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Hickey
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year and have one of the best guards in the re
gion in sophomore Mary Lowery.
Athletically, Houston will be the best in the
league.
Once again this is a young team, but they
will play a very fast-paced and physical game.
Both Texas Christian and Rice have new coach
ing staffs and are making a strong commitment
to elevating their programs to a higher level.
Basketball is very much a team sport. It is
good teams, not individuals, that win champi-
Aggies
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two-time member of the all-SWC second team
and the SWC all-defensive team. Last season
he lead the team in assists with 177 and steals
with 69, and against Texas Edwards posted the
first triple-double in A&M history.
Johnson, an honorable mention all-SWC se
lection, has led the team in scoring and re
bounding the past two years and is one of the
league's leaders in field goal percentage, shoot
ing 60.4 percent in SWC play.
Another luxury the team will enjoy is the
added depth to the bench with five new highly-
respected recruits including junior college
transfers Roy Wills and Joe Wilbert and fresh
men Chris Pulliams, Jimmy Smith, and Antho
ny Burks.
'T think we're going to do better since we
have a full team now, and we're not going to
have guys playing 40-38 minutes a game," se
nior forward Brett Murry said. "Naturally,
things should improve."
Along with adjusting to the new members ,
the team will also be working with various rule
onships.
As fans and fellow Aggies, we hope that you
see yourselves as a part of our team effort, for
we cannot accomplish our goal of stepping up
to the next level of play without your assis
tance.
We have the responsibility of putting a good
team together to represent Texas A&M, and we
hope you will do your part by representing the
University with a show of support at our con
tests. We all know how special and unique our
University is, and we invite you to use basket
ball at A&M as an avenue to project this image
to the outside world.
Be "restless" with us, and join the challenge
of proving that women's basketball has arrived
at A&M.
changes set by the NCAA. The rule changes in
clude:
• a time change from the 45-second to a 35-
second shot clock
• elimination of the five-second closely
guarded rule
• stopping the clock in the final minute of a
game after a basket is made and starting the
clock when the ball is inbounded, instead of let
ting the clock run
Barone said the changes have forced A&M to
make some adjustments to the team's game
plan including increased use of a quick offense
and a trap defense, an aggressive defense that
pulls extra defenders to smother the opposing
team's ball-handler.
"When you play us, you know you're going
to face the trap," Barone said.
"And we're going to have to do a much bet
ter job forcing action - as opposed to simple po
sition defense, we're going to be much more ac
tive."
Murry said he likes some of the changes that
will force a more up-tempo style from the team.
"It'll make things more interesting because
you're going to have to get down the floor and
get into your offense (quickly) and start work
ing to get the easy basket."
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will concentrate on its running game to maximize the best
of A&M's talents which are the driving and shooting abili
ties of its guards and the rebounding and easy basket op
portunities from its frontcourt.
"Even when we have our best size (in the game), we'll
still get the kids focused on forcing, pushing the ball down
the court every time," Hickey said. "If we don't get some
thing off of a primary break, we have a series of screens
we'll run off of a secondary break.
"We ought to get a shot off before we even get into the
offense."
Hickey said she will emphasize easy scoring opportuni
ties - layups and three-point shots and said with the team's
depth, she can run two lineups in and out of the game with
out a drop-off in ability.
She said one lineup would be taller with more power and
zone-defense oriented, while the other would be smaller
and faster, playing a quick, motion offense and a tenacious
pressing and trapping defense.
But Hickey said there is no danger in having a lot of
players seeking action. Last season, injuries hampered the
team and may have cost them a chance at the Southwest
Conference tournament championship when three forwards
could not play in the team's loss to Baylor.
"Having this number of kids is not too many," Hickey
said. "With the running game and the changes of the de
fenses, it will take a good nine players a night to consistent
ly get playing time in order to play the style we want to."
Hickey said her young team will still need the first
month of experience until A&M can take full advantage of
its powerful talent and potential, needing the time to incor
porate the offense into the team's second-nature.
"The danger of doing a lot of things is that maybe you
don't do any one thing really well," Hickey said. "(But) we
feel talent-wise and intelligence-wise that we have a group
of kids that can put all of that together really well."
And Canada said she and the rest of her teammates are
good enough to make history as the first Lady Aggie team
to make it to the top of the SWC.
"We have the people, we have the talent and there's no
reason why we should not win," Canada said.
"Right now, we are the best team in the conference -1 be
lieve that."
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