A&M in desperate need of win
Aggies' Holloway says SWC race far from over
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By CHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Sports Editor
The way Texas A&M guard Todd
Holloway sees things, the Southwest
Conference race isn’t over. And if
the other teams are counting the Ag
gies out, they could be in trouble.
A&M’s two straight losses
dropped it a game and a half behind
SWC leaders TCU and Texas. But
since TCU still has SMU and Texas
on its schedule, the Aggies’ (14-9
overall, 8-3 SWC) game against the
Longhorns (15-9, 10-2) Saturday
night at 7:30 in Austin’s Frank Er
win Center is important.
“We’ve been hurt because we lost
those two games in a row (to SMU
and TCU),” Holloway said. “But I’ve
been on this team 2 3 /4 years and I
know we’ve always fought back.
“We’re not out of it. It might be
hard for us to win it, but we’ll try to
win the rest of our games and hope
someone will help us out.”
The 6-foot junior is averaging
10.3 points and 4.5 assists per game.
But Holloway would probably rather
forget the last two games.
“I haven’t been playing as well la
tely as I was earlier in the season,”
Holloway said. “I think I’m just fa
tigued. I want to be out there so
much, it’s hurting me rather than
helping me.”
In the 58-56 loss to the Mustangs,
Holloway missed the front end of a
“We have to beat Texas to
stay in the conference
race. If we get our heads
together, we’ll be alright.
If I know these guys and
myself, we’ll make a race
out of this thing before it’s
over.” — A&M guard
Todd Holloway
one-and-one that would have tied
the game with two seconds left.
He followed that with a 0-for-6
shooting night in Wednesday’s 70-53
loss to the Horned Frogs.
“I was pleased up until the last two
games,” Holloway said. “(Against
TCU,) I just wasn’t scoring. We all
missed some easy shots we should
have made, then we got a few bad
calls and got frustrated. Nothing
went right.”
But two bad games and a few bad
calls aren’t all that’s gone wrong for
Holloway this season. On Jan. 16,
Holloway and teammate Don Mar-
bury were arrested for possession of
marijuana and will be arraigned in
March.
“The only thing I’m worried
about right now is beating Texas and
going to school,” Holloway said.
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But in order to beat the 'Horns,
the Aggies will have to do something
they ciidn’t do against TCU — shoot
over a zone defense.
The Horned Frogs surprised
A&M with a zone Wednesday and it
had the Aggies running in circles all
night. Holloway said the Ags can ex
pect to see a zone the rest of the sea
son.
“In order for us to win, we have to
play better against the zone," Hollo
way said. “We have to take better
shots. I thought (TCU) would play a
man (defense) to tell you the truth. I
don’t play well against a zone any
way. We’ll be prepared for it now
though.”
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fenses, the Aggies zipped through
the first half of the SWC schedule
with hardly a scratch
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Lady Ags gunning for No. 1 Longhorns
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A&M’s Don Marbury tries to get the ball up court against SMU last
week. A&M will try to break a two-game skid in Austin Saturday.
By DOUG HALL
Sports Writer
Texas A&M Women’s Basketball Coach Lynn
Hickey said undefeated and No. 1-ranked Texas
is bound to lose sooner or later.
The question is, “To who?”
The 14-9 Lady Aggies hope to answer that
query Saturday at 1:30 p.m. when they travel to
Austin’s Frank Erwin Center to play the 22-0
Lady Longhorns.
“Our advantage is that they’re going to get beat
sometime,” Hickey said. “You just don’t play that
many games and not lose. It’s going to happen
sometime. Maybe it’s our turn.”
However, Hickey knows that beating the top-
ranked team in the nation will not be an easy task,
especially on their home court.
“They (Texas) are going to be much tougher
on their home court,” Hickey said. “We have to go
in loose, relaxed and ready to challenge them. We
have nothing to lose.”
The Lady Longhorns, on the other hand, have
everything to lose, but plenty of weapons to keep
the Aggies from tarnishing their perfect record.
Prior to Wednesday’s 77-45 victory over Bay
lor, Texas led the SWC in team field-goal accu-
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that there were just too many times where wep:I
burned last time (in Texas’ 73-59 victory alt
Rollie White Coliseum),” Hickey said.
Hickey went on to say that although she hope;
the Lady Ags can upset the Lady Longhorns.sht
realizes her squad is not yet of the same calibeni|
a nationally-ranked team.
“We’re still two players away,” Hickey said."Wt
need a strong power forward and a shoomf:
guard.”
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