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SMU's Koncak & Co. hammer Houston
Associated Press
SMU 85, Houston 78
DALLAS - Fourth-ranked South
ern Methodist held closed-door
practices all week then slammed the
door shut on the Houston Cougars
Wednesday night.
“We played with a lot more emo
tion, we had something to prove,”
said SMU’s seven-foot center Jon
Koncak, who had 27 points and 21
rebounds in an 85-78 Southwest
Conference victory.
SMU Coach Dave Bliss was siz
zling after the Mustangs were upset
by Texas Tech on Saturday night. In
fact, he was so mad that he benched
star guard Carl Wright.
Wright came off the bench to
score 19 points and dished out 10 as
sists.
“Carl did a great job coming off
the bench,” Koncak said.“If he plays
like that every night, we’ll win a lot
of games.”
“Carl and I have resolved our dif
ferences,” Bliss said. “It was nothing
major. Just some philosophical dif
ferences. He did a super job coming
off the bench.”
Houston Coach Guy Lewis said
the difference was Koncak.
“They had success going into him
all night long,” Lewis said. “He’s a
great player and we don’t have any
body to match up with him.
“We had three guys on him there
at times.”
The Mustangs raised their record
to 7-1 in SWC play and 17-2 overall.
The defending champion Cougars
dropped to 5-3 and 13-6.
The Mustangs snapped a six-
game losing streak to the Cougars.
Houston never led but refused to
go away behind the outside shooting
of Eric Dickens, Alvin Franklin anu
Marvin Alexander.
SMU built a 43-36 halftime lead
but a Houston press helped keep the
Cougars in the game in the second
half.
Dickens scored 16 points for the
losers, Franklin added 14 and Alex
ander had 12 points.
A sellout crowd of 9,007 jammed
Moody Coliseum for SMU’s First vic
tory over Houston since 1982.
Scott Johnson was the only other
Mustang in double figures with 11
points, including three free throws
in the final minute as the desperate
Cougars fouled at will.
Arkansas 64, Baylor 57
WACO — Forward Charles Ba-
lentine hit four of four free throw
attempts in overtime to lift the Ar
kansas Razorbacks to a 64-57 South
west Conference victory over Baylor
Wednesday night.
Balentine, who led all scorers with
20, broke a»55-55 deadlock with 2:55
remaining in the extra period. He
later put the game on ice with an
other pair, giving Arkansas a 63-55
lead with 29 seconds remaining.
Balentine’s heroics lifted the Ra
zorbacks to a 14-7 overall record and;
5-3 in the SWC. The Bears fell to8-1,
10 on the year and 1-7 in conference
play.
Arkansas center Joe Kleine, wlio|
scored 14 points, hit the game’sfirsil
basket and Arkansas never trailedin | 1
the first period. Baylor keptthecon |
test close, hitting 75 percent from I
the field in the first half — byfarit!
best shooting half of the season.
Baylor’s Edwin Mitchell sent the
game into overtime when he hit a
16-foot jumper to knot thegameai
55 with 1 1 seconds left in regulation
Mitchell led Baylor with 17 points
and freshman guard Michael Wil-jf
liams added 16.
Baylor took its first lead of die
night in overtime when Williamshit f
a turnaround jumper from the fret-
throw lane. Balentine proved to be :
too much in the ensuing minutes.
“We came into this game thinking j
we could win,” said Baylor coach Jim
Haller. “Our players played hardto-
night and we've got our confidence
back. We’re just learning and getting !
better each night."
“This is a big win for us,” Arkan
sas coach Eddie Sutton said. "Were
still in the conference race, thougha
lot of people might think we’re not.
“But we just had to pick up this
win on the road,” Sutton said. "Dur
ing overtime I thought we re
sponded well. We looked like a bas
ketball team. Our defense lookd
really good in the overtime.”
Eastern college
not exactly best
policies
in South
Editor’s Note: This is the sec
ond in h three-part series explor
ing how college athletes are
treated once they’ve been re
cruited. Part II focuses on the
difference between Texas A&M’s
views on athletic dorms and those
of Rice University.
