Tuesday, February 2, 1988/The Battalion/Page 9
Sports
T dominates basketball world
Is there anyone out there who can
|stop it? Anyone?.
Of course I’m talking about the
lUniversity of Texas basketball team,
Iwithout a doubt the most dominant
[college basketball team of the past 10
[years.
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[about the
Ireal Texas
Loyd Brumfield
Sports Editor
[Longhorns, the 5th-ranked women’s
[team that demolished a determined
[A&M team here Saturday night.
The UT women are 18-2 on the
[year, yes two teams actually have
[beaten them, and they have a 7-0
[Southwest Conference slate after
Itheir 89-61 win over A&M.
UT has never missed the post-sea
son playoffs, and the last two years
[they have been one of the elite Final
[Four. The Horns won the national
[title in 1986 with a 97-81 win over
[USC, and they were upset at home
the 1987 semifinals, losing 79-75
[to another women’s power, Loui-
Isiana Tech.
Texas is led by 12-year coach Jody
^onradt, who has compiled a 371 -53
[record there, and her teams average
|32 wins a season.
Incidently, UT’s two losses are at
Mie hands of two other nationally-
ranked teams, top-ranked Iowa (a
75-65 setback), and 9th-ranked Ohio
State (an 88-58 loss). To think there
are other teams out there better than
[the Lady Longhorns, teams that can
actually beat them by 30 points, is
^uite staggering.
UT isn’t that good because of an
easy schedule, oh, no. Sure, they get
to stroll through the SWC, where
there are eight teams that relent
lessly beat up on each other just to
claim the right to be embarrassesd
by UT in the finals of the conference
tournament, but that’s only for half
the season.
The Lady Longhorns spend the
first half of the year battling it out
with other perennial powers like
Tennessee, who was ranked first in
the country before UT handed them
a 97-78 setback, and 6th-ranked Mis-
sisippi, which fell 74-61 to the
Horns.
UT has also defeated 13th-ranked
USC, 9th-ranked Long Beach State,
8th-ranked Rutgers, 20th-ranked Il
linois, and previously 20th-ranked
Houston.
Since SWC play of ficially began in
1982, no one, no one has beaten the
Horns. In the history of women’s
basketball, only two SWC teams have
beaten them, one of which is A&M.
The Lady Aggies blitzed UT 10
years ago by a score of 59-52 before
a rowdy G. Rollie White crowd.
Oh, yes, the crowds. UT fans are
known as fair weather fans who are
ugly winners and sore losers. UT
fans boo every call that goes against
them, and once their teams start los
ing, the stands empty.
UT basketball fans aren’t like that,
at least the women’s fans aren’t.
They travel long distances to see
their team, and they support them
loudly and with unabashed enthu
siasm. Sounds like A&M fans, right?
More than half ofthe 2,933 in the
Coliseum Saturday was made up of
UT fans. Sure, they booed every call
against them, but they also stood up
and cheered them on, giving stand
ing ovations to all the players as they
left the court. At the end, the fans
started chanting “Pooooor Aggies,”
while the extremely quiet A&M con
tingent started chanting “Cotton,
Cotton, Cotton.”
T he Horns beat teams with a dev
astating inside game. Two or three
UT players are always up around
the basket after a shot has been
fired. The Horns apparently don’t
believe in outside shooting. They
have never made more than one 3-
point shot in a game, and they only
made 10 shots outside the lane while
canning 24 shots inside, most of
which were right under the basket.
There are no star players for UT
this year, although guard Yulonda
Wimbish averages 16.4 points a
game and her backcourt teammate
Beverly Williams averages 14 points.
The other three starters, forwards
Photo by Bill Hughes
A&M forward Evelyn Sanders (23) tries to get past UT center Ellen
Bayer during a 94-60 UT win last year at G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Paulette Moegle and C.J. Jones, and
center Susan Anderson, have fairly
even statistics. Anderson is the
team’s leading rebounder with 5.1 a
game. The two guards, Wimbish and
Williams, are next in line with 4.8
and 4.7 rebounds per game respec
tively.
