SPORTS
The Battalion I 3.12.15
W. BASKETBALL
Slumping Aggies lean on experienced Ade
A&M learns its seeding for
NCAA Tournament Monday
By Cole Stenholm
^ In early December, the excite-
^ ment surrounding the Texas A&M
women’s basketball team hit a high-
water mark after a second-half rally
over then-No. 8 Duke. The win came
as part of A&M’s immaculate 11-0 start
to the season, which saw its ranking
climb as high as No. 4.
Just a few months later and senior
Achiri Ade and her teammates are do
ing damage control following a 1-3
concluding stint to the regular season.
And unfortunately for Ade, one of
those losses came on Senior Night in
a heart-wrenching one-point loss to
Missouri in her last regular season game
at Reed Arena.
“It hurt,” Ade said. “But I think
these three losses have really brought
us together and really taught us a lot. It
hurt to lose on Senior Night — yeah it
did — but we’ve learned a lot and we
have grown so much.”
Ade, who hails from Baltimore, Md.,
arrived in Texas in 2011 to play junior
college basketball at Midland College
where she ranked sixth in the nation as
a sophomore with 12.5 rebounds per
game. At Midland, she was exposed to
Texas culture.
“That was the one thing that really
kept me in Texas because the people
were really nice, genuinely nice here,”
Ade said.
Head coach Gary Blair epitomized
one of those genuinely nice Texans to
whom Ade referred, becoming a key
reason she chose to attend A&M.
“Out of all of the schools that were
really recruiting me, I had a relationship
with coach Blair,” Ade said. “He talked
to me, he called me. The other schools,
I talked to their assistant coaches, but
coach Blair was really the one, he made
me feel welcome, and like a family at
mosphere.”
Despite being only the fourth-tallest
member on the A&M roster, Ade, at
6-foot-1, proves her knack for grab
bing rebounds in junior college was no
fluke. She leads A&M in the category
this season (259), averaging 8.1 boards
per game. She also scores 6.7 points
per contest, making herself a threat for
double-double numbers on a nightly
basis.
“We cannot do without Ade even
if she is not playing well because she
gives us the defensive presence and the
Cody Franklin —THE BATTALION
Senior Achiri Ade looks to help the Aggies rediscover their winning
ways as the NCAA Tournament approaches.
rebounding, and she can do it both of
fensive and defensive,” Blair said.
Ade will have one last shot to salvage
her senior season in this year’s NCAA
Tournament. But to right the Aggie
ship, her work will be cut out for her.
The No. 21 Aggies are only 12-9 since
their perfect start, dropping all but one
of six contests versus ranked opponents
during that stretch.
Further, the team’s third-leading
scorer, Jordan Jones, remains sidelined
for the season and the Aggies can only
watch as their tournament stock drops
after being ousted in their second game
of the SEC tournament. But the dis
cipline of a seasoned veteran like Ade
might be just what the Aggies need to
escape their slump.
“She’s always where she’s supposed
to, she doesn’t have a car, she’s never
late, she’s always on time, she doesn’t
get hurt and she’s a good leader,” Blair
said. “And so sometimes, you put all of
those things together, people listen to
her. And it’s not that she’s babbling or
anything like that, but when she talks
people listen.”
The Aggies will learn their tourna
ment seeding Monday.
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