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Aggies Face Texas Tech Wednesday in First Round of Big 12 Tournament

COLLEGE STATION - Texas A&M and Texas Tech meet for the third time this year in Oklahoma City in the 1st Round of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Tournament. Texas A&M leads the season series 2-0. The game is

March 9, 2009

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COLLEGE STATION - Texas A&M and Texas Tech meet for the third time this year in Oklahoma City in the 1st Round of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Tournament. Texas A&M leads the season series 2-0. The game is scheduled to begin at 8:30pm will be broadcast on the Big 12 Network.

A PDF of the complete tournament notes is available at http://www.aggieathletics.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/tam-m-baskbl-notes-0809.html

GAME #32
Texas A&M Aggies (23-8, 9-7 Big 12, T4th)
vs.
Texas Tech Red Raiders (13-18, 3-13 Big 12, 11th)
              
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
8:30 p.m. (CST)
Oklahoma City, Okla.
Ford Center (18,878 cap.)

Television
Big 12 Network
Play-by-Play: Dave Armstrong
Analyst: Reid Gettys
Big 12 Network Stations
Dallas, Texas                                      TW-Dallas
Houston, Texas                                   KNWS
Denver, Colo.                                      Altitude2
St. Louis, Mo.                                      WRBU
Kansas City, Mo.                                 KMCI
Oklahoma City, Okla.                          KOCB
Austin, Texas                                      KNVA
Little Rock, Ark.                                   KASN-DT2
Wichita, Kan.                                      KMTW
Toledo, Ohio                                       WTVG-DT2
Omaha, Neb.                                      KXVO
Waco-Temple-Bryan, Texas               KBTX-DT2
Tyler-Longview, Texas                        KLPN
La Crosse, Wis.                                  KQEG-CA
Corpus Christi, Texas                          KTOV
Amarillo, Texas                                   KCPN
Topeka, Kansas                                  KSNT
Columbia-Jefferson City, Mo.                KMIZ
Sioux City, Iowa                                  KPTH-DT2
Joplin-Pittsburg, Kan.                          KFJX-DT
Lubbock, Texas                                  KMYL
Midland-Odessa, Texas                      KOSA-DT2
Sherman, Texas-Ada, Okla.                 KXII-DT2
Abilene-Sweetwater, Texas                  KIDZ
North Platte, Neb.                                KIIT-LP

Radio
Texas A&M Sports Network
Play-by-Play: Dave South
Analyst: Al Pulliam
Sirius Satellite Radio: Channel 212 XM
www.aggieathletics.com
Texas A&M Sports Network Stations
Atlanta                             KPYN-AM         900
Athens                             KLVQ-AM         1410
Austin                           KJCE-AM          1370
Brenham                       KWHI-AM          1280
Carthage                         KGAS-AM         1590
College Station                   WTAW-AM       1620
College Station                   KZNE-AM         1150
Comanche                     KCOM-AM        1550
Dallas                           KFXR-AM          1190
El Campo                      KULP-AM         1390
Gonzales                      KCTI-AM          1450
Houston                          KBME-AM        790
Marshall                          KMHT-AM         1450
New Braunfels                    KGNB-AM         1420
San Antonio                   KSJL-AM          810
San Saba                      KBAL-AM         1410
Sulphur Springs             KSST-AM         1230
Victoria                            KVNN-AM        1340

TEXAS A&M AGGIES
www.aggieathletics.com
Record: 23-8 (9-7 Big 12, Tied for 4th)
Ranking/RPI (SOS): Unranked / 28 (43)

  • Last Game: Beat No. 12 Missouri (96-86) at home on Saturday

Current Streak: Won six straight
Head Coach: Mark Turgeon (Kansas `87)
            Record: 201-138 (11th year)
            at Texas A&M: 48-19 (2nd year)
            vs. Texas Tech: 3-1

PROJECTED TEXAS A&M STARTERS
No.       Player                          P          Ht.        Wt.      Cl-Ex               PPG     RPG     APG
15        Donald Sloan            G         6-3      205     Jr-2L                11.4     3.5       3.0
3          Derrick Roland          G         6-4      185     Jr-2L                6.2       2.7       --
23        Josh Carter               F          6-7      200     Sr-3L               14.0     4.4      --
0          Bryan Davis               F          6-9      240    Jr-2L               10.4      6.4      --
41        Chinemelu Elonu      C         6-10    235     Jr-2L                10.1      7.5       --
           
TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS
www.texastech.cstv.com
Record: 13-18 (3-13 Big 12)
Ranking/RPI (SOS): unranked / 127 (18)
Last Game: Lost at Iowa State (78-76) on Saturday
Current Streak: Won seven of last eight
            Head Coach: Pat Knight (Indiana `95)
            Record: 17-25 (2nd year)
            at Texas Tech: 17-25 (2nd year)
            vs. Texas A&M: 0-3

