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TCU shocks No. 9 SMU;
Tech tied for first-place
(continued from page 15)
tor. No team has better quickness
than they do.”
By halftime, the score was 57-27.
Consider 57 first half points. That’s
~ more than the Longhorn men
scored in two halves against the Ags
in the later game.
Conradt was unhappy about only
one thing at halftime.
“I really didn’t have a single com
plaint at halftime,” Conradt said.
“Except, Kamie (Ethridge) forgot
her uniform. She was pretty chagrin
when she told me she brought her
white uniform instead of her orange
one.”
For Conradt, the win over the Ag
gies was the 400th of her 16-year ca
reer.
“I didn’t really think about it until
everybody started making a big deal
out of it,” Conradt said. “When I
think about it, it seems like a lot
more than 400. That game might
have been worth a couple (of wins).
The first half was 400 and the sec
ond half was 401.”
The Texas players were honored
to be a part of win No. 400.
“We are very happy for her,” Eth
ridge said. “I can’t say enough about
her. I guess it’s pretty easy when you
win 20 or 30 games a year, but not
many coaches do that.”
The bleachers behind press row
collapsed midway through the sec
ond half. The Aggies, however, did
anything but collapse.
Even though most of the Horn
starters sat out the second half, the
Aggies were quite proud of their sec
ond half effort.
The Ags outscored the No. 1 team
in the nation in the second half, 46-
44, shot 72 percent from the field,
outrebounded the Horns 11-8 and
forced eight turnovers.
“We waited too long,” Hickey
said. “We outrebounded them the
second half and outscored them. I
know they didn’t have all their start
ers in there, but still that’s something
playing the No. 1 team.”
However, the Aggies won’t argue
with the Horns’ claim to the top spot.
“They have set very high stam
dards for this conference,” Hickey
said. “They have a fine team. They
have great depth and quickness.
Jody Conradt is a fine coacn and I’m
glad she got her 400th win. I wish it
hadn’t been against me. I hope she
goes all the way.”
After the game, the Horns were
certainly thinking all the way.
“I think they were smelling the
playoffs,” Conradt said. “I think it’s
been in the back of their mind all
year. I just hope we save the best for
last.”
The Horns certainly played one
of their best games last night, but it
certainly won’t be their last. The
SWC tournament is first, then the
NCAA tournament. Win No. 400
may be only the beginning for a
team that always seems to come up
smelling like a rose.
Associated Press
TCU 72, SMU 64
FORT WORTH — No. 9 SMU
stubbed its toe on the road again
Wednesday night, falling 72-64 to
the TCU Horned Frogs and tum
bling into a tie with Texas Tech for
first place in the Southwest Confer
ence race.
Texas Tech bounced Baylor 83-
71 to move into a tie with SMU at 9-
4.
“The race is really muddled now,”
said SMU Coach Dave Bliss. “Ob
viously, we’ve got to start playing
better basketball. TCU was just
smarter than we were and we let it
get away.”
Carven Holcombe hit four free
throws and a basket in the final three
minutes to carry the Frogs to the up
set.
“We got the lead in the latter
stages of the game then hit our free
throws,” said TCU Coach Jim Kill-
ingsworth. “That’s been the script
for just about all of our wins in
Southwest Conference games this
year. If we can just get two or three
more wins I think we’ll be in good
shape for a possible post-season invi
tation.”
SMU is 20-6 overall while TCU
evened its league mark at 7-7. The
Horned Frogs are 15-10 overall.
“We hurried some key shots at the
end,” said Bliss. “You jut can’t rush
things when you’re playing against a
team that’s playing as well offen
sively as TCU was.”
TCU outrebounded the Mustangs
28-23 and both teams shot 55 per
cent from the field.
Holcombe led the Horned Frogs
with 18 points while Dennis Nutt,
who also hit both ends of a one-and-
one with 38 seconds to play, had 15
points.
The cold-shooting Mustangs got
19 points from 7-foot center Jon
Koncak, who fouled out with 32 sec
onds to go.
The victory before 6,392 fans in
Daniel-Meyer Coliseum broke a
four-game Horned Frog losing
streak against the Mustangs.
Texas Tech S3, Baylor 71
LUBBOCK — Phil Wallace
scored all of his 12 points in the sec
ond half Wednesday night to spark
sluggish Texas Tech to an 83-7 1 vic
tory over Baylor.
Tech improved its overall mark to
17-7, while Baylor fell to 9-14 and 2-
11.
The Raiders grabbed a 36-34 lead
at halftime on the strength of 14
first-half points apiece from Bubba
Jennings and Quentin Anderson.
Baylor stayed close through the
second halFs first 13 minutes behind
the outside shooting of Carlos
Briggs, who scored a game-high 27
points, and Michael Williams, who
was the only other Bear in double
figures with 17.
