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The Battalion
Friday, December 11,
Everything you
wanted to know
and then some
T hank God
this semes
ter is draw
ing to a close.
It's time for the
final rundown of
semester-end vi
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So, Texas
A&M is destined
to play Notre
Dame in the Cot
ton Bowl. Lest
CHRIS
WHITLEY
Sports Editor
we forget the last time these two
teams met in the same venue — the
Aggies romped, 35-10, in 1988. How-
then, it
ever, back then, it was Notre Dame
who didn't want to play A&M in Dal
las. For his team's sake, R.C. Slocum
should hope his troops don't develop
a similar attitude.
And by the way, to me, it's the Cot
ton Bowl Classic. Just because some
oil company puts down a truckload of
money doesn't mean I'm calling it
something else. Now, if they'd like to
send me a check. I'll call it anything
they want.
I can't help but remember sitting in
California watching the Aggies win
their season opener, 10-7, over Stan
ford and hearing one of my fellow
Batt colleagues saying, "A close victo
ry won't matter when you're unde
feated in December." Little did he
know.
Should the Aggies win, let's get
them and the winner of the Sugar
Bowl together on, say, January 9 to
play a real national championship and
ask Ross Perot to foot the bill.
Defensive coordinator Bob Davie
might be the hottest head coaching
commodity around right now. Baylor
is just one of many places that are
smart enough to think that Davie can
See Whitley/ Page 5
Aggies Outlast South Alabama, 85-7
Edwards pours in 24 points to pace A&M to its first victory of the seaso
By DON NORWOOD
Sports Writer of THE BATTALION
Texas A&M beat the University of
South Alabama at their own game Thurs
day night, using offensive pressure both
inside and outside as well as clutch free
throws in the second half to earn their
first victory of the season, defeating the
Jaguars 85-77.
The opening win of the season for the
Aggies, who up their record to 1-2,
proved to to be a big one.
With star forward Damon Johnson in
foul trouble most of the game and fellow
big men Brett Murry, Lance Broderson
and Corey Henderson fouling out in the
second half, the question of who would
be able to step up and fill the void had to
be answered.
That answer was three-fold, as guards
David Edwards, Tony McGinnis and
Chuck Henderson each finished with
more than 20 points.
So how important was this win in the
face of such odds? To hear A&M head
coach Tony Barone describe it, you might
think the game had been played in late
March instead of early December. But
one should probably excuse him for being
so excited about what most people
around the country might view as your
ordinary, every-day basketball game.
"I can't tell you how proud I am of this
team," Barone said.
"For our basketball program, this is as
big a win as we can have right now. This
is not that big around the country. But
for Texas A&M, this is a big, big win."
The way the game started out, it
looked like it would be an even bigger
win for the Aggies. A&M opened the first
half with a 10-1 run, as Chuck Henderson
drowned two treys and a two-pointer,
making South Alabama head coach Ron
nie Arrow unhappy.
"We did not dig down on defense like
we should," Arrow said.
"We were standing around at first and
let them open up a lead."
Chuck Henderson's long-range accura
cy, evidenced in his 21 points and shoot
ing 57 percent from beyond the three-
point line, was just a matter of taking ad
vantage of Edwards' quick passing, he
said.
"David gave me some really good
passes," Henderson said. "I just took the
shots.
"I felt like if I kept shooting (they
would keep falling). Coach Barone just
told me to keep shooting."
Although the elder Henderson stayed
hot from the outside, the Jaguars were
able to tie the score 38-38 at the half. But
that turned out to be the only part of the
game where the Jags capitalized on their
size advantage.
"They (South Alabama) were very big
inside, and they hurt us early on the in
side," Edwards said. "But, we knew we
had nothing to lose in this game."
McGinnis played with that no-holds-
barred attitude, victimizing South Alaba
ma's inconsistency in the paint for 23
points, most of which were scored on
layups.
McGinnis's biggest shot came with
8:43 left in the game, when Edwards fed
him inside for a dunk that sparked the
rest of the team to hang on despite the
foul problems.
"I was surprised (that they gave me
the inside)," McGinnis said. "I was get
ting the ball inside, so I kept taking the
shots."
Edwards, who led all scorers with 24
points and finished with 11 assists, said
that McGinnis's dunk might have been
the final nail in the Jaguars' coffin.
"When Tony Mac got that dunk,
everybody just surged," Edwards said.
"Me and Damon have been doing a lot
of the scoring this year, and this shows
you what can happen with out team if
our other players step up like Tony and
Chuck did today."
Barone especially praised Edwards
and McGinnis, two players whose output
will be needed as opponents try to keep
taking away the Aggies' inside threats.
"I have not had a kid in the past two
years who came out and played with the
kind of fire he (McGinnis) did," Barone
said.
"He (Edwards) has got to do the kinds
of things he did tonight."
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