PROJECTED TEXAS TECH STARTERS
No.       Player                                      P          Ht.        Wt.      Cl-Ex    PPG     RPG     APG
21        John Roberson                      G         5-11    165     So-1L 14.4    3.6       6.5
20        Alan Voskuil                           G         6-3      181     Sr-3L  14.1    4.1       2.1
23        Nick Okorie                            G        6-1      195     Jr-Tr   11.5    3.1       --
41        Damir Suljagic                       F         6-9     250     Sr-3L  2.4       1.5       --
15        Robert Lewandowski            F         6-10    240     Fr-Hs  6.9      3.8       --      
                                        
Additional Information:
Big 12 Conference: http://big12sports.com/
NCAA: http://www.ncaa.com/

Series Notes

  • The Red Raiders lead the series, 63-56, including a 1-0 edge in Big 12 Tournament games. The series is tied, 6-6, in all games played at neutral sites. Tech posted an 80-71 win against A&M in the first round of the 2002 Big 12 tournament in Kansas City.
  • A&M has won three straight and six of the last nine.

Key Game Notes

  • No. 6-seeded Texas A&M plays No. 11 Texas Tech in Wednesday's first round of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Tournament at Oklahoma City's Ford Center. Game time is set for 8:30 p.m. (Big 12 Network).
  • The winner of the A&M-Tech game will play No. 3-seeded Missouri on Thursday (8:30 p.m./ESPN2). The winner of that game will advance to Friday's semifinals (8:30 p.m./Big 12 Network). The championship game will be Saturday (5:10 p.m./ESPN).
  • A&M has won six straight and is coming off a 96-86 win against No. 12-ranked Missouri at home on Saturday. A&M's winning streak is the longest in the Big 12, and the ninth longest nationally, heading into postseason play. It is the third longest streak by a member of a BCS Conference.
  • A&M has won 48 games under Mark Turgeon, the most wins ever by a Big 12 coach in his first two seasons in the league.
  • A&M, Kansas and Texas are the only three Big 12 schools to post 20-win seasons in each of the last five years. The Aggies also have recorded at least eight Big 12 wins in five straight seasons. Prior to that stretch, A&M had never won more than six league games.
  • The Aggies are 3-12 in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship, but are 3-3 in the last three years. Last year,  the Aggies doubled their victory total in the tournament by beating Iowa State (60-47) and Kansas State (63-60) before falling in the semifinals to eventual national champion Kansas (77-71).
  • A&M is the No. 6 seed for the second straight year and has been seeded in the top half four straight years. Prior to last season, A&M has never been the No. 6 seed.
  • The only previous meeting between A&M and Texas Tech at the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship came in Kansas City in 2002. The No. 5-seeded Red Raiders came away with an 80-71 first-round victory over the 12th-seeded Aggies. A&M and Missouri have met twice in the tournament, both in first round games. The No. 6-seeded Tigers posted a 77-62 win against the No. 11 Aggies in Kansas City in 2001. The teams had identical seeds in Dallas in 2004 when Missouri held on for a 74-68 victory in Melvin Watkins' final game as the Aggies' head coach.

NCAA Tournament Resume

  • RPI: 28 (Note: In the last nine seasons, no BCS conference team with an RPI better than 36 has been left out of NCAA Tournament field)
  • Strength of Schedule: 43
  • Current Streak: Won six straight
  • Last 12 Games: 8-4
  • Last 10 Games: 7-3
  • Quality Opponents: 7 wins against teams with 20 or more victories
  • Quality Wins: 4 wins vs. RPI top 37; 8 wins vs. RPI top 84; 12 wins vs. RPI top 150;
  • Ranked Teams: 4 wins against teams that were ranked at some point this season
  • Quality Losses: 5 losses to teams in RPI top 36; No loss to team outside RPI top 76; 6-point losses to Oklahoma (4 RPI) at home and on the road; last three losses were one possession games in final minute
  • Non-Conference Record (14-1): Beat Southeastern Conference champion LSU by 11 on a neutral court; Beat Arizona; Won at Alabama; Beat Southland Conference champion Stephen F. Austin; only loss was to Tulsa (59 RPI) at a neutral site. Record By Conference: SEC (2-0), Pac 10 (1-0), C-USA (2-1), Mid-American (1-0), Southland (3-0), Colonial (1-0), SWAC (2-0), MEAC (1-0).

