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The Battalion
Monday, January 27,1991
SMU surprises Coogs, Hogs first to win
20 as SWC play heats up for stretch drive
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DALLAS (AP) — If Southern
Methodist coach John Shumate is
looking for respect, he’s made a be
liever out of Houston Cougars coach
Pat Foster.
“SMU just lined up and whipped
us,” Foster said after the Mustangs
won for the sixth time in seven
games, upsetting Houston 81-75 Sat
urday night.
“They played extremely hard and
deserved to win. If they aren’t a
good basketball team, then I must be
missing something. They ran their
offense well and screened us all over
the floor.”
In other Southwest Conference
games Saturday, Arkansas became
the first Division I team to post 20
victories this season by holding off
Baylor 73-68;
Texas whipped Texas Christian
90-49 in Austin; and Rice handled
visiting Texas A&M 98-76.
Texas Tech ended a five-game
losing skid by beating Southern Illi-
nois-Edwardsville 94-66.
Southern Methodist improved to
9-9 overall and 4-3 in league play,
thanks to substitute center Greg
Kinzer, who scored 7 points during a
pivotal 17-6 second-half run. Tim
Mason led the Mustangs with 21
points.
“There’s no question that Hous
ton is a national basketball team,”
Shumate said. “Anytime that you
beat a national team, it gives you
some credibility.”
The Cougars (12-6, 4-3) hit only
one of 12 shots during the fateful
run that saw SMU turn a 47-46 defi
cit to a 63-53 lead with eight minutes
left.
Byron Smith led the Cougars with
20 points. Alvaro Teheran scored 17
points, but only two in the last 15
minutes while Kinzer and Bobby
Holkan were guarding him. Kinzer
finished with 13 points.
The Mustangs were down 11-2
and 36-27 in the first half, but fresh
man Chad Allen’s pair of 3-pointers
tied the game at 37 at halftime.
Baylor (9-7, 2-5) scared Arkansas
with flashbacks of last year’s upset.
The Bears put together a 15-6
run, ending on David Wesley’s 3-
pointer, to close to withing 68-66
with 34 seconds left. But Arkansas
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hit 5 of 6 foul shots to preserve
victory.
Oliver Miller led Arkansas (201
8-0) with 22 points.
“We will be a better team forhav
ing to overcome the adversity we
had to overcome tonight,” Razor
backs coach Nolan Richardson said.
Arlyn Bowers and Lee Mayhem
scorea 11 points each for Arkansas
Todd Day, the SWC’s leading scorer
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Becker smashes Lendl, leaves stadium to celebrate
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) —In their mo
ments of triumph, champions sometimes cry or
shout or hug their loved ones. Boris Becker ran
away.
Introspective, sensitive, an artist in his own
way, Becker fled the stadium and crowd and a
defeated Ivan Lendl seconds after the final shot
at the Australian Open on Sunday to be alone
with his thoughts.
This was not just another victory and paycheck
for Becker, even if his 1-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 win gave
him a fifth Grand Slam title and $250,000.
This was about becoming No. 1 in the world
rankings, displacing Stefan Edberg, achieving at
age 23 the most important goal of his seven-year
career, and perhaps moving on with his life away
from tennis.
He jogged through a tunnel in the stadium,
past bewildered officials, to the grassy park out
side, pumping his arms in the air and exulting
among the Chinese elm trees under a canopy of
fluffy white clouds.
“He was on top of the world. He was ecstatic,”
said Glen Sharam, head groundsman at the Na
tional Tennis Center, who was told by the tour
nament referee to follow that redhead.
“Keep away,” Becker shouted, and Sharam, a
professional sprinter when not tending the cen
ter, stayed a respectful 70 yards behind.
Becker loped up the jogging path on Batman
Avenue, then picked up speed, running hard,
clearing out his lungs and his mind. He ran back
just as hard before slowing down in the park on
the way back into the stadium.
A half-dozen people in the park watched him
go by and applauded him, then he disappeared
again into the tunnel.
“I just couldn’t sit down and relax, I had to
move,” Becker said. “There was so much going
on inside me. I just had to get out there to be by
myself. I was thinking back about the past, how
many years I have been (playing), that I am fi
nally on the top. I was thinking backwards what I
had to go through.”
It seemed so long ago that he startled the
sports world by winning the first of his three
Wimbledon titles at 17 in 1985. He reached the
No. 2 ranking the next year, but then slipped to
No. 4 in 1987 and 1988. He rededicated himself
to his goal, working harder than ever under the
guidance of manager Ion Tiriac and coach Bob
Brett, and captured the U.S. Open in 1989. But
still the No. 1 spot eluded him.
“I would like to be a quiet, private man with my
little kids, a wife, and have a quiet life, not all the
time being in the front line,” said Becker, who is
still a bachelor.
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Seles sharpens game in second Grand Slam victory
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) —
Monica Seles has Grand Slam title
No. 2. What she’s aiming for is No.
1.
Demonstrating one of the charac
teristics of a true champion, Seles
adapted her game to the needs of
the moment Saturday to beat Jana
Novotna for the Australian Open
women’s title.
The 5-7, 6-3, 6-1 victory on a bak
ing center court at the National Ten-
that reign this week, in the Pan Pa
cific Open in Tokyo, but a change is
more likely in April or May.
If that’s the case, there is one re
cord for youthful success Seles won’t
break. The youngest French Open
champion at 16 and the youngest
Australian Open champion at 17,
Seles would have to overtake Graf
quickly to be the youngest No. 1.
Tracy Austin holds that mark, at 17
years, 2 months, a milestone Seles
will pass on Feb. 2.
Does all this matter to Seles, who
was No. 86 just three years ago? Not
one bit.
“To me, it’s just another tourna
ment. I won it and it’s great,” Seles
said. “I can move on next week and
play another tournament. To me, it’s
just win a tournament and play as
perfectly as possible.”
Novotna has reached her first
Grand Slam singles final with a
string of upsets —over eighth-
seeded Zina Garrison in the fourth
round, Graf in the quarters and
sixth-seeded Arabtxa Sanchez-Vi-
cario in the semis.
The lOth-seeded Czechoslovakian
started strongly and took Seles out
of her game. The second-seeded
left-hander with the two-fisted
groundstro<kes and world-class
grunts was unable to dictate the pace
from the baseline. She made error
after error and Novotna, a serve-
and-volley wonder against Graf, sim
ply laid back and waited for the mis
takes.
After losing serve in the 11th
game of the first set and watching
Novotna hold on her second set
point point for 7-5, Seles got angry.
Seles argued several line calls and
was aggitated by Novotna taking her
time between points.
Novotna tied it 3-3 but that was
her last gasp.
ms Center gave Seles her second
Grand Slam championship, to go
with the French Open crown she’ll
defend on the clay courts of Paris in
May.
“It’s great to win a second Grand
Slam and not be labeled a clay-court
player,” Seles said.
Seles is just 38 points adrift of
Steffi Graf at the top of the women’s
rankings. Graf has been there for a
record 180 weeks. Seles could end
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