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—BIG 12 CONFERENCE NOTES— Texas A&M freshman Benard King blew up against Colorado. King set a Big . 12 and team freshman single-game point record, scoring 34. For his performance, King was named this week’s Big 12 rookie of the week. ■ Iowa State’s Marcus Fizer hit a career-high 90 percent from the field on Saturday against Nebraska. The Cyclone ended the game with 23 points. Fizer has averaged 26.3 points per game and 10.7 rebounds in his past three games. Fizer won this week’s Big 12 player of the week award. ■ Although Big 12 teams are beating up on each other, they’ve also been wailing on non conference foes. The 107-40 record the Big 12 has tallied against non-conference opponents is the most wins in the history of the league. The .728 winning percentage is second best in the league’s four-year history. ■ . / Hie Big 12 boasts five teams in this week’s ESPN/USA Today Top 25. Oklahoma State cracked into the top 10, ranking ninth. Texas finds itself at 14th, Iowa State follows at 17th. Oklahoma falls to 19th, while Kansas slips to 21st. ■ Nebraska’s Nicole Kubik, who averaged 26.5 points, 7.5 rebounds, four assists and three steals in two games this past week, was named this week’s Big 12 women’s basketball player of the week. ■ Oklahoma State’s freshman Chantoya Hawkins was selected as Big 12 women’s bas ketball rookie of the week; In two games, Hawkins averaged 14 points, three rebounds, 2.5 assists and two steals. ■ The opening week of baseball found Texas junior pitcher Beau Hale in the record books. Hale pitched a complete-game no-hitter against Sam Houston State, the first no-hitter in Big 12 history. In three appearances Hale has notched a 0.00 ERA, 17 strikeouts and one walk in 15 innings, earning him Big 12 pitcher-of-the week and Collegiate Baseball Magazine nation al pitcher-of-the-week honors. ■ Kansas junior utility man Doug Dreher stepped in at second base for injured Ryan Baty, to scorch the pitching staff of Texas-San Antonio. Dreher went seven for 12 (.583 batting aver age), including three doubles and five RBI. Dreher was named this week’s Big 12 baseball player of the week. Notebook compiled by staff writer Jason Merrihew \ . No porcupines, living, dead or otherwise, were harmed in the creation of this advertisement.