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By SCOTT WUDEL
Of The Battalion Staff
Georgetown point guard David
Edwards was setting up the play
for the Hoya offense. His team
was matched up against fellow
Big East powerhouse Syracuse.
The 5-11 point guard kept the
ball low as he was dribbling, and
suddenly
found himself
in a mismatch
with 6-8
Orangeman
Tony Scott.
Scott, a tall,
wiry, forward,
was forced to
guard his
quick oppo
nent and ac
cepted the
challenge. Syr
acuse coach
Jim Boeheim
yelled to his
player to back
off and go
back to his
own man.
Scott finally
conceded the
short battle
and left Ed
wards to some
one a little
more his size.
Little did
Edwards and
Scott know
that they
would soon
end up on the
same team to
gether. One
that was al
most 1500
away.
Texas
head
Kermit
Davis Jr.
couldn’t be
more happy to
be the bene
factor of their
decisions to
son after transferring, the two
will not go unnnoticed at practice.
“I’m just going to try to push
the team as hard as I can,” Scott
said. “And make them bring out
the best of their abilities.
“Coming from a bigger pro
gram and playing against the bet
ter competition, then 1 think I
could do some things to help
them reach some of their talents
and at the
same time try
to reach
mine.”
miles
And
A&M
coach
head south to play basketball.'
In the midst of rebuilding the
A&M program, Davis has two
players that could make the tran
sition from mediocrity to great
ness a fast process, and put the
school on the basketball map with
the likes of Nevada-Las Vegas,
North Carolina, and Indiana.
“I think it helps your reputa
tion for whatyou’re trying to do,”
Davis said. “They were both guys
who wanted to go somewhere else
to have more playing time.”
Davis says the nature of the
players’ experience will benefit
the whole A&M team.
“Their experience will help
next year,” he said. “This year
they’ve got to be as competitive as
they can be in practice and give us
the simulation of the bigger play
ers that we’re going to play
against. If they can do that then I
think they’ve had a good year.”
Both Edwards and Scott come
from big-time college programs
that historically find themselves
in the NCAA Tournament year
in and year out. Though each has
spent only one season with their
former schools, the experience
they’ve gained in that time will be
invaluable to a young A&M team.
While having to sit out this sea-
Scott trans
ferred after
his sophomore
season at Syra
cuse, where he
played in 24
games, averag
ing almost six
points a con
test. The for-
ward recorded
a career-high
12 points in
the Big East
tournament fi
nals last year
against Con
necticut and
also started in
all three of the
NCAA tour-
n a m e n t
games.
Scott says
his new team
and its new
coach will be a
total change
from the time
he spent un
der his former
coach Jim
Boeheim.
“With the
athletes we
had at Syra
cuse it was
more or less
one-on-one,
free-lance,
creating your
own shot,”
Scott e x -
plained. “Here
it’s more structured, more pick
setting and defensive-oriented.”
Scott said he will be able to ad
just to Davis’ more-attention-to-
detail style, and will have to do
more than simply spotting up and
taking his own shot — unlike at
Syracuse, where he was the
Orangemen’s top three-point
threat.
Edwards’ philosophy will be
much the same. He says his main
objective this season will be help
will face now and in the future.
“I want to just make the team
better by playing hard in practice,
really pushing the guys like Isaac
(Brown) and Brooks (Thomp
son),” Edwards said. “Try to
make them better players and get
ready for the better guards that
are coming up.”
Edwards says he has been
warning the young players of the
frightening sights that exist out in
the rough basketball world.
He says he told them that when
a team like Oklahoma comes to G.
Rollie White Coliseum, they will
be coming with a purpose — not
just to win, but to crush their op-
See Transfers/Page 9
A brighter_future
Lady Ags hope
young team can
mature quickly
By SCOTT WUDEL
Of The Battalion Staff
Texas A&M women’s basketball
coach Lynn Hickey is hoping a
young team has grown up since last
season.
Hickey’s new roster consists of a
wide range of experience she hopes
just may have had enough seasoning
last year to push A&M up to the likes
of perennial Southwest Conference
powers Texas and Arkansas.
Hickey enters her seventh season
with the Lady Aggies able to pick
from two seniors, five juniors, three
sophomores and two freshmen to fill
four open spots in this year’s starting
lineup.
The Lady Aggies’ season kicks off
on Monday, when they host
Hickey said she is optimistic about
the team’s chances to improve on last
year’s 16-12 record and its 8-8 SWC
mark.
“Overall, I think we’re looking
forward to this year,” Hickey said.
“Last year we had enough athletic
talent to be in the top three in the
conference, to win 20 games. Emo
tionally, we never came together.”
