No. 13 Texas A&M 97, Jacksonville 58

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) _ Make it another home blowout for No. 13 Texas A&M. <br/><br/>Josh Carter scored 16 points, and Acie Law and Antanas Kavaliauskas had 15 apiece to help the Aggies roll to a

Sunday, December 17th 2006, 6:26 am

By: News On 6

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) _ Make it another home blowout for No. 13 Texas A&M.

Josh Carter scored 16 points, and Acie Law and Antanas Kavaliauskas had 15 apiece to help the Aggies roll to a 97-58 victory over Jacksonville on Saturday night.

Joseph Jones had 14 points and Marlon Pompey added 11 for the Aggies (9-2), whose wins have all come at home this season. Texas A&M has won 14 straight at Reed Arena, and have won by an average of 29 points at home so far this year.

Texas A&M's two losses were on the road to then-No. 9 LSU and No. 1 UCLA last week. Its next game is Friday at Auburn.

``My freshman year, I don't know if we anticipated to win, but now we know that this is our court and no one should go on this court and beat us,'' said Pompey, a senior.

The Aggies are 41-4 at home during the regular season in coach Billy Gillispie's three seasons at Texas A&M. The Aggies were 40-41 in the first seven years at Reed Arena.

Jesse Kimbrough, a former Texas A&M football player, led Jacksonville (4-6) with 19 points. Jacksonville shot 33 percent from the field.

Kimbrough redshirted as a freshman at Texas A&M before transferring to McClennan Junior College in Waco to play basketball. He thought his college career was over after a December 2005 injury ended his season, but the NCAA granted him a rare sixth year of eligibility. Jacksonville missed him, finishing 1-26 in his absence.

It was a night for season-high performances by Texas A&M. The 97 points are the most scored by the Aggies this season, and they also set season highs with 46 rebounds, 19 offensive rebounds, 30 assists and nine blocked shots.

``It was good win for us. That is a hard team to guard,'' Gillispie said. ``They are very hard to guard off the dribble.''

Kavaliauskas was 7-of-11 from the field and Carter hit three 3-pointers for the Aggies, who shot 51 percent from the field.

The Aggies' defense held Jacksonville to 36 percent shooting for the game and Texas A&M scored 26 points on 16 turnovers.

The 39-point defeat was the largest this season for Jacksonville, which lost 90-61 at defending national champion Florida earlier this year.