No. 6 Women's Basketball Opens Season Tuesday

Tuesday, November 5

College Station

7:00 PM

Texas A&M

Little Rock

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Photo by: Garrett Terry/Texas A&M Athletics

Nov 04, 2019 | Women's Basketball

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Texas A&M opens one of its most anticipated seasons in program history on Tuesday night when the sixth-ranked Aggies host Little Rock at Reed Arena. Tipoff is set for 7 p.m.

On The Aggies

The Aggies opened 2019-20 with a 67-37 exhibition win over NAIA power Oklahoma City on Nov. 1. Ciera Johnson matched Texas A&M's exhibition scoring record with 24 points (Danielle Adams, 2010 vs. TAMU-K) and added 10 rebounds. Other Aggies with strong games that entered the exhibition record book were Chennedy Carter (22 points) and Shambria Washington (7 assists)
Texas A&M is the only team to reach the 2019 Sweet 16 that returned all its starters
The Aggies are ranked No. 6 in the Preseason AP Top 25 Poll, the program's highest preseason rank since 2014-15
Texas A&M was predicted to win the league in a vote by the SEC coaches
Chennedy Carter was selected as the SEC Preseason Player of the Year by both the coaches and the media. She also earned AP Preseason All-America Honors
Ciera Johnson and Kayla Wells each earned Preseason Second Team All-SEC by the coaches
Four Aggies earned a spot on the watch list for their respective positional award, Carter (Nancy Lieberman Award; point guard), Wells (Cheryl Miller Award; small forward), N'dea Jones (Katrina McClain Award; power forward) and Johnson (Lisa Leslie Award; center)
The Aggies return 94% of scoring, 91% of rebounds and 94% of assists and six players that started games
The Aggies bring back four 10+ point-per-game scorers and four McDonald's All- Americans. Texas A&M boasts the SEC's leading returning scorer (Carter) and rebounder (Jones)
The Aggies qualified for its 14th straight NCAA Tournament—the seventh-longest streak in the nation
Texas A&M won 20+ games for the 14th consecutive season—the sixth-longest active streak
Texas A&M head coach Gary Blair is 383-159 in 16 seasons in Aggieland. He is 791-322 in his Hall of Fame career, which ranks seventh among active coaches in wins

Follow the Game

The game is available on SEC Network +, which provides events to SEC Network subscribers through WatchESPN and the ESPN app on smartphones, computers, tablets and connected devices (Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One).Describing the action on SEC Network+ will be Mike Wright (play-by-play) and Tap Bentz (analyst).
The game airs on local radio on The Zone 1150 AM / 93.7 FM, with Tom Turbiville and Bret Dark on the call.