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Photo by DEAN SAITO
A&M’s Don Marbury (3) takes a baseline jumper between
three Baylor defenders during last Wednesday’s game.
By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer
“We’re gonna be the dog, no
doubt about it,” said Texas A&M
Head Basketball Coach Shelby Met
calf about tonight’s showdown
against No. 9 SMU in Dallas. “But
why bother to play the game
t h^ re s not the chance of an upset.
What I want everyone to under
stand about the game is that it’s an
important game, but it’s February
and it’s an important game. People
can’t lose sight of the fact that the
guys had to play well in December
and January to play in a big game in
February.
“It’s an important game, but our
guys just need to level off and play
well the rest of the way, regardless of
whether we win the game or not.”
The question of an A&M victory
could be far more important in late
February and early March. The Ag
gies’ currently occupy second place
in the Southwest Conference stand
ings with a 7-3 record, 15-6 overall.
A win over the Mustangs would cat
apult A&M into first place with only
five games remaining in the regular
season.
NCAA tournament bids are auto
matically extended to conference
champions and at-large bids are
given to the runners-up with the best
season records.
“I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t an
Td tying if I said it
wasn’t an important game.
But what’s even more im
portant is that it would
give our players a real
confidence boost/’
A&M’s Shelby Metcalfs
thoughts on tonight’s
SM V game in Dallas
important game,’’ Metcalf said. “But
what’s even more important is that it
would give our players a real confi
dence boost.
ox it s a real important game for
SMU, too.” .
I hese days, every game is impor
tant for SMU. The two-game confer
ence lead it enjoyed a week ago has
been reduced to ti mere half-game
after close losses to Arkansas and
last-place Baylor.
Sandwich in an overtime defeat to
North Carolina State on national
television and the Mustangs are in
the midst of a three-game losing
streak. Those are much tougher
times than SMU, ranked No. 2 a few
weeks ago, is accustomed to.
“They’ve been on the road for all
three games,” Metcalf said. “They
still haven t lost at home this season.
‘ 1 hey’re a fine ball-club, a real
tine ball-club. They have a seven-
footer (Jon Koncak), and Carl
Wright and Larry Davis are out
standing. And that Butch Moore is
just a stud for them. He’s the glue
that keeps that team together.”
But Koncak is usually the Mus-
tang that tears his opponents apart
Koncak averages 17.8 points and
10.9 rebounds per game. He scored
31 points against traditional power
house North Carolina and almost
single-handedly beat the Aggies
down the stretch in College Station.
“We were able to keep him under
control for most of the game here,
but we were helped by Carl Wright
missing his outside shots,” Metcalf
said. “You can’t count on that to
happen twice.
“We need to plan on SMU being
ready to play as well as they are capa-
ble of playing, and we have to be just
a litile bit better. I hey may be upset
about losing to the last-place team in
the conference, but I saw that game
and SMU didn’t play badly. Baylor
just played a great game.
“But that game is indicative of
wha( the entire league is like this
yeat, he continued, “Everyone’s
tough, from top to bottom. You can’t
slow down or somebody’s likely to
reach up and bite you. Maybe we can
do it to SMU.”
Anything s possible, especially if
every dog truly does have his day.
Photo by DEAN SAITO
Texas A&M center Jimmie
Gilbert (30) will get to match
up once again tonight with
one of the nation’s premier
college centers, SMU’s 7-foot
Goliath, Jon Koncak (53).
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ICU, with commitments from
four Texas blue chip football players
and a chance at a~frfth player from
the elite list, held the early recruiting
lead over the other eight Southwest
Lonference schools going into to-
| day s NLA A national signing day.
j TCU Coach Jim Wacker, whose
Horned f rogs were the surprise
team of the SWC last season with an
o-3 record and Bluebonnet Bowl ap
pearance, has carried that same mo
mentum into the recruiting season.
But the state’s No. 1 blue chip
prospect. Bay City wide receiver
Hart Lee Dykes, is expected to ex
tend the suspense right down to the
wire with recruiters from Texas
A&M, Illinois and Oklahoma still
hoping for his signature.
KT J A 0 f a y is the first day under
NCAA rules that colleges can offi
cially sign high school athletes to
scholarship agreements. Schools are
able to obtain non-binding commit
ments prior to Feb. 12.
Wacker has commitments from a
list of 28 recruits headed by Jasper
wide receiver Reggie Davis, Huf
fman running back Greg Moore,
Houston Madison quarterback Ron-
ald Jiles and Fort Worth Eastern
Hills defensive tackier Mitchell Ben
son.
The Frogs, who have never signed
four blue chippers in the 20-year
history of the Dallas Times Herald’s
annual list, also are still in the run
ning for a fifth blue! chipper, wide
receiver Jarrod Delaney of Houston
Madison,
Delaney reportedly was still con
sidering Miami and TCU.
SMU, the only SWC school with
more than one blue chip commit
ment, is hoping to sign a pair of Cor
sicana players, running back Bill
Jones and linebacker Robert Mc-
Dade.
The remaining five SWC schools,
Arkansas, Houston, A&M, Rice and
Texas 7 ech, went into the signing
date with no blue chip commitments.
Out-of-state recruiters once again
have drawn heavily on the state’s
schoolboy talent, gaining verbal
commitments from three blue chip
talents and they have a chance to e^et
three others today.
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Blue chippers already committed
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Moore, who rushed for 5,578
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“I think they are going to explode
in another year or two and when
they do, I want to be in the middle of
it,” Moore said.
I homas said he picked Nebraska
because he felt he’d have a chance to
play early in his career.
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