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&M men’s basketball coach Melvin Watkins applauds the crowd
fter Saturday's 64-59 win over Oklahoma State University.
M elvin Watkins came to A&M
with a dream. He envisioned
the Aggies giving the Big 12
powerhouses all
they could handle in
front of huge Reed
Arena crowds,
maybe even on na
tional television.
Watkins accom
plished all of those
things — in one
week.
Excuse the Aggies’ coach if he asks to
be pinched.
Alter a respectable showing against
No. 8 Kansas last Monday — in front of
12,175 Reed Rowdies and a national tele
vision audience — the Aggies stunned No.
12 Oklahoma State on Saturday, 64-59.
"We hope that this is the beginning of
what Aggie basketball will he about,”
Watkins said. "That we won’t be so
shocked when we do beat a ranked team.”
You have to dig pretty far into the Ag
gies’ record books to find their last victory
over a ranked team. All the way back to
1987, to be exact, when A&M defeated
No. 15 TCU in the first round of the SWC
tournament.
The eighth-seeded Aggies went on to
win that tournament, but such glorious
moments have come few and far between
since then. The program floundered for
most of the ’90s and was desperately in
need of a change by the time Watkins ar
rived last season.
“A&M has made a decision to get bet
ter,’’ OSU coach Eddie Sutton said. “They
have a beautiful arena and many things to
sell when they go recruiting. Their coach
es are doing a great job.”
A&M freshman point guard Jamaal
Gilchrist said while the Aggies were
thrilled to get a win over OSU, they re
main focused on the big picture.
"This is my first time beating a ranked
opponent, and it feels good,” Gilchrist
said. "But in the future, |we] want to he
one of the ranked teams.”
With one top-20 recruiting class in the
fold and another on the way, Gilchrist’s
wish may be fulfilled shortly. Watkins and
his staff seem determined to build a strong
team from the ground up, instead of going
for the quick fix by loading the team with
j unior-col I ege trans fers.
As fans stormed the court in the wake
of Saturday’s upset, Watkins stood apart
from the mob, applauding those in the
stands. It was his way of thanking the
crowd and acknowledging its role in
A&M becoming a school known for bas
ketball as well as football. He’s doing his
part, and the fans seem to be intent on
holding up their end of the bargain.
Watkins hurried out of his postgame
news conference, explaining he had a
long night of recruiting ahead of him. In
stead of pausing even a minute to cele
brate A&M's biggest victory in over a
decade, he was concerned only with the
next task at hand.
In one week, Watkins saw his dream
of A&M’s future become reality.
The scary thing is, he’s just getting
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’Huskers continue Aggies’ losing streak, 74-71
BY REECE FLOOD
The Battalion
The Texas A&M women’s basketball team strug-
led early in its lifih straight Big 12 Conference loss to
the University of Nebraska, 74-71.
A&M struggled with shooting and turnovers in the
lirst half, but proved they could turn things around in
the second half and compete with a good team,
j Ilje first haj^saw A&M shoot 33 percent and turn
the ball over 17 times. The game started with the Ag
gies missing their first four shots, allowing Nebraska to
take a 7-0 lead.
But the Aggies appeared to come out as an entirely
different team in the second half by holding on to the
ball and shooting 52 percent. They even took their first
lead of the game early in the half after senior forward
Kera Alexander made a timely layup.
The lead was traded back and forth between the two
teams before Nebraska wenr>oo an 11-0 run late in the
second half. Sophomore guard LaToya Rose and junior
forward Jaynetta Saunders had key three-point plays to
keep the Aggies in the game.
Saunders led the game with 21 points, while senior
forward Prissy Sharpe tallied 15. Rose grabbed 14
points, including four three-pointers.
A&M's record is now 9-7, 1-5 in the Big 12, while
Nebraska improved its record to 9-7, 3-2.
The Aggies return home to play the University of
Oklahoma in Reed Arena on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
PATRIC SCHNEIDER/ I ni lUmUON
The Texas A&M men’s and women’s swimming teams defeated the
University of Kansas Saturday at the Student Rec Center Natatorium.
Swim teams begin
spring with victory
BY BLAINE DIONNE
The Battalion
If getting to know an opponent is es
sential to defeating them, then the Texas
A&M men's and women’s swimming
and diving teams should have no prob
lem with the University of Kansas at the
Big 12 Championship meet.
That meeting will mark the third time
the two schools will have locked boms
this season, the second being Saturday at
the Student Rec Center Natatorium, w ith
the Aggie women defeating Kansas 163-
132 and the men winning 165-123.
The victories pushed the Aggies’ sea
son dual meet records to 6-1 and 5-1, re
spectively.
A&M women’s swimming coach
Steve Bultman said he was very pleased
w ith the way his swimmers performed.
“The girls swam great,” Bultman
said. “We had a lot of season-best times,
we had a couple of lifetime-best times
and we had one school record, so that
was super."
The school record Bultman men
tioned was set by freshman Amy Osmun
in the 200-yard backstroke.
One of the pre-meet concerns Bult
man had was the way his distance swim
mers would respond to the continued ab
sence of one of his team captains, senior
Tracy Evans.
"They (the A&M distance swim
mers) swam, but Kansas was a little too
strong for us there,” Bultman said. "But
they swam season-best times, so we can’t
complain about that.”
Other first-place finishes for the Ag
gie women were in the 200-yard medley,
with freshman Sharise Blau, senior Mon
ica Stroman and sophomores Clara I lo
and Kelly Bolton bringing home the
hardware. Senior Monica Williams took
first in the 200-meter freestyle Osmun in
the 100-meter backstroke, I lo in the 200-
meter butterfly and Burton in the 50-me
ter freestyle.
The men were paced by the continued
success of junior David Morrow and
sophomore Riley Janes.
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