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UA-Birmingham edges A&M
No. 16 Blazers eliminate Ags early from NIT, 71-68
By BRANDON BERRY
Sports Writer
HOUSTON — The Texas
A&M men’s basketball team shot
35 percent the first half. Ala-
bama-Birmingham shot 60. The
Aggies had 13 rebounds and a 50
E ercent free throw average. The
lazers ripped 20 boards and
netted 90 percent of their free
throws.
The game was over at the half,
right? Well, not quite.
UAB senior point guard Steve
Mitchell, and All-American on
most preseason lists, hit four
clutch free throws in the last 18
seconds to lead the No. 16 Blazers
to a 71-68 win over the Aggies in
the first round of the NIT Big
Apple Tournament at the Hous
ton Summit Thursday night.
A&M, down by 16 points at
halftime, 39-23, regrouped
around senior guard Don Mar-
bury’s 22 second half points and
an unexpected appearance by ju
nior forward Winston Crite, who
was supposed to miss the game
with a severely sprained ankle.
“I wasn’t trying to pull a fast
one on anybody, ’ A&M Coach
Shelby Metcalf said. “I had no in
tention of playing Crite as much
as I did...
“Taking the ball game as a
whole, there were some pluses.
We played poorly in the first half.
We didn’t run bur offense, we
didn’t shoot from where we
usually do and so we were out of
position on the rebounds. I think
they were a little tight.
“In the second naif, what you
saw out there from Donnie Mar-
bury (22 points, three steals) was
more of the real Donnie than
what you saw in the first half
(zero points, three fouls). He’s a
real winner. There’s no choke in
him.”
The Aggies fell behind by 20
points early in the second half be
fore mounting a rally that saw
them outscore the Blazers, 34-14,
in a 10-minute period.
During that run, Metcalf was
forced to use 6-foot-7 Mike Clif
ford at the point guard position
because of foul trouble.
“We have not worked Mike at
the point at all,” Metcalf said.
“But he probably ran our offense
better than any of the three peo
ple we tried out there. Mike’s a
steady player.
“The biggest problem with the
Photo by JOHN MAKELY
Texas A&M’s Don Marbury (left) and Jimmie Gilbert (30) battle a
UAB player for a loose ball in the Houston Summit Thursday night.
g with 22 pi
the second half. UAB plays Dune in the NIT regional final Sunday
oints, all of which came in
Texas A&M basketball team right
now is depth, and we’ve got to
keep working at it. David
Thompson (10 points, six re
bounds) was a plus. He’s got some
talent, and he could start for us
before the year is over.”
The Aggies tied the score at
56-56 with 5:25 remaining, but
two back-to-back three-point
clock
plays by UAB forward Jerome
Mincy, who finished with 16
points, put A&M back into a hole
it never climbed out of.
Mincy’s second three point
play came on a controversial foul
off a controversial goal tend by
Crite.
“That goal tending call, well, I
just don’t know,” Metcalf said.
“Maybe that ball would have hit
the bottom of the rim, rolled over
and clanged through, but I doubt
it.”
The Aggies, with the
working against them, were
forced to foul Mitchell, who fin
ished with a game-high 24 points.
The rest was as easy as 1-2-3-4.
“That Mitchell was just as good
as he was advertised,” Metcalf
said. “If he has aspiration of play
ing after college, then Texas
A&M sure helped him.
“But we lost this game in the
paint. Down the stretch we just let
them get the inside position. We
fouled their players and we were
lucky enough to have them miss
some, but then we didn’t get the
rebounds. We just didn’t make
the plays or get the breaks.”
Maroury, the Aggies’ leading
scorer last season, agreed.
“I don’t think we were too far
behind to win it,” he said. “We
came back. We just didn’t get the
breaks at the end. I came out in
the second half and played my
heart out. They beat us — there's
not much 1 can say. We did prove
tonight we can play with anybody
in the country.”
UAB Coach Gene Bartow said
of Aggies:
“They've got some players who
could plav for anybody in the
country. We’re really nappy to
get that one behind us. It was just
a phenomenal game by Don Mar-
bury down the stretch, but we
played a near llawless first half.
That was enough to get us over
the hump.”
For the game, the Blazers hit
50 percent of their shots from the
field, almost all of which came via
medium or long range jump
shots. UAB also hit 76 percent of
their free throws and outre-
bounded A&M, 34-32.
A&M shot only 45 percent
from the field and 61 percent
from the line for the game.
“We’ve got to start taking our
free throws more seriously in
practice,” said Marbury, who
missed four of his eight attempts.
“They were probably the differ
ence out there.”
So after the smoke cleared un
derneath the boards, where do
the Blazers and Aggies stand?
“It would have been disap
pointing if we would have lost to
night, but we could’ve handled
it, Bartow said. “We’ve got a
team that’s won 48 games over
the last two years.”
The Aggies, meanwhile, travel
back up Highway 6 with their vi
sions of an early season upset de
flated.
“It’s a loss, but you can find
some good things in a loss, Met
calf said.
A&M swimmers to host LSU in dual match
By KEN SURY
Sports Writer
Although injuries and sickness
nougn injuries
have sidelined three Texas A&M
swimmers, the Aggie men’s and
women’s swim teams will host Loui
siana State today at 5 p.m. in a dual
meet at the P.L. Downs Natatorium.
A&M women swimmers Meegan
Wright, Britt Hoefs and Kelley
Johnston will not see action against
LSU.
A&M Head Swimming Coach Mel
Nash said that Wright will be out
about three weeks after she has sur-
to repair torn knee ligaments,
loefs is hampered by a recent ill
ness and Jonnston dislocated a
shoulder in A&M’s Nov. 9 meet
against Southern Methodist in Dal
las.
That leaves the Aggie women’s
team with only five swimmers and
diver Terri Hurley.
“There’s no way we can win (the
women’s meet against LSU with so
few swimmers),” Nash said.
Nash sais the only bright spot is
that the injuries and sicknesses are
occurring now instead of in the
spring when the Aggies compete
against Southwest Conference oppo
nents and prepare for the NCA/
Championsmps
prepare for the NCAA
nips.
ipio
A&M assistant coach Tracy
Johnston said the men’s contest
should be close.
“LSU has practically a brand-new
squad — lots of freshmen and soph
omores,” Johnston said. “But they’re
swimming very well so far this se
mester. T ney upset Nebraska, which
was ranked in the Top 20 and has
beaten some good teams and re
corded some fast times. On paper, it
looks like a very even match, it’s just
going to be who’s swimming hot that
day.
‘We know LSU is going to come
in here looking for the upset and I
wouldn’t even call it an upset, be
cause they're very goon. They
should be ranked, but the polls don^t
say anything when you’ve only had
one ranking and tnat was
son.”
“So we’re going into the meet 16
points to zero. T hat’s hard to make
up since you only need 56 points to
win the meet. That’s a big deficit to
make up. But we feel that we can do,
it and we’re planning on doing it. So
? now they
we’ll just see how they respond
presea-
Johnston said the A&M men are
looking to challenge LSU, but they’ll
be at a disadvantage.
“We don’t have any divers for the
diving competition,” Johnston said.
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