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Aggies Open 2024 SEC Tournament With Rebel Rematch

The 7-seed Texas A&M men's basketball team takes on 10-seed Ole Miss in the second round of the 2024 SEC Tournament at 6 p.m. on Thursday at Bridgestone Arena.

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NASHVILLE - The 7-seed Texas A&M men's basketball team takes on 10-seed Ole Miss in the second round of the 2024 SEC Tournament at 6 p.m. on Thursday at Bridgestone Arena.
  • The matchup between the Aggies and Rebels is a rematch of last Saturday's regular season finale - an 86-60 Texas A&M victory in Oxford, Miss. The two teams split regular season meetings in 2024 with the Rebels handing the Aggies a 71-68 defeat at Reed Arena on 1/27.
  • Texas A&M and Ole Miss have never faced each other in the SEC Tournament.
 
TV/RADIO INFORMATION
  • The game will be televised by SEC Network with Tom Hart (play-by-play), Dane Bradshaw (analyst) and Alyssa Lang (reporter) on the call.
  • The matchup airs on the Texas A&M Radio Network, locally on 1620 AM/94.5 FM or worldwide on the 12th Man Mobile App with Andrew Monaco and Dr. John Thornton describing the action.
 
OLE MISS-TAMU STATISTICAL COMPARISON
STATISTIC OLE MISS TEXAS A&M
FGM 26.3 25.1
FGA 58.5 63.2
FG% .448 .397
3PM 7.5 6.8
3PA 20.3 24.4
3P% .369 .278
FTM 15.1 16.5
FTA 20.5 23.4
FT% .733 .702
Off. Reb 10.4 17.3
Def. Reb 23.1 25.4
Rebounds 33.5 42.7
Assists 15.1 11.3
Steals 8.0 7.1
Blocks 5.7 2.9
Turnovers 10.7 9.7
Points 75.1 73.4
 
NET Q1+Q2 RESUME
  • Texas A&M has an 11-9 record against NET Quad 1 and Quad 2 opponents, including a 5-6 record vs. Q1 teams. The Aggies' five Q1 wins and 11 Q1+Q2 wins are tied for 17th most among DI teams.
  • The M&W's five Q1 wins are third-most among SEC schools, trailing only Tennessee (7) and Kentucky (6).
  • The Aggies are one of 17 teams with 20 or more Q1+Q2 games on their resume and one of 31 teams with at least 11 Q1 matchups.
 
TRENDS AND NOTABLES
  • The Aggies have reached the finals of the last two SEC Tournaments - falling to Tennessee, 65-50, in 2022 and Alabama, 82-63, in 2023. (Full SEC Tournament history on page 2)
  • Texas A&M features nine players with a combined 50 games of SEC Tournament experience, including five players with five SEC T wins on their resumes.
  • Tyrece Radford, Wade Taylor IV and Henry Coleman III are within range of 100 career points in SEC Tournament games. Radford enters the 2024 edition with 95 points, followed by Taylor (91) and Coleman (84).
  • The Maroon & White's modest three-game winning streak matches the team's longest since opening the season with five straight victories.
  • Fourteen of the Aggies' 31 games have been tied or a one-possession game after the final 4:00 media timeout. Texas A&M is 7-7 in those games.
  • In Aggie hoops vernacular, a "turkey" is three consecutive defensive stops. Six has become a magic number of sorts with the Aggies compiling an 12-2 record in games with six or more turkeys.
  • Manny Obaseki's recent insertion into the Aggies' starting lineup has coincided with a three-game winning streak and earned 'MO' a share of the SEC's final Player of the Week award. Obaseki is slashing 18.0 points/3.0 rebounds/2.0 assists over the past three games.
  • Wade Taylor IV and Tyrece Radford reached 10+ points in the same game 20 times in 2023-24 and the Aggies were 13-7 in those games. In games when they both reached 14 points, the W-L improved to 9-2.  
  • Andersson Garcia finished the regular season as the SEC leader in offensive rebounds (4.4) and total rebounds (9.4)
  • The 6-foot-7 Garcia needs eight rebounds to become the third Aggie to reach 300 boards in a season, joining Claude Riley (317) and Tyler Davis (313).
  • The last 6-foot-7 or shorter SEC player to reach 300 rebounds was Auburn's Cinmeon Bowers, who had 326 in 2014-15.
  • Andersson Garcia's 137 offensive rebounds are already the school record (123 by Tyler Davis in 2017-18) and is the tNo. 12 SEC season total since 1996-97 in just 31 games. His 4.4 o-rebs/G rank behind only Oscar Tshiebwe's 5.8 in 2022-23 and 5.3 in 2021-22 in that span.
  • Texas A&M is the SEC leader in rebounding margin at 8.8 and rank No. 2 in rebounds at 42.7.
  • Texas A&M leads the nation in offensive rebounds/game at 17.3 and have logged 20 or more offensive caroms in eight games.
  • The Aggies have shot an average of 5.3 more field goal attempts than their opponents (3.2 in SEC play).
  • The M&W ranked No. 2 in free throw attempts in the SEC during league play with 23.7/G. The Aggies attempted 119 more FTA than their SEC opponents (6.6/G)
  • The Aggies have logged 50 rebounds in their last two road games (at Georgia, at Ole Miss).
  • The SEC's leader in fewest turnovers for the full season and league play, the Aggies are 11-2 when they  have nine or fewer turnovers in a game.
 
MILESTONES TO WATCH
  • Wade Taylor IV needs 40 points to reach 1,500 for his career. When he does, he will become the fourth player in program history with 1,500 points and 350 assists. He would join Bernard King (1,990/550 from 1999-03), Acie Law IV (1,669/545 from 2003-07) and Donald Sloan (1,522/370 from 2006-10).
  • With his next steal, Wade Taylor IV will move into a tie at No. 5 on the school's career steals list with Darryl "D-Mack the Playground King" McDonald, who tallied 173 in two seasons (1986-88).
 
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