And now on to basketball.
With one starter and a couple of guys who got playing time last season back, most teams would be in a serious rebuilding mode.
But Rick Cooper has gotten his rebuilt West Texas A&M team out of the gate with four wins in five games.
The Buffs got a shot in the arm Saturday with a come-from-behind 77-76 win over a good South Dakota team. WT led only once until going ahead late in the game. USD kept answering Buffs buckets, then took a one-point lead with 14.5 seconds to go. WT scrambled downcourt but somehow got the ball to the open man, Nick Burns, who hit a jump shot with 0.07 seconds to play for the win.
As usual, WT won with a lot of hustle and 3-pointers at the right time. Cooper's teams do that, which is why in his 16th season at WT he's one win away from No. 300. He's averaging right at 20 wins a year. He passed career 450 wins in the Buffs' previous victory.
As players have come and gone, Cooper has been a constant.
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Would love to see the Buffs try playing some games back in the Amarillo Civic Center...to see if we can get game attendance up.
It's an absolute guarantee that playing in Amarillo would get a lot more folks in the seats to see the Buffs play...and also make a lot more money than a small crowd in Canyon.
Let's see what we can do about that...
Because everyone including fans and coaches and players and alumni and the university would benefit from playing in front of bigger basketball crowds in Amarillo.
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