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Experience shortage
worries A&M’s Hickey
'85 schedule
toughest ever
for Lady Ags
By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer
They can run. They can jump.
They can play defense. They can re
bound.
One player was even nominated
for homecoming queen.
In fact, the 1985-86 Texas A&M
women’s basketball team has a little
bit of everything.
“The only thing we’re missing is
experience,” A&M Coach Lynn
Hickey said. “I believe we have
brought a caliber of athlete to the
Aggie women’s basketball program
that people have not seen before on
this campus.”
Only four players from last sea
son’s 14-14 squad were seen in G.
Rollie White Coliseum last week.
Hickey and assistant coaches Ei
leen Feeney and Shelly Hughes
brought in four junior college trans
fers and six freshmen to fill the va
cant spots on the squad. Two walk-
ons add the finishing touches to the
roster.
So how can 12 newcomers and
four holdovers compete with the
likes of Texas Tech, Houston, Ar
kansas and the nation’s preseason
No. 1, Texas?
“Anytime you bring in this many
new people, you’re going to have
problems,” Hickey said. “That’s why
I believe this team won’t begin really
showing itself until late January or
early February, when the (South
west) Conference games start. We
should have a better idea about this
team then.”
Feeney and Hughes were a little
less reserved concerning the pros
pects of their proteges.
“The potential of these girls is way
up there,” Hughes said. “I can’t
think of another team in the confer
ence, except Texas, that has as many
really good athletes.
“The best thing about these girls is
that they’re all winners. They were
all-stars on state championship
ar in junior col-
teams in high school or in junior i
lege. They will do anything to win.”
Hickey conceded, “I’d be crazy if I
didn’t admit that we will have a
much better team than last year. But
these kids are so young that they
don’t know what they’re going to be
up against. Sometimes, they don’t
jump or play physically on the
boards because they’re so used to be
ing so much bigger and stronger
than everyone they play against.
“They don’t realize that everyone
they’re going to be playing against is
just the same as they are.”
With the toughest non-conference
schedule in the program’s history,
the Lady Aggies can only hope to be
the same as most of their early sea
son opponents.
The Aggies open their season on
the road Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Na
cogdoches, against a dangerous Ste
phen F. Austin team. On Nov. 29,
A&M begins the Big “O” Tourna
ment in Oregon against UCLA.
They then take to the road in mid-
December for games against nation
ally-ranked Oklahoma, LSU and
Louisiana Tech.
A&M’s five-home game non-con
ference season is highlighted by a
New Year’s Eve encounter with the
Nebraska Cornhuskers.
This season’s non-conference foes
won almost 60 percent of their
games last season.
“I think the preseason schedule is
good for us,” Hickey said. “We
might not have a great won-loss re
cord heading into conference play,
but it will be good for us because we
will have played as tough, if not
tougher, competition than we will
face in the SWC.”
The competition in the SWC has
traditionally been for second place.
Texas has dominated the conference
Photo by JOHN MAKELY
A&M guard Lisa Langston (14) — “You can see a big difference in
this (A&M) team and the ones we’ve had here in the past few years.
These girls are big, but they’re also quick and they can jump. Coach
Hickey recruited them and they’re the type of athlete she likes. ”
since its inception in the early 70s.
And this season looks to be no dif
ferent.
“Looking at the SWC as a whole,
the conference is getting better, and
every year is getting tougher and
tougher,” Hickey said. “Texas may
have the best team they’ve ever had
this season. Texas Tech, Houston
and Arkansas will be tough again,
and Baylor has as many natural ath
letes as anyone and will be able to
compete with anyone.”
The Lady Longhorns lead every
one’s preseason SWC lists because of
tradition, experience and defense.
hope in a brow-beaten conference.
“My philosophy is that no team is
unbeatable,” said A&M’s Lisa Lan
gston, last year’s leading scorer (16.3
ppg) and an All-SWC selection.
“You can see a big difference in this
team and the ones we’ve had here in
the past few years. These girls are
big, but they’re also quick and they
can jump. Coach Hickey recruited
them and they’re the type of athletes
she likes.
“Last year, she came in here in a
bad situation. There was a team with
a lot of seniors that had never won
anything before.
“Texas is so good because of their
defense,” Feeney Said. “No one can
hold up under the defensive pres
sure they put on you for the full 40
minutes. They wear you out because
they have so much depth and they
never quit.
“If Texas has a weakness, it’s their
rebounding. We beat them badly on
the boards last year and that’s always
been a problem for them.”
And one of the few glimmers of
“These new kids are tough. In the
past, I pretty much knew I would be
a starter, but now I can’t make that
assumption. These kids are really
pushing me.”
Hickey concurred, “Every posi
tion is open at this point. I don’t be
lieve anyone has a starting spot sewn
up just yet. There is going to be a
great deal of competition at each po
sition and that will make every
player work harder and will make
each person a better player.”
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