The Battalion
SPORTS 7
Monday, March 20,1989
Tigers bounce Texas from N C A As Aggies stay hot
Hoyas, Tar Heels and Wolfpack win to reach regionals By Tom Kehoe
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Missouri 108, Texas 89
Missouri did unto Tom Penders
what he did unto them last year with
a lesson in physical basketball.
Doug Smith scored a career high
32 points and Missouri outre-
bounded Texas 41-30 as the sixth-
ranked Tigers muscled their way
into the NCAA Midwest Regionals
with a 108-89 victory over the Long
horns at Reunion Arena in Dallas.
Missouri, 29-7, advances to a re
gional championship round for the
first time since 1982. The Tigers
have never been in The Final Four.
Texas, making its first NCAA
playoff appearance in a decade, fin
ished with a 25-9 record in Penders’
first year.
The victory was sweet revenge for
the Tigers who lost to Penders’
Rhode Island team in the first round
last year.
“You can see this Missouri team is
on a mission,” Penders said.“They
are as tough as anybody we’ve
played.”
Interim coach Rich Daly, who has
taken over the team because Norm
Stewart is recovering from cancer
surgery, said the Tigers’ game plan
was simple.
“We felt we could get inside and
on defense we extended their three-
point shooting from 19 feet to 22
feet,' Daly said. “They had to stop us
inside because we’ve got the big guys
in the middle. Our game is in the
paint or we lose.”
Texas led briefly 25-20 but Mis
souri’s board dominance and physi
cal defense wore them down. The
Tigers also got some good outside
shooting from Lee Coward, who hit
three three-point field goals in the
second half.
Missouri, the Big Eight Confer
ence tournament winner, mauled
Texas, the Southwest Conference
runner-up, on the offensive boards
to earn a 51-41 lead at halftime. Mis
souri outrebounded Texas 24-13
with 11 of them of fensive rebounds.
Smith, who had 16 points in the
first half, got four points on follow
shots. Smith had five of Missouri’s
14 first half layups.
The Longhorns got only as close
as six points in the second half but
Missouri pulled away in the final 10
minutes behind Smith and reserve
Greg Church, who scored 12 of his
14 points after intermission.
T exas was led by Travis Mays who
scored 25 points, including four
three-pointers, and Lance Blanks
who added 20. Joey Wright scored
19.
Syracuse 65, Colorado St. 50
Stephen Thompson scored 21
points, missing only one of 1 1 shots
from the Field, as No. 7 Syracuse de
feated Colorado State 65-50 Sunday
in an NCAA Midwest Regional sec
ond-round game at Dallas.
Syracuse, 29-7, advances to play
sixth-ranked Missouri Friday at the
Midwest Regionals in Minneapolis.
Colorado State ends its post-season
play at 23-10.
The Orangemen widened their
38-28 halftime lead to 48-31 on a
bucket by Herman Harried at the
15:24 mark.
The Rams closed the gap to eight
points, at 50-42, when Matt Sharp
scored with 9:45 to play, but could
get no closer to the Orangemen.
Indiana 92, Texas-El Paso 69
Freshman Eric Anderson scored
24 points, and Indiana coach Bob
Knight celebrated his 700th college
coaching effort with a 92-69 cake
walk Sunday over Texas-El Paso in
the second round of the NCAA
tournament’s West Regional at Tuc
son, Ariz.
The No. 8 Hoosiers, 27-7, seeking
their second trip in three years to the
Final Four, advance to next week’s
West Regional semifinals at Denver
against No. 1 1 Seton Hall. Indiana
won the national title in 1987.
The victory gave Knight a career
record of 514-186.
Jay Edwards, who played just 7‘/2
minutes in the first half, finished
with 17. Todd Jadlow added 14 and
Joe Hillman 12.
UTEP, 26-7, was led by Tim
Hardaway with 20 points. Greg Fos
ter scored 18 and reserve Mark
McCall 12.
Indiana erased any question of a
UTEP comeback by outscoring the
Miners 14-2 to start the second half.
No. 5 N. Carolina 88, UCLA 81
Playing without the suspended
J.R. Reid, North Carolina overcame
a 10-point UCLA lead in the First
half and advanced to its ninth
straight Final 16. The Tar Heels, 29-
7, trailed 51-41 late in the First half
and took their First lead of the sec
ond half when Kevin Madden made
two free throws to make the score
76-75 with five minutes left. Madden
finished with a team-high 22 points.
The victory was Coach Dean
Smith’s 667th, tying him for sixth on
the all-time list with former UCLA
coach John Wooden.
No.2 Georgetown 81, Notre
Dame 74
The second-ranked and top-
seeded Georgetown Hoyas survived
another hair-raising upset bid Sun
day in the NCAA tournament, beat
ing Notre Dame 81-74 after trailing
at halftime in an East Regional sec
ond round game at Providence, R.I.
Charles Smith scored 28 of his 34
points in the second half for George
town, which squeaked past last-
seeded Princeton 50-49 in an East
Regional First-round game that
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llth-ranked Oklahoma State
ended Texas A&M’s 25-game win
ning streak with a 5-3 upset Sunday
afternoon at the Dixie Classic in
Shreveport, La.
