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ever followed women's basketball
at all, until my job led me to get
involved this season.
And now that I finally am
looking forward to the two big
tournaments this weekend in Dal
las, I can barely even watch them
because of the all-mighty dollar's
rearing its ugly head one more
time.
You see, back in January, my
roommate and I canceled our ca
ble TV service in an effort to raise
our GPRs, two numbers that
when added together, approach
that elusive 4.0 mark.
Since then, my sports viewing
on TV has consisted solely of
events that take place on Channel
3. Without plunking down my
$23.33 a month to TCA Cable, all I
have watched in the last two
months are the Winter Olympics
and every once in a while, a bad
college basketball game.
So when I saw that both the
men's and women's tournaments
fell on the first weekend of Spring
Break, I thought, "Fantastic, I can
watch the tourney from the com
fort of my parents' sofa on their
monster 32 inch TV."
But when I checked the local
listings for Houston in my TV
book this past weekend, I moved
from being surprised to dismayed
to downright PO'ed.
Out of a grand total of 14
games (men's and women's tour
naments combined), I will have
the pleasure of watching exactly
two of them. Channel 39 in Hous
ton is televising both men's semi
final games on Friday night, and
that's it on regular old TV.
Home Sports Entertainment
has grabbed the entire women's
tournament. On Saturday, the
men's final is being broadcast on
ESPN.
Cable television "plus" big
money "equals" the bane of all
low-budget sports fans.
Over the course of the 1993-94
season, I went to 20 basketball
games, 19 at G. Rollie White Coli
seum, and one at the Erwin Cen
ter in Austin, and I was able to
witness the stars of the SWC, men
and women who can do truly
amazing things on a basketball
court.
There's B. J. Tyler, senior guard
from the University of Texas who
is being pegged as a first-rounder
in the upcoming NBA draft. On
the women's side for UT is the
phenomenal freshman Danielle
Vigilone, who average 21.2 points
per game, and canned an unbe
lievable 11 three-pointers in a
game earlier this year.
When A&M's Highway 6 rival
Baylor came calling, I was intro
duced to Jerome Lambert, the
NCAA's leading rebounder, and
Mary Lowry, the women's scoring
leader this season. Lowry, in only
her sophomore"season, set the
SWC record for scoring last
month, when she threw in 54 as
the Lady Bears upset the Lady
Longhorns.
Back in January, I witnessed
the birth of a rivalry between the
12th Man at G. Rollie White and
Texas Christian's center Kurt
Thomas.
Thomas, a showman to the
end, egged the crowd on every
time they horse-laughed his er
rant shots or fouls of frustration in
the paint against A&M's Joe
Wilbert.
Thomas took bows every time
he hit a free throw, but the crowd
got the last laugh as he fouled out
midway through the second half,
and the Aggies pulled away with
the victory .
And of course, there has been
the emergence of two contenders
over at G. Rollie White this sea
son.
Accolades awarded by the two
Houston-area papers have both
bestowed SWC Coach of the Year
honors on both Tony Barone and
Lynn Hickey.
On three all-conference teams
named so far, point guards David
Edwards and Lisa Branch have
both made the first team, with
Branch being named league MVP
and Outstanding Defensive Play
er by the Houston Post.
After deciding to turn my neg
ative feelings toward cable TV
into something positive, I began
to concoct a plan to be somewhere
where I could relax and watch the
tournaments.
My first plan was obvious. I'd
go to a sports bar. Then, I remem
bered that I was going to be in
— ^ a
Houston this weekend, andtha!;!
sports bars in big cities are not the 1
most inexpensive or the most hos
pitable places. Sure, I'd nursea
Coke that cost me $4.50 for eigh:
hours.
My second plan was to find;
relative of mine who has cable
and go spend some quality time
over art their house for oh, say II
or 16 hours.
This plan bothered me from
the beginning , however, because
of my moral standings. I may
schmooze money and food off my
family, but hey, 1 have to draw the
line somewhere.
