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Page 14/The BattalionThursday, February 28, 1985 s ^ , Tech nails SMU again; gains share of SWC title I'M GOING TO MIKE sure m dont fall APART AT mm of Am MORE GAMES... Associated Press Texas Tech 59, SMU 54 DALLAS — Tony Benford’s three clutch free throws in the final 40 seconds netted Texas Tech a 59- 54 victory over No. 13 Southern Methodist Wednesday night. With the win, Tech gained at least a share of the Southwest Conference title and the No. 1 seed in the post season tournament. Tech could clinch the SWC title outright by defeating Texas Chris tian in Fort Worth on Saturday. The Red Raiders, who defeated SMU earlier in the season by one point, are 9-7 overall and 11-4 in the SWC race. SMU, with a game remaining on Sunday against Houston, is 21-7 and 10-5. The Mustangs will be the No. 2 seed in the tournament which begins in Dallas March 8. Benford, who beat SMU with a 15-foot jump shot in the final three seconds in Lubbock, hit both ends of a one-and-one with 22 seconds to play to put the game out of reach. A seething crowd of 9,007 fans in Moody Coliseum pelted the floor with ice and even shook the basket while Benford was trying to shoot. Benford ' made one free throw while the basket was swaying, but referee Moose Stuben had blown his whistle so the Red Raider had to shoot over. He made the next one. Bubba Jennings led the Red Raid ers with 23 points while Butch Moore was high for the Mustangs with 13. Seven-foot center Jon Koncak fouled out with 1:27 to play for SMU, which went the last 4:54 with out a field goal. Tech shot 52 per cent from the floor to a poor 42 per cent for the Mustangs. Baylor 97, Rice 78 WACO — Baylor junior guard Carlos Briggs poured in a career- high 41 points to lead the Bears to a 97-78 victory over Rice Wednesday night that clinched his team a spot in the post-season Southwest Confer ence basketball tournament. Briggs’ total was the third-best sin gle game in Baylor’s history, and he became only the eighth player in school history to score over 500 points in a season. He now has 536 this year. Briggs scored 22 of his points in the first half, which ended with Bay lor ahead 44-37 on Eric Johnson’s breakaway layup at the buzzer. Baylor freshman Michael Wil liams scored 20 points and dished out seven assists to help keep the Bears ahead throughout the contest, although they never led by more than 12 points. Baylor Coach Jim Haller, coach ing his last game in Heart o’ Texas Coliseum, cleared his bench in the second half to let everyone play. Rice closed to within three points early in the second half, but Williams kept pulling the Bears away. The loss put Rice at 11-15 for the season and 3-12 in SWC play, while Baylor improved to 11-15 and 4-11. Terrence Cashaw scored 24 E oints and Greg Hines 20 for Bay- >r. Both teams have only one league game remaining, and Baylor swept Rice this season, meaning even if Baylor loses Saturday at Arkansas and Rice wins at Texas A&M, the Bears would still earn the trip to the post-season tournament, where only the top eight teams advance. TCU54, Texas 52 AUSTIN — Jamie Dixon and Dennis Nutt hit six of six free throws in the final 37 seconds to seal Texas Christian’s 54-52 victory over Texas Wednesday night. TCU center Greg Grissom, who failed to score or grab a rebound in the first half, kept the Frogs in the driver’s seat throughout the second half with 10 points and eight re bounds. Nutt added four second-half bas kets to his two late free throws and finished the game as high scorer with 18 points. The victory moved the Frogs to 16-10 overall and 8-7 in conference play. Texas, which ended confer ence play at 7-9, fell to 14-12 overall. Carlton Cooper, who along with Mike Wacker scored 17 points for the Longhorns, almost pulled the game out with two straight 20-foot jump shots in the final 49 seconds, which kept Texas to within two points. Lone Bear Hallers for his ex-cooci Associated Press WACO — The only player who failed to sign a letter expressing dis content with former Baylor basket ball coach Jim Haller says he didn’t want to cause the coach more pain. Although Carlos Briggs was in Haller’s doghouse -about six weeks ago because of erratic defense and poor shot selection, he is now the only Baylor player officially still standing in the coach’s corner. Haller resigned Friday, effective at season’s end, after former center John Wheeler secretly taped a con versation where the coach gave him S172 for car payments and discussed the use of steroids. Only Briggs spoke in favor of the coach. “You’ve got to have a conscience,” Briggs said. “You have to feel sorry for a guy who loses his job, whether it’s coach Haller or some guy who works in a steel mill. On Monday, 13 of the 14 Baylor players — minus Briggs — signed a letter saying they were unset that Wheeler was being made the scajx*- goat for Haller’s resignation. And al though several players later said they felt pressured by teammates into signing the letter and w they hadn’t. Briggs remainedj only one who hadn’t written doi his name. “It’s hartl at practice beingtk« out of 14 who didn’t sign the lent he said. "1 sit there in the loti room and I can feel the guys tl ing. ‘Carlos didn't sign, he’s us.' I am with the team. Ijustd think the letter was necessary. “T he man had already resigns What else do they want him tod Why keep kicking a man whileb down?" >A< Concert Series 3 GREAT CONCERTS AT AN UNBELIEVABLE PRICE!! 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