Tournament Notes 

  • Nebraska is the only Big 12 team A&M has not played in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship.
  • After being the lower seeded team in seven of its first eight Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship appearances, A&M has been the higher-seeded team for its opening tournament game for five straight years -- in 2005 as the No. 7 seed against No. 10 Kansas State, in 2006 as the No. 4 seed against No. 5 Colorado, in 2007 as the No. 2 seed against No. 7 Oklahoma State, in 2008 as the No. 6 seed against No. 11 Iowa State, and this year as the No. 6 seed against No. 11 Texas Tech.
  • A&M is 2-2 as the higher seeded team in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship.
  • A&M has an all-time record of 19-31 in conference postseason tournaments.
  • In 17 Big 12 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship contests (including the first round this season), the Aggies have played 11 North Division schools (3-7) and six from the South Division (0-5).
  • No. 2-seeded A&M lost to No. 7 Oklahoma State (57-56) in the 2007 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship game, its only previous appearance at the Ford Center. That A&M team went on to finish 27-7 and advanced to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen, where it lost to Memphis, 65-64, in the final seconds. 

Sidebars

  • A&M assistant coach Alvin "Pooh" Williamson is from Beggs, Okla., located just south of Tulsa. He led Beggs HS to two Class 2A state titles before going on to star at Tulsa from 1992-95. Williamson led Tulsa to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 1994 and 1995. He was an assistant at Tulsa from 2001-05 and served as interim head coach in 2004-05.
  • A&M sophomore guard Derrek Lewis is from Tulsa, where he led Union HS to a 26-1 record and the state semifinals in 2007. He led Cascia Hall HS to the state finals as a junior in 2006..
  • Missouri Associate Head Coach Melvin Watkins served as head coach at Texas A&M for six years (1998-04).

About Texas Tech

  • The Red Raiders are in their second season under Head Coach Pat Knight, who replaced his legendary father, Bob Knight, in the middle of last season.
  • Tech finished 16-15 last year and placed seventh in the Big 12 with a 7-9 mark.
  • Sophomore guard guard John Roberson (5-11) leads the Red Raiders in scoring (14.4) and leads the Big 12 in assists (6.5). He averaged a league-best 6.9 assists in conference play.
  • Senior guard Alan Voskuil (6-3) adds 14.1 points and ranks second in the Big 12 in three-point percentage (.449). He made a league-best 92.9 percent from the free throw line in Biog 12 play.
  • The Red Raiders posted an impressive 84-65 win against Big 12 champion Kansas on March 4 in Lubbock and are coming off a narrow 78-76 loss at Iowa State in Saturday's regular-season finale.
  • Tech averages 77.9 points per game buts ranks last in the Big 12 in scoring defense (78.8).

 

Earlier This Season In Lubbock
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP, Feb. 21, 2009) - Chinemelu Elonu scored a career-high 21 points and got 12 rebounds to lead Texas A&M past Texas Tech 79-73 on Saturday night.The Aggies trailed only a few times in the second half and never more than two points. Both teams went to the free throw line often but the Aggies had more than twice the attempts (51) as did the Red Raiders (22). There were 56 fouls called in the game. Josh Carter added 20 points for the Aggies (19-8, 5-7 Big 12). Alan Voskuil and John Roberson scored 16 each, and Nick Okorie added 14 to lead the Red Raiders (12-15, 2-10). The loss was the fourth straight for Tech.

Earlier This Season in College Station
COLLEGE STATION (AP, Jan. 28, 2009) -- B.J. Holmes had six 3-pointers and finished with 24 points, both career-highs, to lead Texas A&M to a 79-70 win over Texas Tech on Wednesday night. The win broke a three-game losing streak for the Aggies. The sophomore didn't miss from long-range until his seventh attempt. He hit five 3s in the first half, including three in just more than a minute. His sixth one gave Texas A&M a lead after the Red Raiders' had tied it with about 13 minutes left. The Aggies (16-5, 2-4 Big 12 Conference) didn't trail after that and led by four before Derrick Roland's 3-pointer stretched A&M's lead to 71-64 with just more than three minutes remaining. Texas Tech (11-9, 1-4) was led by Robert Lewandowski and John Roberson, who scored 20 points each.
 
Missouri Recap
COLLEGE STATION (AP) -- Josh Carter and B.J. Holmes scored 13 points each, and Bryan Davis and Nathan Walkup scored 12 points apiece for Texas A&M (23-8, 9-7 Big 12), which ran off six straight wins to end the regular season. DeMarre Carroll scored 18 points, Zaire Taylor had 17 and Matt Lawrence 16 for Missouri (25-6, 12-4), which finished the regular season with two losses in its last three games. Missouri trailed by 22 points at halftime. The Tigers cut the lead to 88-81 with just under 1 ½ minutes to go but the Aggies sank 6-of-6 free throws in the closing moments to wrap up the win.

