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Sports
The Battalion
Page IB • Thursday, November 13, 2003
Standoff in Big 12
North on Saturday
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12
North
like
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efore she
ound the
lass slipper
fit: It
leems to be the neglected
itepchild that defers to the
South Division, the golden
Id of the Big 12 conference.
This year’s Big 12 North
Iraqi-ledftMvinner is all but a technicality.
Brenr Whoever wins will invariably
neet the No. 1 Oklahoma
udi com: iooners Dec. 6 in Kansas City,
Ills viola ^0, when the clock strikes
vah under nidnight for the team that will
ace a cheery Bob Stoops and
tis armada of Sooners, the
suits of the championship
NOTEBOOK
Blake Kimzey
game won’t
be as pump
kin-patch
sweet as
they are in
the fairy
tale.
Harsh
reality
aside, this weekend Kansas
State and No. 18 Nebraska will
duke it out in a North Division,
winner-take-all skirmish.
Tangled at 4-2 apiece atop the
North standings, Saturday’s piv
otal meeting will be a battle of
teams that are currently streak
ing on opposite sides of the ball.
On the defensive side, the
Huskers boast one of the
nation’s hungriest defensive
See Big 12 on page 3B
Newcomers make
waves for Aggies
By Dallas Shipp
THE BATTALION
r atkins inks three
to letters of intent
By Staff & Wire
THE BATTALION
Miguel Ayala of Tepic,
jMexico, Joseph Jones of
[Normangee, Texas, and Kenneth
IWhite of Dallas have signed
Inational letters-of-intent to play
Icollege basketball at Texas
A&M, Aggies coach Melvin
Watkins said Wednesday.
“We think this is another
strong recruiting class for us,
so much in numbers as in
quality of the players,”
Watkins said. “We feel like
welve addressed our needs with
these three guys. All three have
been very well coached and will
be able to make an impact on
our program.”
Ayala, a 6-foot-7 guard/for
ward, played two years ago at
Riverside Community College
before missing last season with
a broken hand. As a freshman,
he started in all 37 games, aver
aging 10.8 points, 5.4 rebounds
and making 42.4 percent (78-of-
184) from three-point range and
See Watkins on page 3B
Aggie basketball fans got their first taste of
the Bernard King-less basketball team
Wednesday night and it was mouth-watering.
Texas A&M blew up offensively against
Team Ezybond in a 98-82 exhibition win in
front of 4,086 fans at Reed Arena
Wednesday night, leaving most of the Aggie
faithful waiting for dessert.
“We know we can score,” said Aggie
sophomore forward Antoine Wright, who led
the Aggies with 20 points. “We have a team
with a lot of guys who can put it in the hole.”
After losing King’s 32 points per game and
three other starters from last year’s starting
five, many people were waiting to catch a
glimpse of the new-look Aggies.
They came out strong against the Ezybond
all-star team, kicking off a 25-7 run just two
and a half minutes into the game to take a 29-
14 lead and never looked back.
The quick Aggies ran the court against
Team Ezybond early and often, scoring 25 fast
break points, four of which came on two steals
by freshman guard Acie Law IV, who finished
the night with 13 points and five assists.
Junior point guard Bobby Leach posted
seven points with seven rebounds and soph
omore forward Luis Clemente posted a dou
ble-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds
to join Law in the coming out party for the
Aggie newcomers.
“This recruiting class we got this year has
been real big for us,” Wright said. “In prac
tices it’s been a lot more competitive. Guys
have been pushing each other and those guys
are going to help us a lot, especially when we
get into conference play.”
Freshmen Justin Loewe, Marlon Pompey
and LaKeith Blanks combined for eight more
points in the newcomers’ parade, giving the
newcomers 38 points in the game.
But despite the Aggies’ success on
JP Beato III • THE BATTALION
Aggie sophomore forward Luis Clemente goes up for a lay-up Wednesday night against Team Ezybond.
Clemente was the player of the game, posting a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds.
offense, Aggie coach Melvin Watkins was
not pleased with everything the Aggies did
Wednesday night.
“I was not pleased with our defensive
intensity but we were trying to play passing
lanes because that was something I wanted to
work on,” Watkins said. “I’m not worried
about our scoring, but we’ve got to defend.
That’s what we have to work on.”
The Aggies gave up 82 points in the
exhibition, which Watkins said was more
than he wanted.
“In the first half I liked some things we did
in spurts, just not enough of it,” he said.
“But that’s why you play these exhibition
games, to check yourselves.”
Ezybond’s Jamal Brown posted a game
high 32 points and 14 rebounds.
Brown was one of the lone bright spots for
Ezybond which never seemed to get into a
rhythm against the Aggies.
The Aggies have one more exhibition game
left against EA Sports All-Stars next Monday
at 7 p.m. at Reed Arena.
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