However, she said she hopes the
missing ingredient has arrived.
“What we’re hoping for this year
is that our mental outlook on the
game and how mature we are as peo
ple will be so much better,” she said.
“Even though we’ve lost some key
people, we’ll be able to be better than
we were last year.
“That’s a real possibility.”
Possibilities are plentiful with this
year’s team. Hickey is looking to ex
plore a variety of options with the
size and abilities she sees in the Lady
Aggie roster.
She said the Lady Aggies may
sport two different looks this season.
The coach may put a group on the
court that would average heights of
5-11 to six feet. This group would be
mobile enough to use for pressing
defense and a passing, motion of
fense.
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Senior guard Yvonne Hill and the Texas A&M Lady Aggie basket
ball team are heading into the season with high hopes.
This style would enable the team
to take advantage of some of its
strengths, Hickey said.
“When you look at our overall
strengths and weaknesses, I feel real
comfortable with our outside game,”
she said. “We have size as well as
some speed and quickness to put out
there.
“And as far as shooting range,
we’ll be much improved from last
year. We’ll have more than just
Wendy Jennings, and that will help
Jennings has lettered three years
for A&M and is one of two seniors
on the A&M team.
She was the team’s most active
player from the three-point line last
year, hitting over 35 percent of her
attempts, and over 41 percent
against conference opponents. Jen
nings didn’t start a game last year for
the Aggies, but may be called upon
this year.
Yvonne Hill is the other senior
and the lone returning starter
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looked for again. Hickey said
thinks Hill will improve even
this year.
“Yvonne had a great year!
year, and she’s going to be;
more comfortable with oursysis
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The A&M frontline could
made up of a 6-6 player and t»{
players. The bigger frontline
play a slower, power game.
However, Hickey said theii>
game will be the biggest quti
mark for the Lady Aggies.
She said the team needs tocot
the boards if it wants to runthel
“We have some good athletes,
they are either very young, or
and inexperienced, or injur
Hickey said.
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to supply the frontline withsom
perience. Russo averaged ovei
points a game last season butma
slowed by two knees that unden
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SWC gears for Arkansas dominance
in Razorbacks’ bittersoooiiiet farewell
By RICHARD TIJERINA
Of The Battalion Staff
Arkansas seems poised to make its 1990-91
farewell tour of the Southwest Conference a
memorable one. Texas A&M looks like it might
make its first-year head coach’s season a forgetta
ble one. Then there’s Texas, hoping to compli
cate things.
Such is the state of the SWC.
Offseason moves were numerous for the con
ference. Arkansas, a charter member of the
SWC, voted to leave for the Southeastern Con
ference. Razorbacks coach Nolan Richardson was
given a well-deserved seven-year contract exten
sion. A&M went out with the old and in with the
new when it hired 30-year-old Kermit Davis Jr. as
its head coach. Houston went from a SWC con
tender into a SWC question mark with the loss of
a key player.
It all adds up to another conference season
clouded with mystery. Can the Razorbacks domi
nate as expected? Can the Longhorns overcome
the loss of two top players now playing in the
NBA? How low will the Aggies go, and will any
more misfortune strike them? Will the Cougars
find a power forward?
The SWC will have a hard act to follow, as two
conference teams made it to the Final Eight in
1989. Still, some say 1990 will be even better —
even though it lost several marquee players.
Those who won’t be back include Craig Up
church, Travis Mays, Lance Blanks, Tony Mil-
ton, Mario Credit and Vernon Purdue.
“Arkansas is better than they were last year, we
might be by the end of the year, and Houston is
strong again,” Texas coach Tom Penders said.
“What really makes the league better from top to
bottom is the improvement of everybody.”
Parity has seeped its way into the SWC, and
the conference is stronger because of it, Texas
Tech coach Gerald Myers said.
“Texas, Arkansas and Houston are all going
be strong,” Myers said. “Arkansas is pink
stronger than they were last year. Baylor, H|
and Rice will be good, better than last year,5-|
(the conference) has lost some outstanding:
ers, but you look at who’s coming back ami- .
of the new guys coming in, and you’d havetol
on paper that the conference is stronger."
Arkansas (30-5, 14-2 in the SWC). The Rat
backs, who lost to Duke in last year’s NCAAFf
Four game, should be the team to beat thisvf
Center Mario Credit is gone, but practicallyy
eryone else returns to give the Razorbacks tak
quickness and depth to make them the class
the SWC conference.
Todd Day, the consensus preseason choice!
Player of the Year, and Lee Mayberry retti
And Oliver Miller, the rolly-polly big man"
the game to match his mouth, will take
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