Midway through the second half,
Tech senior forward Vince Taylor
ignited a rally by scoring nine con
secutive points. The Bears managed
to offset Taylor’s spurt and trailed
by only two, 57-55, with 8:36 to play.
The Raiders then used the tran
sition game for a 14-8 spurt that
opened a 71-63 advantage, and Bay
lor never got any closer.
Anderson led all Tech scorers
with 26.
Arkansas 73, Houston 59
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Joe
Kleine had 27 points as Arkansas
trimmed Houston 73-59 Wednesday
night.
Sophomore center Creg Ander
son had given Houston an early lead
by scoring 16 of the Cougars' first 19
points. Arkansas, helped by outscor-
ing Houston 28-10 at one stretch,
climbed to a 34-29 halftime advan
tage. The Arkansas defense held the
Cougars scoreless for a S'/a minute
span at one stretch near the end of
first half.
Houston tied the game at 45 with
1 1:22 remaining in the second half.
A Kleine hook shot put the Razor-
backs back out front and Houston
never caught up again.
Sophomore William Mills and
freshman Byron Irvin had 14 each
for Arkansas and senior Charles Ba-
lentine added 12.
Anderson ended up with 21
points, Eric Dickens added 17 and
Rickie Winslow had 12 for the Cou
gars.
Arkansas raised its season mark to
18-10 and climbed to 9-5 in the
SWC. Houston is 15-10 overall and
7-6 in the conference.
Marks, Doull: swimming
fanatics
Texas A&M swimmer Susan Marks perfects
her backstroke during a recent practice in
preparation for the Southwest Conference
Photo by DEAN SAITO
Championships. The All-American has her
sights set on qualifying for the NCAA Na
tional Championships, March 21-23.
f0b. $eemg your name in the paper is
By PAUL HERNDON
Reporter
Swimming three to five hours a
day, especially in the middle of Jan
uary, might seem a bit fanatical to
most. However, for two members of
the Texas A&M women’s swim team,
that kind of fanatic dedication has
paid off.
Senior Aggie swimmers Susan
Marks and Eileen Doull have accom
plished something in their careers
that most athletes only dream about
— both have become collegiate
swimming All-Americans.
Marks and Doull both agree that,
even though they’ve achieved All-
American status, they haven’t re
ceived the notoriety that your typical
football or basketball player gets.
But neither swimmer loses any
sleep over the lack of recognition.
“It’s great having the students
come out and support us, but I really
don’t care if someone on the other
side of the world knows my name,”
Marks said.
“I swim for the discipline and the
competition involved.”
Both believe that reaching per
sonal, as well as team, goals are more
important than a lot of publicity
from the media.
“If we meet our goals, we know
we’ve done our job,” Doull said.-
“Seeing your name in the paper is
nice, but that’s not what I swim for.”
To say that swimming is an impor
tant part of their lives is an under
statement. However, graduating
from A&M has always been Marks
and Doull’s top priority.
Marks, a political science major
from El Paso, plans to graduate in
August and move to Washington,
D.C. There she hopes to become a
lobbyist for a private firm.
Doull,' a Houstonian majoring in
recreation and parks, should grad
uate in December. She’s planning a
move to Chicago to work in some as
pect of the travel industry.
It’s easy to tell that Marks and
Doull are serious about their educa
tion. So is their coach, A&M’s Mel
Nash.
“Coach Nash expects his swim
mers to be well-rounded students,”
Marks said. “If we’re having per
sonal or academic problems, he sits
down with us and tries to get to the
root of our problem.”
Doull said Nash views each swim
mer as an individual, not just an
other cog in the team machine.
“(Nash) stresses the use of tutors
to help with our classes and encour
ages our involvement in other stu
dent activities,” she said.
Both swimmers have a great re
spect for the student body’s support
A&M athletics. When Marks was re
cruited by the Aggies, Nash was just
beginning to build a competitive
program here and she wanted to be
a part of it.
“I was excited about getting the
chance to help the team,” Marks
said, “but what really sold me on
A&M was the tradition. When I
came to visit the carnpus, I was im
pressed with the spirit everyone sho
wed.”
So was Doull.
“A&M is unique,” Doull said.
“The tradition and unity of the
school are just unbelievable. This
kind of atmosphere can motivate
anyone.”
Motivation is one area where
Doull and Marks have cornered the
market.
Both are currently preparing for
the Southwest Conference Swim
ming and Diving Championships to
be held in Austin, Feb. 28 through
March 2. Along with two fellow Ag
gie All-Americans, Melanie Scmauch
and Jody Tanner, Marks and Doull
expect to qualify for the NCAA
Championships (March 21-23 in
Tuscaloosa, Ala.) in the 400- and
800-meter freestyle relay events.
Qualifying for the NCAAs offers
one final challenge for Marks and
Doull. Both intend to make the last
four years of training pay off— one
more time.
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