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Texas presents
little challenge
to SWC champs
I f the Aggies are true champions,
they'll kick the Texas Longhorns all
the way back Austin.
This is the time of the year when
cellar-dwellers try to make their sea
sons by beating a top gun. A&M is the
top gun and the Longhorns, for all
practical purposes, are the cellar
dwellars.
And Texas isn't carrying a 5-5
record by accident. They're a bad ex
cuse for a football team. The
Longhorn defense is good — one of
the best — and they have the potential
of keeping the Aggies and quarterback
Bucky Richardson in check.
But don't count on it. Much like
Oklahoma, Michigan and Washing
ton, the Longhorn defense relies on
size to control opposing offenses. Size
is good, but speed will win out every
time.
If you can't catch me, you don't
scare me.
The Longhorn defense is good,
though. It's just that they aren't good
enough. They can't overcome a Texas
offense that would have trouble scor
ing in Las Vegas.
I'm not saying Longhorn quarter
back Peter Gardere isn't a good quar
terback. That's much easier said. Pe
ter Gardere is not a good quarterback.
And what about Butch Hadnot?
If he's the next Earl Campbell, I'm
the next Ernest Hemingway. Move
See O’Brien/ Page 4
Aggies win opener, 83-56
Barone wins
first game as
Aggie's coach
By Anthony Andro
The Battalion
First-year Texas A&M head coach
Tony Barone happily addressed reporters
after his team had won its season opener
against Prairie View A&M Monday night
in G. Rollie White Coliseum.
Across the cluttered media room lay
reminders of the basketball program's
past. Under one table hid one of the most
ironic reminders — a media guide with
former A&M coach Kermit Davis Jr.'s im
age beeming across the cover. Perhaps it
was a sign that the short and turbulent
Davis era had been swept under the table,
and the Barone era had begun.
The new coach had his players run
ning on all cylinders. A&M controlled the
entire game and easily defeated the Pan
thers 83-56.
Barone was pleased with his team's
performance.
"This is a great win for us," Barone
said. "It establishes something for our
kids. I'm over the winning and losing. I
think I know how to handle it.
"Young kids don't really understand
it and it's very difficult to tell them they
played hard, they played but they lost.
To get a win for us is a great opportunity
for these kids to build on it."
The Panthers jumped out to an early
6-4 lead, but that would be their only
lead. A Chuck Henderson three-pointer
would give the Aggies a lead they would
never relinquish.
A streaking Aggie squad put together
runs of nine, eight and six points in the
first half to open up a halftime lead of 39-
23.
The Aggies outhustled and outsmus-
cled the Panthers.
Most of the hustling was done by
KARL STOLLEIS/ The Battalion
Texas A&M point guard David Edwards has his shot blocked by Prairie View A&M's Daryl Pope
Monday night in the Aggies 83-56 season-opening victory. Pope was called for a foul on the play.
sophomore point guard David Edwards.
Edwards tied a school record for steals in
a game with nine. Former A&M basket
ball player Darryl McDonald set the
record against Southern Methodist Uni
versity in 1988.
Edwards led the Aggies with 16
points, eight assists and seven rebounds.
"Our first two games were good be
cause they were competitive," Edwards
said. "It made us ready for a team like
Prairie View with their run and gun of
fense."
Barone was impressed by the play of
A&M's point guard.
"The key stat tonight were the number
of steals he had compared to the number
of fouls he had," Barone said. "I thinks
that's a big issue.
"I thought he got us going in terms of
finishing the break. When he plays with
in himself, I think he's as fine of point
guard I have seen in a long time."
The muscle came in the rebounding
department. The Aggies were out-re
bounded in their two preseason losses but
controlled the boards against the Pan
thers, winning the battle of the boards, 40-
32.
The Aggies ended any chance of a
Panther comeback early in the second
half.
A 21-5 run gave A&M a 60-28 lead.
Prairie View did not score its first points
of the second half until more than four
minutes had gone by.
After the run, the teams battled back
and forth with neither team controlling
the tempo.
The Aggies shot 48 percent from the
field and held the Panthers to 36 percent.
Eleven A&M players scored in tne game.
Damon Johnson and David Martin each
scored 13 points. Chuck Henderson and
Matt Haralson each contributed 10.
Johnson said he had something to
prove last night.
"After the exhibition season, I Wasn't
nervous at all," Johnson said. "I came
out and wanted to show everybody why I
was recruited by Texas A&M.
"The first two games were a testing
See Victory/ Page 4
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