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Page 10 The Battalion Monday, January 30,1989 The I E B^SKBTBAUL HELP dp 1989 (55 SURPRISED ME, TOO 'THE W/A/A/ER ■ .-r- THE FOOTBALL "HORNS WANT ME TO DO 'EM A FAVOR WHEN WE PLAY THE AG-S THIS WEEK! ISN'T THAT THE SAME FAVOR THEY 1 YE BEEN ASKING FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS ? A By Oh enter Off-c ing to “i Gras in Gras cel But tl ball and See mask th differei years, s of OCA The new id Mardi ( The began ii then-Ol Since t one of t “We known, “Hop Bryan-( Texas producing top basketball talent Former SMU recruit Johnson preparing for UNLV career WJCAC is recruiting hotbed ODESSA (AP) — He was the only junior college player invited to the Olympic trials, picked as last year’s top college freshman and leads the nation’s No. 1 juco team with an av erage 32 points a game. So you’d think Odessa College coach Dennis Helms wouldn’t have to bench his sophomore star, Larry Johnson, for passing off too often. But it’s happened before. “He’s sometime too unselfish,” said Helms, “and we have to get af ter him to do something more in some situations.” Seems like Johnson, 6-foot-7 and 235 piounds, could hardly do more than what he’s done already: score more than 40 points in four games this season and lead the nation’s juco players in scoring. “He may be the best player we’ve ever recruited,” said Nevada-Las Ve gas coach Jerry Tarkanian, who signed Johnson in November. With so much talent, is the phe nomenal Johnson a Ferrari among Toyotas while in the junior college ranks? Not in his eyes. “I thought coming to a junior col lege meant the talent wouldn’t be that great,” he said. “But that wasn’t the case. Every time you get on the floor you’re against a guy that can play. That really surprised me.” As a standout at Dallas’ Skyline High School, he hadn’t intended to go the juco route at all. Johnson wanted to stay close to home and signed with Southern Methodist. But the school asked him to retake the Scholastic Aptitude Test, although his score qualified him for enrollment, because his score had improved so dramatically from an early administering of the test. Johnson declined rather than risk getting a lower score and becoming a- Proposition 48 casualty. “I didn’t want to sit out, so I start ing looking at junior colleges,” said- Johnson. “I think it turned out for the better because I’ve been working on my academics.” Johnson’s dominance, says Helms, stems from superb physical traits and an attitude that allows him to capitalize on those traits. “He’s probably got the greatest hands (of anyone) 5-foot-10 to 7- foot-6,” he said. “He has more in stinct than anyone on the floor. He knows what’s going on in every situa tion out there.” His only weakness may be that Johnson, the Wranglers’ team cqp- tain, is too nice a guy, too willing to give credit to others and too reluc tant to criticize his teammates. Odessa’s coaching staff recently decided they would name a co-cap tain, in addition to Johnson, to pro vide stronger leadership for the Wranglers, 23-0 overall and 8-0 in the Western Junior College Athletic Conference. Johnson, who last season helped Odessa to a 30-5 record, wants his parting gift to Helms to be a national junior college championship. And until then, Johnson says he won’t stop working. “If you’re doing something that you love, you want to be the best at it and play hard night in and night out,” he said. TANK MCNAMARA ODESSA (AP) — Oni on du- windswept plains of West 1 e\as and eastern New Mexico, there's not much to do hut plav basketball and hit the books. But that's just the idea behind the Western Junior College Athletn Conference, which lias become a te- cruiting hotbed lot Division I coaches who just recenllv discov ered •junior colleges. T he nine schools which make up the WJCAC are located in isolated towns — Snvder, Eevelland. Biv; Spring, Hobbs — where oil rigs dot the flat horizon and the wind blows incessantly. But that hasn’t stopped some <>l the nation's top placets from start ing their college careers at W|( AC schools such as Midland College — whose most f amous placer was Spud Webb — Western Texas and New Mexico Junior College in hopes of landing at a top Div ision 1 program. The WJCAC’. has joined such tra dition-rich junior colleges as San |a- cinto College among the juco elite. “I feel that without a doubt this year the junior college basketball in T exas is by far the best in the coun try," said Oklahoma assistant coach Jim Kervv in, a former juco coach at Seminole J unior College. Through Kerwin's recruiting el- forts, Oklahoma has taken so mam players from Midland College the school's almost considered a bratu h by the folks in Norman. Former Chaparrals Ri< kv (.rate and Mookie Blavlock helped iTt the Sooners to the Final FouiTm year. Othei Chaps are playing til Kan sas State, Seton Hall. Wvominjfam! Idaho State. And Midland was onlv a third place ton Terence finisher last veat. In the past two years, that schooh dominance has been challenged la other league members. . ' "1 think Midland has had oneol the premier junior college prog mill' for the last 10-15 years.” said Kn- win. “The league is much morebal anted now.” One of those is Odessa College which alter posting its best season ever last year at 30-5 is undefeated and sitting atop the N |CAA poll. Odessa's program got a lilt Ixitli from Helms, in his third vear wilt the Wranglers, and NJCAA plavei of the year Larrv Johnson, who' headed to TNEV next season. South Plains College in Levelland is stuck out in the cotton fields,bin its reputation is rit/v enough Ionite 13th-ranked I exans to don tuxe does for tlieii media guide photos. WJCAC coaches sav the NCAA' Proposition T<8. which set stricter eli gibility requirements on athletes en tering four-y ear schools, Inis given juco programs a boost. 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