Sports
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Wednesday, December 12, 1990
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The Texas A&M basketball team
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Classic on Dec. 1.
Coach Kermit
B)avisjr. says the
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jetitive during
he break.
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“Our players have handled it well
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f game simulation.
“We’ve tried to get as much out of
s to then lour scrimmages as possible.”
Davis said TSU is the most athletic
and physical team the Aenies have
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AP Top 25
The Top Twenty Five teems in The Asso
ciated Press college basketball poll.
First-place votes are In parentheses, last
week's position and records are listed:
1. UNLV (63)1
2. Arkansas 3
3. Syracruse 4
4. Arizona 2
5. Georgetown 6
6. UCLA 8
7. Indiana 7
8. Ohio St. 9
9. North Carolina 10
10. DukeS
11. Georgia 13
12. LSU 18
13. Oklahoma 16
14. St. Johns 17
15. Pittsburgh 11
16. Connecticut 14
17. South Carolina 21
18. Kentucky 25
19. Virginia 21
20. Alabama 12
21. Michigan St. 19
22. Southern Miss. 15
23. Georgia Tech 20
24. E. Tennessee St. —
25. Texas 23
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Texas A&M coach Kermit Davis Jr. gives his team instructions. His Aggies, who are coming off of a
10-day layoff, will face Texas Southern tonight at 7:30 in G. Rollie White Colesium.
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igers inside game with aggressive
rebounding.
Shedrick Anderson, the Aggies’ 6-
8 center, will have to fill the middle
for the team. Anderson is averaging
7.8 rebounds a game.
Senior Lynn Sober is A&M’s iead-
ng scorer in the Aggies first five
rames, posting a 15.6 point average.
Isaac Brown follows with 15.2
bbockStt: points a contest.
A&M has never lost to TSU in its
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last met in 1987 in the finals of the
Jowers Jamboree. The Aggies pre
vailed 85-64,
In the Tigers last outing, they
were beaten by Oral Roberts Univer
sity 103-98, despite 24 points from
Ray Younger.
Younger, a senior, is the team’s
leading scorer, averaging 22 points a
game. TSU’s front line, consisting of
center Charles Parker and forwards
David Arceneaux and Raule Collins,
grab 27 rebounds a game.
The Tigers’ only victories this sea
son came against Montana State (85-
77) and North Texas (86-68). Both
were home wins.
TSU finished 19-12 last season
and advanced to the NCAA tourna
ment after finishing second in the
Southwestern Athletic Conference.
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Point guard Brooks Thompson
leads the team with 4.2 assists a
game. He is the team’s third leading
scorer, averaging 13.8 points a
ame, with a season-high 20 against
ercer. Thompson was named to
the all-tournament team in the Mar
shall Memorial Classic at Marshall
University on Dec. 1
Junior transfer Darrin Terry, who
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played for Carl Albert Junior Col
lege before coming to A&M, is a
g reat athlete but has been hampered
y injuries. Tendonitis in his left
knee slowed him all through fall
workouts and a hip pointer limited
his time in the Marshall Classic to 10
minutes.
Forward Rashone Lewis, a junior
transfer from Fullerton (Calif.) Ju
nior College, leads the team in field
goal percentage, shooting 52.9 per
cent from the floor. Averaging 9.6
points per game, Lewis scored his
season-nigh 13 points against Sam
Houston State.
Cowboys eye playoffs;
former Ag Cheek cut
From Staff and Wire Reports
IRVING — Jimmy Johnson
said Tuesday tne playoff-con-
tending Dallas Cowboys will play
their most important game of his
two-year regime on Sunday
against the Phoenix Cardinals.___
' “As far as I’m concerned it’s as
important a game as I’ve had as
coach of the Cowboys,” Johnson
said. “I told the team if we win
out we’re in the playoffs. The suc
cess we’ve had has pushed this
game high in importance.”
The Cowboys, who were 1-15 a
year ago, have won three straight
games to jump into the NFC play
off picture with a 6-7 record.
Phoenix, which thrashed the
Cowboys 20-3 on Oct. 14, still has
an outside shot at 5-8.
In 20 seasons since the NFL-
AFL merger, only the 1975 Balti
more Colts qualified for the play
offs just one year after logging
the league’s worst record.
“We’ve got to be successful
against Phoenix to be in the play
offs,” said Johnson who has road
games against Philadelphia and
Atlanta remaining on the sched
ule.
“We have an outside shot if we
don’t win, but we don’t want to
get caught up in all the different
scenarios.”
Among the wild-card hopefuls
in the NFC Washington is 8-5,
Philadelphia 7-6, and Green Bay,
Minnesota and New Orleans are
tied with Dallas at 6-7.
Asked if he had heard Coach
of the Year talk coming his way,
Johnson replied, “If we get beat
by Phoenix on Sunday I can be
come a dumb coach in a hurry.”
Johnson, who had predicted
the team would have a winning
record before the season started,
said he couldn’t take any consola
tion in a big year of improvement
if the Cowboys didn’t make the
playoffs.
“I’d be severely disappointed,”
Johnson said. “I’d not be happy.”
Johnson said he didn’t buy the
too much too soon theories.
“We’d have high expectations
next year regardless,” he said.
“High expectations next year are
a given and it’s ridiculous to say
we had won too many too fast. I’ll
deal with next year next year.”
Dallas had a bye week of rest to
get ready for the Cardinals.
“There’s a lot of enthusiasm
around town about the Cow
boys,” Johnson said. “Everybody
is hungry for a winning team and
this is just a taste of it.”
Johnson said he didn’t expect
the team to have a letdown after
defeating the Los Angeles Rams,
Washington and New Orleans in
successive games.
“The importance of this game
will offset any letdown,” Johnson
said. “I would be concerned if we
were on the road.”
Dallas hasn’t defeated Phoenix
since 1988. The last time Dallas
beat the Cardinals in Texas Sta
dium was 1987.
“We played as poorly as what
I’ve seen in our first game against
them,” Johnson said. “I don”t rate
’em but that game was a major
disappointment. We underesti
mated the talent Phoenix has.”
In other Cowboys’ news, offen
sive tackle Louis Cheek, who
played in only four games, was
released by the Dallas Cowboys
on Monday.
Cheek, a third year player
from Texas A&M, was obtained
by the Cowboys from Miami via
Plan B.
Cheek was suspended for the
first three games then suffered a
knee sprain.
The Cowboys activated Mitch
Willis, defensive tackle, who
played earlier in the season and
Michael Brooks, a defensive back
from North Carolina State, who
had been on the Dallas practice
squad.
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