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No. 3 Tarleton State Too Much For Buffs, 63-60, Saturday
Jan. 17, 2004
Tarleton State University, ranked No. 3 in the NABC/Division II Top 25, was just too much for the West Texas A&M University men's basketball team, as the Texans edged the Buffs, 63-60, in a Lone Star Conference crossover doubleheader Saturday night at the WTAMU Event Center.
The Buffs were led by junior guard Carl Lamb's career-high 24 points, on a career-high five 3-pointers, while senior guard Rod Prater added 13 points for WTAMU, which had its seven-game win streak snapped with the loss and are now 10-5 on the year.
TSU won its seventh-straight game and could move up to No. 1 in next week's poll as both No. 1 and No. 2, Northwest Missouri and South Dakota State, respectively, lost this week. The Texans improved to 13-2 overall.
Three TSU players were in double figures, led by Chris Williams' 24 points. David Stephens netted 14 points, while Tim Burnette added 12 points. Williams pulled down a game-high nine rebounds as TSU outrebounded WTAMU, 44-31, including garnering 20 offensive rebounds which attributed to 22 more shot attempts.
The Texans were 25-66 (37.9 percent) from the field, including an icy 1-13 (7.7 percent) from behind the 3-point arc.
The Buffs weren't much better with a 43.2 percent (19-44) shooting from the floor, including 8-25 (32.0 percent) from 3-point land.
TSU opened a 14-8 lead before WTAMU charged back to take a 29-23 lead with 3:01 to play in the first half on a layup by senior forward Jason Campbell.
However, the Texans marched back to tie it at 32-all at halftime.
Burnette gave TSU its largest lead of the game at 43-36 on a layup at the 16:07 mark, before WTAMU responed with a 7-2 spurt, capped by another layup by Campbell, to pull within 45-43 with 10:04 remaining, but the Buffs couldn't draw any closer the rest of the game and TSU held off a late WTAMU comeback attempt.
WTAMU travels to Kingsville, Texas on Thursday, Jan. 22 to take on Texas A&M-Kingsville at 8 p.m., as the Buffs open LSC South action. The road trip continues on Saturday, Jan. 24 at Commerce, Texas, against Texas A&M-Commerce at 8 p.m. Fans can catch the action on the Buffalo Sports Network on KGNC 710 AM and www.gobuffsgo.com.
The Buffs return home on Thursday, Jan. 29, hosting Angelo State in an LSC South contest at 8 p.m. WTAMU hosts Abilene Christian on Saturday, Jan. 31, in another 8 p.m. LSC South match-up.
JJ Jumper, the official mascot of NCAA Basketball will be at the WTAMU Event Center on Saturday, Jan. 31.
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