Texas A&M basketball notches another win over OU to sweep Sooners ahead of road trip
Texas A&M basketball needed a win badly— if for no other reason than to erase the bitter taste of what went down in Austin this past Saturday. The Aggies were in a dogfight at times in this one, but they ended up victorious.
The Ags were clearly the better team in this matchup with the Sooners, but the three ball was truly the great equalizer in this one. The Aggies were a mere 4-24 from three point range, while the Sooners hit ten of them.
Still, this was a much different game than what we saw in Norman earlier this year, even though both ended with the same result. The Sooners raced out to a huge lead against the Aggies in the previous matchup, only for A&M to claw back out of that deficit and take home the win.
The other thing that these games shared was an unforeseen huge game from OU's Brycen Goodine. He had a career night against the Aggies in Norman, and was 5-9 from deep tonight in Reed.
The Aggies were without two of their major rotation players in Hayden Hefner and Solomon Washington here, but this team pulled together to get some big time stops and buckets when each were needed. Pair that with some savvy coaching by Buzz (anyone catch the offense-for-defense and vice-versa subs at the end of the first half?), and this was a really solid game.
This one looked like it had the potential to get kind of ugly early on, as Manny Obaseki and an OU player were trading words early on. The refs kept control of the game, though— their inconsistency made all of the players too confused to get mad at each other.
No doubt the headline of the night was the Aggies holding OU's star, Jeremiah Fears, to a goose egg on the scoreboard. Averaging 16.7 PPG for the Sooners, he's a huge weapon— some other players hit timely shots for the Crimson and Cream, but Fears getting blanked was big.
Texas A&M basketball heads to South Carolina for a game this weekend. The Gamecocks tested Auburn at home earlier this year, but this is a contest the Aggies should win— on the road in this conference, though, you can never be too sure.