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Men's Basketball

Men's Basketball Previews Start of Season

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Head coach Bucky McMillan, Mackenzie Mgbako and Cade Phillips visited with the media at Texas A&M's first game-week press conference of the season. The Aggies tip things off at Reed on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. against Alabama State.

Watch the interviews below.

Press Conference: Bucky McMillan

I love the people here. Look, we're going to have a heck of a home game atmosphere this year. I don't care if you love basketball, don't like basketball. Doesn't matter. We're going to make Reed the place where the party is, right? That's where everybody hangs out. We like making it miserable for the other team to come in here. And that's what we want.

-- Bucky McMillan

Press Conference: Mackenzie Mgbako

We're a really talented team. We work hard. We try to play together. We try to play fast. We like to shoot the ball. So I feel like as anything else, we're just a high-energy level team...We've got a lot of veterans, a lot of older players who understand the game. So just leading with that kind of mentality is probably what's going to separate us.

-- Mackenzie Mgbako on the team's identity

Press Conference: Cade Phillips

I think this team is feeling good. This is a team that has worked their tail off. We've been here since the last week of May. And as y'all know--y'all have watched practices and been there--it's not been easy from day one. We feel as a team, we work if not as hard, harder than anybody else in the country. So now that it's time to go against somebody else that's not in the maroon and white jersey, we're really excited, and we feel really good about what's ahead for us.

-- Cade Phillips