November 16, 2007
No. 15-ranked Texas A&M will play host to the Ouachita Baptist Tigers on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Reed Arena. Game notes:
Game #4
#15 Texas A&M Aggies (3-0, 0-0 Big 12)
vs.
Ouachita Baptist Tigers (0-0, 0-0 Gulf South, NCAA Div. II)
Saturday, Nov. 17
7:35 p.m. (CDT)
College Station, Texas
Reed Arena (12,500 cap.)
TELEVISION
www.AggieAthletics.com
FREE VIDEO of the game on Aggies All-Access (in Texas & Arkansas ONLY)
PPV VIDEO of the game on Aggies All-Access (outside Texas & Arkansas); Cost is $5.95.
RADIO
Texas A&M Sports Network
Play-by-Play: Dave South
Analyst: Al Pulliam
Sirius Satellite Radio: n/a
Internet: www.AggieAthletics.com
SERIES
In College Station: 0-0
at Reed Arena: 0-0
Last Meeting: n/a
TEXAS A&M AGGIES
Record: 3-0 (0-0 Big 12)
Ranking: 15th (USA Today/ESPN), 15th (AP)
Last Game: Beat UTEP, 81-76, on Wednesday
Head Coach: Mark Turgeon (Kansas ?'87)
Record: 156-119 (10th year)
at Texas A&M: 3-0 (1st year)
vs. OBU: 0-0
PROJECTED STARTERS (exhibition stats)
No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl.-Exp. PPG RPG APG
22 Dominique Kirk G 6-4 185 Sr-3L 9.0 2.7 4.0
15 Donald Sloan G 6-3 205 So-1L 6.0 4.0 1.3
23 Josh Carter F 6-7 200 Jr-2L 17.3 4.7 --
30 Joseph Jones F 6-9 255 Sr-3L 13.0 4.3 --
12 DeAndre Jordan C 7-0 255 Fr-Hs 10.3 7.3 --
OBU TIGERS
Record: 0-0 (Gulf South Conference/NCAA Div. II)
Ranking: None
Last Game: None
Head Coach: Charlie Schaef (Texas Tech ?'93)
Record: 93-75 (6th year)
at Ouachita Baptist: 123-99 (8th year)
vs. Texas A&M: 0-0
PROJECTED STARTERS
No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl.-Exp. PPG RPG APG
To be announced
Key Game Notes
*A&M has won 37 straight regular-season non-conference home games since an 82-80 loss to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in 2003-04.
*A&M has won five straight home games since falling to Texas Tech, 77-75, last season.
New York Ahead
*The Aggies will travel to New York City next week for the final two rounds of the Dick?â„¢s Sporting Goods NIT Season Top-Off at Madison Square Garden. A&M will meet Washington in Wednesday?â„¢s semifinals (7 p.m. EDT/6 p.m. CDT). Syracuse and Ohio State will meet in the other semifinal game. The losers will play in the consolation finals on Friday with the winners facing off in the championship. All the games will be televised nationally on ESPN2, except for the consolation finals, which will be on ESPN.
About the Tigers
*Ouachita Baptist went 14-14 last season and finished fourth in the West Division of the Gulf South Conference with an 8-6 mark.
*OBU is an NCAA Div. II school. A&M downed two Div. II schools in the exhibition season (85-73 vs. Emporia State and 71-62 vs. Tarleton State).
*The Tigers are opening their season against the Aggies.
*ORU returns three starters from last season, ledby junior guard Jaranimo Marks (6-1), who averaged 16.0 points per game.
*The Tigers are in their sixth season under Coach Charlie Schaef, a 1993 graduate of Texas Tech.
Series Notes
*A&M and Ouachita Baptist are meeting for the first time.