Hoops Success

  • A&M has posted its fifth straight 20-win season. Before the 2004-05 season, A&M had only six 20-win seasons in its entire history.
  • A&M, Kansas and Texas are the only three Big 12 schools that have won at least 20 games in each of the last five years. Only 23 schools in the nation won at least 20 games in each of the previous four seasons.
  • A&M is looking for its fourth straight NCAA Tournament appearance. Prior to this streak, A&M had never made consecutive NCAA appearances. Including the 2005 NIT, A&M has advanced to postseason play four straight years.
  • A&M is 4-3 NCAA Tournament play in the last three years. Prior to that, A&M was just 3-7 in NCAA Tournament games in its history.
  • A&M's three NCAA losses in the last three years were by an average of 1.7 points with each game decided in the final 10 seconds.
  • A&M is one of just eight schools that have advanced past the first round of the NCAA Tournament in each of the last three seasons.
  • A&M is the only Big 12 school -- and one of just four schools nationally --  to win at least one postseason game in each of the last four seasons (1 NIT/3 NCAA Tournaments). The others are North Carolina (4 NCAAs), Georgetown (1 NIT/3 NCAAs) and Memphis (1 NIT/3 NCAAs).

Home Court Advantage

  • A&M has won 57 of its last 64 home games, including 22 of its last 29 in Big 12 play.
  • The Aggies finished 16-2 at home this season, their fifth straight year with at least 16 home victories.
  • The Aggies have won 56 straight regular-season non-conference games at Reed Arena, including wins against Arizona, Alabama and LSU. The last loss was to A&M-Corpus Christi on Dec. 13, 2003 (82-80). A&M is 77-9 all-time in non-conference games at Reed (.895).
  • The Aggies are 50-6 (.893) at home the last three seasons and are 83-12 (.874) in the last five years, the second most home wins in the country (Memphis has won 89).
  • A&M is 123-53 (.699) in its 11th season at Reed Arena. The Aggies were 41-41 (.500) in its first six years at Reed.
  • The $23 million, 68,000-square-foot Cox-McFerrin Center for Aggie Basketball was officially dedicated on Jan. 17. The addition includes practice gyms, locker rooms, film rooms, a weight room, training facilities and offices.
  • Reed Arena is in its 11th season as the home of Texas A&M basketball. The 12,500-seat facility opened in 1998 and was named for Houston veterinarian Chester J. Reed '47 and his wife, Billie Jean, who contributed the nucleus of the assets used to fund the facility.
  • The top 14 single-game attendance marks in A&M history (and 18 of the top 20) have been set in the last four years. The top 14 non-conference attendance marks also have been set in the last four seasons.
  • A&M averaged 11,013 fans per game in Big 12 play this season.

NBA Presence

  • A&M has produced three NBA Draft picks in the last four years. , including first round choices Acie Law IV (2007, Atlanta Hawks) and Antoine Wright (2005, New Jersey Nets). DeAndre Jordan was a second-round pick by the Los Angeles Clippers in 2008.
  • Prior to 2005, A&M had not produced an NBA Draft pick since 1987. A&M's never had more than one active NBA player before now.
  • Law, Wright and Jordan have each started in NBA games this season. Through games of March 5, Wright had started in 35 of 45 games this season for the Dallas Mavericks and has a career-high 24 points against Indiana in November. Law has appeared in 47 games for the Hawks, starting once, and scored a career-high 22 points against Clevemand in November. Jordan has played in 39 games for the Clippers, starting 10 times, and scored a career-high 23 points against the Los Angeles Lakers in January. He also posted a 20-rebound game against Golden State and has 6 blocked shots against Minnesota in January.

Making the Grade

  • When the NCAA adopted the Academic Progress Rate (APR) as its standard for measuring the academic success of its member schools in 2004, Texas A&M did not meet the minimum score of 925 and lost a scholarship for the 2004-05 season. The program's APR for 2007-08 improved to a perfect score of 1,000.
  • All nine Aggies seniors have graduated in the last two seasons and seniors Josh Carter and Bryson Graham are on schedule to graduate this year.

