COLLEGE STATION (AP) - Former Texas A&M basketball coach Shelby Metcalf, whose homespun humor often overshadowed his penchant for winning games, died after a long illness. He was 76.

Metcalf died Thursday at a College Station hospital, the university said.

In 27 seasons as coach of the Aggies, Metcalf won a record 239 Southwest Conference games and six league championship - one in his first season in 1963-64. He had a 438-306 record - 239-158 in the SWC - when he left midway through the 1989-90 season.

But his knack for the one-liner will be how many remember him. A tribute to him on A&M