The loss marred what was an
otherwise outstanding week for the
Aggies as they swept through their
own tournament and racked up
some impressive offensive numbers.
A&M tore through the field of the
inaugural Aggie Invitational with a
Aggie Baseball
• ScorerNo. 11-ranked Oklahoma
State 5, No. 1 A&M 3.
• Record:25-1.
• Next Game:Friday at Texas Tech.
6-0 record as they upped their sea
son total to 24-0 and sustained their
top national ranking.
It was the Aggies’ first taste of top
flight competition this season as the
Field included the University of Ken
tucky, the University of Maine and
the University of Iowa.
All three have made appearances
in the NCAA tournament in recent
years.
A&M was led by tournament most
valuable player Travis Williams. The
freshman from Austin collected 13
hits in 22 at bats.
Williams started the tournament
at designated hitter but switched to
third base when A&M’s leading hit
ter, John Byington, was injured in
the First game.
Byington’s injury may have
caused Coach Mark Johnson some
distress but Williams’ play helped to
sooth him.
“We lost our top hitter for Five of
the six games and I don’t know if
John could have matched what Tra
vis did,” Johnson said.
A&M’s ace reliver, Scott Centala,
led the pitching corps as he collected
two wins in the tournament. He
worked Five innings over three
games as he struck out seven and al
lowed just one hit.
The First two games of the tourna
ment were down to the wire for the
Aggies.
In A&M’s First contest, Maine had
a one run lead and one out in the
bottom of the ninth inning when
Byington came to the plate with run
ners on first and second. He stroked
a single as A&M came from behind
to win 6-5.
The Aggies’ second game was
scheduled for seven innings. Ken
tucky led 2-1 in the bottom of the
seventh when Chuck Knoblauch
drilled a double off the centerfield
wall that scored Trey Witte and
Terry Taylor for a 3-2 Aggie win.
The final game of the tournament
saw A&M blow out Maine 16-4 as the
Aggies collected 21 hits.
SWC should consider increasing student interest in tourney
What did you do on your spring break?
I spent the fir st part of it with Uncle Jed,
granny and the rest of the clan at the
Southwest Conference Post-Season Classic.
A better title would be “The Hillbilh
Invitational.”
Reunion Arena made its annual
transformation into Barnhill South as at
least 13,000 of the 16,240 seats sold for the
tournament were occupied by Arkansas
fans.
I could go on and on about how these
loud, obnoxious Arkansans irritated me.
However, I’m not going to do that. The
simple fact is that the SWC owes these
people a great debt and would not be able
to have a basketball tournament without
them. ■ tf
Sure, I got a littleTiFed of hearing them
call the Hogs whenever I stepped out of my
hotel room. But their enthusiasm gave the
tournament the only electricity and
atmosphere it had.
Doug
Walker
Sports Editor
Without the Arkansans, the tournament
would have been boring and pointless.
Arkansas provided most all the fans, the
best team, the best pep band, and the best
cheerleaders.
It made me wonder why no other
basketball team in the SWC has anything to
compare with the Razorbacks.
As I pondered this, the Aggies were
trying to come back against the Hogs in the
second half of their semi-final loss. As A&M
moved closer, the noise increased.
It was impressive and intimidating.
The Arkansas people deserve everything
they get. They pay their money and make
time to travel to the tournament w hen most
of the fans of SWC schools don’t even
consider it. But this presents some
problems for the league.
If anyone else in the SWC wants to
compete with the Hogs in the tournament
in the near future, they’d better consider
getting off the couch and going to the
tournament.
Otherwise, the tourney might just as well
be moved to Fayetteville.
The SWC tournament lacks the
atmosphere of a league tourney because of
the domination of the Arkansas fans. The
atmosphere is enthusiastic alright, but the
enthusiasm is one-sided. If Arkansas had
lost in the early rounds, the conference
would have lost concession profits and had
a half-empty arena to show off on ESPN
during the Sunday afternoon final.
The SWC should move to get students
more involved in the tournament to create
a setting showing the diversity of the
schools in the league. The league could bite
the financial bullet and do something out of
goodwill to help create basketball interest
among students.
A good way to help the atmosphere and
create the ineterest would be to create
student sections at the tourney in which
students from the teams involved can
purchase tickets at a reduced rate.
The league could set up a deal with each
school to provide a package deal for
students to arrange travel, lodging and
game tickets.
It would provide a good alternative to
the normal spring break plans and would
only take up the first day or two of the
break. Reunion Arena is within walking
distance of the West End which has several
clubs and restaurants where a lot of us go
anyway.
The quality of SWC basketball will
continue to improve in the coming years
and the fan interest will improve. But the
conference would do itself a favor by
extending an offer to the students.
The teams would probably appreciate it
as well.
A normal trip to Fayetteville to play the
Hogs will seem like a trip to the opera for
some of these guys considering that the
home court of the Razorbacks, Barnhill
Arena, seats less than 10,000 and couldn’t
have been any louder than Reunion.
A&M gave the Hogs their only test in the
tournament. The Hogs dropped the Aggies
94-84 in a game in which the Aggies were
close until less than two minutes remained.
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what could’ve happened?
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