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With a group of freshmen and
msfers ranked in the nation’s top 15
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en breaking through.
After losing its season opener to
ev|ously-winless North Carolina
^Saturday at Reed Arena, A&M fell
tht University of North Texas, 91-88,
onpay night in Denton. It was UNT’s
1st victory this season and first over a
ivhion I team since December 1996.
'The Aggies (0-2) will look for their
st kin of the season tonight at 7
jaifist the Stephen F. Austin Lum-
?rjacks (2-2) at Reed Arena. A&M
is not started a season 0-3 since
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4With a fractured orbit bone near
is right eye, the Aggies were forced
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londay: guards Jamaal Gilchrist and
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and forward Larry Scott.
“Some of the kids came in highly
decorated, but this is a whole new ball
game,” A&M men’s basketball coach
Melvin Watkins said. “We do have
kids that before this season is over
with — and surely before their careers
are over with — will be very talented
players in the Big 12. We are experi
encing those growing pains, but 1
wouldn’t have it any other way.
“I really wanted to go with younger
kids to build this program from a sol
id foundation.”
The encouraging news for the Ag
gies is their newcomers already seem
comfortable despite only two games
of experience at the Division I level.
Four of them — Gilchrist, King, Scott
and junior-college transfer Carlton
Brown — are averaging over 12 points
a game.
The Lumberjacks are coming off a
94-62 win over Texas College Monday
in Nacogdoches. SFA is led by junior
guard Aaron Radi, who is averaging
12.0 points a game and is 10 of 20 on
three-point attempts this season.
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nior guard Terrance Lofton each are
averaging 11.8 points for SFA.
The Aggies lead their all-time series
with the Lumberjacks, 13-3. A&M has
won 10 consecutive against SFA, in
cluding a 67-55 victory last season in
Nacogdoches.
Jerald Brown, who suffered the in
jury when he collided with a team
mate in practice Nov. 24, will not play
in tonight’s game, but Watkins said he
expects him to return to the Aggies’
lineup soon.
“I’m waiting to hear the report
from the doctors ... but hopefully he’ll
be back soon,” he said. “It’s a painful
injury, but he also has some vision
problems, especially if he turns his
head one way or the other.”
Watkins said the Aggies have
missed Brown for a variety of reasons.
“Having a kid that’s been through
it out there — someone our young
kids can lean on — would be bene
ficial,” he said. “And we haven’t re
bounded very well, and Jerald
would be a force in there for us on
the boards.”
LEFT: Texas A&M
freshman point
guard Jamaal
Gilchrist tries to get
by a North Carolina
A&T defender Satur
day night at Reed
Arena in the Aggies’
season opener.
Gilchrist is third on
the Aggies in scor
ing, averaging 15.5
points per game,
first in rebounding,
averaging 5.5
boards per game
and first in assists
with 5 per game.
RIGHT: Texas A&M
sophomore point
guard Andy
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past a North Caroli
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