a nightmarish
first half and rallied past the Texas
Tech Red Raiders 50-47 Wednesday-
night in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
The Aggies are now 4-2 in the
Southwest Conference and tied for
third place with, you guessed it,
Tekas Tech.
Texas A&M Head Basketball
Coach Shelby Metcalf said, while the
win wasn’t exactly “dreamy," the Ag
gies could definitely learn from it.
"We feally weren’t ready to play
when the game started,” Metcalf
said. “We learned a real lesson out
there. We learned that if you just
hang in there, something good is
going to happen to you.
“It’s wonaerful when you learn
those kinds of lessons and still get a
win over a fine team like Texas
Tech.”
“Wonderful” could be replaced by
“unbelievable”. The Aggies shot a
miserable 33 percent from the floor
in the first half and had a grand total
of six baskets.
Ves, six. In an entire half.
“We played a sloppy first half-our
worst ever,” Marbury said.
“That Was as bad a first half as I
can remember,” Gilbert said.
, ‘That was the absolute worst we
can play-ever,” Brown said. “You
coula put blindfolds on and we
wouldn t play any worse than that. I
don’t know why we won.”
“(A&M point guard) Todd Hollo
way won this game for us,” Metcalf
answered. “He played some kind of
defense out there on (Tech point
guard) Bubba (Jennings). He hasn’t
been playing that well and this has to
help him out.
‘Jimmie Gilbert’s free throws at
the end were just tremendous. He
hit the bottom of the bucket. You
just couldn’t be in a more crucial sit
uation. It shows an awful lot of what
that young man’s made of.
“I guess it was just our turn. This
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win will mean an awful lot for us.”
What last night’s win meant, at
least for Holloway, Gilbert and for
ward Winston Crite, is that the Ag
gies can actually win games down the
stretch even when their big guns are
misfiring or reloading on the bench.
Texas A&M had possession of the
ball with 1:29 showing on the clock.
Gilbert was fouled and went to the
line. All 5,514 in attendance began
praying except Gilbert’s Aggie team
mates, who prepared to rebound the
missed shot.
Whoosh! The free throw, and the
one that followed, touched nothing
but cords.
A few moments later, Tech’s Phil
Wallace missed his two free throws
and Gilbert was fouled again.
“Deadeye Jimmie,” now full of
confidence, calmly stepped up,
dribbled twice and drilled two more
charity shots.
“The game was won from the foul
line,” Marbury said. “It was murder
not being able to be in there.”
Maybe not murder, but certainly
appropriate. Texas A&M, for a
change, won because of the play of
their “silent but deadly” inside game.
Example: Kenny Brown, the lead
ing free throw shooter in the coun
try, was fouled with 50 seconds left
in the game. However, Brown, a
guard who was expected to hit his
free throws, didn’t nave a chance on
a night in which statistics were irrele
vant.
Brown promptly missed and
watched as Gilbert took a charge on
the other end of the court and went
back to the free throw line.
10 seconds later, the Aggies were
victorious.
Tech Coach Gerald Myers said
the A&M defense was responsible
more than anything else for derail
ing a “Raider-express” that had won
seven of their last nine games.
“I thought both teams played
really hard. They gave a lot of physi
cal effort and played aggressive de
fense,” Myers said. “I think that both
teams played probably their worst
offense of the year, but sometimes
tough defense makes for rugged of
fense. Both teams can perform bet
ter offensively.
“The Texas A&M defense really
played well and I thought ours
played well, too, but it wasn’t quite as
good. A&M hung in there and kept
the pressure on us. They never let us
get in any rhythm on offense.”
Despite Holloway’s hounding de
fensive effort, Jennings still led the
Texas A&M’s Kenny Brown (32) looks in
tently at the ball held by Texas Tech’s Phil
Wallace. Brown and the Aggies eased into a
Photo by DEAN SAITO
tie for third place with the Red Raiders in
the Southwest Conference standings by clip
ping Tech, 50-47.
Red Raiders in scoring with 17
points. No other Tech player scored
in double figures.
The Aggies were led in scoring by
Marbury’s 13 points, followed by
Crite’s aggressive 11 point, eight re
bound performance. Even in an off-
night, Brown chipped in 10.
“Maybe we’re finally getting ev
eryone healthy,” Metcalf said, “but
we need to because we need to beat
Houston on Sunday. If there are any
students going home this weekend,
please be back by noon Sunday be
cause we need for you (the students)
to be here.
“The crowd means so much to this
team. We told them that the crowd
was just sitting there waiting to ex
plode...we just had to give them
something to explode over. When
they did, that really helped us and
Tech was feeling the pressure a little
bit.”
Probably not nearly as much as
that felt by Mike Clifford. After all,
Gilbert actually hit his free throws
and the coaching staff might start
expecting the same out of the
“Round Rock Rocket.”
Or they could be content with one
miracle at a time.
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