Coach Turgeon

  • A former player and assistant coach at Kansas, 44-year-old Mark Turgeon is in his second season at Texas A&M. He cut his coaching teeth at Kansas under legends Larry Brown and Roy Williams.
  • Turgeon's 48 wins at A&M are a record by a Big 12 coach in his first two years at a league school.  The previous mark was 47 wins by Kansas' Bill Self (2003-05) and Iowa State's Larry Eustachy (1998-00).
  • Turgeon led the Aggies to a 25-11 record last year, the third most wins in school history. A&M advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, dropping a close 51-49 decision to No. 1-seed UCLA.
  • Turgeon's 25 wins last season were the most by a Big 12 coach in his debut and tied for the most by a first-year coach in the history of any Big 12 school. Tom Penders went 25-9 in his first year at Texas in 1988-89 prior to the Big 12. 
  • Turgeon has led his teams to at least 20 wins in five of the last six seasons (His WSU team won 19 games in 2006-07). His teams have advanced to postseason play five times in the previous six years. His record in the last six years is 136-63 (.683).

Player Notables

    • Josh Carter: Second-Team All-Big 12 (Dallas Morning News) ... Coaches and AP) Third-Team All-Big 12 Coaches and AP) ... will play in his 133rd career game on Wednesday, breaking Dominique Kirk's (2004-08) school record (132) ... Carter is the winningest player in school history with a 97-35 (.735) record since he came to A&M ... Carter has started in 101 career games ... scored a career-high 29 points (7-of-10 three-pointers) vs. Iowa State ... made game-winning three-pointer at buzzer against Nebraska ... has scored in double figures in 11 straight games ... has made 19-of-30 (.633) three-pointers in the last five games ... needs three rebounds to become the first player in A&M history to score at least 1,500 points (1,533) with 500 rebounds (497) and 200 assists (237) ... owns school record for career three-point field goals (295), No. 4 in Big 12 history ... ranks seventh in career scoring at A&M and needs 61 points to move into top five ... leads Big 12 in season free throw accuracy (.851) and was second in three-point field goals per game (2.6) in league play ...A&M is 67-15 when he scores in double figures, including a 20-4 mark this season ...has averaged 17.0 points and 5.0 rebounds (.541 FG/.564 3-pt. FG) in team's six-game winning streak.
    • Bryan Davis: Second on team in rebounding (6.4) and blocks (38), and is third in scoring (10.4) ... ninth in the Big 12 in rebounding, fifth in blocked shots ... has averaged 10.5 points and 9.5 rebounds in the last two games ... had 12 points and 10 rebounds in win against Missouri ... earned all-tournament honors at the South Padre Island Invitational, where he scored 15 points with 13 rebounds in the final-round win vs. Kent State ... ranks eighth in A&M history in career blocks (88) ... team is 26-5 in his career when he scores in double figures ... leads team in free throw attempts (145).

 

    • Donald Sloan: Has averaged 15.0 points in the last two games ... had 14 points and 5 assists in win at Colorado (7 points in final 4:00) ... scored a team-high 16 points in win against Missouri ... leads team in assists (3.0), ranks second in scoring (11.4) and is third in steals (23) ... has just 48 turnovers (with 93 assists) in 939 minutes of action this season (one every 19.6 minutes) -- last year, he averaged a turnover every 13.3 minutes ... is 28-of-34 (.824) on free throws in "crunch time" this season (games within 10 points in the final two minutes) ... making 74.4 percent from the free throw line, a marked improvement over last season's .673 mark ... leads the team in free throws made (96) ... Aggies are 38-6 in his career when he hands out at least 3 assists.
    • Derrick Roland's: Big 12 All-Defense Team (coaches and media panel) ... has averaged 9.7 points in the last three games ... scored 12 points (8-8 FT) in win at Colorado ... added 9 points in win against Missouri ... has made 21 of his last 25 free throws (.840) ... one of the country's top defenders ... normally guards the opponents' top scoring guard ... in Big 12 play, his primary assignment made just 38 percent from the field and 32 percent from three-point range ... opponents' top-scoring guard has scored below his average in all but three Big 12 games ... held Texas' A.J. Abrams to a season-low 7 points on 3-12 shooting in win against Longhorns ... Abrams averaged just 8.0 points in two games against Roland this year ... Oklahoma State's James Anderson averaged only 9.5 points in two games against Roland ... team is 23-4 in his career when he scores at least 7 points, including an 11-2 mark this year.

