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Sports
The Battalion
Aggies search for first win
By Troy Miller
THE BATTALION
When Baylor University comes to Reed
Arena 7 p.m. Wednesday to face the Texas
A&M men’s basketball team, one of the
learns will get a first.
Either A&M (7-16, 0-12 Big 12) will
finally win its first conference game of the
season or Baylor (7-18, 2-10) will win its
first road game.
“On the road it’s tough to win anywhere,”
said Baylor head coach Scott Drew. “We’ve
played well in spurts on the road, but we
haven’t put together a full game on the road.
Obviously, A&M is looking to get that first
win, and we’re looking to get that first road
win, so something’s got to give.”
Coming into the 2003-04 season, A&M
was supposed to make a run at the top tier
of the Big 12 conference. Instead, (he
Aggies have gone winless and will not
make the postseason for the llth straight
season unless a miracle happens and they
win the Big 12 tournament in March. For
tot to happen, they would have to win a
game — something an A&M team has
never done in the tournament.
Aggie Basketball
Who; A&M against Baylor
Where: Reed Arena
When: 7 p.m. Wednesday
“Obviously, coming into the year 1 had
some high hopes for the things we could
accomplish,” said A&M head coach Melvin
Mins. “Still, you evaluate your program,
and there are things here that we feel good
about. We’ve lost a few of those close ones
tbatcould’ve easily gone the other way, and
then it mushrooms. I think had we gotten
those wins, it probably would’ve propelled
as to a few more.”
Baylor wasn’t supposed to have much of a
season in 2003-04 after facing probation by
the NCAA when scandals rocked the program
after the death of player Patrick Dennehy.
Anew coach and several transfers later.
j. Kill*
Page 5 • Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Swimming teams
head to Big 12
finals in Austin
JP BEATO III* THE BATTALION
Senior center Andy Slocum tries shoot over defenders during A&M’s Feb. 7 loss to Baylor in Waco.
the Bears had a team that could not play in
any postseason event, including the confer
ence tournament. With only six scholarship
players. Drew has engineered two confer
ence wins this season, in arguably the tough
est conference in college basketball, making
him a Big 12 Coach of the Year candidate.
“The first rule in coaching is that you
have to change what you do,” Drew said.
“Every week you’re looking for new moti
vation and new ways to keep your team
focused, inspired and playing well.” *
See Basketball on page 7
By Jordan Meserole
THE BATTALION
Redemption and victory
could be the words that sum
marize the weekend for No.
14 Texas A&M men’s and
women’s swimming and div
ing teams as they travel to
Austin to compete in the Big
12 championships beginning
Wednesday.
Since 1980, Texas has been
the conference champion.
In the men’s competition,
all eyes will be on A&M (8-2)
and UT (5-1) swimmers. In
every men’s Big 12 event this
season, the top five finishers
were either Aggies or
Longhorns.
At a Feb. 6 meet in
College Station between the
two teams, many career and
season best career- and sea-
son-high times were set,
including a top-five NCAA
time in the 50-yard freestyle
by UT senior Ian Crocker.
A&M senior Matt Rose,
who finished a close second
to Crocker, said he is ready to
face Crocker again.
“It’s not the only thing I’m
going out to do, but it would
be a nice bonus to beat him,”
Rose said. “This would have
to be the most excited I’ve
been for Big 12s.”
Competition in the diving
events will be just as fierce as
in the pool.
The three-meter men’s
diving contest will be
between the top sophomores
in the conference. The top
three-meter dives in Big 12
competition this season were
by Missouri University
sophomore Evan Watters,
followed by UT sophomore
Mark Sahttuck and A&M
sophomore Christian Picard.
Aggie senior Adam
Morgan will attempt to fin
ish his career on a high note
with a win in the one-meter
diving event.
“All I can hope to do is put
out my best performance,”
Morgan said. “We will defi
nitely see who the top dog is
this weekend.”
A&M men’s head coach
Mel Nash said the atmosphere
and the excitement could help
boost times, but the best
results come from working
hard the week before.
“You could compare it to a
week before a football game,”
Nash said. “You start to train
real hard at the beginning, then
towards the end of the week
you taper off little by little.”
Nash said many of the
swimmers are looking good
going into the meet, but he
thinks the men are still not at
the top level.
“They look real good
right now,” Nash said. “And
it’s ever more promising to a
coach to see athletes per
forming at a higher level
than normal and know they
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