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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.
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The Texas A&M Hockey Team will tangle with Southern Methodist
University in Houston this weekend at the Sharpstown Mall Ice Rink.
Games are scheduled for Friday and Saturday at midnight.
The Aggies head into the series with a record of 3-2, while the Mus
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