Page 14/The Battalion/Wednesday, January 15, 1986
Sanctions
to zap BU
basketball
NCAA cites Boylor
for 30 violations
Associated Press
WACO — Baylor University’s bas
ketball program has been cited by
the NCAA for 30 specific violations
that will cost the school six schol
arships over the next two seasons
and a shot at post-season tourna
ment play, according to published
reports.
The violations
include players
receiving cash,
airline tickets,
free transporta
tion, and hunting
and fishing trips,
the Waco Tri
bune-Herald
quoted an un
named source as
saying.
They were detailed in the NCAA’s
original letter informing Baylor of
its findings. The NCAA has made
no official announcement yet on its
probe.
Maxey Parrish, Baylor sports in
formation director, said Tuesday
that the school had been ordered by
the NCAA not to discuss the find
ings.
Although final penalties have not
been determined, Baylor will be al
lowed only 11 scholarships for the
1986-87 season and 13 for the 1987-
88 season, the Tribune-Herald said.
The NCAA’s scholarship limit is 15.
Baylor currently has 13 players on
scholarship. The team’s only seniors,
guard Carlos Briggs and forward
Edwin Mitchell, were dismissed by
head coach Gene Iba last week for
reasons he said were unrelated to
the NCAA probe.
Both players, who had been sus
pended in December by the NCAA,
plan to remain in school, and their
scholarships could not be trans
ferred even if they were to leave
Baylor.
The newspaper reported its
source as saying the scholarship re
duction could be reversed, but be
lieves that action unlikely after the
NCAA Council’s subcommittee on
eligibility reduced the season-long
suspensions of guard Eric Johnson
and post Darryl Middleton to nine
games Sunday.
Both players will be eligible to re
turn to action against Texas A&M
Feb. 1 in Waco.
Baylor Athletic Director Bill Me-
nefee, former faculty representative
Edwin Horner and new faculty rep
resentative David Guinn met with
the Committee on Infractions in
New Orleans Monday at the NCAA
convention.
Under the sanctions outlined by
the newspaper’s source, Baylor can
not sign any recruits this season, and
only up to six for the 1987-88 if all
the current players’ scholarships are
renewed.
Without the sanctions, Baylor
would have been able to sign four
players in each of the next two years.
Two players offered scholarships
last spring did not attend Baylor, ac
counting for the two unused grants.
Only two current players, junior
Mark Buchanan and freshmen Ste
phen Hafford, are not on athletic
scholarships. Iba could put either or
both on scholarship, but hasn’t made
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A&M hosts Texas in unusually ‘big game
Photo by DEAN SAITO
A&M’s David Thompson (34) pulls down a rebound in front of
Texas Christian’s Greg Grissom during the Aggies’ 64-60 Southwest
Conference win over the Horned Frogs Saturday. A&M hosts Texas
tonight at 7:30 in G. Rollie White Coliseum for the SWC lead.
By TRAVIS TINGLE
Sports Editor
It’s not at all unusual fora pro
verbial “big game” to surface
within the first few weeks of the
Southwest Conference basketball
race.
But what is unusual about the
First “big game" of the ’85-86 con
ference title chase tonight at 7:30
in G. Rollie White Coliseum is
which teams are involved —
Texas A&M and Texas.
The Aggies (9-6 overall, 3-0 in
the SWC) and Longhorns (9-6,4-
0) will put their unblemished con
ference records on the line to
night. The winner should claim at
least a share of first-place in the
SWC and gains an inside track to
the outright title.
Unusual?
Not really. Not where SWC
basketball is concerned. All you
can predict in this conference,
year-in and year-out, is the un
predictable.
And this year is no exception.
Coach Bob Weltlich’s Long
horns, picked by most experts to
finish no l>etter than seventh in
the conference, find themselves
atop the standings going into to-
nignt’s showdown with the Ag-
gies.
Behind the shooting of for
ward Patrick Fairs and the re
bounding and scoring ability of
center Jonn Brownlee, the'Horns
can no longer be considered the
laughing “stock” of the SWC.
Texas has posted its four SWC
victories over Houston, Rice, Ar
kansas and Baylor.
The Aggies, under Coach
Shelby Metcalf, were considered
legitimate contenders during the
preseason. But a tough non-con
ference schedule, which included
Top 20 teams such as Georgia
Tech, Pittsburgh and Alabama-
Birmingham, coupled with inju
ries to key starters slapped a “me
diocre” tag on A&M before the
start of SWC play.
But when conference play
cranked-up, so did the Aggies.
A&M has run off a string of
three victories over Baylor, SMU
and TCU. Suddenly, the Angies,
led by the inside scoring ability of
guards Don Marbury and Todd
Holloway and forward Winston
Crite, appear to be anything, but
mediocre.
In fact, TCU Coach Jim Kill-
ingsworth issued Weltlich’s Long
horns a warning after the Aggies’
issued the Horned Frogs a 64-60
Saturday — G. Rollie White Col
iseum is a tough place to play.
“We now have one big advan
tage over most of the conference
teams,” Killingsworth said. “W'e
don’t have to come back here (to
College Station) this year.”
So while A&M and Texas are
busy fighting for first-place, two
preseason SWC favorites, Arkan
sas and Houston, will be battling
for last.
Arkansas, which most sports
writers thought was a cinch to be
in the thick of the SWC race, isn’t.
The Hogs are tied for last-place
wdth the Baylor Bears at 0-4 and
host the Cougars, 0-3, tonight in a
regionally-televised game.
Houston, which usually always
makes a run at the title under the
coaching of Guy V. Lewis, lost to
Rice Saturday in Hofheinz Pavil
ion for the first time in its history.
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gars in Hofheinz was their first in
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