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Friday • February 27, ll
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Last game at G. Rollie White brings closure to an A&M era, miserable season for men’s basketball tea
Jeff Schmidt
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Men’s Basket
ball Team (6-19, 0-15) will host the
Baylor Bears (13-12, 8-7) at 2 p.m.
Saturday in the last men’s basket
ball game at G. Rollie White Coli
seum. The Aggies are coming off of
a 95-80 loss to Kansas State in
which they tied the all-time record
for consecutive conference losses
of 18. Baylor clinched the fifth-
seed in the Big 12 Tournament
Wednesday by defeating Iowa
State 69-54.
The Aggies own a 110-62 series
advantage against the Bears but
earlier this year, Baylor beat A&M
73-64 in Waco. Sophomore guard
Steve Houston was the Aggies’
leading scorer with 14 points and
dished out three assists.
Sophomore point guard Brian
Barone did not play, the only game
he has missed this season. The
Bears held a one-point advantage
at halftime, but the Aggies could
not pull off the upset.
The Bears are led by senior cen
ter Brian Skinner, a second-team
All-Big 12 selection last year and
possible NBA first-round draft
pick, and senior point guard
Patrick Hunter.
Skinner is averaging about 20
points a game in league play,
leads the Big 12 in field-goal per
centage and is second in the con
ference in rebounding at nearly
nine rebounds a game. Hunter
has come on strong this season
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chipping in 13 points and four as
sists a game. Roddrick Miller, son
of Baylor Coach Harry Miller, av
erages 12 points a game.
“Baylor has two great players.
They have Skinner, who’s a pro,
and Hunter, who’s a confident
player and makes big plays,” As
sistant Coach Porter Moser said.
“They are real physical inside with
Skinner. Those two guys have got
to be the focus point when you
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In order to defeat the Bears,
the Aggies will need a well-
played game from their two cen
ters, Aaron Jack and Larry
Thompson. Both will be used to
battle Skinner and in an attempt
to get him in foul trouble. Barone
will play his usually solid defense
against Hunter.
“We have got to contain Skinner
and Hunter. You can’t let those
guys get five or six points above
their averages,” Moser said.
Another thing the Aggies must
improve on if they want to stay in
the game is their free-throw
shooting.
“Our free throw shooting was
bad down the stretch at Baylor. It
was the same old deal at the free
throw line,” Moser said.
Thompson, the team’s lone se
nior will be stepping on the G. Rol
lie court for the last time.
“We’ve told Larry Thompson to
look around and take everything
in because it’s your last game at
home. Enjoy every little bit of it,”
Moser said. “For the rest of the
guys, they’ll be looking forward to
next year with the new arena.
Hopefully, the guys will play a lit
tle harder down the stretch.”
By Michael Taglienti
Staff writer
The Texas A&M Basketball Team (8-17, 4-11) will take on the Baylor
Bears (16-9, 9-6) Saturday at 7 p.m. in Waco. The Aggies are coming off
a 81-76 defeat of the Kansas State Wildcats last Wednesday night.
The Aggies have won two of their last three games and are looking
to finish the season with a win. Finishing the season strong and es
tablishing momentum going into the Big 12 tournament is a priority
at this time of year.
Coach Candi Harvey said the Baylor game is a big game.
“It is a huge game. You talk about possibly winning five confer
ence games, and where we’ve come in the last two weeks,” Harvey
said. “Going and getting a road victory against a good in-state ri
valry, you are talking about a team that could go sky high into the
conference tournament. We could be pretty scary just from a con
fidence standpoint.”
Harvey thinks that while Baylor is a great basketball team, the Aggies
have a great chance at pulling off an upset in Waco.
“Baylor is an outstanding basketball team, but we know we didn’t play
as well as we are capable of playing against them when we played them
here at home,” Harvey said. “If we can put two halves together the way
we have been doing, that game could go to the wire.”
Baylor’s front line has been hit by the injury bug in the past few weeks.
Baylor’s backup center Shannon Applebury and forward Nicole Palmer
have recently had season-ending knee injuries. Coach Candi Harvey said
their lack of depth down low could be a factor in the game.
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see what we can do.”
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against the Aggies that night.
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Webb was three for eighteen from the field on the way to 15 points
In the previous Baylor game, Aggie sophomore forward KeraAle
der scored 32 points in the loss. Alexander has had the hot hand oil
scoring 33 points in Wednesday night’s victory over KSU.
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