By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer
Texas A&M Head Football
Coach and Athletic Director
Jackie Sherrill says the abolish
ment of athletic dormitories is
not always the best answer to the
integration question.
“When someone has been in
one place their entire life and
never been exposed to a place
with an athletic dormitory, I
think (Penn State Joe Paterno’s
and Notre Dame’s Gerry Faust’s)
comments are certainly near
sighted or one-sighted,” Sherrill
says.
“When you ask people, ‘Why
do people have athletic dormito
ries?’ That’s like saying, ‘Why do
people wear different styles of
clothes and have different norms
than people in the Southwest,
Southeast or Midwest?’
“What happens in the East is
not necessarily good in the South.
I think it’s how you structure
your program that’s important.”
One Southwest Conference
program structured without ath
letic dormitories or separate fa
cilities is found in Houston —
Rice University.
Rice Sports Information Direc
tor Bill Cousins says its program
can work in the recruiting hotbed
of the SWC, despite the school’s
recent athletic woes.
“We believe we can do quite
well in the conference without
(athletic dorms) just because ev
eryone else does have them,”
Cousins says.
“We can offer a potential re
cruit something very few schools
in this region can match and
that’s the opportunity for an aca
demically-oriented collegiate ca
reer. Because Rice is structured
along the lines of the Ivy League
schools, incorporating the idea of
residence colleges rather than
Terry Condon
dorms, the college itself is the
most important group on cam
pus.
“Let’s face it, the recruit that 's
only looking for great athletic
dorms isn’t going to come to Rice
anyway. Our program is geared
for the academically-oriented
athlete who wants the benefits of
a small, somewhat elite sort of
school.
“But I’m not taking anything
away from the schools with the
great facilities. 1 just want to
stress that it’s nice that athletes
have a choice about where they
can go to best get what they want
out of college and college life.”
Another example of Southwest
Conference dormitory integra
tion can be found even closer to
A&M than Houston.
A&M’s women athletes live in
the basement of Mosher Hall, a
regular girls’ dormitory located
on the other side of campus from
the all-male Wofford Cain Ath
letic Hall.
A&M Women’s Volleyball
Coach Terry Condon says she
wouldn’t trade places with the
men if she could.
“The arrangement here at
A&M (men in an athletic dorm
and women in a regular dorm)
isn’t unique at all,” Condon says.
“It’s actually quite common.”
“We like it because the girls all
Jackie Sherrill
live together (in the basement),
but they still see other people all
the time. If anything, it helps in
recruiting.
“1 don’t let volleyball players
room with other volleyball play
ers, though. Four or live hours of
practice a day is seeing somebody
enough without coming home
and having them there, too.”
However, some of the female
athletes living in the Mosher
basement said the reactions of
the women athletes and the regu
lar students toward each other
are frequently less than “chum
my”.
“It’s like another world down
there, totally away from the rest
of the girls,” senior golfer Pat
ricia Gonzalez says. “They don't
even think of us as part of the
dorm.”
Senior basketball player Mary
Ann Swearngin says the aliena-
I from misconcep
tion res ul tec
tions.
“I told a girl the other day that
I lived down in the basement,
and she said ‘Yuck! Doesn't it
smell like sweat down there?.'
That’s why, for the most part, the
athletes just stick around with
other athletes,” Swearngin says.
OWLS
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Tire Owls played well, but
were just beaten by a better team,
Suitts said.
“A&M played really well and 1
expected them to,” he said.
“A&M was my pre-season pick to
crack the league’s top three be
cause they had so many good
players returning from a year
ago.
“A&M was very well prepared.
Coach Metcalf had a good game
plan for us, and his players did
an excellent job executing that
plan.
“I thought we played well, es
pecially defensively. If we took
awav their put-hacks, they would
probably have only shot 20 or 25
percent (from the field).
T he Owls, who have now lost
six straight games, won't have
much time to regroup from the
loss to A&M. Rice travels to Dal
las Saturday to take on the No. 4
SMU Mustangs.
“We can’t let it get us clown,"
Hines said. "We have to regroup
quit kl\ and just keep striving for
the top."
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