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The Battalion
Page 5 • Monday, February 3, 2003
Men’s basketball team puts history on hold
k&M victory keeps Knight short of milestone
By Dallas Shipp
THE BATTALION
The first sellout basketball crowd
in Reed Arena history came in droves
on Saturday night to see Texas Tech
Head Coach Bobby Knight go for his
800th career victory.
Instead, it saw a Texas A&M basket
ball team that has been working all sea
son to gain attention for itself. The
Aggies received nationwide attention
with a 64-59 win over Knight and his
Red Raiders in front of 12,611 fans, the
largest basketball crowd ever assembled
for an A&M home basketball game.
A&M Head Coach Melvin Watkins
told reporters after the game that he
had stressed the importance of 800 all
week in practice.
“We talked about 800,” Watkins
said. “We talked about me winning
800 games.”
Watkins said the crowd was one of
the best crowds of the year and
emphasized how important it was to
his team.
‘The energy level was there, and
we could hear the crowd in the locker
room before the game,” Watkins said.
“We wanted to show our fans that big-
time basketball is on this campus.”
Senior guard Bernard King, who
was honored before the game as the
all-time leading scorer in A&M school
history, said he knew why fans had
turned out.
“We knew a lot of people were
coming here today to see him get his
8()()th win,” King said. “But this game
was big for us. We wanted to let
everyone see how we can play.”
The Aggies did just that. After fin
ishing a 17-2 run, the Aggies took a
25-9 lead with 7:41 to go in the first
half, creating an atmosphere of excite
ment that was previously not typical at
Reed Arena.
“The biggest factor in the ballgame
was simply the way we started,”
Knight said. “It’s been that way the
entire conference season and 1 don’t
know why.”
After falling behind early, the Red
Raiders fought back with a 17-8 run to
get within seven at the half, 33-26.
The Raiders picked up where they left
off after halftime with a 13-2 run, giv
ing them a six-point lead 41-35.
But A&M bounced back with a 10-0
run Of its own and the Raiders never
relinquished the lead.
“There’s a lot of credit to be given
to a team that gets back into a game
like ours did,” Knight said. “But more
credit goes to a team who can get
ahead and finish the game.”
The record-setting crowd’s intensity
peaked with 2:41 left in the game after
freshman forward Antoine Wright flew
by one Tech defender and over another
to slam home a one-handed dunk, giv
ing the Aggies a 60-53 lead.
“At the time, it just put us over the
top,” Wright said. “We were still a lit
tle shaky. But after that we were pretty
comfortable. That was a Bobby
See Tech on page 7
Swimming topples Houston
Tennis team loses Texas Cup
Staff & Wire
THE BATTALION
By Jeff Allen
THE BATTALION
Saturday marked the final appearance for the
No. 23 Texas A&M women’s swimming and div
ing team in its home pool this season. The Aggies
(8-3) overwhelmed the University of Houston
Cougars 173-115 with a strong team effort. The
Aggie women quickly captured the opening relay,
building an early lead, winning the three events.
The only real challenge to the Aggies’ suprema
cy came during the diving competition when three-
\me national champion diver Yulia Pakhalina from
Houston put on a clinic, easily capturing both div
ing events for the Cougars.
Fortunately for the Aggies, the Cougars’ suc
cess ended there. The A&M women went on to
capture all 12 individual events in the pool.
A standout for the Aggies was senior Kani
Tibball, who captured two individual wins, win
ning both the 200-meter breast stroke and the 200-
meter individual medley. Her time of 2:09.77 in
the medley was just a fraction of a second off her
personal season best.
The next test for the Aggies is the Big 12
Championship on Feb. 20-22 in Austin, Texas.
It was the same old news for the No. 12 Texas
A&M men’s tennis team this weekend at the
Pennick-Allison Tennis Center on the University
of Texas campus. The Aggies (3-1) fell by the
margin of 4-2 for the third year in a row against
rival No. 11 Texas in the third annual Texas Cup.
The first blemish on the Aggies’ season
record this year came, in part, as a result of trou
bles in doubles play. The A&M men dropped
two of the three matches, and lost the crucial tie
breaking point early. The duo of senior Ryan
Newport and sophomore Lester Cook saved the
Aggies from a sweep at the hands of the
Longhorns by defeating the No. 19 combo of
Jean Simon and Jose Zarhi.
On the singles side, A&M managed to snag
just two out of the five matches. Newport defeat
ed No. 19 Simon from the Longhorns, while jun
ior Khaled El Dorry downed Pete Stoner to
account for the two Aggie wins.
The road doesn’t get any easier from here for
the young Aggie squad. Next week it will be
heading to Florida to face another national pow
erhouse, the No. 5 Florida Gators, on Friday,
and then moving on to Miami on Sunday to face
off with the Hurricanes.
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