Sports
SECTION
THE BATTALION
Thursday, March 7, 2002
SPORTS IN BRIEF
i’s Big 12
tournament
Kansas City, Mo.
Thursday's games
JNo. 9 Colorado vs. No. 8
Nebraska, noon
■No. 12 Texas A&M vs. No. 5
Texas Tech, 2:20 p.m.
■No. 10 Baylor vs. No. 7
Kansas City, 6 p.m.
■No. 11 Iowa State vs. No. 6
Missouri, 8:35 p.m.
10 Aggies take
part in Pro Day
The Texas A&M football
team hosted more than 30
NFL personnel, representing
every team in the league
Wednesday, for its annual
fro Day.
■ Ten seniors participated
in the annual event, includ
ing Wes Bautovich, Rocky
Bernard, Jay Brooks, Mickey
Jones, Seth McKinney,
■arold Robertson, Christian
Rodriguez and Amon
Simon. Walk-on Heath
■arper and Twelfth Man
Robert Jordan also were on
hand.
aggies finish
seventh in S.C.
■ The Texas A&M men's golf
team finished the Coastal
Carolina University Invitational
seventh place.
■ As a team, the Aggies
recorded rounds of 290-306-
296=892. Washington State
won the team crown with a
three-day total of 289-292-
?S0=861.
Aggies face Red Raiders in round one
A&M still in search of first
Big 12 tournament victory
By True Brown
THE BATTALION
For the Texas A&M men’s basketball
team, this season has been one to forget.
Boosted preseason expectations and a
5-1 start had Aggie fans talking in
November about a berth in the NIT tour
nament or even the NCAAs.
A loss to Miami on Dec. 9 brought
A&M back to earth, and it won only one
game in the next 40 days while its record
plummeted to 6-11.
There is still something the Aggies
can take from this season, however,
when they play Texas Tech today at
2:20 p.m. in round one of the Big 12
tournament.
A win over the Red Raiders (21-7,
10-6 Big 12) would give A&M its first-
ever win in a Big 12 tournament game.
The Aggies (9-21, 3-13) have not won a
conference tournament game since
reaching the championship game of the
Southwest Conference Classic in 1994.
That mark includes an 0-5 showing in
the Big 12 tournament.
“The team that we have on the floor,
there are moments we play as good as
any team in the Big 12,” said A&M head
coach Melvin Watkins. “We just don’t
seem to be consistent. Some of it is that
fatinue is probably setting in a little bit,
and so we’ve got to try to lift our spirits
in the tournament. ’
The Red Raiders have had A&M’s
number this season, sweeping A&M by
winning in College Station and
Lubbock. Tech edged the Aggies by
three points Jan. 9 at Reed Arena, a game
that was close from tipoff to the final
buzzer, complete with 16 lead changes.
“You look at the tapes from that game
and see some shortcomings,” Watkins
said. “I felt like it wasn’t so much what
Tech did but what we did to ourselves. If
we can clean those things up and do the
good things again, we can feel like we’ve
got a chance to win this ball game.”
Sophomore center Andy Slocum
broke his hand on Jan. 9 and missed
more than a month of play but has been
hot recently. Since returning, Slocum
has averaged 8.7 rebounds per game,
including a double-double against
Nebraska on Feb. 20.
See Search on page 3B
JOHN LIVAS • THE BATTALION
Texas A&M sophomore forward Jesse King finishes a dunk against Colorado on Feb. 26.
The Aggies open the Big 12 tournament Tuesday at noon against Texas Tech.
Williams edges Knight for coach of the year award
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)
— A disheartened Roy
Williams came home one night
and told his wife it was time to
start thinking about getting out
of college coaching.
He was tired of the recruiting
rat race, weary of megalomani-
cal high school stars, sick of
greedy parents interested not so
much in an education for their
kids as getting them to the NBA.
“I got home one night and told
Wanda maybe it was time to take
another look at some of those
other job offers,” said the popular
University of Kansas coach.
But then came salvation in
the form of three kids named
Drew Gooden. Kirk Hinrich and
Nick Collison. Suddenly, his
job fun again, Williams was
reinvigorated and ready to give
all his energy to the challenge.
Those three had reminded
him that there really were lov
ing parents and good kids out
there, and some of them could
even play lights-out basketball.
All three signed with the
Jayhawks. Now, three years later,
they are the key components of
what is probably Williams’ best
team in 14 years at Kansas.
The Jayhawks are ranked
No. 1 in the nation, coming off
the first unbeaten conference
season in Big 12 history (16-0)
and certain to be a No. 1 seed in
the NCAA tourney.
And Williams is The
Associated Press Big 12 coach
of the year. In balloting by 24
media representatives, he edged
out Bob Knight, the former
Indiana coach who in just one
season has turned Texas Tech
(21 -7, 10-6 Big 12) from a loser
into a winner.
“I’m extremely flattered,”
said Williams, whose Jayhawks
are 27-2 overall heading into
See Coach on page 3B
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