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Bxas-San Antonio Roadrunners,
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■ The win pushed the Aggies’
Bcord to 4-0, their best start since
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■mrnament. Only two other
teams in the Big 12 conference
prrently are undefeated.
Senior forward Prissy Sharpe,
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Tina Jones drives past a defender during a game against Sam Houston
State on Tues. Nov. 23 at Reed Arena.
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fensive night with four steals in
crucial situations, keeping UTSA
from mounting an effective come
back.
“I like playing defense,” Jones
said. “I’m working on getting into
the passing lanes more to disrupt
their passing; it seemed to work
tonight.”
Even with the impressive de
fensive performance, assistant
coach Liz Galloway-McQuitter said
the Aggies’ offense has consistent
ly been more effective this season.
“We have a lot of people that
can score,” Galloway-McQuitter
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said. “It gives us a lot of options,
anybody can be leading scorer on
any given night.”
The Aggies are going to need all
those weapons as the conference
schedule looms.
The Big 12 is one of the top con
ferences in the nation in women’s
basketball, a fact Galloway-Mc
Quitter said she is aware of.
“We’re happy with the 30-point
win,” she said. “But I don’t know
if our new players really know
what the Big 12 is like. It is a top-
to-bottom good conference, so it’s
our job to make sure they take this
season one game at a time.”
BY AL LAZARUS
The Battalion
Jamaal Gilchrist smiled as he
looked over the stat sheet. The
Texas A&M freshman point guard
was fresh off a 16-point perfor
mance — including a 7-of-7 effort
from the free-throw line — in the
Aggies’ 75-59 victory over Virginia
Commonwealth University Sunday
afternoon at Reed Arena.
“This was fun,” Gilchrist said.
“My first game I played good, but we
didn’t win. I didn’t dream that my first
college game would end like that. ”
Speaking of unexpected end
ings, few thought the Aggies (2-2)
would win — much less by double
figures — against VCU (3-2) after
they fell behind the Rams, 23-6,
halfway through the first half of
Sunday’s game.
A nine-point run pulled the Ag
gies within eight, but they could not
further trim the lead by halftime and
entered intermission trailing, 37-29.
“We left that one team in the
locker room,” A&M men’s basket
ball coach Melvin Watkins joked
about the Aggies’ first-half perfor
mance, “and brought out a whole
new team.”
That “whole new team”
outscored the Rams, 46-22, in the
second half and completed the Ag
gies’ trip from one end of a blowout
to the other. A&M connected on 21
of 25 free throws in the second half
to pull away down the stretch.
Gilchrist’s backcourt teammate,
freshman shooting guard Bernard
King, scored 17 points and hit 9 of
10 free throws. As a team, the Ag
gies made 31 of 39 free throws — a
79.5-percent effort.
“That’s something you’ve got to
do to close games out,” Watkins said.
“You’ve got to his those free throws.”
The Aggies received a boost
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A&M freshman forward Larry Scott (25) and freshman guard Bernard
King (32) go after a rebound in the Aggies’ game against North Carolina
A&T University Nov. 27 at Reed Arena.
from the return of senior forward
Jerald Brown, who missed A&M’s
first three games with a fractured
orbit bone near his right eye.
Brown finished with seven points
and five rebounds, but Watkins
said not all of Brown’s contribu
tions could be measured.
“What Jerald brings to us is his
ability to keep us together when
we want to pull apart,” he said.
“That’s something that doesn’t
show up on the stat sheet.”
In trailing throughout the first
half, the Aggies made just 8 of 24
shots from the field and turned the
ball over 13 times.
“We just didn’t come out playing
hard,” King said. “In the second half
we came out and played hard and
played more together. We’re a young
team, but we’re coming more to
gether each game that goes by.
We’re getting better each game. ”
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