 

    • Chinemelu Elonu: Big 12 Most-Improved Player (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) ... Big 12 All-Improved Team (media panel) ... Honorable Mention All-Big 12 (AP) ... averaged 1.9 points and 2.2 rebounds in 56 career games entering season ... in Big 12 play, he ranks third on the team in scoring (10.6) while leading in rebounding (8.0), blocks (26) and field goal accuracy (.644), the second best percentage in league play in school history (.650 by Rudy Woods in 1978-79) ... has had nine double-doubles (fifth most in the Big 12), including five in league play ... ranked second in Big 12 in blocked  shots (1.6) and offensive rebounds (3.4) ... fifth in the league in season rebounding (7.5) ...  leads the team in field goal percentage at .659, fourth-best nationally (min. 175 FGA) ... school record is .622 by Rudy Woods in 1978-79 ... leads the team in three-point plays (FG+FT) with nine and also leads in dunks with 37 ... younger sister, DeAndre Jordan also had 26 last year).
    • B.J. Holmes: Big 12 All-Reserve Team ... led Big 12 in three-point percentage (.470) in league play... ranked second in the league in free throw percentage (.860) in Big 12 play ... averaged 14.5 points in last two games, making 6-of-12 three-pointers (.500) and 11-of-13 .846) from the free throw line ... scored 10 of his 16 points in final 6:00 in win at Colorado ... added 13 points in win vs. Missouri ... one of the top bench players in the Big 12, he averaged 9.1 points in league play ... had a career-high 24 points in first win against Texas Tech, making 6-of-7 three-pointers (.875), tying for the fourth-best percentage in school history ... made his first six threes vs. Tech, tying Big 12 record for consecutive treys ... had streak of 20 straight games with at least one trey (third longest in school history) earlier this season ... has been the top scorer off the bench team-high 19 times ... scored 16 points in the win at Alabama and nailed a rainbow three-pointer with :02 left to send the game to overtime ... has had just 17 turnovers (46 assists) in 690 minutes, an average of just one every 40.6 minutes ... has only 8 total turnovers in Big 12 play (one every 41.9 minutes) ... A&M is 11-2 this year when he scores in double figures.

 

    • B.J. Holmes tied it with :02 left ... also hit a "clutch" jumper in the final minute against Stephen F. Austin to ice the victory ... made a three-pointer with 7:32 left at Rice that gave the Aggies a six-point lead and the Owls never came close again ... grabbed 11 rebounds against Stephen F. Austin and pulled down a career-best 12 against UNC Wilmington ... scored 9 points against UNC Wilmington, just missing his first career double-double ... Aggies are 14-1 in his career when he scores at least 5 points and are 15-2 when he makes at least one three-pointer, including a 9-0 mark this season.
    • DASH HARRIS: Has emerged as one of the team's best defenders ... Aggies are 9-0 when he has at least 3 assists, with a 4-0 mark in Big 12 play ... equaled career high with 6 points (3-4 FG) and added 3 assists and 2 steals in win against Missouri ...  tied career best with 6 points against Iowa State and made 2-of-2 from three-point range, his first treys of the year ... dished out career-best 5 assists with 0 turnovers in win vs. Texas ... had monster dunk and made free throw to complete key three-point play in comeback win at Nebraska ... also had 5 assists vs. Texas Tech, Rice and McNeese State ... had 4 assists and a career-high 6 points vs. North Dakota.

 

    • David Loubeau: Preseason honorable mention freshman All-America by Collegeinsider.com ... ranked second among Big 12 freshmen in offensive rebounding (1.9) in league play ... scored 8 points (3-3 FG) in win against Missouri ... had 11 points with 8 rebounds in first win against Texas Tech and added 10 points in win against Oklahoma State ... scored a career-high 12 points with 8 rebounds in the win against Kent State ... has been the first player off the bench a team-high 18 times ... scored 9 points, all in the second half, in close loss at Oklahoma ... Aggies are 7-1 when he scores at least 8 points (3-1 in Big 12 play), losing only at Oklahoma, when he helped A&M take a late lead with 9 second-half points.

Offensive Notes
Scoring
A&M is 16-0 this season with it scores at least 72 points, including 8-0 in Big 12 play ... A&M is 30-1 under Mark Turgeon when it scores at least 72 ... the Aggies are one of the most balanced teams in the Big 12 with four players averaging in double figures and five averaging between 8.9 and 14.0 points ... A&M is 5-0 when five players reach double figures in scoring, 13-2 when it has four or more players score in double digits and is 19-3 when three or more reach double figures ... five players reached the mark against Missouri and nine scored at least 6 points in the win ... A&M is 14-1 in the last three years when the trio of Carter, Sloan and Davis each score in double figures, including a 10-1 mark this year (the only loss was at Oklahoma) ...  the Aggies average 20.0 bench points and have had at least 10 bench points in all but the loss at Baylor ... A&M is 9-0 when it has at least 8 fast break points this season and is 19-1 when they reach that mark under Mark Turgeon.

Production in Wins/Losses
In its Big 12 wins, A&M has averaged 79.0 points while making .492 from the field and .438 from three-point range ... in its league losses, the Aggies averaged 62.0 points while making .398 from the field,.325 from three-point range and .644 from the line ... A&M has averaged 14.9 turnovers in its Big 12 losses, but only 12.4 in its conference wins ... A&M averaged 23.8 bench points in its Big 12 wins, but only 15.0 in its losses.

