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The Battalion
Wednesday, March 10,1993
Surprise victory over Rice has
A&M primed for tournament
By WILLIAM HARRISON
The Battalion
According to the Texas A&M
men's basketball team, their
biggest win of the year, a season
ending upset knocking the Rice
Owls out of the Southwest Con
ference co-championship just isn't
good enough.
The Aggies shocked the Owls
82-76 Saturday in front of 5,010
vocal fans at Autry Court, other
wise known as the “Jungle Gym."
A&M head coach Tony Barone
said the game was a big win, be
cause the team stepped up with
nothing to gain except to out-play
a team poised to become confer
ence champions.
“We were going to play Hous
ton in the first round of the tour
nament whether we won or lost,
so the game for us shouldn't have
had any meaning," Barone said.
"But these kids stepped up and
played with tremendous intensi
ty, and that gives you some mo
mentum going into the tourna
ment."
Out of breath as they walked
out of a long, physical practice at
G. Rollie White, the Aggies talked
like it was business as usual after
the Rice win, even though their
first contest in the SWC tourney
against the physical Houston
Cougars looms over them.
A&M point guard David Ed
wards said that the team beat the
Owls more mentally than physi
cally, and were confident they
could beat Rice after a last second
one-point loss in January at A&M.
"They don't have great players
on their team, (and) we did every
thing we had to do in order for us
to win," Edwards said.
"We took them out of every
thing they were trying to do."
A&M forward Damon Johnson
said the team picked up the , pace
against the Owls, understanding
and putting the game's implica
tions into perspective.
"Coach made it seem like it
was a championship game, (be
cause) it was a championship
game for them, and everybody
knows there's no credit for sec
ond place," Johnson said.
"Our main objective was to be
a spoiler and that's what we
were."
Barone said that his team
played, for the most part, a good
game, offensively taking advan
tage of early inside baskets and
defensively overloading the
Owls' scorers and offensive game
plan with good intensity.
"We put more pressure on
them, and I think if you're going
to win a championship, you have
to handle pressure," Barone said.
"I felt that our team played
with a good focus. Rice was un
defeated at home, and our defen
sive intensity in the first half was
excellent, and it was a good win
for us." He added.
Johnson said that Rice's center
Brent Scott had a difficult time
getting the ball and that messed
up the Owls' game plan because
A&M was smothering him a with
a lot of players and a lot of differ
ent defenses.
"We pressured the ball. It's
hard to make a pass when you
have somebody all in your face,
(and) it's hard to catch the ball
when you can't even be seen," he
said.
The Aggies face immediate
problems as they prepare to face a
tough first round match-up
against Houston.
Johnson said that Barone and
the team were anticipating Hous
ton's physical play by pitting
themselves against each other in
hard practices, like they did to
prepare for Rice.
"Coach wants to have nice,
short, crisp workouts, but they
have to be crisp and they have to
be a 110 percent effort," Johnson
said.
"We're trying to get used to
what Houston does - they play
physical, (and) the only way to
get used to it in a game is to have
it in practice."
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Gortana wins agai
Aggies finish a shot off pace to take secon
feat.
STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Junior Marco Gortana won his
second golf tournament of the
young Spring season Tuesday af
ter firing a final round 68 for a 213
total and a two-stroke victory at
the Louisiana Classics.
"Ever since the first tourna
ment in Hawaii I have been in a
groove," Gortana said. "I am just
playing well and with a lot of
confidence."
Gortana is the first Aggie to
win two tournaments in a season
since 1984 when All-American
Phillip Parkin accomplished the
A&M coach Bob Ellis said
Gortana has a shot at All-Ameri
can honors as well.
"I think marco has an excellent
chance to be an All-American," he
said. "He came of age in Hawaii,
and he has developed into a solid
player."
Southwestern Louisiana won
the team championship over
A&M by one shot despite a late
charge which saw the Aggies
make up nine shots in as many
holes.
"lam very proud of the way
our kids fought back," Ellis said.
Lady Aggies
Continued from Page 7
Methodist plays sixth-seeded
Houston at 2 p.m. while second-
seeded Texas tackles seventh-
seeded Rice at 8 p.m.
If A&M does not win the tour
nament and automatic bid to the
NCAA tournament, Hickey said
she is not sure if the Aggies will
be involved in further post season
play.
"I don't think we will get a Na
tional Invitational Tournament
bid because there have been
many upsets in the Big 8 and
Southeastern Conference tourna
ments," Hickey said. "It will be
interesting to see what the NCAA
does because there will be many
20 win teams floating around."
Hickey added that A&M de
serves some tournament success.
"Our girls have a real good
work ethic and we have a good
season," she said. "There were a
couple of games we should have
won but didn't. Their attitudes
remained positive.
"They deserve some magic."
Norwood
Continued from Page 7
is either a bold-faced liar or a
gung-ho Texan wanting noth
ing to do with our president's
home state.
Profit motive aside, the ill
logic surrounding conference
tournaments comes in the
smaller leagues, where tourney
winners receive automatic bids.
Never mind that the regular
season champions sweated and
bled their way through nearly
30 games over three months to
earn their title. In the minds of
those who offer NCAA Tourna
ment bids, the team that wins
the conference tourney goes to
the Big Dance, leaving every
one else trying to even make it
to the NIT.
If only the tournament win
ners received bids to the
NCAA's in every league, imag
ine the mayhem in the larger
conferences. Here in the SWC,
the potential for upsets in this
year's tournament is a great
one. Regular season champ
Southern Methodist has a
shaky hold on the top seed, and
Houston and Rice have both
been schizophrenic throughout
the past two months.
After defeating Rice at Autiy
Court Saturday, Tony Barone's
Texas A&M squad is probably
feeling more confident than
any other team in the SWC
right now. That confidence
could conceivably manifest it
self in a SWC Tournament
championship this weekend. If
the NCAA followed the guide
lines set for smaller leagues.
A&M would get the SWC's
only bid.
A&M has improved greatly,
mind you. But SMU has
earned their expected NCAA
invite, in addition to the at-
large bids that Houston and
Rice are in the running for.
Some tournament winners
do benefit, and deservedly so,
from automatic bids. A prime
example comes from the Sun
Belt Conference where Western
Kentucky, a team previously on
the bubble for an at-large bid,
defeated 13th-ranked New Or
leans in the tournament cham
pionship game. With the Priva
teers assured of a high seed, 24-
5 WKU doesn't have to worry
about settling for the NIT now.
The Hilltoppers' case is a
rare one, though. Every year,
many bubble teams who
played tough regular season
schedules have ended up on
the outside of tl^e NCAA's
looking in while such confer
ence tournament champs as
Coastal Carolina, Siena and
Campbell are routed in the
opening round by the top
seeds. It's hardly fair, but
whining about something that
will not change accomplishes
zilch.
All we can do is hope that as
many deserving teams as possi
ble get NCAA bids this year,
including Houston. And we
can also hope that more confer
ences follow the lead of the Big
10, where there is no postsea
son tournament.
Having the regular season
champ gain the automatic bid
is the fairest method, as the Big
10 has proved. Even if Indiana
is the team that gets it.
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