3 e^y^ca-^r^g* 15% DISCOUNT 3 with current A&M I.D. (repairs hot included) Use your student discount to purchase diamond for your class ring. (and let us set it for you) 8 8 3 & DOUGLAS JEWELRY 9 Culpepper Plaza College Station 693-0677 212 N. Main Bryan 822-3119 Page 10/The Battalion/Wednesday, February 27, 1985 CURIOUS ABOUT MSC CAMAC ? whats up: • Hispanic film scries • studcnt/facult luncheon art exhibit fajita cookout Gen. Meeting Feb.27 7p.m. Rudder 504 CasaOle MEXICAN RESTAURAhTT Post Oak Mall Thursday Only! with student, faculty, or staff I.D. Fajitas for 2 for only $10.95! not qood with any other offer <5 / z-zs-S!/. void with anyo+her .special oFFfer Ags hover over sacrificial ‘Lamb tan Photo by TONY CASPER Texas A&M forward Lisa Langston (14) makes an easy layup against Texas last Wednesday. The Aggies (12-13, 5-9 in SWC) are hoping for a lot of easy layups when they take on Houston (20-6, 10-4) tonight at 4:30 in Hofheinz Pavilion. St. John's, Georgtown: the game means little Associated Press NEW YORK — In reality, Wednesday night’s game between St. John’s and Georgetown is little more than a prelude to bigger things. Yet it is being treated here as the biggest thing to nit New York since that big ape climbed that big building. The game will decide little. Oh, the top of the The Associated Press poll could be altered. The seedings in the Big East Conference tourna ment could be affected, too, and perhaps the national championship tournament as well. But this is actually only the second half of the teams’ home-and-home schedule. Barring an upset, they will be playing each other again in a cou ple of weeks in the Big East championship game. And they have their sights set on the Final Four in Lexington, Ky., where they could meet yet again, converging in the na tional tournament’s climax from dif ferent regions. Nevertheless, St. John’s is No. 1, Georgetown is No. 2 and they are playing a game in the media capital of the world. And that alone is enough to stir the interest of even the casual fan. The 19,500 seats in Madison Square Garden, still the mecca for college basketball, have been sold out since December. No wonder that, depending on the rumor of the moment, the top ticket, $12.50, is f oing for anywhere from $300 to 500. The game is considered to be the Garden’s biggest since Willis Reed limped out of the locker room on May 8, 1970, and electrified his tea mmates and the crowd with baskets on his first two (and only) shots to spark the New York Knicks to a 113- 99 victory over Wilt Chamberlain and the Los Angeles Lakers for the National Bssketball Association championship. Meetings between the nation’s top two teams are not a rarity. It has al ready happened this season. Early in the season, when Georgetown was still the picture of invincibility, the top-ranked Hoyas routed second- ranked DePaul 77-57. And just two years ago, when North Carolina and Virginia stood 1-2 in both the nation and the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Tar Heels eked out a 64-63 vic tory. By CHAREAN WILLIAMS Assistant Sports Editor The Texas A&M women’s basket ball team seems to be finally catching on to Coach Lynn Hickey’s style of Play- The Aggies have come to life in the last two weeks and seem to be re ady to challenge almost dny team in the Southwest Conference. Against No. 19 Texas Tech Satur day, the Ags almost pulled a major upset before falling 77-69. Hickey said her Aggies finally come to gether. “If they’re the No. 19 team in the country, mavbe we don’t have as far to go as we tnought,” said Hickey af ter the game. The Aggie Ladies will get a chance to advance even higher on Hickey’s totem pole when they take on Houston at Hofheinz Pavilion Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. The first time the teams met, the encounter was a pleasant one for the Aggies. The Cougars fell asleep early and slept through the entire contest like a ‘ Lamb’’ — Coog center Monica Lamb that is. they face. Lamb is third in the nation in held goal percentage at 66.1 wi cent. Watkins had 22 points ana |j rebounds against A&M last year, “You have to front Monica,’ Hickey said. “However, Watkinshaj been playing well. She plants on the weak side and goes in for Lamb's misses. They get the