Tuesday, Januaiy 29, 1991
The Battalion
Sports Editor
Alan Lehmann
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Aggie eagers seek first SWC win tonight
By SCOTT WUDEL
Of The Battalion Staff
The Texas A&M basketball team
could use some good news.
The Aggies have lost nine of their
last 10 games and hope to climb out
of a rut against the University of
Houston tonight at 7:30 at G. Rollie
White Coliseum.
A&M, 5-13, is winless in seven
contests against Southwest Confer
ence opponents this season.
The Aggies have not been 0-8
since 1954, when they lost their first
10 conference games before fin
ishing 1-11.
The Houston Cougars bring a 12-
6 record to the Coliseum and hope
to improve their 4-3 SWC mark. UH
was upset by Southern Methodist
University last Saturday 81-75.
The game will be televised region
ally by Home Sports Entertainment.
A&M coach Kermit Davis Jr. is
well aware of the team’s problems
this season.
“Nobody likes getting beat, no
body likes losing,” Davis said. “No
body on our staff, nobody on our
team has accepted losing, that’s part
of the trials and tribulations of get
ting something going.”
A&M’s last win came twp weeks
ago, when they rolled over noncon
ference opponent Centenary 103-82
in College Station.
The Aggies have been defeated by
more than 20 points in each of their
last two meetings against SWC teams
in the last week.
Davis said opponents see A&M as
an easy target.
“When you have a lack of size and
a lack of depth, no matter what, de
fensively you get taken advantage
of,” he said. “When you’re not win
ning a lot of games, teams feel more
confident playing against you.”
Davis said he plans to take advan
tage of cheap baskets against the
Cougars, or slow down UH by run
ning time off the clock.
“The way we have to play Hous
ton, you’ve got to either score in the
first 10 seconds of the (shot) clock,
or the last 15 seconds,” he said. “A-
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A&M guard Brooks Thompson, who scored a career-high 22 points against Rice on Saturday, and
the rest of the Aggies play the Houston Cougars tonight in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
nything between that is not a good
shot for us.”
Davis also said A&M rebounding
is critical to the Aggies’ chances of
upsetting Houston.
The Cougars boast one of the top
rebounding tandems in the confer
ence.
Alvaro Teheran, UH’s 7-1 center,
posts up for more than nine re
bounds a game, while 6-5 forward
Darrell Mickens pulls down a 9.2 av
erage.
The Cougars leading scorer is By
ron Smith, who is averaging more
than 18 points a game.
The Aggies are lead by Lynn
Suber, with 14.4 points a game.
Houston has won seven ot the last
eight meetings against A&M, includ
ing both contests last season. A&M
last victory over the Cougars was in
the 1989 SWC Postseason Classic.
Davis said he believes tonight’s
game will be decided in the first five
minutes.
The Aggies are 3-4 at home.
Legendary Gridder Grange dies of pneumonia
LAKE WALES, Fla. v (AP) — Red
Grange, football’s “Galloping Ghost”
whose blazing speed catapulted the
game to front-page headlines, died
Monday at a Lake Wales hospital af
ter a lengthy illness. He was 87.
Grange, who had been hospital
ized since July and on the critical list
for a week, died of complications
from pneumonia about 4 a.m.
, After a sensational career at Illi
nois ended in 1925, Grange signed a
contract with the Chicago Bears. His
impact was immediate.
On Thanksgiving Day, a crowd of
36,000, then a record for a pro foot
ball game, packed Wrigley Field to
watch the Bears play a scoreless tie
with the Chicago Cardinals.
With Grange the drawing card,
the Bears went on a 12-day, eight-
city barnstorming tour. The Bears
drew 73,000 to the Polo Grounds for
a game against the New York Giants,
a turnout that did much to save the
financially troubled New York fran
chise. Another 75,000 turned out in
the Los Angeles Coliseum to watch
the Bears play the Los Angeles Ti
gers.
A glimpse of the future was pro
vided when, before the 1926 season,
his agent demanded a five-figure
salary and one-third ownership of
the Bears on the threat of Grange
holding out.
Bears owner George Halas re
fused the demand, and Grange’s ap
peal was such that he was able to
field a nine-team American Football
League to challenge the NFL. The
rival league lasted a year.
