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-&M falters in final minute to hand Baylor win
,ggies' six-point lead dissipates after missing 3 free throws
By Ed Bodde
Assistant Sports Editor
^Baylor’s 71-70 victory over the
1 Texas A&M men’s basketball team
"" Wednesday night in G. Rollie White
t u Coliseum was just about as an emo-
1 -'^tional a game as any fan, coach or
plaver will go through.
led almost the entire game,
resar«twi(e by eight points, but could
ce str %ever |jut the Bears away.
HWe shouldn’t have been in this
situation in the first place,” Winston
depan:Cri(c said. “T hey outplayed us in the
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able si J Biggie forward Tadd Thomas
arv akagreed that the game could have
1 thedt;been put away earlier,
mitapn “We’d get up by three or four
points and we’d turn around and not
phr defense a couple of times,” he
said.
"rwi' lr lu ' 1 Michael Williams’ winning
JsJV,juniper with nine seconds left made
the score 71-70, the Bears had their
C first lead since the 1 1-minute mark
^ of the first half.
r p\nd when Winston Crite’s 17-
( Tiftf<yter bounced off the side of the
rim as time ran out, the surprising
Bears had escaped with a hard-
fought road win.
■‘Everyone knew Michael was
going to take the last shot,” Coach
Shelby Metcalf said. “Crawford had
him but he (Williams) is a difficult
kid to cover.”
■\&M fell to 12-7 overall and 4-4
in the SWC conf erence, while Baylor
improved to 10-7 and 6-2.
Hioth teams needed a win to stay
within range of first-place TCU, and
the pressure finally erupted into a
bench-clearing brawl.
^Leading 67-62 with 1:44 left in
the game, A&M in-bounded the ball
and Keron Graves was fouled by
Mark Buchanan. Both players ex-
tMnged words but they were quickly
separated and Graves went to the
line for a one-and-one.
Buraves missed and Buchanan
soiled on a nice drive and layup at
th£ other end to make it 67-64.
■With 51 seconds left in the game
A&M’s Darryl McDonald was aggre-
sively fouled by Robert McLemore.
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Both players then got into a shoving
match and the bench-clearing fight
ensued.
Both McLemore and McDonald
were ejected, and both teams were
assessed technical fouls. Crawford
replaced McDonald and sank three
out of four free throws to put A&M
on top 70-64. With the crowd of
5,007 roaring, Buchanan then
stepped to the line for Baylor and
calmly sank both shots to bring the
Bears within four.
Af ter the brawl, it was Baylor who
reacted positively. The Bears scored
the final five points.
“We had the game in our hands
but something like that (the brawl)
just ruined it for us,” Thomas said.
“We didn’t want to fight, we had
the game,” Metcalf said.
McDonald said he also thought
Baylor got the momentum back as a
result of the brawl.
Graves missed the front end of
another one-and-one opportunity
with 49 seconds left, and when Bu
chanan went down and drilled a 3-
pointer, the scoreboard read 70-69.
A&M trailed only once in the first
half 15-14 but slowly edged out in
front, and when Thomas hit two
free throws, A&M had its largest
lead at 30-22. Both teams traded
baskets and a tip-in by Baylor’s
James Francis with two seconds left
in the half made it 38-32.
In the second half, Baylor often
cut into A&M’s lead, narrowing it to
two points on several occassions, but
the Aggies would pull out in front
again by six or seven.
Darryl Middleton scored all of his
14 points in the second half and
Frank Williams pulled down 10 re
bounds for the Bears. Todd Hollo
way led the Aggies with 14 points.
A&M next plays SMU in Dallas
Feb. 5, and with four of the five re
maining games on the road, the Ag
gies now face an uphill struggle to
repeat as SWC champions.
Texas A&M’s Todd Holloway (right) knocks the ball out of the
hands of Baylor’s Mark Buchanon during the Aggies’ 71-70 loss to
Photo by Bill Hughes
the Bears Wednesday night in G. Rollie White Coliseum. The loss
was the third in a row for A&M, which falls to 4-4 in the SWC.
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