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Now, with the exception of the Waco pushover, the Big 12 South takes the cake. Teams such as Oklahoma and Texas are staples in the nation’s top 5. Oklahoma State is rising rapidly. A new coaching staff at Texas A&M and a youthful abundance of talent are making the Aggies hard to gauge and unpredictable. The North has a powerful Kansas Slate team, but behind it is a large drop-off. Nebraska, Missouri and Colorado are in the second tier of the Big 12 North behind Kansas State. THOY >iii.i.i:u s «uXI huPH MON* NORTH 1. iJJt* KANSAS ST AT I B 12-1,7*1 2. §**1 NEKIIASKA 11-4, 5-3 3. COM)HAIM) 7-5, 5-3 4. 53 MISSOURI «-1, 4-4 5. IOWA STATE 5-7, 1-7 6. KANSAS 3-D, 1-7 By [ THE G«a<ii Ant hav • THE BATTALlOS but his consistency throwing the hall leavct something to be desired. Running the opiioc may be the only option this season with runntot back David Home in the backticld and a 'ttronf offensive line. Colorado Coach Gary Barnett has reached the past two Big 12 Championship games on the heels of run ning back Chris Brown. Now that Brown has gone to the NFL, Barnett is hoping senior Bobby Purify can pick up where Brown left off. The hardest part may be running behind an inexperienced offensive line. “We really have six solid guys (on the offensive line) right now,” Barnett said. “Now, we just have to develop our backups.” Wallace to graduation, and with Wallace wtr.: their hopes of fielding a competitive football team in the Big 12. The offense welcomes hack five seniw receivers and two senior running hacks, but it is or secret that Wallace made this offense work in 2001 Junior Chris Love w ill have a tough road ahead in ing to fill Wallace’s shoes at quarterback. Nebraska Nebraska is hoping to open up the offense from the typical option offense it has been running for the past four decades. Coach Frank Solich replaced seven assistants in the off-season to jump-start the offense. Senior quarterback Jammal Lord, however, is the prototypical option quarterback. He can run. Kansas Second-year coach Mark Mangino knows he has something special in senior quarterback Bill Whittemore. Whittemore threw for 1.666 yards and ran for another 549 in 2002. “(Whittemore) has looked fantastic,’ Mangino said. “1 have never been around a quarterback who has dominated the preseason practices the way he does." The rest of the Jayhawk team will face its biggest game of the year with Baylor because that is the one Big 12 game Kansas is favored to win. AGGIE SPORTS IN BRIEF Jones leads A&M volleyball team through tourney Laura Jones was named Most Valuable Player as she led Texas A&M to a 30-26, 30- 25, 30-23 victory over Duke in the Duke Invitational champi onship game at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Jones posted her third con secutive double-double with match highs of 21 kills and 17 digs. She was joined on the all tournament team by aggie teammates Melissa Munsch and Carol Price. Munsch averaged 3.5 kills and 4.3 digs per game and Price led the Aggies with a .510 hitting efficiency for the tournament. “It feels great to have swept the tournament and see the improvements with each match,” said A&M volleyball coach Laurie Corbelli. “Laura was hands down the MVP with her backcourt play, her serving and passing and no one could stop her on her attack.” The Aggies opened the match by scoring the first five points and eventually built a game-high 11-point lead at 18-7. A&M held a 23-15 advan tage when Duke went on a7- 2 scoring run to get within four points. But, Jones connected on back-to-back kills and Beth Skypala had a kill from the back row to put A&M ahead. 28-22. No Duke player posted dou ble figures in kills and A&M outhit Duke .302 to .209 on its way to the three-game sweep of the Blue Devils. The Aggies go for their sec ond consecutive tournament title next weekend in the Michigan Pepsi Challenge, Sept. 5-7 in Ann Arbor, Mich. 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The sophonr tore quarterb*! tition is goii ning back Darren Sproles form a running duo that earned rave rcvii ews in his fres hman campaip No. 22 S rivals any in the country. Roberson also has an as he singic-har idediy revived Missouri Tigr get much > ami but lacks the receivers to throw to. The offen sive line is strong and experienced, adding to an football. Columbia is t >uzzing about t he Tigers' 200: 1 the downpo was played already powerful rushing attack. campaign, but tl ie excitement may be a link the Mustan; The defense shows problems in the secondary in its 42-28 win over California. The safety posi- premature. Taking pressure ; off Smith is an offensive line ik defensive Hi “SMU i; tion should help as senior Rashad Washington may be one of the best in the Big 1 12. The rest of a team.” said 5 returns with hard-hitting sophomore Jesse Tetuan. offense will fail tc > Smith, mainly because he lacL> Carrie Beret “I think (Washington) is taking over like threats to disthbu tc (Ik- hall to (I le skill positi® and not havi (departed senior) Terence (Newman) didTetuan 1 he defense is we ak as well, forci mg offensive pr- it will do a said. “1 think Rashad is stepping up the same and duction to be the k ;ey to Tiger vicl lories. stepped up £ really taking it on and doing real well.’’ With the power of Kansas State in the Big 12 North, the real race will be for second place. 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