women's basketball storiesAggie women's basketball team beats Rice
Thursday, November 19, 2009
The excitement that rocked Reed Arena during Texas A&M's season-opening victory over sixth-ranked Duke on Sunday was missing Wednesday night, but the Aggie women's basketball team still had no problem rolling to a workmanlike 86-50 victory over t ...full story
Aggie to go back to work against RiceWednesday, November 18, 2009
The Texas A&M women's basketball team is hopeful that life after Duke will be just as rewarding, even though at times it might not be as glamorous.The 15th-ranked Aggies, coming off a 95-77 victory over the then-sixth-ranked Blue Devils, return t ...full story
Aggie roundupTuesday, November 17, 2009
Top 25 poll after a season-opening 95-77 victory over Duke on Sunday.The Aggies were unranked in the preseason poll. Duke, which was ranked sixth, dropped to 11th.A&M's jump was one of the biggest jumps in the AP poll in the last decade.SWIMMING ...full story
Adams, A&M women beat No. 6 DukeMonday, November 16, 2009
Texas A&M coach Gary Blair can coach, recruit and schedule with anyone in the country.Sunday, he left it to the women's basketball fans at Reed Arena to anoint the crowd favorite, and they fell in love with Danielle Adams.The 6-foot-1 junior scor ...full story
A&M women excited to face No. 6 DukeSunday, November 15, 2009
Texas A&M women's basketball coach Gary Blair is intent on ending a season at the Final Four, but for now he'll settle for a championship-type game to open the season.The Aggies will play host to the sixth-ranked Duke Blue Devils at 2 p.m. Sunday ...full story
Aggie women tune up for Duke with exhibition winFriday, November 13, 2009
Many hotels, casinos and restaurants will have a "soft opening," working out their kinks for a few days before the grand opening.Think of the Texas A&M women's basketball team's 84-52 exhibition victory over Oklahoma City University on Thursday i ...full story
A&M women to face Oklahoma City tonightThursday, November 12, 2009
The Texas A&M women's basketball team will open its season with an exhibition game at 7 p.m. Thursday against Oklahoma City University at Reed Arena.The Aggies, who signed A&M Consolidated's Karla Gilbert and Arlington Lamar's Kristen Grant o ...full story
Aggie roundupTuesday, November 10, 2009
WOMEN'S BASKETBALLWomen's Basketball 101 clinic Tuesday: Texas A&M women's basketball head coach Gary Blair will hold a Women's Basketball 101 clinic for women on Tuesday from 6-8:15 p.m. at the Cox-McFerrin Center For Aggie Basketball. Blair, hi ...full story
Aggie roundupThursday, November 05, 2009
BASKETBALLA&M women ranked 16th by coaches: For the fourth consecutive season, the Texas A&M women's basketball team was ranked in the preseason ESPN/USA TODAY Coaches Top 25 poll, released Wednesday. The Aggies are No. 16.A&M is coming o ...full story
Aggie RoundupFriday, October 30, 2009
BASKETBALLBlair to host luncheon next week: Texas A&M women's basketball head coach Gary Blair will host the team's first luncheon of the season on Thursday at Reed Arena. Luncheons will be held in the women's basketball practice gym in the Cox- ...full story
Aggie RoundupThursday, October 29, 2009
CROSS COUNTRYSeven Aggies named to Academic All-Big 12 team: Seven Texas A&M cross country runners were named to the 134-member Academic All-Big 12 team Wednesday.A&M's first-team selections are Will Barry, Mitch Bible, Weston Caceras, Joe Sa ...full story
Aggie roundupFriday, October 16, 2009
BASKETBALLAggie women picked fourth in Big 12: Coming off back-to-back NCAA Sweet 16 and Big 12 tournament championship game appearances, the Texas A&M women's basketball team has been picked to finish fourth in the Big 12 by the league's coaches ...full story
Aggie RoundupSaturday, September 05, 2009
BASKETBALLWomen's team scheduled for 7 TV games: IRVING -- The Texas A&M women's basketball team's schedule includes seven TV games in 2009-10.The highlight will feature A&M against Baylor on an ESPN2 Big Monday telecast from Reed Arena. A&am ...full story
Aggie RoundupSaturday, August 22, 2009
BASKETBALLFormer Aggie loses father to cancer: Vernon Lee Starks, father of former Texas A&M women's basketball standout Takia Starks, died Thursday after a five-year battle with lymphoma cancer. He was 49.Starks coached all of his children throu ...full story
A&M women's basketball camp attracts top playersWednesday, August 05, 2009
Football is on everyone's mind already.Well, not everybody.Eighty-seven of the nation's best girls basketball players attended the Elite Camp for the Texas A&M women's basketball program last weekend. The action-packed two days ended with the to ...full story
Ag women get highly touted guardTuesday, August 04, 2009
Arlington Lamar senior Kristen Grant returned from Texas A&M's Elite Basketball Camp and made a verbal pledge to Aggie women's coach Gary Blair on Monday."It really was just not [only] the school and the coaches, it just seemed like a perfect fit ...full story
Aggie women set basketball schedule for 2009-10Sunday, August 02, 2009
The Texas A&M women will open its women's basketball season Nov. 15 against Duke at Reed Arena, head coach Gary Blair announced Saturday while releasing the Aggies' 2009-10 schedule.Duke is one of 15 teams on A&M's schedule that reached the p ...full story
Big Bend girls overcome obstacles to reach AggielandSunday, July 26, 2009
