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By swimming many season-
best times and receiving a lot of
help from its divers, the Texas
AAcM women’s swimming and
dh ing team finished right where it
hlped it would in the Big 12
championships in Austin this
weekend — second place.
■ "We’re just really excited about
that,” said A&M women’s swim
ming coach Steve Bultman. “It
matches our highest finish ever in
conference, which we did last
|r|ar. and, to overcome some of the
injuries and sickness we have had,
IIm really excited.”
■ The No. 9 University of Texas
afuised to its third straight Big 12
Championship with a record 997.5
points. The team’s 389-point mar
gin of victory over A&M (608.5)
crushed the record of 179 points
that Texas set last year.
I Texas won the first 17 events
of the meet, sweeping the first
tio days, before Nebraska and
A&M took three of the last four
eients. The Longhorns swam au
tomatic qualifying times and set
Big 12 records in nearly every
event they won.
I Colleen Lanne’ led the Long-
hbrns by breaking Big 12 records
in ihe 50-yard, 100-yard and 200-
yard freestyle events. Her 100-
yard freestyle time of 47.88 just
missed the U.S. record time of
47.81. Lanne’ was also on the win
ning relay teams in the 200-yard
fijeestyle relay, 400-yard medley
relay, 200-yard medley relay and
4()0-yard freestyle relay.
See Second on Page 10.
Missouri holds off Aggies
Tigers’ Gilbert pours in 26 points to help down A&M, 97-90
By Doug Puentes
The Battalion
The Texas A&M men’s basketball
team turned in one of its best perfor
mances of the season Saturday.
Unfortunately for the Aggies, so did
the University of Missouri’s Clarence
Gilbert.
Fresh off a one-game suspension,
Gilbert scored 26 points, including 19
in a five-minute stretch of the first half,
as Missouri held'off a late surge by the
Aggies to defeat A&M, 97-90, at Reed
Arena. \
The Aggies (9-16, 2-9 in Big 12)
shot 50.8 percent from the floor, in
cluding 55.6 percent from the 3-point
line, the fifth straight game they have
been above 45 percent.
They also set a season high in points
scored in regulation.
But Missouri (17-8, 7-4) was just as
deadly, also shooting 50.8 percent from
the floor. The Tigers shot 40 percent from
the beyond the arc, including an astound
ing 58.8 percent in the first half.
“The game to me in the first half
was Gilbert,” said A&M men’s basket
ball coach Melvin Watkins. “We could
n’t guard him. We didn’t do a good job,
and he got his rhythm, and it was hard
to break it.
“We could have given in, and I
thought at one point we were almost
ready to throw the towel in. We got
their attention back and the guys got
back on the floor and started getting af
ter it and made run for it down the
stretch. As a coach, you have to be
pleased with that type of effort.”
The Aggies started out the game in
fine fashion as freshman forward Nick
Anderson and sophomore guard
Bernard King combined to score the
team's first 12 points, as A&M jumped
to a 12-7 lead.
Missouri tied the game at 13 and
when Gilbert scored his first basket at
12:28 of the first half to give the Tigers
the lead at 15-13, it was a lead that
Missouri would not relinquish.
All Gilbert needed was a starting
point and, for the next five minutes, he
wreaked havoc on the Aggies, scoring
19 points, including five 3-pointers.
“We saw him on film and saw he
was very dangerous,” King said. “A
couple of times had we had mental
mistakes and left him wide open.”
His last 3-pointer gave the Tigers a 36-
26 lead with 7:12 remaining in the half.
Missouri cruised into halftime with
a 56-44 lead, thanks to the 3-point
shot. Missouri hit 10 3-pointers in the
first half.
The Tigers continued to roll in the
second half, eventually widening their
lead to 18 points, 69-51, with 15:45 left
in the game.
A&M did not give up, continually
chipping away at the lead and posi
tioning itself for one last run.
Gilbert hit two free throws to make
it a 92-82 game with 2:41 remaining in
the game. Then, King took over.
He hit a layup and a long 3-pointer
to cut it to a five-point game at 92-87
with 1:23 left.
King then drew a charging foul
See Missouri on Page 10.
CHAD ADAMS/The Battalion
A&M sophomore guard Bernard King dribbles around Missouri's
Wesley Stokes in the Aggies' 97-90 loss Saturday at Reed Arena.
Jones scores 1,000th point in Ags’ loss
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PATRIC SCHNEIDER/The Battalion
A&M senior guard Brandy Jones dribbles the
ball past Colorado's Linda Lappe on Saturday.
By Brian Ruff
The Battalion
The No. 19 Colorado Buffaloes used the
emotion of knocking off No. 6 Iowa State last
week to upend a struggling Texas A&M
women’s basketball team, 67-54, Saturday
night at Reed Arena.
Senior forward Brandy Jones led the Ag
gies with 11 points, giving the Missouri City
native 1,002 for her career. Jones became the
15th Aggie to reach the 1,000-point milestone
and was honored by the crowd in the second
half, shortly after she hit a 3-pointer.
“I am so happy for her,” said A&M
women’s basketball coach Peggie Gillom.
“One thousand points is a great accom
plishment.”
The Aggies came into the Colorado
matchup after suffering three of their biggest
losses of the season. The team’s most recent
loss came Tuesday night when the Oklahoma
State Cowgirls handed the Aggies an 83-63 de
feat in Reed Arena.
Against Colorado, the Aggies struggled in
the first half, with two scoring slumps of four
and five minutes in length, allowing the Buf
faloes to build a comfortable lead.
With the Aggies trailing by 15 at the end
of the second scoring slump, A&M looked to
charge back and went on a nine-point run to
close the lead to six points with just more than
two minutes remaining in the half.
Despite the Buffaloes’ increasing their lead
back to 13 early in the second half, the Aggies
did not give up. A&M cut the Colorado lead
to one point with eight minutes remaining. A
3-pointer by junior guard Jenny Roulier put an
end to the Aggie comeback and pushed tl}e
Buffalo lead back to four. It was A&M’s final
shot at ending the losing streak, but Colorado
pulled away in the final minutes.
“Our point guards didn’t panic,” said Col
orado women’s basketball coach Ceal Bat-
ry. “They kind of took over when the game
got close.”
The Colorado squad was paced by 6-foot-
5 freshman center Tera Bjorklund, who con
trolled the paint with 25 points.
“We need to play defense like that for 40
minutes instead of 20,” Gillom said. “We did
n’t want to put them at the free-throw line be
cause they are a good free-throw shooting
team, and we did that tonight.” - *
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