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Page 6 The Battalion November #4 ERIC HAWTHORNE Guard 6-1 185 JR-TR Hawthorne is eligible to play after sitting out when he transferred from Pensacola Junior College. At Pensacola, he averaged 12.0 points and, 5.0 assists and 4.0 rebounds per game, shooing 55.0 percent from the field. During that season, he was named JUCO scholar ath lete of the year. # 10 DAVID EDWARDS Guard 5-9 170 SO-TR After sitting out last season, Ed wards is ready to play again this season. He played in all 31 games as a true freshman at Georgetown Uni versity, averaging 5.4 points, 4.8 as sists and 2.3 rebounds per game. He ranked second on the Hoya's team with 150 assists and third in steals with 42. #15 CHOCK HENDERSON Guard 6-2 170 SO-1L The 6-foot-2 sophomore out of Lee High School in Houston should be a solid performer this season as a walk-on. Henderson saw limited ac tion last year, averaging 1.1 points and 0.4 rebounds per game. He shot 50.0 percent from the field, connect ing on eight-of-16 shots from the field and a pair of three pointers. #20 MICHAEL SMITH Guard 5-10 160 SO-TR After transferring from Iowa West ern Junior College, Smith will be eli gible to play this yeitf. At 'Idiva Western, Smith was named confer ence newcomer of the year after av eraging 12.7 points, 3.3 rebounds, 7.6 assists and 2.2 steals per game. He shot 52.4 percent from the field and 42.3 percent from 3-points range. #22 DAVID MARTIN Guard 5-11 160 JR-2L Martin is a former walk-on who was awarded a scholarship this past summer. Martin has good knowl edge of the game and has been a member of the GTE Southwest Con ference Academic Honor Team for tow years. Last season, he played in 19 games for A&M and proved to be a threat from 3-point range. ■ #23 TONY McINNIS Guard 6-5 182 FR-HS Out of Butler High School in Huntsville, Ala., McGinnis could prove to be one of the best young, A&M players. As a senior at Butler last year, he averaged 20.6 points and 8.2 rebounds per game and was named first-team all-state. He led his team to a 31-4 record. #32 COREY HENDERSON Guard 6-6 180 FR-HS Henderson is one of a group of young players that should form the founda tion for the A&M program over the next few years. He was named honor able mention Parade Magazine All- America after averaging 18.5 points, 11.5 rebounds and 10.2 assists per game as a senior at Lee High School in Houston. Believe to Achieve Barone ready to face challenge of new year By Steve O'Brien The Battalion T he "Effort Board" hangs in the hallway leading to the Texas A&M locker room. Six pieces of paper are pinned to the rect angular piece of cork. Four of those and a message painted on the locker room wall stand out. Tacked to the wall is a poem, a formula for success, a story about an NBA All-Star and a list of 10 things the players are sup posed to work on during practice. There are no jokes or cartoons tacked to the board. Only orders and inspiration. Across the small hallway is another reminder: "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." Like the paper hanging on the wall, first-year head coach Tony Barone and his A&M basketball team gp on display tonight. The Aggies open their 1991-92 season against-Prairie View A&M at G. Rollie White Coliseum. Tipoff is at 7:30 p.m. The Aggies are coming off an 8-21 season last year. Former head coach Kermit Davis Jr. resigned after an NCAA investigation revealed rules violations during his one-year stay. His tenure will continue to affect the program for years to come. Three players return from last year's squad. Barone will suit up seven freshmen, three sophomores, three juniors and one senior in his regular-season debut as the Aggies' coach. The numbers aren't good, Barone said. "It's the old story: we were 8-21 last year and we have the same team coming back," he said. "I'm not sure that's a great deal." Actually, a number of key players from last year's team are gone. 'm l;B Sophomore Brooks Thompson, who led the AggL "l|a rt f last season, transferred to Oklahoma State last spring if/" Baror Lynn Suber and Freddie Ricks ran out of eligibility, ft much And senior Shedrick Anderson has been suspenddts, the te, team until "further notice." Anderson was the team tniirg- ing scorer last year. '’ll He your But turning a losing program into a winner issomdolege, ar Barone has done before. In six years, Barone took Creid. last place in the Missouri Valley Conference to threestelrj the ne 1 win seasons. Two of those years, Creighton was invitekefem Ola the NCAA Tournament. Hts to w Like the challenge he faced at Creighton, Barone - soral diff improve the team's image. It is part of his formula for-tent mart "I think the attitude about the Creighton program:"Maving area of the Midwest and A&M in this part of the county lOlajuv similar," Barone said. "The total program is the issue stpnd pe we want to be a little different. We want a youngpereftrone v\ comes into this program to know that we're interestedrftVhen \ development. Hm bee; "We want to develop him as a basketball player, asiftd arou and as a person." oie to ge Besides image, Barone has to deal with a collectiontftDn this players. They are players that must be concerned with get along their individual skills every day, Barone said. Likethrj chemistr wall reads, "pretty good" from each Aggie player wonlj guys on enough for the team as a whole. ^ 0 ^ va,: ' "What we have to do is we have to make sure weinjot public ery day," Barone said. "Each one of the players andi iference. the coaches must understand that each day is a day that Bp t Baro to improve individually. If we can do that, we'll imp "Vo u dei KARL STOLLEIS/ The Battalion Sophomore David Edwards wants to soar to new heights this season after sitting out a year. Edwards will lead A&M's offensive attack. Point guard Dai By Scott Wudel The Battalion ^eader has iy Barone j'jDavid I ^ne said. D avid Edwards isn't bothered by some of thef'^ ■ lot of towering basketball players encounter ^ ^ had a problem finding his pants size in acloil| ^ doesn't have to duck his head when he steps tltf ol W|jL., s ^ He isn't easily spotted across a crowded room beca p.^ stand head and shoulders above the rest. ffne ius For Edwards, five feet and nine inches is morG-y! Height means little to him. nc j wa i t j Edwards is a believer in the philosophy that 0I ,' m( with what God gave you. idwards "I don't get mad at myself because I'm not 6-foot said. "Other people used to say, 'If I was only 6-foot' rt ^ nfc / "I take my height and use it to the best of my a b®E c } warc ig What that means to Texas A&M basketball is sinip le ^ se wards is the little guy that will make big things haplj j. knows he is highly capable of doing that. : "I don't get mad at myself because I'm not b-foot-^ 0 jj e c cre guys like Muggsy Bogues and Spud Webb on TV G’ n j ta r V-» ci F fin ax 7 rA r^OC F t’m 1 x r ^ ^ /nr CD ^ what they do best and they're only 5-foot-5 or so, 'When you sit down and see those guys, you say- '0®l’ et:own yjttemp- fte, whe can I be mad when Muggsy Bogues is 5-foot-2?' there isn't any room for anybody my size." ( f r Edwards is listed as the shortest player on the perhaps, he has the biggest job of all. As the Aggie- ne ^ re must be the quarterback of a team short on experie ai