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The Battalion
Page 7 • Tuesday, January 28, 2003
Aggies travel to Norman to face No. 7 OU
By Michael Crow
THE BATTALION
When the Texas A&M men’s basket
ball team visits Norman, Okla. on
Tuesday, a national audience will be
watching. The game, set to air on ESPN
2, will pit the Aggies (10-5, 2-2 Big I 2)
against the No. 7 ranked Oklahoma
Sooners (13-3, 4-1 Big 12), with A&M
seeking its first-ever victory at the
Lloyd Noble Center. Currently, the
Sooners boast a 7-0 home record
against the Aggies.
Still, A&M coaches and players
have repeatedly put forth reminders
that this is not last year’s team.
The most recent reminder came in
the form of a 79-66 defeat of the
Kansas State Wildcats. Freshman guard
Antoine Wright hit four of six shots
from three-point range in the outing,
leading all A&M scorers with 24 points
in the victory.
Senior guard Bernard King added
18 points and 1 1 assists of his own,
now needing only 10 points versus
Oklahoma to break A&M’s all-time
scoring record.
Wright and King have given the
Aggies a prolific scoring tandem, cre
ating opportunities for one another to
contribute.
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“If they try to shut me down, I just
give it to Antoine and let him score,”
King said. “When they try to shut him
down, he gives it right back to me.”
While A&M Head Coach Melvin
Watkins has to be pleased with his
team’s hot start this season, he is also
fully aware of the challenge that lies
ahead in Oklahoma.
“We are coming off a big win in
which our whole team played well,”
Watkins said. “We hope that gives us
some momentum heading into
Oklahoma, which is one of the tough
est places to play in the Big 12.”
The Baylor Bears recently discov
ered that a victory against the Sooners
is tough to come by, regardless of the
setting. In their most recent outing,
Oklahoma visited Baylor and came
away with a 67-54 victory.
The Sooners were led in the game
by 6-foot-8-inch freshman Kevin
Bookout’s 18 points, 14 of which came
in the first half. The Bears were simply
unable to counter Bookout’s play inside
the paint, frequently allowing the for
ward open looks under the basket.
“(Kevin’s) got his confidence going ”
said senior OU guard Hollis Price. “We
See Oklahoma on page 9
JP BEATO III • THE BATTALION
A&M senior guard Bernard King breaks away from Kansas State’s junior guard Tim
Ellis (11) and senior forward Gibson Dejesus (32) on Saturday at Reed Arena.
High school star cleared in investigation into new vehicle
By Tom Withers
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LeBron James did not violate state
amateur bylaws by accepting a sports
utility vehicle as a gift, officials said
Monday.
The Ohio High School Athletic
Association concluded its two-week
investigation by clearing James, the
nation’s top prep player, of any
wrongdoing.
0HSAA commissioner Clair
Muscaro spent the past two weeks gath
ering information and documentation
to determine how James got a Hummer
H2 vehicle, which lias a base retail
price of $50,000.
Muscaro said no violations of the
OHSAA amateur bylaws “as currently
written” have been found and that
James is still eligible to play.
Gloria James said she obtained a bank
loan to buy the SUV for her son’s 18th
birthday and provided financial informa
tion to the OHSAA for its inquiry.
“In working with the attorney for
the James family and the OHSAA
attorney, I was shown official business
records from the bank and the dealer
ship which established that the financ
ing and acquisition of the vehicle were
procured by the student-athlete’s moth
er alone,” Muscaro said in a statement.
If the OHSAA had stripped James of
his amateur status, he would have been
ineligible to play for the rest of the sea
son, and St. Vincent-St. Mary, the
nation’s No. 1 team, would have for
feited its games from the time James
accepted the SUV.
He also said the OHSAA will
review its bylaws on amateurism and
could make changes if recommended to
do so by its member schools.
James has had the SUV for several
weeks. On Friday night, he parked the
platinum-colored Hummer just out
side the school’s gym doors, giving
fans arriving to watch him in his final
home game on campus a chance to see
the vehicle.
Gloria James would not comment on
the inquiry Sunday following her son’s
game as the Fighting Irish beat Akron
Buchtel 82-71.
LeBron James, who had 25 points,
15 rebounds and eight assists, was not
available to reporters.
James and his teammates appeared
flat from the outset in Sunday’s game
— their only regular-season matchup
against an Akron-area school.
Coach Dru Joyce said the Hummer
investigation may have been a reason
for the sluggishness.
“It’s not a major distraction,” he
said. “But let’s face it, when something
like this is going on, no matter how
much you try to keep it from affecting
us, it’s still there. LeBron is newswor
thy. If he breathes too hard it’s going to
be in the newspaper.”
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