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From Staff and Wire Reports
DALLAS — Texas A&M’s
Winston Crite and Don Marbury
were named to the Southwest
Conference Post-SeasOn Classic’s
all-tournament first team Mon
day, while Aggie center Jimmie
Gilbert was named to the second
team.
Texas Tech’s Tony Benford, a
near-unanimous choice as out-
standing player Men’s
£ fif t h3 Basketball
Red Raiders to the tourney title
Sunday, was the only unanimous
choice.
Benford was named on all 70
ballots, after getting all but two
votes in the outstanding player
balloting.
Crite, who was named to his
third consecutive all-tourney
team, received the second-most
votes with 64. Texas Christian’s
Carl Lott followed with 56, Tech’s
Dwayne Chism, 47, and Marbury,
35.
Eighteen players from five
schools were listed on the ballot
ing — five each from TCU and
A&M, along with four from
Tech, three from Texas and one
from Arkansas.
Joining Gilbert on the second
team were Texas’ John Brownlee,
Tech’s Sean Gay and Ray Irvin
and TCU’s Greg Grissom.
A&M remains minus coach
Hiring freeze puts Aggie volleyball program in limbo
By DOUG HALL
Sports Writer
The Texas A&M volleyball program has been left
with several question marks as a result Of both the de
parture of former Aggie Coach Terry Condon to
UCLA and the A&M Board of Regents’ recently im
posed hiring freeze.
• First — Who will replace Condon, who left A&M
Jan. 24, and when will the Athletic Department an
nounce it?
• Second — Will the Athletic ■ ■ — — ■
Department hire anyone, or will Volleyball
the program dropped as a result
of Gov. Mark White’s ordered budget cuts?
According to Lynn Hickey, A&M’s assistant athletic
director for women, neither question has been an
swered yet.
“I don’t know what we’re going to do right now,”
Hickey said. “There’s not a scare for (eliminating the
volleyball program) right now, but we have been given
directives, like all other departments on campus, to
come up with ways to cut back (spending). So I don’t
know exactly what direction we’re going in.”
But Hickey did say that from the nearly 70 applica
tions she received for the vacant coaching job, two in
terviews were granted.
“We’ve already interviewed candidates interested in
the position,” she said. “There’s a possibility we might
bring in one more (applicant).
“When the governor put a freeze on everything and
made the budget cuts, it put us at a standstill. We hope
to get an answer this week.”
Hickey also said John David Crow, A&M’s associate
athletic director, was handling “all the red tape” in
volved with hiring a new coach.
Although Hickey failed to name the two prospective
coaches. The Battalion has learned from sources, who
asked to remain anonymous, that leading candidates
are Al Givens, head coach at Mississippi and Lisa Love,
head coach at Texas-Arlington.
Givens finished with a 28-16 mark in his first year at
Ole Miss.
Love, who was partly responsible for bringing Con
don to A&M in 1980, led UTA to a 28-3 record this
past season before the Mavericks fell to the Aggies in
the opening rqund of the NCAA tournament.
However, Love reportedly has received a raise in
her contract in addition to the fact that many sports
writers rank UTA’s returning squad as one of the best
in the region.
A&M also has a strong returning squad, losing only
two players from last year’s team which finished 26-8
and ranked No. 19 in the nation.
Although the two players lost to graduation — A1I-
SWC middle blocker Sherri Brinkman abd second-
team SWC setter Lesha Beakley — were key players,
the Aggies do return All-SWC middle blocker Marga
ret Spence and second-team SWC outside hitter Stacey
Gildner.
During the absence of a head coach, Spence said the
Aggies have been working out with weights, as well as
doing other conditioning exercises, and practicing
three times a week on the Read Building courts.
“It has been going OK,” Spence said. “But without
an organizing figure there, we have been making up
drills off the top of our heads.”
Freshman outside hitter Cheri Steensma echoed
Spence’s feelings.
“We’re getting better,” Steensma said. “I’m very
anxious (to get a new coach). We need someone there
to get (the team) organized. Everything’s up in the air.”
Spence said the team has been told that no coach
will be hired until after the hiring freeze has been
lifted.
“We’ve been told that it could be two weeks, or it
could be two months,” Spence said. “But as soon as
they lift (the hiring freeze), they will hire someone for
sure.”
Spence also said the Aggies have been assured that
the program will not be terminated.
“That has been a rumor,” she said. “And we’ve been
told that it isjust a rumor. There would be other sports
cut before volleyball.”
Battalion File Photo
A&M’s Margaret Spence (right) — “That (dropping the program)
has been a rumor. We’ve been told that it is just a rumor. We’ve been
told that it could be two weeks, or it could be two months, but as
soon as they lift (the hiring freeze), they will hire someone for sure. ”
NIT bid sends A&M to Wyoming after NCAA snub
ByCHAREAN WILLIAMS
Assistant Sports Editor
I The NCAA laughed and told the
Texas A&M basketball team, “Go
home young men.”
Meanwhile, the NIT consoled the
Aggies, saying, “Go West young
men.”
After the Aggies’ 67-63 loss to
Texas Tech Sunday in the
diampionship game of the South
west Conference Post-Season Clas
sic, A&M Coach Shelby Metcalf said
his team should be included in the
prestigious NCAA Tournament.
But the NCAA selection commit
tee didn’t see it that way.
The committee saw the SWC’s 1-
19 record against teams which are in
the NCAA tourney and its 1-14
mark against Top 20 teams this past
season.
Thus, the Red Raiders, having
won the automatic bid to the tour
ney, will be the only SWC team in
the 64-team field. Tech will play per
ennial-powerhouse Georgetown in
the first round.
It will be the first time since 1977
that the SWC hasn’t had at least two
teams in the NCAA tourney.
However, the National Invitatio
nal Tournament picked up the left
overs, awarding four conference
teams bids to its tourney — A&M,
TCU, Texas and SMU.
The Aggies thought they would
get an NCAA bid on the strength of
their 20-1 1 record and SWC tri
championship.
“It’s an injustice,” Metcalf said. “1
thought we’d get a bid, I really did. I
guess I just don’t understand the sys
tem.”
A&M will play its first-round
game Thursday night at Wyoming
(20-11).
TCU (2J-8) gets the tourney un
derway Tuesday when it travels to
Montana (21-10). Thursday SMU
(18-10) is at Brigham Young (16-13)
and Texas (18-12) travels to New
Mexico (17-13).
Wednesday’s games will feature
Dayton (19-8) at McNeese State (20-
10); Pittsburgh (15-13) at SW Mis
souri State (22-7) and Boston Uni
versity (21 -9) at Providence (15-13).
Besides the three SWC teams in
action Thursday, George Mason (19-
1 1) will be at Lamar (18-1 1); South
ern Mississippi (17-11) at Florida
(16-12); Georgia (16-11) at Tennes-
see-Chattanooga (21-9); Louisiana
Tech (16-13) at Northern Arizona
(19-10); Loyola (Calif.) (18-1-0) at
California (19-9); California-lrvine
(16-12) at UCLA (15-13); Drake (19-
10) at Marquette (18-10) and Middle
Tennessee State (23-10) at Clemson
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