boards. Thai's the way they’ve been scoring. Von can’t ignore Watkins. She male Lamb look even better:” The Cougars biggest problem has been their ball handling. Houstons guards make more turnovers that Betty Crocker. “You have to cause them to malt mistakes,” Hickey said. “Consisteno is their big question mark. The) don’t have the real strong guardi; We will put pressure on them ami we will play a zone. “We’ve got to cut off the inside, but on the other hand we’ve gotlo f >ut pressure on the outside and orce the turnovers.” “Amen,” said Hickey, when asked if the Cougars would be awake this time. “They will be ready. So, we have to be ready for them. We have to be alert.” Hickey said that strategy worked well last time and hopes it wont backfire this time around. What makes A&M’s task even tougher is the fact that Houston has been the hottest team in the SWC la tely. “They beat Tech and Arkansas,” Hickey said. “They are really on a roll. They have perhaps the best tal ent of any team in the conference. They have good size and quickness." “That game plan worked laa time, whether it will this timeornot, I don’t know,” Hickey said. “Wearc keeping our fingers crossed. "We will have a different lookon offense to get the outside open. We also worked on going to a 2-3 zone, fhere are a couple of things we might experiment with." The size comes from Houston’s ‘other” twin towers. Lamb, a 6-foot-5 pmE and 6-1 forward Sonya W’atkins provide havoc inside the paint for every team The whole season has been ok big experiment for the Aggies. For- 10 tunately for A&M, the Aggies have | 0 finally come up with a winning for mula. That formula will be put to the test tonight. Adding to the drama of Wednes day night’s get-together is the pros pect of anouier showdown between two of college basketball’s premier players — Chris Mullin, the 6-foot-6 guard for the Redmen, and 7-foot center Patrick Ewing of the Hoyas. In their first game, when St. John’s held on for a 66-65 victory at the Capital Centre in Landover, Md., Mullin had 20 points and eight rebounds, while Ewing, his shooting chopped down by St. John’s sagging defense, scored nine points and grabbed 15 robounds. But these personal confronta tions, too, have precedence. On Jan. 20, 1968, Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jab- bar) of UCLA faced Elvin Hayes of Houston in the Astrodome in what has long been considered one of the great showdowns. Texas A&M Sportscope A&M baseball team hosts OCU Mark Johnson’s Texas A&M baseball team (4-0) hosts Oklahoma Cit) 1 University (0-6) in the final game of a three-game series Wednesday ati p.m. at Olsen Field. A&M cagers travel to Houston Both the Texas A&M men’s and women’s basketball teams will make their last regular season road trip against the University of Houston Wednesday night. A&M women (12-13, 5-6 in SWC) vs. Houston (20-6, 10-4 in SWC) Hofheinz Pavilion — 4:30 p.m. A&M men (16-9, 8-6 in SWC) vs. Houston (15-11,7-7 in SWC) Hofheinz Pavilion — 7:30 p.m. Ag men’s tennis team at home against WSTU David Kent’s No. 9 A&M men’s tennis tearp (7-1) will host West Texas State University of the Missouri Valley Conference in a dual match Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Omar Smith Tennis Center. TAMU Rifle Team qualifies for nationals The Texas A&M Rifle Team has recently been confirmed as the only non-scholarship team to qualify for the NCAA nationals to be held in West Point, N.Y., March 8-10. Out of 124 Division I teams eligible, only eight qualified for the field. A&M will send the four-man team of Eric Uptagrafft, David Edmond son, Chris Fedun and Kevin Schabacker to blew York for the competi tion. Uptagrafft will compete for indivudal honors in the air rifle and small oore three-position rifle events, along with Edmundson, who also qualified in small oore, 22-caliber rifle event. Lc in TUG State, s games c atop th< ball pol climbed place. Mian but Ah; tioned i place la 19-3 st winner* includii last wei State, 7 team, a< Flori fourth klaho from ft enth, 1 remain and F)< to 10th SCHULI Aggie Hockey Team to battle SMU The Texas A&M Hockey Team will tangle with Southern Methodist University in Houston this weekend at the Sharpstown Mall Ice Rink. 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