Field Goal Shooting
The Aggies are 17-1 when they make at least 43 percent from the field ... A&M is 5-7 when it shoots under 43 percent ... under Mark Turgeon, A&M is 39-5 when it makes at least 43 percent from the field, with a 20-0 mark when it makes better than 50 percent ... A&M ranks third in the Big 12 in three-point accuracy (.383) and is fifth in field goal accuracy (.441) in league play.

Efficiency
A&M is 16-0 when it has just 11 assists or more this season ... the Aggies are 14-0 when they have a positive assist-to-turnover ratio, including a 6-0 mark in league play ... A&M had 19 assists against Iowa State, its most since it had 21 against Kent State in late November ... A&M is 38-6 when Donald Sloan has at least 3 assists in his career, including a 15-2 mark this year ... the Aggies are 9-0 when Dash Harris has at least 3 assists.

Turnovers
A&M averaged 12.0 turnovers per game in non-conference play, second fewest in the Big 12 ... A&M had 16 first-half turnovers at Colorado, but had only three in the second half of comeback win ... The Aggies  had only 14 turnovers against Missouri, which came into the game forcing an average of 19.5 ... A&M is 18-3 when it has 14 or fewer turnovers ... under Mark Turgeon, the Aggies are 36-11 with 14 or fewer turnovers ... the Aggies are 17-1 when their opponents have fewer than 14 points off turnovers, including a 6-1 mark in Big 12 play (only loss was at Oklahoma) ... A&M has allowed an average of 17.8 points off turnovers in its losses, but only 10.6 in its victories (in Big 12 play, A&M has given up 17.4 in its losses and only 12.7 in its wins) ... under Turgeon, A&M is 29-4 when it has more points off turnovers than its opponent ... the Aggies had 16 assists and only 4 turnovers against Arizona, their fewest turnovers in a game since the statistic was first maintained in the mid-1970s.

Dominating Inside
A&M has outrebounded 10 of its last 11 opponents with an average margin of +9.0 in that span ... the Aggies have posted a +11.0 average margin in the last five games ... A&M had a +14 rebounding margin in the narrow loss at Oklahoma, the Sooners' largest deficit of the year ... A&M is 19-3 when out-rebounding its opponent this season and is 4-5 when being beaten on the boards ... A&M posted a +7 rebounding margin against LSU, which came into the game leading the nation in rebounding margin ... in conference play, the Aggies ranked third in the league in rebounding margin (+5.1), setting a school record for a Big 12 season ... A&M is averaging 29.6 points in the paint and have scored at least 18 points in the paint in every game ... the Aggies are 18-1 this season when scoring at least 27 points in the paint, but are only 5-7 when scoring 26 points or fewer in the paint ... under Turgeon, A&M is 40-5 when scoring at least 27 points in the paint.

From the Line
A&M made 71.7 percent from the free throw line in non-conference play, but ranks last in the league in Big 12 play at 66.2 percent ... the Aggies led the league in free throw attempts (411) in Big 12 play  ... A&M was a dismal 30-of-51 in the win at Texas Tech, resulting in a relatively close game, and was just 3-of-10 at Nebraska ... free throw shooting cost A&M dearly in the close losses to nationally-ranked Oklahoma (twice), Texas and Kansas State ... the Aggies were 14-of-23 (.609) against Oklahoma in College Station and were just 10-of-18 in Norman, losing both games by just six points ... A&M made a season-low 12-of-24 (.500) in the loss at Texas and was just 19-of-30 in the five-point loss to Kansas State ... In its Big 12 losses, A&M has made just 64.4 percent from the line; in their league wins, the Aggies made 68.5 percent and out-scored their opponents by an average of 8.9 points from the line ... ironically, the Aggies set Big 12 and school marks for free throw accuracy by making 20-of-20 (1.000) against Florida A&M ... A&M made 18-of-21 (.857) from the line in the win against Texas and 13-of-16 (.813) in the win against Iowa State... A&M is 89-of-109 (.817) from the line in the last two minutes of "close games," defined as games within 10 points ... as a team, the Aggies shoot almost 10,000 free throws per week in practice ... A&M has made 543 free throws, second most in school history behind the record of 582 set by the 1968-69 NCAA team ... for the season, A&M is the only Big 12 team that has made more free throws (543) than its opponents have attempted (503) ... that fact also holds true for Big 12 games as A&M made 275 free throws and its opponents attempted 273 ...  the Aggies' 411 free throw attempts in conference play was a school record for Big 12 games ... A&M averaged 25.7 free throw attempts per game in Big 12 play, 8.6 more than its opponents ... when it has more free throw attempts than its opponent, A&M is 22-6.