So I'm left to scan my dad's9/- I
band radio far into the night, ir I
hopes of hearing a friendly, "Big I
Money' for two, and he's fouled!!. 1 |
Strange, I'll be rooting for "Big I
Money" to bring home the chain- I
pionship while I'm cursing the big 1 I
money for taking the game away I
from me.
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Tournament suffers loss of support
The Associated Press
DALLAS — The Southwest
Conference postseason men's
tournament tipped off Thursday
with more questions than an
swers about its future, making it
realistic that the 19th tournament
could be the last.
Attendance has deteriorated
since Arkansas left the SWC in
1991 and interest may be drop
ping even faster with Texas,
Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Bay
lor headed for the Big Eight.
“We've got to evaluate it/' said
Bill Foster, the SWC's assistant
commissioner in charge of men's
basketball. “When we finish an
event like this, we put together a
whole report and look at every
thing."
A study detailing the confer
ence's past will be turned over to
league athletic directors at their
spring meetings May 23-27 in
Colorado, said assistant commis
sioner Britton Banowsky.
A factor in any decision will be
this weekend's attendance, which
got off to an underwhelming start
Thursday as only around 5,000
people came to Reunion Arena for
the first two quarterfinal games.
“1 just wish we had more peo
ple," Foster said. “Pre-sales were
pretty good, but we need help
with walk-ups. We have every in
dication that Friday and Saturday
will be better."
No matter how many people
show up this year, there can't be a
Southwest Conference Classic if
there's no SWC, something that's
a long shot but could happen.
"Is the league going to be in
existence? I think that s a ques
tion," Foster said. "There's every
indication that it will be, but I
don't know for sure."
While the Big Eight-bound
schools are committed to SWC
football through 1995-96, the bas
ketball teams aren't because their
schedules are mostly set year-by
year.
If the league remains, the 1995
Classic again will be in Reunion
and sponsored by Dr Pepper.
But neither is signed up for
1996, meaning a 21st Classic is far
from a sure thing.
The biggest reason to keep the
Classic is the automatic NCAA
tournament bid that goes to the
winner. It also-allows other teams
to improve their chances for at-
large bids into the NCAA or NIT.
"If I were every coach here, IV
want to keep it," said Foster, wb
coached Duke to the NCAA tilk
game in 1978.
Problems have been on the
horizon for the Classic since 1991,
when Arkansas won it for the
third straight time in its final ap
pearance.
When the Razorbacks left, they
took with them a large chunk of
Classic fans. So many Hog back
ers used to fill Reunion that it was
nicknamed "Barnhill South" in
honor of their former home in
Fayetteville, Ark.
Since Arkansas fans took their
RVs to the Southeastern Confer
ence, championship game atten
dance has fallen from a sellout of
16,713 in 1991 to 11,156 in 1992
and 11,525 last season.
There was a time when the
Classic was a drawing card, back
when Hakeem Olajuwon and
Clyde Drexler powered Hous
ton's Phi Slamma Jamma.
Texas Tech continues winning streak,
to face A&M in heated rematch
Tennis
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The Associated Press
DALLAS — The firepower of
Mark Davis, Jason Sasser and
Lance Hughes carried the streak
ing Texas Tech Red Raiders to a
110-86 victory over the Houston
Cougars Thursday in the quarter
finals of the Southwest Conference
basketball tournament.
Tech plays Texas A&M in the
semifinals on Friday night at Re
union Arena.
It was the seventh consecutive
victory for Tech, 17-10, which fin
ished in a tie for second-place in
the SWC regular season. Houston
finished the season at 8-19. Tech is
the defending tournament cham
pion.
Davis hit 15 of 19 free throws
and was 6 of 9 from the field as he
scored 27 points. Hughes had 24
and Sasser added 23.
The 15 free throws set a new
tournament record.
step in at No. 6," Kleinecke said.
On this day, the Aggies used
their depth in the doubles to
move ahead of the Bears. After
a victory by Nancy Dingwall
and Wilson Pate, Lonna Logan
and Julie Beahm finished off
Baylor with a third-set 6-0 victo-
ry.
The Aggies will host the Uni
versity of Tennessee at 1:30 p.m.
Sunday at the Omar Smith Ten
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