UT’s bench would be ranked in
the top 10 if it started, too. Guard
Lvssa McBride wa§ a starter last
year, and the Horns also have 6-8
sophomore forward Ellen Bayer to
fall back on. She has had some prob
lems in her first two years, but just
her presence on the court is plenty
intimidating.
So, unfortunately for the rest of
the SWC and the nation, UT will
dominate for years to come. Reserve
your seats for the Final Four now.
Odds to repeat long
for champion Skins
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Super
Bowl winners don’t repeat. So, af
ter the Washington Redskins lost
to New York in the NFC title
game a year ago, Charles Mann
was rooting for the Giants in the
Super Bowl. That way, the
Redskins would have a chance
this year.
See related stories inside
Mann’s double wish came true
Sunday when the Redskins went
on a record-breaking binge that
included 35 second-quarter
points to rout the Denver Bron-
cqs 42-10 Sunday, becoming the
fourth straight NFC team to cap
ture a lopsided Super Bowl vic
tory.
That led Redskins Coach Joe
Gibbs to face the inevitable ques
tions Monday about the difficulty
of repeating as NFL champion.
No team this decade has won two
straight Super Bowls.
Gibbs’ response: “I just want to
get through our division first.”
The last two Super Bowl win
ners, the Giants and Redskins,
came from the NFC East, and
Gibbs said he believes it’s the
toughest division in football.
“I thought that if any team
around could repeat it was the Gi
ants because they were solid at ev
ery position,” he said oflast year’s
champions, who fell victim to a
terrible strike team, injuries and
post-Super Bowl malaise, fin
ishing last in the division with a 6-
9 record.
That gives the Giants an easy
last-place schedule next season.
They get to play Detroit twice and
Kansas City, while the Redskins
are facing the likes of Chicago
and Cleveland.
“I think the Giants are mad
about what happened this year
and will come roaring back,”
Gibbs said. “I think Philadelphia
is coming on, and so are the Car
dinals.”
The NFC has won the last four
Super Bowls by a composite score
of 165-56 with 14 of those 56
points coming on fourth-quarter
touchdowns as the NFC team was
cruising with a big lead. In fact,
the fewest points by any NFC Su
per Bowl team over that period
was the 38 scored by San Fran
cisco in its 38-16 victory over Mi
ami in 1985.
Gibbs refused to acknowledge
conference domination.
“Each of those games are to
tally separate,” he said. “I don’t
see it as AFC-NFC. Each of those
teams got hot for a day. What
takes over and contributes to a
lopsided game is difficult to un- ,
derstand.”
Offensive tackle Mark May
said after Sunday’s game the
Redskins were able to outmuscle •
the Broncos — as the Giants did <
— because they are used to physi- ;
cal games within the division.
Gibbs said the same thing Mon
day.
“When you come out of our di- ;
vision, it’s a physical division. Ev- ;
ery team in there is a physical
football team,” he said. “When
you play Philadelphia, they are
knocking you around. T he Giants
beat you up and the the Cardinals
and Dallas can hurt you. ’
There also is expected to be
some contention for the quar
terback spot between 26-year-old
Jay Schroeder, the incumbent en- ‘
tering this season, and 32-year- >
old Doug Williams, who threw for
a record 340 yards and four
touchdowns to be named the
game’s Most Valuable Player.
The 340 yards, 306 of them in the
first half, was one of 10 Super
Bowl records set by the Redskins.
The four TD’s tied a Super Bowl
mark.
Gibbs said he believed there
was a lot to be said for intrateam
competition, the same kind he
will have at running back with
George Rogers, Kelvin Bryant -
and Timmy Smith. Smith, a sur
prise starter in Rogers’ place, set
another record with 204 yards
rushing, yet got just a half a vote
for MVP to Williams’ lOV-j.
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