Grange finished up his pro career
with the Bears. He spent 13 years as
player, coach and promoter of pro
football and was a charter member
of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
He wound up his playing days in
1934 with the Bears, finishing his ca
reer as a pass receiver and defensive
back. Grange scored 56 touchdowns
in his pro career.
Grange, nicknamed “Red” in his
younger days for his hair color,
made his jersey number “77” famous
during the years 1923-25 at Illinois.
Rebels’ stronghold
on No. 1 loosening
Associated Press
UNLV continues unbeaten,
but the Runnin’ Rebels’ domi
nance is no longer unquestioned.
For the first time in four weeks
UNLV (15-0) failed to get all 64
first-place votes in weekly poll of
sports writers and broadcasters.
Arkansas remained in the No.
2 position after victories over
Texas A&M and Baylor.
In other Southwest Confer
ence news the Texas Longhorns
UNLV
were hoping to jump into the
Top 25, but the team failed to
even come close.
Seton Hall, the No.25 team, re
ceived 161 votes while Texas
could only manage 21 after victo
ries over Texas Tech and Texas
Christian.
In the poll released Monday,
two voters picked Ohio State as
No. 1. The Buckeyes moved from
fourth to third after beating In
diana and Minnesota last week.
Ohio State (17-0) was one of
four teams in last week’s Top 10
which did not lose.
The others were UNLV, a win
ner over UC-Santa Barbara and
Louisville; Arkansas and St.
John’s, which jumped from No.
10 to fifth with victories over
Connecticut and Villanova.
UNLV, the defending national
champion, is on a 26-game win
ning streak and has been No. 1
for 11 straight weeks. In the latest
poll, the Runnin’ Rebels got 1,598
points, 82 points more than Ar
kansas and 108 more than Ohio
State.
Completing the Top 10 are
No. 4 Indiana, St. John’s, Ari
zona, Duke, Syracuse, North Car
olina and Kentucky. Arizona
dropped to sixth from fifth;
Duke moved from ninth to sev
enth; Syracuse dropped from
sixth to eighth; North Carolina
dropped from No. 7 to No. 9 and
Kentucky dipped from eighth to
10th.
Nebraska (17-2) advanced
three spots to No. 11.
Completing the Top 25 areU-
CLA, Utah, Louisiana State, Vir
ginia, East Tennessee State,
Southern Mississippi, George
town, Pittsburgh, New Mexico
State, Oklahoma, New Orleans,
Georgia Tech, Kansas, Seton
Hall.
Georgia Tech, which also beat
Clemson and North Carolina last
week, returned to the rankings
after having missed four of the
last six weeks. The Yellow Jackets
had been as high as 14th earlier
in the season.
Kansas is in the poll for the
first time this season after being
No. 1 for four weeks last season
and never falling out of the Top
Five. The Jayhawks beat Wichita
State and Colorado last week.
Seton Hall (13-4), which
handed Connecticut its fifth
straight loss on Saturday, re
joined the Top 25 after dropping
out last week.
Connecticut, which was 19th,
dropped from the poll after
matching last season’s loss total
when the Huskies went 31-6 and
fell just short of their first Final
Four.
Michigan State (12-6), which
was 22nd last week and had been
No. 4 in the preseason poll, lost
both games last week and
dropped out, while South Caro
lina (14-5), which had been No.
25, split two games last week but
fell out as well.
Top 25
pod. First-place votes are In parentheses,
foat week's portion and records through
Jen. 27 are listed:
L UNLV (62)1
15-0
2. Arkansas 2
20-1
3. Ohio St. 4
17-0
4, Indiana 3
18-2
5. St. John’s 10
15-2
6. Arizona 5
16-3
7. Duke 9
16-4
8. Syracuse©
17*3
9. North Carolina 7
14-3
10. Kentucky 8
15-3
11. Nebraska 14
17-2
12. UCLA 11
15-4
13. Utah 20
19-1
14. LSU 16
13-4
15. Virginia 18
14-4
16. E. Tennessee St 12
15*2
17. Southern Miss. IS ;
12-2
18. Georgetown 21
12*5' :
19. Pittsburgh 17
15-5
20, New Mexico St. 23
15-2
21. Oklahoma 13
14-5 .
22. New Orleans 24
17-2
23. Georgia Tech
12-5
24. Kansas
13-4
25. Seton Hail
13-4
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