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Box 26650 Oklahoma City, OK 73126 An Equeri Opportuifty Emptoyer Discover Today’s FAA Page 10 The Battalion Tuesday, February 14,1989 OU regains top spot in basketball poll Week of upsets shakes rankings NORMAN. Okla. (AP) — Okla homa Coach Billy Tubbs is happy to be No. 1 in the nation — again. “We’d like to stay there," Tubbs said Monday after learning his Sooners had taken over the top spot in the Associated Press college bas ketball poll again. “But we’re not going to get into the hype of the thing We ve experienced it before, so now maybe we can do better." /7, Oklahoma was ranked No. 1 two weeks ago for the first time in the school’s history. But the Sooners lost to intrastate rival Oklahoma State and fell to fifth in last week's poll. Oklahoma moved back to No. I this week after defeating No. 3 Mis souri and Arizona, last week’s No. I team. Tubbs noted after Sunday’s 82-80 victory over Arizona that the No. 1 team has had to immediately go out and play tough road games. The Sooners an/no different. “This week we’ve got Kansas and Colorado on the road." Tubbs said. “1 think there should be some kind of clause that if you get to be No. 1, you can change your schedule so you don’t have to play on the road for at least two weeks," he joked. Oklahoma, 21-3, received 58 first- place votes and 1.273 points from the nationwide panel of sportswrit- ers and broadcasters to top Arizona, 18-3, which dropped to Second with two first-place votes and 1,162 points. Missouri, 21-4, remained third } despite its loss to Oklahoma, receiv ing two first-place votes and 1.096 its. Georgetown, 18-3. dropped a 79-74 misville rounded out the Top ^ second to fourth after 1m(s to. Pittsburgh with 1,001 points, 13 more than Illinois. 20-3. The Fighting Illini, who were sev enth last week, had 988 points to edge Syracuse, 21-4, which received 974 points. The Orangemen. Fight ing Illini and Oklahoma were the only members of last week’s Top Ten not to lose in a week that saw 12 members of the Top Twenty lose a total of 14 games. Florida Mate, 19-2, moved to sev enth with one first-place vote and 813 points. North Carolina. Indiana and Lot Ten. The Tar Heels, 19-5, received 791 points in dropping one spot, while Indiana. 20-5, rose from 13th to ninth with 752 points. Louisville, which lost two of three games last week to fall to 17-5, dropped from fourth to 10th with 731 points. Duke. 17-4, led the Second Ten with 641 points that included the fi nal first-place vote. The Blue Devils were followed by Seton Hall, Michi- C i, West Virginia, Iowa, Ohio te, Stanford, Nevada-Las Vegas, North Carolina State and Louisiana State. Last week's Second Ten was Seton Hall, Florida State, Indiana, Duke, West Virginia, Ohio State, North Carolina State, Stanford. Nevada- Las Vegas and Georgia Tech. Louisiana State. 17-6, is the only new member of the poll as the Ti gers replaced No. 20 Georgia Tech, which lost to Virginia 78-71. Prairie View team sticks by protest PRAIRIE VIEW (AP) — Worried they’re not being allowed to get an education, a group of football play ers at Prairie View A&M say they’ll stand firm in their promise not to practice unless their coach is re placed. All but a handful of the 55 players returning for next season have said they’re on strike, calling for the oust ing of Head Football Coach Haney Catchings. Led by two 300-pound offensive linemen, the players accuse their coach of withholding textbooks from team members, suspending study hall and holding six-hour practices that leave no time for studying. They also say Catchings has run practice drills that have caused inju ries to players. MX I he coach imposed an 11 o’clock curfew and he'd punish players for missing curfew because they were studying,’’ Haynes said. “They told us to go to the library on our own time, but there wasn’t any time,” — Richard Haynes, PV A&M football player “It's not true." said the second- year coach. “That’s all I have to say.” Richard Haynes and twe^year team captain Herman Moore, each with one year of eligibility remain ing, last week made public what they say is their longstanding dissatisfac tion with Catchings and have grabbed the attention of school offi cials and drawn the national media to the tree-lined campus 45 miles west of Houston. “My motto is. ‘God doesn’t like ugly,’" Moore said Monday, “and what this man has done to this pro gram and the players is ugly."' Wearing dress clothes and armed with press releases listing their com plaints against their coach, the two spent Monday setting up meetings with administrators and telling any one who would listen that they want a coach they can respect. “The chief complaint is academ ics," said Moore, a business market ing major from Dallas with a 2.8 grade average. “He doesn’t care about his players’ academics." Forty-two members of the team attend study table, a study session that’s mandatory for freshman team members and upperclassmen with below a 2.0 average. “There’s never been that many Although the predominantly black, 5,600-student school has never had a strong football tradition, players say the team would be better under someone the players liked. While on strike, Moore and Havnes have taken on responsibility for directing the team. They're urging teammates to keep in shape, run and lift weights, to prepare for spring practice, which oegtns next But the players say they won’t be practicing for Catchings. “The practices will be under the direction of the team capuins," said Haynes, a criminal justice major with a 3.2 grade average. Practices under Catchings would often last six hours, players say, with team members not getting back to the dorm until 10:30 at night. “The coach imposed an 11 o’clock curfew and he’d punish players for missing curfew because they were studying,” Haynes said. “They told us to go to the library on our own time, out there wasn’t any time. From 4:30 to 9:30 was their time. They emphasized that." Athletic director Brutus Jackson said Catchings has told him practices were only 3'/*. hours. Catchings would not comment Mondav on the controversy. Jackson, who said he was not aware of all the players’ concerns and could not comment on them specifically, said he thinks the dis pute can be resolved-without Catch ings’ departure. “We care about their academics and we care about their well-being,” he said. “We need to hear more about their specific concerns before ' I can comment.” Jackson on Monday received a list of specific complaints from the play ers and met with them to discuss the problems. Among the complaints are - charges that Catchings set up prac tice drills that were unduly harsh. thers’ record, 5-5 in 1988 after a 3-7- 1 record in 1987, the year Catchings took over for fired Coach Conway Hayman.’Tve seen the light go out of players eyes," Moore said. Haynes described drills where players were forced to dive over tele phone poles amidst rocks and bro ken glass and where players ran head on into each other from 30 feet apart. The offensive line and other players walked out of several subse quent practices. Neither Catchings nor Jackson would comment on tne allegations. Moore said he’s not displeased with the education he’s gotten at Prairi View but is concerned about the younger players, who he savs don't know how to study. He blames the coaches and athletic department, not the school, which a recent educa tional survey said has produced more black agriculture PhDs than any other predominantly black insti tution. But another coach says the crit icism is unfair. “My star runner has class during track practice so I’m out here work ing with her now,” said women’s track coach Barbera Jacket while timing sprints on the track. “So how can you say Prairie View doesn’t care a hour ararlrmii \ - FINANCIAL AID BULLETIN Lmtii what yaw hav* to do ...whan you harm to do It ...ami how to do It right tho lint tlmol watch tho bow vtdoo COMPLETING THE FAT Wodnanday. Fob. IS Thursday. 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