Defensive Notes
Scoring
A&M is 11-0 when its opponent scores 64 points or fewer this season ... the Aggies are ranked third in the Big 12 in scoring defense for the season (65.6) and in league play (69.8) ... one of the nation's top scoring teams, Oklahoma State (82.2) scored a season-low 64 points in A&M's win on Jan. 31 and averaged just 68.0 points in two games against the Aggies ... high-scoring Baylor averaged just 72.5 points in two games against the Aggies ... all but three Big 12 opponents scored under its season average against A&M (ironically, those were A&M's final three opponents of the regular season and all were victories) ... under Mark Turgeon, A&M is 40-9 when its opponent scores 70 or fewer points.

Field Goal Shooting
The Aggies are allowing .430 field goal accuracy for the year and .449 in Big 12 play, sixth best in the league ...  A&M is 15-3 this season when its opponent makes under 45 percent from the field and is 8-5 when the opponent shoots better than that mark ... the Aggies are 12-1 when their opponent make under 41 percent ... under Turgeon, the Aggies are 30-2 when their opponent makes under 41 percent from the field.

Production in Wins/Losses
In their Big 12 wins, the Aggies have allowed an average of 69.1 points and their opponents have made 44.6 percent from the field and 35.5 percent from three-point range ... in its league losses, A&M has allowed 70.7 points on 45.4 percent shooting, including 38.5 percent from three-point range.

Blocked Shots
In Big 12 play, A&M ranked fifth in the league in blocked shots with 3.6 per game ... Chinemelu Elonu ranks second in the Big 12 in blocks for the season (1.6) and was also second in league play (1.6) ... Bryan Davis ranks fifth overall (1.2) and sixth in conference play (1.1) ... Davis ranks eighth on the A&M career chart (88) while Elonu is ninth (74) ... the last time A&M averaged more blocks in a season was in 1989-90, when the team was led by shot blocking ace David Harris, who averaged 3.5 by himself.

Additional Notes
Stay in the Game
A&M players have fouled out just five times this season and one was in overtime at Alabama (Bryan Davis) ... opposing players have fouled out 22 times this year ... in Big 12 play, A&M players fouled out just twice, tying the school record set in 1959 (Southwest Conference) ... the school record for fewest foul outs in a full season is eight in 1958-59.

Close Losses
A&M is 14-5 in games decided by 10 points or fewer ... four of A&M's seven league losses were by six points or fewer ... the Aggies' last three Big 12 losses were one possession games in the final minute ... A&M is 20-1 when it has the lead going into the final five minutes, losing only at No. 2 Oklahoma ... the Aggies are 40-3 in two seasons under Mark Turgeon.

At the Half
A&M is 37-4 when leading at halftime under Mark Turgeon, including a perfect 17-0 mark this season.

Aggie at Neutral Sites
A&M is 2-1 in neutral site games this season, beating LSU in Houston and Kent State at the South Padre Island Invitational ... the loss was to Tulsa at the South Padre tournament ... under Mark Turgeon, the Aggies are 7-3 in neutral site games.

Comeback Kids
A&M came back from an 18-point deficit to win at Nebraska, the largest known comeback victory in school history ... A&M rallied from 14-point deficits to beat Arizona and Alabama and came back from 11 down to win at Colorado ... after trailing by 18 at Baylor, A&M pulled within two points in the final minute before losing ... A&M also rallied from a 15-point deficit at Oklahoma to take a nine-point lead before falling ... last season, A&M rallied from 10-point deficits to beat UTEP and Washington in the Dock's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off.

Double-Digit Rallies
Opponent                             Deficit (Time)                                   Result
Arizona                                   14 (:55, 1st Half)                                Won 67-66
at Alabama                            14 (9:50, 1st Half)                             Won 86-78 (OT)
at Oklahoma State                14 (7:33, 1st Half)                             Pulled within 32-30 (1:48, 1st), Lost 72-61
Oklahoma                              14 (9:55, 2nd Half)                            Pulled within 59-57 (1:37, 2nd), Lost 69-63
at Oklahoma                          15 (4:33, 1st Half)                             Came back to lead 68-59 (6:14, 2nd), Lost 77-71
at Baylor                                 14 (19:32, 2nd Half)                          Pulled within 50-49 (12:37, 2nd), Lost 72-68
at Nebraska                           18 (14:02, 2nd Half)                          Won 57-55
at Colorado                            11 (14:11, 1st Half)                           Trailed by 8 (5:42, 2nd) Won 72-66