By TomAg
Written in the voice of TomAg. Scores, stats and schedules checked the afternoon of Nov. 12. The jokes are mine.
Quick answer: Texas A&M men's basketball is 3-0, averaging 103 points a game, and has led wire to wire in every win. Oklahoma State comes into Reed Arena tonight at 7 p.m. CT on SEC Network+ averaging 104.5, after beating us 87-63 last year in Stillwater. I have the Aggies hanging 110 and paying that back.
Football is 4-5 until we win 6, and no hope is allowed on that side of campus. Basketball is a different product, bro, and tonight is the first night it has to prove it.
Oklahoma State beat us by 24 in Stillwater last November. They are 2-0, they hung 118 on Queens, and they walk into Reed ready to run. We are averaging 103, ninth in the country, and we have not trailed for a single second in three wins. Somebody is hanging 110 tonight, and it fucking better be us.
Is this the first real test for Bucky Ball?
Yes. Alabama State, Northern Kentucky, and ULM all left Reed under 70 points. We won those by 31, 37, and 41, forced 23 turnovers a night, and scored almost 30 points off the mistakes. PJ Haggerty and Jordan Pope are both at 18 a game. Tyshawn Archie just put up 12 for his third straight double-figure night, and the bench dropped 53 on ULM. That is fun as hell. It is also a schedule that had not punched back yet.
The Cowboys are the first of five Power 4 teams in our next six games, and this is their first road test. They have only trailed for 17 seconds all year. We have trailed for zero. One of those streaks is dying tonight. I'm not interested in it being ours.
Cade Phillips was questionable after a right-knee injury Monday. I'm not guessing the lineup.
Can we pay last year’s 24 points back tonight?
We have won five of the last eight against these guys, then they embarrassed us 87-63. Wear black. Be loud. This is the start of Operation Blackout Weekend, and Reed should feel like a problem.
My pick, not advice: Aggies 111, Oklahoma State 94. If we hang 90 and win, I'll take it. If we come out and get run, I'm going to be insufferable, and I will not retract the post.
Texas Hate Minute
Jordan Pope is a Texas transfer, and he is tied with Haggerty for the team lead at 18.0 points a game. He just dropped a season-best 19 on ULM. The Longhorns let that walk into Reed and put on maroon. Fuck Texas. Thanks for the guard.
Football still has No. 8 Tennessee at Kyle Field on Saturday at 2 p.m. on ESPN. Win tonight first. Then we can talk about 4-5 until we win 6.
I'm not settling for a 3-0 that only beat teams we were supposed to beat. Run it up, send them home, and make Reed the loudest building in this town until Saturday.
@agknockstom
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Photo: Reed Arena basketball action vs Texas, with the ATM court logo, by Corpx, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.5)
