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THK BATTALION THE BAT
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By Troy Miller
THE BATTALION
When the Big 12 formed in 1996, teams such
as Colorado, Kansas State and Nebraska gave
opponents scares as if they were free falling into
the Grand Canyon. The North division was the
big dog in the league.
How times have changed.
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.
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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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