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The Battalion ary ednesday • February 11, 1998 ggies and Huskers do batde at G. Rollie By Jeff Schmidt Staff writer [(ten be: liscu&. [‘sui|;n “ns,” t: 0,1 le Texas A&M Men’s Basketball Team (6-14, 0-10) iforv the Nebraska Cornhuskers (13-10,4-6) tonight at Rollie White Coliseum. The game catches both K e ' ; s in streaks—Nebraska has lost four in a row and has lost 1 1 in a row, following a 102-75 loss to I'Uonv ;Tech last Saturday. st season the Cornhuskers managed to defeat the 1 a f ter :s 74-72 despite a torrid shooting performance by med i Brown, who hit eight three-pointers. The Aggies 'said 0 t return to College Station until three days after K'anstc ame due to hazardous weather conditions. Ne- nutriti : a leads the all-time series 4-1, but the Aggies have the only game in College Station. : Saif ie injury bug has bitten A&M again. Chris Clayton on t for the rest of the year with a broken foot. Clay- dier ms averaging 6.8 points per game and was leading -rsial ;am in three-point shooting, re. ;hris started to give us good minutes. It was unfor- iesen; te for us and for him, I think he’ll come back 100 R-.V mt (next year). It’s an injury you deal with,” Coach Sena Barone said. tidzec iis leaves the Aggies with only eight scholarship TO' H s.|)espite that, Shanne Jones has continued to that ti nepa: ve dra carry the Aggies on his back offensively. He is aver aging nearly 27 points per game in his last four games. Steve Houston leads the Big 12 Conference in steals, and Brian Barone’s hustle has him tied for sec ond place in steals. Nebraska is led by junior point guard Tyronn Lue, who averages nearly 21 points per game, second in the Big 12, and is third in assists. Junior center Venson Hamilton is the Big 12’s leading rebounder, and sopho more guard Cookie Belcher is a solid scorer. “Anytime you have a great guard like Lue you have a chance to beat anybody. He’s kept them in a lot of games,” Barone said. “I like their team a lot. They’ll give anybody a quality game.” Brian Barone agrees with his father’s assessment. “I think he’s (Lue) the best point guard in the league,” Barone said. “I thought he was the toughest one to guard, even over Chauncey Billups and Jacque Vaughn (both NBA first-round draft picks). He’s real ly a tough player.” Although postseason tournaments are an elusive goal for the Aggies, Nebraska has made seven straight trips to postseason tournaments—three to the NIT and four to the NCAA Tournament. The Huskers’ NCAA chances took a hit after losing to Kansas State last Saturday. * W L la ml Ip* RYAN ROGERS/The Battalion Shanne Jones is doing the bulk of the Aggies' scoring. es or Vbmen on road to Stillwater to face OSU i tat l iiittwi^,. "■ - v gj|p 4 pSM® 5 RYAN ROGERS/The Battalion yardkera Alexander looks to the basket against UT. By Michael Taglienti Staff writer The Texas A&M Women’s Basketball Team (6-14, 2- 8) plays the Oklahoma State Cowgirls (12-8, 5-5) tonight in Stillwater, Okla. The Aggies are coming off a 79-66 loss to the University of Texas. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ OSU is coming off a 76-54 thrashing of rival Oklahoma. The win over Ok lahoma ended an OSU four-game los ing streak in which its average margin of defeat was 13 points. The Cowgirls beat the Aggies 83-63 when the two teams met earlier in the season at G. Rollie White Coliseum. In that game the Cowgirls were led by se nior forward Renee Roberts, who had 22 points, 14 rebounds and six assists. The Cowgirls feature a balanced of fensive attack led by their frontcourt combo of Roberts and senior forward Cheri Edwards. Roberts leads the Cowgirls in scoring with 14.4 points per game, trailed by Edwards with 14.1 points per game and sophomore guard Jennifer Crow’s 10.1 points per game. Texas A&M Coach Candi Harvey said she thinks the key to beating the Cowgirls is simple. “We need to play team defense and team offense, “I know we are a better basketball team than we were a month ago. Candi Harvey Women's Basketball Coach period,” Harvey said. Harvey said the Cowgirls will see an improved Aggie team when they take the court tonight. “I know we are a better basketball team than we were a month ago,” Harvey said. While Harvey thinks the team has improved, she mmmmmmmmmmmm said there is room for improvement on the defensive side of the ball. “Our entire team defense needs to improve. It’s not just one area, it’s all areas,” Harvey said. “Defense is about communicating. We need to talk more. A defense is about knowing someone has got your back. We need to have the confidence that if I (the player) get beat, someone is going to rotate over and help me. That’s a trust factor, and that is what we need. We’ve gotten much better, and we’ve got most of it straight. We just need to make teams work harder to score.” In the game against Texas, sophomore forward Pris sy Sharpe was held to 11 points. That was her lowest scoring output since the No. 1 Tennessee Volunteers held Sharpe to nine points on Jan. 9. Sophomore post Jennifer Burrows led the Aggies in scoring in the Texas game with 15 points. r> Swimming and diving teams gearing up for Big 12 Championships \ I* IT n * t<>ier —-- ^ fMl 1/ “T-minus 15 days and counting.” These are the thoughts going through the minds of the swimmers and coaching staff of the Aggie Men’s Swimming and Diving Teams. Similar thoughts are go ing through the minds of the members of the women’s teams as their conference meet looms merely.nine days away. The team has only that time available to train and finalize some still-unsolidified relay teams. Working Through the Red Tapered Right now the minds of Men’s Coach Mel Nash and Women’s Coach Don Wagner are focused on the ef fects of tapering on their swimmers. Typically used on swimmers, tapering is the prac tice of gradually cutting back on the swimmer’s work outs as a big meet, such as the Big 12 Champi onships, approaches. The easier workout is supposed to give swimmers increased amounts of energy, letting them achieve their best times. The immediate effects of ta pering actually result in slower times by swimmers. Last week, Nash said some of his swimmers have been complaining of feel ing ill, which is typical in the ini tial stages of tapering. n There is a hit-or-miss factor in tapering, however. Some swim mers do not respond well to the decreased workouts, and the desired effects sometimes are not achieved in time for the meet. If the swimmer recovers from the initial ill effects, then they ar e cursed with a tremendous amount of en ergy they want to expel. The problem is they need to conserve this energy for the conference meet. 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