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Jockeying for Position Road Woes
ZA|rM sophomore guard Jamaal Gilchrist attempts
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the Aggies' 62-52 victory over the Red Raiders on
Saturday at Reed Arena.
T he Texas A&M men’s basket
ball team heads into its last
week of the season after split
ting a pair of games last week.
The Aggies squandered a half
time lead against Oklahoma State
on Wednesday, losing 82-76.
A&M completed a season sweep
of Texas Tech on Saturday with a
62-52 victory.
A&M will end the regular season
with a pair of road games. The Ag
gies travel to Lincoln, Neb., on
Wednesday to face the University of
Nebraska Cornhuskers.
The Aggies attempt another sea
son sweep Saturday as they travel
to Waco to take on the Baylor
Bears.
Aggies’ losing streak reaches nine games
r he Texas A&M women’s
basketball team hopes to
close out the regular season
on a positive note and halt a nine-
|game losing streak this week
when it takes on the Kansas Jay-
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day night.
■ Last week, the Aggies suffered
'another pair of conference losses
at the hands of the No. 9 Iowa
State Cyclones and the Kansas
State Wildcats.
On Feb. 20, the Aggies traveled
to Manhattan and were handed a
60-55 loss by the Wildcats.
Senior forward Jaynetta Saun
ders led the Aggies against the
Wildcats with 24 points and fresh
man guard Toccara Williams
added 14 points.
On Saturday, the No. 9 Cy
clones used eight 3-pointers to
pull away from the Aggies, 82-61,
in front of a crowd of 12,931, the
second largest of the season for
ISU. Saunders once again led the
squad with 29 points.
The Jayhawks will come into
Reed Arena on Wednesday with a
two-°game losing streak. Kansas
suffered losses to Missouri and Ne
braska last week, after knocking off
Iowa State on Feb 17.
Saunders rewrites record book
Saunders, the Aggies’ scoring
leader for most of the season, added
two more A&M records to her re
sume last week.
On Saturday night, the 5-11 ju
nior college transfer had 29 points,
breaking the single season scoring
record of 577, held by Peggy Pope
who played for the Aggies during
the 1978-79 seasons.
Saunders also became the 16th
Aggie to reach 1,000 career points,
and just the second Aggie to hit the
milestone in only two seasons.
Saunders joins senior guard
Brandy Jones, the 15th to reach the
1,000 point plateau, who accom
plished the feat earlier this season.
Saunders leads the Aggies with
a 22.7 points-per-game average,
good enough for second in the Big
12 conference behind Baylor’s
Danielle Crockrom, who averages
23 points per contest.
Bryan Ruff is a sophomore
journalism major.
Jockeying for Position
The Aggies enter the final week
of the season with a real chance to
improve their seeding in the Big 12
Tournament on March 8-11.
A&M is tied with Kansas State
for last place in the conference with
a 3-11 record. Texas Tech is a half
game up in the loss column with a
3-10 record.
K-State has two games left, at
Kansas and at Colorado.
Tech has three games this week,
hosting Oklahoma State and Texas
and traveling to Iowa State.
If both Tech and K-State go win
less and the Aggies win one game,
A&M will earn the 10th seed.
The Aggies have an outside shot
at the ninth seed. If Baylor loses
both its remaining games (OSU,
A&M) and A&M wins out, the
teams would be tied with 5-11 con
ference records.
The Aggies would then get the
ninth seed, thanks to the season
sweep of Baylor.
Road Woes
The games against Oklahoma
State and Texas Tech completed a
four-game homestand for the Aggies.
Overall. A&M finished with a .500
record at home at 7-7.
With the final two games of the
season on the road, the Aggies must
travel to a place that has not been
kind to them all season long.
A&M is just 1-8 on the road this
season, with its only win coming at
Texas Tech, 72-70. In Big 12 play,
the Aggies have been outscored by
an average of 17 points per contest.
“In the Big 12, when you play on
the road, it’s tough no matter who
you are,” said A&M men’s basket
ball coach Melvin Watkins. “For us
in particular, we haven’t had that
much success on the road, so that
complicates matters even more so.
But we’ll go in with a game plan and
see if we can make it work.”
Doug Fuentes is a senior
journalism major.
FILE PHOTO/The Battalion
A&M senior forward Jaynetta Saunders became the Aggies' all-time single
season scoring leader with 577 points.
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