Most girls go to Gary Blair's summer basketball camps with aspirations of earning a scholarship to Texas A&M, but for the girls from Big Bend High School the experience is one of life's rare treasures.This was the sixth straight year players from ...full story
Aggie RoundupFriday, June 26, 2009
BASKETBALLWomen's coaches honored for community service: Texas A&M women's basketball head coach Gary Blair and associate head coach Vic Schaefer were recently honored for their service in the Bryan-College Station area.Blair received the "Citize ...full story
A&M women's basketball team picks up another recruit for 2011 classFriday, June 26, 2009
Texas A&M women's basketball coach Gary Blair is playing a lot of golf these days, but he's scoring better off the greens.Blair picked up his second pledge in the Class of 2011 from Colleyville Heritage's Alexia Standish, who made her pledge duri ...full story
Murano a supporter of Aggie sportsWednesday, June 17, 2009
Former Texas A&M president Elsa Murano did more than attend athletic functions, she got involved. She became so wrapped up in the school's basketball success that her husband, Peter, erected a goal in the driveway at their house.A&M women's b ...full story
CESSNA: Good times for a good cause at TraditionsWednesday, May 27, 2009
"A-pree-she-ate ya."That's one of the favorite phrases of Texas A&M women's basketball coach Gary Blair. He's built a Top 20 program by squeezing every ounce of support from those he comes in contact with, from the assistants on his staff to the ...full story
Adams officially an AggieTuesday, May 19, 2009
It took a day longer than expected, but Danielle Adams, named the national JUCO player of the year by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, has signed with Texas A&M.The 6-foot-1 forward from Jefferson College (Mo.) faxed her paperwork to A ...full story
Aggie women add JUCO player, men pick up early pledgeFriday, May 15, 2009
Texas A&M women's coach Gary Blair has started a new Aggie tradition: bring in one of the nation's best junior college players annually.A&M won a heated recruiting battle against national runner-up Louisville for Jefferson College's (Mo.) Dan ...full story
Blair, Aggies land sophomore recruitWednesday, May 06, 2009
Rachel Mitchell knew for sometime she wanted to play for the Texas A&M women's basketball program. Now the rest of the country also knows the 6-foot-6 sophomore center from Humble Atascocita loves the Aggies after her commitment became known."It ...full story
Blair, Aggie women celebrate seniorsWednesday, April 15, 2009
The Texas A&M women's basketball program said farewell to a record-setting senior class Tuesday night, but between rounds of applause and tears of joy, head coach Gary Blair challenged his returning players to keep the winning tradition alive."Wi ...full story
Aggie roundupTuesday, April 14, 2009
BASKETBALLWomen's basketball banquet tonight: The annual Texas A&M women's basketball banquet will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday at The Zone Club at Kyle Field. Tickets are $25 and can be bought at the door. Dress is business casual. ...full story
Chicago Sky draft A&M's Gant in second roundFriday, April 10, 2009
Danielle Gant became Texas A&M's highest selection in the history of WNBA draft, but four-year teammate Takia Starks was not among the 39 players chosen by the league to restock its 13 teams Thursday.The 5-foot-11 Gant, who played guard and forwa ...full story
Blair expects A&M's Gant, Starks to go in WNBA draft's second roundThursday, April 09, 2009
Danielle Gant will be home in Oklahoma City, the guest of honor at a big party thrown by her mother, while Takia Starks will take a quieter approach with friends and family as the Texas A&M seniors watch Thursday's WNBA draft in anticipation of b ...full story
Bone picks S. Carolina over A&MThursday, April 02, 2009
Highly recruited Kelsey Bone of Sugar Land Dulles, who was considering signing with the Texas A&M women's basketball program, announced during halftime of Wednesday night's McDonald's All-American game in Coral Gables, Fla., that she will sign wi ...full story
Women's banquet April 14Thursday, April 02, 2009
The annual Texas A&M women's basketball banquet will be at 6 p.m. April 14 at The Zone Club at Kyle Field. The wrong date was listed in Wednesday's edition.Tickets are $25. Reservations can be made by calling 845-0565 or by e-mailing DeAnna Doles ...full story
Gant, Starks receive All-America honorable mentionWednesday, April 01, 2009
Texas A&M senior Danielle Gant and Takia Starks received honorable mention on the Associated Press' women's basketball All-America team released Tuesday.Gant averaged 14.2 points and 6.8 rebounds per game for A&M this season. Starks scored 15 ...full story
Paris, Robinson lead OU into Final FourWednesday, April 01, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Courtney Paris will get the chance to back up her national championship guarantee in the Final Four.Paris led the way with 19 points, 13 rebounds and six blocks as top-seeded Oklahoma surged ahead in the second half to beat Purdue 74 ...full story
CESSNA: Oh, what could have beenTuesday, March 31, 2009
Often it's the games that don't materialize that intrigue us the most.Such is the case for anyone connected with the Texas A&M women's basketball program. They'll never know how the Aggies would have matched up against the Connecticut Huskies, wh ...full story
