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BY TRAVIS HARSCH
The Battalion
Texas
(10-8, 4-4 in Big 12)
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Tacters’grea- before the fun starts on Saturday at Reed Arena, old en-
r plight. mies will get reacquainted. The Harlem Globetrotters take
akes A Sinij he court later in the day, but first the Texas A&M Women’s
rame is was (asketball Team will take on archrival Texas in a 2 p.m.
e propelstk onference game,
nost well-dire; |he Aggies (7-10, 2-5 in
emarkableiffilig 12) are coming off their
erelycontrasecond Big 12 win of the
culousness(I;ear, a 73-59 road win
t) and dis[x gainst the Kansas State
of thosefilrr-Iniversity Wildcats on
vision that Vednesday night that
it and asagr:napped a five-game confer-
nco losing streak, and will
ie looking for their first con-
-Jt-erence triumph at home.
■unior forward Prissy
•hai pe led the victory over the
mly strongpoiVildcats with 21 points,
e violent suipputting her over 1,000 points
shows his fau or her career and moving her
he caused; nto twelfth place on A&M’s
haracter, Vr. 11-time scoring list,
is riddledwr The game on Wednesday
*d with abuse Iso moved Sharpe into an-
ut confusing!, 'then elite A&M group as
terror,allolv he became just the ninth
re’s dreams. Aggie in history to score
low psydu ,000 points and grab 500 rebounds in a career,
aire anddism Sharpe leads the Aggies in scoring and rebounding this
“ht.Clichepn eakm, averaging 19.7 points and 9.6 boards per game,
doctors bee vith Junior Kera Alexander second on the team in both cat-
seem to drag gories at 12.9 points and 5.5 rebounds per contest. Sat-
tion. Theeni irdny’s game will be the first against Texas for first-year
any and son;- Vggie coach Peggie Gillom.
asure to the lit The Longhorns (10-8, 4-4 in Big 12) are paced by Edwina
and Downe kown, who leads the team in scoring with 15.9 points a
ors. They doll lame, 19.4 in conference play, and in rebounds with 7.6 per
vie and sot . lame.
-High to keepii: Kim Lummus also has contributed on the scoreboard
■reams was onth 12.4 points per game.
a, Oscar wraaiiftexas is trying to rebound from a 56-54 loss to the Kansas
eat films s si!tab Wildcats after Brown’s last-second, game-tying shot was
■'locked.
to this film, fe has recent history on its side, winning two of three
of watchingp$\'> ames against Texas last year, including one in the first
this movie shop wd of the Big 12 Tournament, but the Aggies have a long
if notyou’dbef a | t0 8° even u p the all-time record, which stands at
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Points leader:
Edwina Brown (15.9)
Rebound leader:
Edwina Brown (7.6)
Assists leader:
Edwina Brown (5.4)
Men aiming to continue
conference winning streak
MIKE FUENTES/Tiik Battalion
TOP: Junior forward Kera
Alexander and the A&M
Women’s Basketball
Team will go for their first
home Big 12 win when
they take on Texas at
Reed Arena this week
end.
RIGHT: Senior guard
Chris Clayton and the Ag
gie men will look to ex
tend their winning streak
when they face Okla
homa State Saturday in
Stillwater, Okla.
MIKE FUENTES/The Battalion
BY SANTOSH VENKATARAMAN
The Battalion
The Texas A&M Men’s Basket
ball Team will be looking for its
third straight victory when it goes
on the road to face Oklahoma State
University tomorrow at 3 p.m. in
Stillwater, Okla.
The Aggies are now 9-8 overall
and 2-5 in Big 12 play, while the
23rd-ranked Cowboys are 14-5 and
5-2, tied for second place in the
conference with the University of
Kansas, University
of Missouri and
University of Ne
braska. First-place
Texas leads the Big
12 by a game and a
half with a 7-1 con
ference record.
The Aggies are
coming off a 68-47
victory over Texas
Tech University
Wednesday before
4,929 fans, the sec
ond-largest men’s
basketball crowd at
Reed Arena.
Tech was held
to its lowest point
total of the season
and to nine points
in the final 12 min
utes of the game to
lose to A&M for the
first time in four years.
Senior forward Shanne Jones
led the way for the Aggies with 18
points, while senior guard Chris
Clayton nailed four three-pointers
on the way to 14 points. Sopho
more forward Aaron Jack added 10
points, including going six for six
from the free-throw line.
The Cowboys defeated the Uni
versity of Southern Mississippi in a
non-conference game Wednesday
at home by the narrowest of mar-
Oklahoma St.
(14-5,5-2 in Big 12)
2
Points leader:
D.Mason (17.8)
Rebound leader:
D.Mason (7.5)
Assists leader:
Doug Gottlieb (8.4)
gins, 65-64.
OSU point guard Doug Gottlieb,
who leads the nation in assists
with 8.4 per game, scored a career-
high 15 points to help Oklahoma
State avert the upset.
The Cowboys’ scoring duo of
shooting guard Adrian Peterson
and small forward Desmond Ma
son rank first and third in the Big
12 in scoring with 17.8 and 17.2
points per game, respectively.
Mason is the team’s leading re
bounder as well, averaging 7.5 re
bounds per game.
OSU has won eight
of its last ten ball-
games and has a 7-
2 record at home in
Gallagher-Iba Arena
this season.
A&M has not
beaten OSU in their
last seven meetings.
OSU won the first
game between the
teams this year, 64-
59, in the first Big 12
game at Reed Arena
Jan. 6.
Junior guard
Clifton Cook scored
25 points and had
eight rebounds for
the Aggies that
night, while Waxa-
hachie native Mason
led the way for the Cowboys.
OSU led 29-26 at halftime, but
the Aggies opened the second half
with three three-pointers sand
wiched around two OSU baskets to
take a 35-33 lead.
The Cowboys then rallied to re
take the lead by six points. A&M
pulled within one, 58-57, with a
minute left, but OSU center Alex
Webber’s basket from guard Joe Ad
kins with less than 45 seconds re
maining gave OSU a three-point ad
vantage and put the game away.
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