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By Jay Saunders • Alignment Reporter .X'-'hi:, Before Wednesday nights game against Nebraska, the Texas A&M women’s basketball team set three goals to try to break its four-game losing streak. A&M Coach Candi Harvey and the Aggies wanted fewer than 20 turnovers, more than eight steals and at least 12 assists. The Aggies accom^ J plished two of those goals, with 14 assies and only 15 turnovers, but the unexpected happened to die A&M defense in an 88-74 loss to NU. £ The Aggies (4-9 overall and 0-3 in the Big 12 Conference) came out fast with an 11-4 run in the first four minutes of the game. After a Nebraska timeout with 17:15 left in the half, the bottom feU out of A&M’s defense. NU outscored the Aggies 33-19 to close out the first half. “The execution out of the gate was good,” Harvey said. “We needed to stick to die game plan.” Texas A&M, which hasn’t won a game when trailing at halftime this season, never got closer than the seven-point halftime deficit What failed the Aggies was not their offense. A&M improved in field-goal, 3-point and free-throw shooting in the second half. Even though the Aggies scored 44 points in the second half, an ineffective press defense and a 5 0-percent-shooting effort by the Huskers gave A&M its fifth straight loss. “I thought the half-court defense got better as the game went on,” Harvey said. “We got hurt when we went to the press. We didn’t get stops.” - V* The Huskers put 51 points on the , board in the second half. Harvey said NU picked apart die Aggies’ press. As aresult/Nebraska was allowed to score a lot of transition baskets, which Harvey said is a sign of bad basketball. “We can’t go on four- of five minute rupsof bad basketball,” “ Harvey said. “Against a great team like that you are shooting yourselves in the foot” Freshman guard Brandy Jones came off of the bench to lead Texas A£M in scoring with 15 points. The Aggies had three other players with 13 points each, including junior guard Kim Tariringtoh The smallest ; player on the floor, Tufcington, led A6M with 10 rebounds. Forward Prissy Sharpe and guard Amy Yates - who ranks third in the | nation ih 5-point shooting - were held below their averages in both points and rebounding. Yates, who had eifebt points, said she was not as involved in the offense as normal. “I wasn’t a factor in the second half,” Yates said, “i wasn't putting myself in position to feet shots.” After the first four minutes; Sharpe said, A&M didn’t feet good looks from anywhere on the floor. Most of the state, except for field goal shooting, were virtually the same, which is why Sharpe said she couldn't figure out how die Aggies went from a seven-point lead to a 14 point deficit. “I just don’t know what hap pened,” Sharpe said. “They made a quick run and that was it. It kind of snowballs” Former mobster tells ‘ students to stop bets ATLANTA (AP) - The rise in youth gambling and campus book making also means an increased threat to college sports, experts wanted NCAA college administra tors this week at the NCAA conven tion. “There’s potential for bribery or extortion to affect die outcome of die game,” said Thomas French, a New York-based FBI supervisory special agent “There’s a vulnerability there to be compromised.” During a workshop at the annual convention, French and a former mobster described how athletes are lured into giving gamblers inside information or participate in point shaving and throwing games during a workshop. “Gambling at a young level, from what I’m seeing, is becoming a lot more prevalent,” said Michael Franzese, a captain in the Colombo crime family who broke from the mob in the late 1980s while serving a 10-year federal racketeering sen tence. “It’s not a new problem, but it’s proliferating,” said French. The problem can: be hard to I ---'*&%.___ Despite NIPs fatigue, A&M feels the bai19 WIN from page 10 ' “Most of the turnovers we make come when we’re getting up our half-court offense, and we really didn’t fcrve to do that tonight” With the victory, Nebraska 10 games and has woo 12 of its last 13 at the Devaney Center. Now, Sandetford wants tosoe if die road-weary Huskers have some success away from the comfortable confines of heme. : NU is 0-2 in conference games on the road losing at Colorado and Kansas last week. • said,‘OK, you have 20 minutes to r geirapeaanareauy, ueratgesaicL “We all looked at each other and said he had to be kidding. He waan*i; . kidding. We beat each other up for anhdurandahalf. * j^pTUght now, 1 just need a day ' ’ „>£'** ***•&£ v > ScStV ' VwJ*'V U-— - “-M ' --E-.' : * . ••• r'; ^ r I--;-ff■ v~ ■ * Jayhawks win fourth straight league contest From staff reports ^ 1 • . 1 ■..'• Third-ranked Kansas reached the 20-win plateau for the ninth consec utive season with an 83-65 thumping of Texas A&M Wednesday. The Jayhawks (20-2 overall and 4-0 in the Big 12 Conference) were led by freshman Eric Chenowith, who scored 16 points and grabbed a career-high 20 rebounds. The Aggies, who made just 29 percent of their shots in the second half, lost their fifth consecutive game. .. KU junior 15 -v ■ points for fee inyr Gregory and Ryan Robertson each scored 13. : Kansas is now tied for fee league lead wife Oklahoma (13-4 and 4-0) and Baylor (9-5 and 4-0). 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