Iowa State routed by Appel, StanfordTuesday, March 31, 2009
BERKELEY, Calif. -- The Big Appel is headed back to the Final Four after a low-post performance surpassing anything in Stanford's long, illustrious basketball history.Jayne Appel had a career-high 46 points and 16 rebounds in the third highest-scorin ...full story
OU hoping to avoid upsetTuesday, March 31, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Watching her son Colton's high-school team make an unexpected run in the high school playoffs gave Sherri Coale a fresh reminder of the exhilaration of being the underdog.It's not a feeling she gets to experience much anymore as the ...full story
Louisville women knock off MarylandTuesday, March 31, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. -- As the Louisville Cardinals circled around to cut down the nets for the first time, the scoreboard clock still showed one-tenth of a second remaining.How appropriate: time hasn't run out yet on the most successful tournament run in p ...full story
Sun Devils scorch AggiesMonday, March 30, 2009
TRENTON, N.J. -- Defense had been what the Texas A&M women's basketball program could count on during its rise to prominence punctuated by a four-year NCAA Tournament run. But the Briann January-led Arizona State Sun Devils left Aggie defenders ...full story
Hard-nosed Gant leads the waySunday, March 29, 2009
Texas A&M women's coach Gary Blair thinks inch for inch, Danielle Gant is the best 5-foot-10 all-around player in the country. Gant smiles every time Blair says it in a press conference since she's been 5-11 since arriving in Aggieland four years ...full story
Kansas' miscues help A&M to victorySunday, March 29, 2009
Texas A&M and Kansas looked as though they were playing a game of "I don't want it, you take it" in the final innings Saturday at Olsen Field.In the ninth inning Caleb Shofner took it, hitting a single into shallow left field to score Kyle Collig ...full story
Louisville women hammer Lady BearsSunday, March 29, 2009
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Angel McCoughtry and Louisville are one step from the Final Four.McCoughtry had 22 points and 12 rebounds Saturday to help the Cardinals beat Baylor 56-39 in the NCAA tournament's round of 16, sending them to the first regional champ ...full story
NCAA WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT ROUNDUPSunday, March 29, 2009
BERKELEY REGIONALIowa State 69, Michigan State 68: BERKELEY, Calif. -- Alison Lacey's 3-pointer from the top of the key with 23 seconds remaining capped a furious comeback, leading fourth-seeded Iowa State to a victory over ninth-seeded Michigan Stat ...full story
Blair in middle of favorite time of yearFriday, March 27, 2009
Turn onto Gary Blair's street on a March Wednesday, and his home is easy to find.It's the one with the bare curb."See, everybody has their trash can out except me," says the Texas A&M's women's head basketball coach as he looks around his neighbo ...full story
Aggies dance into Sweet 16Wednesday, March 25, 2009
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The Texas A&M women's basketball team stole its way into the Sweet 16.Sophomore guard Sydney Colson had six of the Aggies' season-high 20 steals as A&M rolled to a 73-42 victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers in the sec ...full story
Texas A&M women's basketball notebookWednesday, March 25, 2009
Texas A&M's 27 victories are the second most in school history behind last season's 29. This year's team had been tied with the 1978-79 team (26-18).*For the first time in school history, A&M reached the Sweet 16 in a second straight season. ...full story
NCAA WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT: Baylor survives South Dakota StateWednesday, March 25, 2009
RALEIGH REGIONALBaylor 60, South Dakota State 58: LUBBOCK -- Kelli Griffin hit a floater from outside the lane on the right side with 0.5 seconds remaining to lift second-seeded Baylor to the regional semifinals.Griffin scored 21 points to lead Baylo ...full story
Physical Gophers next test for AggiesTuesday, March 24, 2009
The Minnesota Golden Gophers were the only double-digit seed to upset a favorite on its home court in the opening round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament. And it had nothing to do with Cinderella finding her glass slipper. The defensive-minde ...full story
K-State women fall to VanderbiltTuesday, March 24, 2009
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Jennifer Risper scored a career-high 27 points and Christina Wirth added 24 as fourth-seeded Vanderbilt beat fifth-seeded Kansas State 74-61 in the NCAA Tournament's second round on Monday night.The Commodores (26-8) advanced to ...full story
NCAA women's tournament roundupTuesday, March 24, 2009
OKLAHOMA CITY REGIONALPurdue 85, North Carolina 70: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Lindsay Wisdom-Hylton and Brittany Rayburn scored 18 points each to lead five Purdue players in double digits.The Boilermakers (24-10), who lost to North Carolina twice in the ...full story
A&M women take care of businessMonday, March 23, 2009
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Once the Aggies got rolling Sunday, Texas A&M's smothering defense was too much for upstart Evansville.The ninth-ranked Aggies turned a season-high 30 forced turnovers into 43 points and cruised to an 80-45 victory over the Pu ...full story
The blame game
